I think that Rial and Sabat initially told them criminal charges were gonna be filed, so they dropped Vic. When that didn't pan out, they decided they would bring him back (why not, he's a headliner right?). Then Rial and Sabat probably threatened to walk, which given Sabat's featured status would have tanked the con. So the director capitulated, dropped Vic, and has potentially decided not to run any future conventions just because he doesn't want to deal with these people.
If that's true, then Rial doesn't know as much about the investigation as she makes it out to be. Like I said, all Funimation probably did is prove that both Rial and Vic were in the same area at the same time, not that any sexual assault or assault in general happened, and then them and RT let go of Vic because of a potential threat of walking if Rial and them didn't fire him, or to supposedly please Funimation fans.
Looking through the IMDB postings, Vic is the ONLY major voice actor for funimation that was never dependent on Sabat for his positions. Everyone else, Haberkorn included, relied on Sabat to put them where they were in the Anime subbing hierarchy. Marchi, Rial, Schemmel, Haberkorn. All of them had to dance to the tune demanded by Sabat. But Vic didn't. He has his own career and came in independently. Sabat did not like this. And neither did his flunkies. And the moment that rabid hamster in Kaylyn Saucedos brain decided to throw the panic switch and signal boost the fujoshies, Sabat and Company thought they finally, at last, had the excuse to do away with the rogue element in there niche little convention and voice acting racket.
Texas is an at-will state. Why would Sabat and them wait and give themselves a reason to go after Vic when they could fire him at any point? If none of this happened, would this mean that they all were just going to deal with Vic until he retired or something?
How far do these Cons want to go to bat for Sabat? Are they willing to be sued for intentional breach of contract? Because that is the threat on the table right now. They either comply and tell Ty what he already knows they know, under oath in an afidavit, or they get dragged into the mess too as part of the conspiracy.
I wonder if Sabat and Rial aware that we know what's up. Sabat tweeted the morning on Twitter after Ty's talk with Nick like nothing happened, and him, Rial tweeting like a child again and her and Toye are not commenting on the issue, despite it being brought up and eventually buried by people loving Sabat's stupid fucking Pop! figurines. At least Vic and Todd addressed the claims surrounding them and disputed/denied them. These motherfuckers aren't even discussing it; they're staying silent. Is that essentially an admission of guilt?
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WOW.
This is EviLore's hot take on all this:
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Well, of course. EvilLore himself was a victim of this type of shit too, and NeoGAF exposed themselves for the idiots that its users are.
The sheer stupidity, the unmitigated arrogance of STILL doing this shit when they KNOW Vic has lawyers and they KNOW those lawyers are digging up every bit of info they can find on these chucklefucks. Amazin'
Yea, this shit happened around the time that Ron announced that he got his papers to not delete anything, which is
ANN is sponsored by Funimation and are friendly with them. They haven't 'reported' any news since the fake SWAT though, which they tried to spin as true and failed absolutely miserably at. Not even their forum goers were buying it.
Hmmmm....can anyone still access the police report poster by ANN for Samantha Inoue-Harte? I can't access it for some reason.
Oh yea a really funny thing happened was Nick got a complaint from Toye. And Nick gave a copy to Ty Beard so now Ty has all the contact info to Toye.
Don't forget proof of defamation, lol.
We've all seen Ron repeatedly talk shit and antagonize pretty much anyone seen as his enemy. My bf mentioned that this sounds like someone that's trying to keep the limelight on himself for as long as he can. This made the gears in my head start running like crazy and I'm now starting to think that Ron is doing this not only to help Monica, but because, for once, people are talking to HIM about HIS actions.
I could believe that, since Ron is mentally handicapped, but he essentially admitted to defamation and malice because of his own words and actions. Is he that stupid enough to destroy himself like that?
Don't know if this is old news but Ron Toye has gone protected on Twitter.
What in the fuck is wrong with Ron? He just got papers that said not to delete shit. He just said he wasn't going to talk about Vic anymore. Why is he doing this?
And does it really make a difference, Ron? We have all your tweets. You've implicated yourself in mischievous behavior.
Fucking GOD, Ron.
In fact, I'm (sadly) convinced, after last night, that ANN isn't really a priority target right now. And maybe they shouldn't be given the fact the target list is large, and resources are finite. We have an emotional desire to see them go the way of Gawker, for the lulz. Clearly however, we're finding out that there are FAR more dangerous people in this industry.
Maybe. Same can apply with Gizmodo and the io9 article. They have to be held accountable for SOMETHING, though. Retract or at least update their stuff with the responses that Vic had given to each individual one, the responses that Yellow Flash had in his video. Maybe not now, but when the true main players are dealt with.
Hell, they might even be dealt with now, and we just don't know it.
