I'm...not surprised, but still very concerned that they went out of their way on July 4th to say "yeah we're going to sue MarzGurl" when all she's done is spread the word, start the hashtag, and then deal with all the dudebro backlask
Real talk, I'm dying to see Yellowflash, ThatUmbrellaGuy and HeroHei to eat their own words after this, especially since they're the ones who've been attacking MarzGurl from what I can see.
the hilarious thing is that i've seen a bunch of people talking about how all of funi's responses mean that funimation is "on their last legs" or "desperate" or "knows they're going to lose"
whereas anyone with a fucking brain in their head can see that this case is basically just funimation asking vic which organ he'd like them to pile drive next
if you look at the hashtag, it's like overrun with people from the standwithvic yelling at a brick wall now. i think most kickvic people have basically disengaged as you do with these people
honestly Funimation isn't in trouble in the least. From what I've read of their summaries, they're basically going "bring it on" and "it's not defamation if it's true"
It's entertaining and a little sad that people still support such an obvious manipulator this way, but unfortunately he's good enough at manipulation to keep their support for the moment even if it's a glaringly obvious waving red flag to everyone else
That means he can turn the people who haven't seen his worst sides against his victims fairly easily, and he has the power, money, and influence advantage over anyone who accuses him of anything
To be honest, most people defending him aren't even really supporting Vic. Most of them had probably never even heard his name before the KickVic movement started, but it rattled the MRA cages and now they just want to prove teh ess jay dubb-yews wrong.
I mean, I'm sure that there is definitely an MRA component, but with his Risembool Rangers and those who are fans of the characters he's voiced, I think Vic as a person also has a lot of stans
And they were definitely the ones silencing his victims and enabling Vic's behavior for years by defending him from all the claims until this latest explosion, because the MRAs weren't really on board back then
(tbh, I still feel a shred of sympathy for the people who are defending him, even if they're basically serving as his meatshields and protecting him from consequence and that's pretty heinous)
Yeah. There was that one person that faked getting swatted a while back and I think that was the tipping point that a bunch of alt right talking heads on YouTube decided to get on board.
But that definitely seems to be the point when all the guys who had probably never even watched anything dubbed before to suddenly come out as huge fans of Vic
Because you know if ONE predator can be proven to be innocent in a court of law - regardless of whether he actually did any of the hundreds of things he's been accused of - then sexual harassment, rape, and pedophilia will have been categorically disproven forever
while i loathe the idea that these two fucks are rolling around in effectively free cash, i definitely think if you're the kind of person who would donate to vic at this point, you deserve to get scammed
same, honestly. I don't want those two fuckers to see any more money but anyone who gives money to them deserves to never see that money again, regardless of reason. do your research and make your own decisions, people. you still believe in them, your money is going to a "good" cause. You don't, you'll be smart enough to not give them your money
(I put "good" in quotes for a reason, I think this whole mess is disgusting and MRAs are just looking for excuses to discredit people who've seriously been hurt by this behaviour at this point)
I mean it's possible he's aware it might seem worse if he DOES admit to knowing the connotation and admitting to it but this makes him seem like an idiot
i'm still shaking my head at that last cap... he had a perfect explanation of "while i understand the unfortunate connotations, it was a reference to someone that WASN'T hitler in a show i starred in" and yet
"Oh look, there's a convenient ladder that leads out of this hole of quicksand I'm digging. ... I'm going to stubbornly continue this course of action." Thank goodness for it, though.
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: according to Ex-RR Discord mods? 1] Vic flirted with all the underage girls 2] when she and any other adult women told him to be careful and yanno NOT FUCKING DO THAT -> 3] he ostracized the hell out of those mods, kicked them from the discord, and convinced the others they were just biased against him boohooooo crocodile tears.
annnnnnnnnnnnnd I still would put hard money on Funimation knew very very very well about the pedo stuff and he was hoping to blackmail them into settling rather than them having to admit they knew
I do not know if that's entirely accurate though, I just know that the articles with the release of the Broly movie were well-timed for Funimation to finally get off their asses and do something
you can't subpeona content of texts in a civil case, just records of transmission (e.g. logs from the provider of what numbers texted what numbers and when), so I'd imagine the same would follow for discord
I straight up pmed Rekieta with a list of conventions that stopped having Vic back as early as 2005 and said to hire a private investigator or have Beard do it, because Funi would and that would be all they'd need to do
"we know"
it's possible he's aware it might seem worse if he DOES admit to knowing the connotation and admitting to it
but this makes him seem like an idiot
The sarcasm is outright legible
Man, you can feel the exasperation and maybe some hidden giggles behind this legalese