Forum - View topic

NEWS: Funimation Files Response to Vic Mignogna's Lawsuit

Puiu wrote:

I hope funimation gets neat into the ground by the end of this.

If "neat" means something along the lines of "taken down" then that's as unlikely to happen as pigs flying.

As if an entire corporation will be brought down by a simple court case with one man. To believe or hope that this will do them in is nonsensical.

No sympathies to Mignogna.

For once in his damn life, he's going to learn the meaning of karma and how it can seriously bite you in the ass down the road.

For the record, I've dealt with Mignogna's ego first-hand at C4 2012 in Winnipeg after asking for his opinion on the state of the anime industry only to have him say that he needed to make a phone call to which he left the table to which then his agent informed me that I can only be there to buy an autograph and nothing more.

So yeah, no sympathies.

Puiu wrote:

Scion Drake wrote: Puiu wrote: I hope funimation gets neat into the ground by the end of this. If "neat" means something along the lines of "taken down" then that's as unlikely to happen as pigs flying. As if an entire corporation will be brought down by a simple court case with one man. To believe or hope that this will do them in is nonsensical. Sorry, I was in the middle of editing my comment. You can now read the full uncensored version of my opinion on this topic.

I have and its just a different kind of nonsensical. Just as bad but a different kind of bad which includes a lack of proper understanding of the actual problem at hand.

Also Vic's not winning crap. Funi's going straight at him and the best he can do is reach some kind of settlement which is looking unlikely.

You are confusing public PR statements with what people actually do in court.

Hopefully some of these lawsuits will end the practice of extra judicial trials in the media and in the workplace. These companies and institutions who have bowed to social pressure to try to accumulate internet brownie points should not be taking sides in these matters. If a crime was committed, call the police. It is their job to sort it out. Not Funimation, not Oberlin College, and not the Daily Telegraph. Funimation had a perfectly legal response, they could have let him serve out his contract and never hired him again. They wouldn't have even had to give a reason. Instead they set themselves up to be judge, jury, and executioner in a sexual assault trial. They had better pray they made zero mistakes in their process.

Bennyl does have a point though. A lot of people supporting Vic aren't really his fans, but people who hate how our current culture is one that can ruin some one's life based on unsupported claims on Twitter. If Vic did such terrible things, his victims should have taken him to criminal court instead of posting about it on the internet. Everyone is entitled to due process but instead it's the court of public opinion that decides everything these days.

Hopefully some of these lawsuits will end the practice of extra judicial trials in the media and in the workplace. These companies and institutions who have bowed to social pressure to try to accumulate internet brownie points should not be taking sides in these matters. If a crime was committed, call the police. It is their job to sort it out. Not Funimation, not Oberlin College, and not the Daily Telegraph. Funimation had a perfectly legal response, they could have let him serve out his contract and never hired him again. They wouldn't have even had to give a reason. Instead they set themselves up to be judge, jury, and executioner in a sexual assault trial. They had better pray they made zero mistakes in their process.

Bennyl does have a point though. A lot of people supporting Vic aren't really his fans, but people who hate how our current culture is one that can ruin some one's life based on unsupported claims on Twitter. If Vic did such terrible things, his victims should have taken him to criminal court instead of posting about it on the internet. Everyone is entitled to due process but instead it's the court of public opinion that decides everything these days.

CelestialEmpress wrote:

So like, best case scenario is he's just an innocent middle aged man who repeatedly kisses underage girls without permission. That is...also really not a good thing. I'd argue that kind of thing absolutely should get someone blacklisted from attending cons, especially as a guest who's being paid to be there and interact with fans. "Keep your mouth off of the teenage girls, Vic!" seems like some common sense that shouldn't need to be explained to a grown adult. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Maybe I'm just old but I remember a time when it was "common sense" that a hug and a peck on the cheek was a purely innocent gesture. Times change, and he should have gotten a warning to stop rather than jump straight to "let's cut all ties."

(Removed the "jelly bean" stuff. --Crisha)

Am I alone in thinking the lawsuit is a good thing? I'm tired of random accusations without any court proceedings to actually determine if one side did something they shouldn't have done. Now we can follow the lawsuit and see what happens. Takes a bit more than accusations to make it through a court case. And lest anyone think I have a side - I don't. I just really hate these things being tossed into the realm of social media justice for either side.