Since I imagine a lot of people don't understand this meme, here is context:
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The show in question was interspecies reviewers, a show in which guys go have sex with prostitutes of various species, and then rate them for other guys.
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The reason people are blasting funimation for this is, short answer: hypocrisy
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Longer answers:
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Funimation has been caught on multiple occasions now allowing their voice actors to change the dialogue of shows they've liscenced. And not minor changes. They are changes that effect the entire context of the scenes, and change the meanings behind them as well. They do not disclose these changes to fans - and these changes are largely done when the VAs feel the scene is offensive to their feminist agendas and disrespectul
That, also, likely would not have been so bad, but Funimation has spent over a year and a half caught in a controversy in which they aided some of these same voice actors in destroying a man's entire career - including making public statements seeming to confirm that the man in question is a rapist and a predator of children.
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After months of this going on, it quickly became quite apparent that the accusers were, in fact, lying. And no, I don't say that lightly.*
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Funimation attempted to backpedal their stance minorly by claiming their statements were about the FANS, not the man himself. But they never rehired or corrected the narrative painting him as a rapist either. Their other voice actors and actresses meanwhile continued attempting to destroy this guy behind the scenes and in public, including preventing him from attending conventions by threatening boycotts (which they followed through on, and the results were hilariously pathetic) and make threats.
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When questioned, these VAs stated that the actor they were attempting to destroy was guilty of inappropriate conduct.
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This conduct turned out to be:
-Hugging fans who stood in lines for hours to see him
-making a joke about eating a jellybean
-kissing a co-worker with her consent
-touching a coworker's hair
-attempting to sleep with two adult women off-site, on his own time, and allowing them to leave when they said no
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After deeming these offenses egregious enough to completely decimate a man's life (as well as anyone siding with him, including another VA falsely accused of rape), people found it hypocritical that a show about exploiting women for sex and rating them would meet funimation's standards -- especially when one of the women most vocal about all of this was found to have been cast as a 500 year old elf prostitute
Funimation quickly moved to cancel the show once the mockery started, declaring the show as not meeting their standards.
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This, also, backfired hilariously, as people pointed out repeated examples of funimation releasing shows with more explicit scenes, shows with things such as incest, orgies, and underage sex as well.
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It also didn't help that they have a show called "Panty and Stocking, with garterbelt" that is also voiced by two of the women vocally calling to destroy the other Voice Actor's life; or that there were a bunch of behind the scenes audio clips leaked in which terminology such as "f****t" is used, as well as an entire DBZ skit of a gay-rape-incest orgy, complete with sound effects and official music dubbed in (known as the "FuniLeaks" ).
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That, in a nutshell, is the base of why people are giving funimation backlash for their antics with this
*elaboration on the "lying" statement:
-The original stories essentially lead to the claim that there were over 100 women and children that had been assaulted by this actor. It was quickly revealed there were maybe 6 claims in actuality that weren't random anonymous people on the internet.
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All of the claims have been debunked fairly thoroughly.
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If anyone actually wants to know more I can give details, but it's all very long and absolutely deplorable behaviour
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Interestingly enough - all of these claims got kicked off because of a DIFFERENT former funimation employee, who married a 16 year old he was fucking seemingly to avoid being arrested. One of the main accusers against the Voice Actor getting his life destroy is the ex girlfriend of this cradle-robber, and she never once spoke up to correct this narrative being used to destroy the other guy's life. In fact, she openly fed into it.
@famousone it's honestly really bad. The entire company is an incestuous little clique. And RoosterTeeth (aka CockDentures) is no better.
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So far in the past year and a half their employees/independant-contractors and their "personal finances" have taken part in:
-witness and evidence fabrication (including trying to fabricate incidents of child abuse, and incidents of police swatting)
-extortion and blackmail
-boycotts and libel/slander
-threats of physical violence
-conspiracy and intimidation
-public humiliation
-removing content and accredation from anime products, then lying about it and blaming amazon/apple, then re-adding it when they get caught, then removing it again
Many of the VAs in their circles have made fun statements like (partially paraphrased because I don't have the exact wording in front of me):
-"When YOU get raped - and it WILL happen"
-"we can only hope he raped a child so the statute of limitations won't have run out"
-"people want to buy guns so they can go shoot up schools"
-"I want his head"
-"we never said he RAPED anyone. Including my fiance. This could all have gone away if he just apologized. I know he DID apologize, but not enough. I'd absolutely sit down and have a coffee with the man.
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And yeah, anyone wondering, there are receipts for every single thing I've said here. I'd like to say it's exaggerated... it isn't.
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The show in question was interspecies reviewers, a show in which guys go have sex with prostitutes of various species, and then rate them for other guys.
.
.
The reason people are blasting funimation for this is, short answer: hypocrisy
.
Longer answers:
.
Funimation has been caught on multiple occasions now allowing their voice actors to change the dialogue of shows they've liscenced. And not minor changes. They are changes that effect the entire context of the scenes, and change the meanings behind them as well. They do not disclose these changes to fans - and these changes are largely done when the VAs feel the scene is offensive to their feminist agendas and disrespectul
.
After months of this going on, it quickly became quite apparent that the accusers were, in fact, lying. And no, I don't say that lightly.*
.
Funimation attempted to backpedal their stance minorly by claiming their statements were about the FANS, not the man himself. But they never rehired or corrected the narrative painting him as a rapist either. Their other voice actors and actresses meanwhile continued attempting to destroy this guy behind the scenes and in public, including preventing him from attending conventions by threatening boycotts (which they followed through on, and the results were hilariously pathetic) and make threats.
.
.
This conduct turned out to be:
-Hugging fans who stood in lines for hours to see him
-making a joke about eating a jellybean
-kissing a co-worker with her consent
-touching a coworker's hair
-attempting to sleep with two adult women off-site, on his own time, and allowing them to leave when they said no
.
After deeming these offenses egregious enough to completely decimate a man's life (as well as anyone siding with him, including another VA falsely accused of rape), people found it hypocritical that a show about exploiting women for sex and rating them would meet funimation's standards -- especially when one of the women most vocal about all of this was found to have been cast as a 500 year old elf prostitute
.
This, also, backfired hilariously, as people pointed out repeated examples of funimation releasing shows with more explicit scenes, shows with things such as incest, orgies, and underage sex as well.
.
It also didn't help that they have a show called "Panty and Stocking, with garterbelt" that is also voiced by two of the women vocally calling to destroy the other Voice Actor's life; or that there were a bunch of behind the scenes audio clips leaked in which terminology such as "f****t" is used, as well as an entire DBZ skit of a gay-rape-incest orgy, complete with sound effects and official music dubbed in (known as the "FuniLeaks" ).
.
That, in a nutshell, is the base of why people are giving funimation backlash for their antics with this
-The original stories essentially lead to the claim that there were over 100 women and children that had been assaulted by this actor. It was quickly revealed there were maybe 6 claims in actuality that weren't random anonymous people on the internet.
.
All of the claims have been debunked fairly thoroughly.
.
If anyone actually wants to know more I can give details, but it's all very long and absolutely deplorable behaviour
.
.
Interestingly enough - all of these claims got kicked off because of a DIFFERENT former funimation employee, who married a 16 year old he was fucking seemingly to avoid being arrested. One of the main accusers against the Voice Actor getting his life destroy is the ex girlfriend of this cradle-robber, and she never once spoke up to correct this narrative being used to destroy the other guy's life. In fact, she openly fed into it.
.
So far in the past year and a half their employees/independant-contractors and their "personal finances" have taken part in:
-witness and evidence fabrication (including trying to fabricate incidents of child abuse, and incidents of police swatting)
-extortion and blackmail
-boycotts and libel/slander
-threats of physical violence
-conspiracy and intimidation
-public humiliation
-removing content and accredation from anime products, then lying about it and blaming amazon/apple, then re-adding it when they get caught, then removing it again
-"When YOU get raped - and it WILL happen"
-"we can only hope he raped a child so the statute of limitations won't have run out"
-"people want to buy guns so they can go shoot up schools"
-"I want his head"
-"we never said he RAPED anyone. Including my fiance. This could all have gone away if he just apologized. I know he DID apologize, but not enough. I'd absolutely sit down and have a coffee with the man.
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And yeah, anyone wondering, there are receipts for every single thing I've said here. I'd like to say it's exaggerated... it isn't.