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INTEREST: Dub Voice Actor Vic Mignogna Issues Statement: 'Taking Time to Recommit to God, Seeking He

For starters, they could've instructed their employees to *not* go off on social media while their internal investigation was still ongoing.

beyondashadow wrote:

For starters, they could've instructed their employees to *not* go off on social media while their internal investigation was still ongoing.

This is a good point. It kind of blew my mind that there was all this public back and forth between Funimation employees and the animé fan community and such. It is quite hamfisted, clumsy, and unprofessional. Actually, it kind of lacks basic business sense.

You know what lacks business sense? Sexually harassing an employee.

ranran-001 wrote:

You know what lacks business sense? Sexually harassing an employee.

Yes, this is true. Do you think the managers were sexually harassing their employees?

Vic sexually harassed an employee of Funimation. That means Vic lacks business sense. Maybe next time, he should leave all the professional stuff to his agent.

GoddyNee wrote:

beyondashadow wrote: Am I the only one who thinks Funimation's PR (or lack thereof) during this ordeal made matters significantly worse? Well...it's kind of hard to do PR when every other tweet is 'BOYCOTT FUNIMATION OR HIRE VIC/FIRE MONICA/JAMIE/EVERYONE WHO DOESN"T KISS VIC's BUTT'

For starters, they could've instructed their employees to *not* go off on social media while their internal investigation was still ongoing.

On the plus side over $35,000 has been raised for Vic's legal options. Vic has released a statement on his twitter account confirming the GoFundMe, and he confirmed hiring a law firm. $100,000 soon and beyond! 8-)

She mentioned it was thorough with specific questions, and she was told things matched. That sounds to me like someone in questioning. Someone in questioning can't be an investigator as well(?) Plus, I don't see a point in an investigator coming forward if Funimation's statement never gave details. Add to that, she's only a VA on contract (creds to another post).

I've also stated she's not yet considered untrustworthy, with reasons. It's just a paragraph above this one you quoted.

A voice actor is held to account after 15 years of exceptionally inappropriate behavior and is rewarded by his rabid fanbase with about a year's worth of salary.

I don't want to live anymore.

ZorinBlitz wrote:

On the plus side over $35,000 has been raised for Vic's legal options. Vic has released a statement on his twitter account confirming the GoFundMe, and he confirmed hiring a law firm. $100,000 soon and beyond!

A voice actor is held to account after 15 years of exceptionally inappropriate behavior and is rewarded by his rabid fanbase with about a year's worth of salary.

I don't want to live anymore.

Lizzie_B wrote:

So how long are the stans gonna spam Funimations' pages with their usual crap until they give up?

Their news reporting has been almost completely taken over by Billy Usher, the owner of One Angry Gamer and notorious member of GamerGate. Usher has been blacklisted by most of the press because of his bigotry and basically makes money by endlessly riling up his audience with clickbate so they would rage on the internet for a while, then come back to him for even more clickbait.

We're in for a long and not particularly impressive ride.

I dusted off my Wikipedia editing account that I hadn’t touched for over 3 years (and haven’t done any serious editing on in almost a decade, though I still use the site a lot to binge on trivia) to bring the use of Oneangrygamer on the Pensacon page to the attention of the anime community on their main talk page. I remember from when I followed the discussions over GG (and what a garbage fire that was) that it wasn’t considered a Reliable Source, so hopefully the people there do the right thing.

GhostStalkerSA wrote:

I dusted off my Wikipedia editing account that I hadn’t touched for over 3 years (and haven’t done any serious editing on in almost a decade, though I still use the site a lot to binge on trivia) to bring the use of Oneangrygamer on the Pensacon page to the attention of the anime community on their main talk page. I remember from when I followed the discussions over GG (and what a garbage fire that was) that it wasn’t considered a Reliable Source, so hopefully the people there do the right thing.

Is there a reason you consider them unreliable aside from the "I don't like the dude who runs it" reason already mentioned? Wikipedia doesn't exactly have high standards for citations given the numerous mistakes I see on tons of articles all the time.

For starters, they could've instructed their employees to *not* go off on social media while their internal investigation was still ongoing.

To be fair, nobody should be using Wikipedia as a reference for anything. Every teacher or professor should have instilled that into you during your school years. I would dismiss anyone who cites it as a source for their argument on a subject.

To be fair, nobody should be using Wikipedia as a reference for anything. Every teacher or professor should have instilled that into you during your school years. I would dismiss anyone who cites it as a source for their argument on a subject.

beyondashadow wrote:

For starters, they could've instructed their employees to *not* go off on social media while their internal investigation was still ongoing.

It's a coin toss if people are held accountable for their social media behavior. It depends on the values of their employers as well as any kind of public blowback they get from it. Some companies are okay with their employees making violent threats or racist remarks, it turns out. Some will fire their employees for simply being rude. Tweet at your own discretion. But that is just for employment. I don't think these Funimation employees should be saying certain incriminating things on social media when they could be on the cusp of being taken to court. It just seems unwise.