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INTEREST: Rosario + Vampire Dub VA Jamie Marchi Alleges Mignogna Grabbed, Pulled Her Hair

Yeah because that's a quantifiable metric.

Funny enough I was going to say "not that that means much", but I though nah people won't take it seriously, they are very perceptive.

I believe most of the acusations against Vic and once again all the stories are misdemeanor level if at all criminal. No one is going to jail for any of this crap. <snip> There are many people on Twitter comparing the guy to the Kevin Spacey, Harvey Weinstein, and the Bill Cosby's of the world. These people actually drugged, tried and raped people. These Vic Mignogna acusations are not even close. This is why I support the guy. He's made an apology for the uncomfortable interactions with fans. He maybe a Diva in the recording booth, but many actors have certain amount of ego. Some are just bigger than others. The current con cancellations are fair, but he shouldnt lose his career and be black balled because of it.

[Edit]: removed sarcasm directed at victims. Errinundra.

Evidence has surfaced that Vic is being libeled/slandered, and at least one of the purported victims, who was shown on a pic at a convention being hugged by Vic and was said to have felt unwelcome to his 'advances', has said it's a lie and that she enjoyed being with him and had NO NEGATIVE FEELINGS about their 'encounter'/fan photo.

Evidence has surfaced that Vic is being libeled/slandered, and at least one of the purported victims, who was shown on a pic at a convention being hugged by Vic and was said to have felt unwelcome to his 'advances', has said it's a lie and that she enjoyed being with him and had NO NEGATIVE FEELINGS about their 'encounter'/fan photo.

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He was the most popular voice actor on the convention circuit. Everyone treated him with kid gloves because he was the one and only Vic Mignogna. Who was I? A nobody in comparison.

You are higher on Behind the Voice Actors than him.

I assume this happened many years ago, when Marchi was relatively new; think around the tim Brotherhood came out (where she played the bit role of Rebecca).

Bebop56210 wrote:

I wonder if funimation has/had security cams in this "lobby" and if they archived footage from whenever this would've happened. Should be easy enough to prove or disprove this that way.

Not so simple. This incident is said to have happened years ago, so I imagine there's a fair chance if they did have the footage it wouldn't still be saved. And even if they did, and managed to find the footage from this day, the cameras might not have a good angle to get a clear picture of the event, there might be periods where both were off camera, and I'm pretty sure most security cameras don't have audio and wouldn't have recorded what he said.

And even if by some freakish chance the camera footage did still exist, had a perfect angle, the footage was high resolution, and the camera recorded audio and managed to perfectly pick up what Vic said, and it turned out it was sexual in nature, some folks would still defend it, insist it's not that bad, speculate that maybe Jamie did something before off camera to invite it, and so forth.

Definitely this, Vic has apologised, promised to change his behaviour and has now faced numerous accusations. We'll never know everything about what went on behind the scenes. He's been disinvited by many cons and already lost two roles. There's no doubt after all this publicity he'll be closely monitored. I hope Vic apologises to his fellow VAs and if handled well he should be able to continue his career even if it takes a while for things to die down.

I Wasn't too sure if she had shot up around the time of PSG, as the dub was very popular, and had just never gone down since.

I wonder if funimation has/had security cams in this "lobby" and if they archived footage from whenever this would've happened. Should be easy enough to prove or disprove this that way.

So you think a simple apology is enough? Oh he promised to change his beahvior, how wonderful. How does that excuse his behavior? If any normal Joe Smoe acted in a fraction of this manner at a normal job you get fired. How should he be any different? It continues to blow my mind how many people seem to thank some simple apology (which so far have been half assed) excuses this sort of behavior. At what point is an apology not enough? Would he have to had raped a few of these girls before many of his supporters said that was "not cool" and an apology was not enough? I mean seriously the amount of people willing to just excuse this away and sweep it under the rug is how we got to this point to begin with.

Removed some more victim blaming/excuse posts.

Are there any more named VAs who have come forward, I heard someone on twitter say Terri Doty, but I couldn't find a source.

MarshalBanana wrote:

I Wasn't too sure if she had shot up around the time of PSG, as the dub was very popular, and had just never gone down since.

I'd push it back 4 years to at least Witchblade