My own two Autismbux about this incident.
There's a few major differences between this one shitstorm, and the ones that preceded it. Most notably, people with a sense of pattern recognition realized that this shit sounds familiar, and not just beause of us seeing this same gatekeeping anti-consumer horse-shit stance taken before, during previous incidents. Funimation's been in the crosshairs of weebs for a while, because
it's done shit like go completely off-script and insert their political bullshit into works where it wasn't present before, such as the time
they inserted references to Gamergate into Prison School. So like the good
@Travoltron said, this shit has been coming and it's always been a matter of when, not if it would happen.
But it's a related issue, not the above, that caught my eye.
You see, normally, when we have situations like these incidents, the battle lines get drawn pretty quickly, and while it's very common to see where the breakdowns in such a situation lie, usually there's some sort of self-preservation instinct in place that prevents the side that's more obviously in the wrong from
completely shitting the bed in the opening days. Don't get me wrong, they always do eventually, but usually the onset time is delayed by a few weeks, and usually, this delay is done out of simple self-interest. Usually, during this time, the narrative is forged and the proverbial wagons are circled. Often, the smarter members of the groups responsible will go complete radio silent during this, if they even acknowledge it at all. Can't let your spaghetti out of your pockets just yet, after all. But there is always a specific point where the responsible party inevitably shits the bed, in a distinctive phase I refer to as the Meltdown Phase. At this point, one of the people responsible for this shit, confident in their position and usually high on self-importance, drops all pretense and shoots from the hip, because fuck these nerds who think being customers means they have any right to complain about the handling of the media they consume.
What's happened in the case of
this shitstorm, however, is one I haven't seen before: The meltdown phase happening in the opening salvo, and literally because the community as a whole wasn't having
any of it. Whether it's because of previous experiences or just because the weebs happen to have the most potential Autism to weaponize, they weren't about to let this shit ride, and the result has been one of the most surreal explosions I've seen in real time before:
* We had a ChangeTheChannel situation going on while several of the accusers involved previously covered for someone who actually did committ sexual harassment, provably and on camera, or were involved in some other sexual impropriety. That's on top of a third one who just got accused of sexual assault.
* We have a situation where one of the people involved in the KickVic campaign seems to, impossibly, have bigger entitlement issues than Brianna
fucking Wu, and is shrieking about how she's going to report people to the DHS for criticism and mean fucking tweets.
* Speaking of Brianna Wu, we have Amanda Winn-Lee, an IRL acquaintance of Wu's and the voice of Crimson 09 from
Revolution 60, coming out as part of the KickVic campaign and allegedly getting exposed as wishing rape on a critic.
* We have a major con going full on the offensive threatening to arrest their own patrons if they dare show up to support Vic or dare ask anything
untoward towards any of his accusers at the event (which is basically asking some cynical weeaboo to do just that), and demanding press passes get removed for daring to voice support of Vic. When this con got flak for it, they proceeded to respond like a 14-old user of YTMND.
* There are now about a dozen and a half leaks that have emerged, in the last five days alone, showing not only that Funimation's other VAs were basically in cahoots to get Vic fired, but that they knew and coordinated this shit with groups like ANN.
* We've had Monica Rials basically show she could carry a thread on this site by her lonesome. She's also encouraged her followers to attack Vic, while Vic has told his own followers to leave Rials alone.
* Because there's never a bad time for old Autists to butt their heads in, we've had Autistic shitstains like Renfamous show up to declare Vic guilty of all charges, because anyone actually cares what she thinks.
GG went from initial scandals to full-blown meltdown phase in about two months. CG went from initial to meltdown in about a month. This has gone from zero to meltdown in a little over
six days. What this genuinely means is that this one's going to brew up a lot hotter than previous incidents, and likely taking down a lot of people with it, but last much shorter as as a result, since those involved with the opposition this time clearly have no shortage of skeletons in their own closets.
It'll remain to be seen if they have the wisdom to shut the fuck up before they get hoisted by their own 'tism or sperg-fight their way into oblivion.
