Actually I think it's even smaller. There's a number of Funimation voice actors who haven't said a single thing about this whole controversy. I find that very interesting considering how easy it was to dunk on him when this started. Nowadays you can claim it's because of all the attention this is getting and the risk of being sued, but for a good month before Nick and the other people stepped in it was open season on Vic.. yet there were Funimation VAs who said nothing. It's optimistic to hope for some secret pro-Vic group in Funimation, and maybe they're just smart enough to play this by ear and realize there's no good reason to be jumping in on this, but it's something I've noticed.
The biggest surprise to me is Sonny Strait. Despite that Vic Mignogna parody video he did, he's actually been pretty neutral and respectful, even going so far as to defend Vic kissing and hugging fans. As for the other accusation he specifically states that those are none of his business and it's between those women and Vic.
Sonny is interesting, because even when he had chips in the game he was liking tweets that wanted de-escalation of the situation. He seems like the kind of guy who would have gone along with Chuck's offer and been happy to put it all in his past.
According to Nick, there is a secret pro-Vic section of Funimation, and evidence points to the same in RT.
Crispin Freeman also voiced the character Albedo in Xenosaga where the character tortured a girl.
I'm not dragging the guy. The performance is amazing. Just saying Japan has shipped us some weird, disturbing shit.
Crispin has voiced the whole gamut. He's more along the lines of what people would like Vic to be in terms of power and influence due to his prolific work and how long he's been in the industry.
I agree that it isn't the whole industry that wants him dead. But the problem is one of simple optics and power. Power resides with those who show up, and KickVic showed up, so even if there is a great power base within the industry if they do not speak out or make it known its rather aenemic. Even if the other VAs are either staying out of it to protect their careers, or only giving lip service by Liking posts, they are all LA or Austin based, hardly bastions of anti-SJW thought. So a lack of public statement means nothing beyond the slim hope of sanity. Public statements are just confirmation. Its why I worry over Mercer, the man is a ball of empathy, and with even slightly left leaning politics, the easy empathy sink is the accusers, not the accused.
Call me cynical, but even though those few you named are great actors, but they either didn't show up, or simply aren't the same caliber of celebrity as Marchi or Rial or Sabat or Tatum.
Honestly it's completely unreasonable to expect anyone who isn't a personal, close friend of Vic's to speak out. Voice actors stand to gain
absolutely nothing by supporting Vic. The moment that they do, even if they aren't under Sabat's thumb, they get the Langdon treatment. Sure people like Crispin probably won't be affected in any serious way by it, because he's just
so damn classy, but what's the upshot? Kaiserneko, who leans kickvic, even explained it plainly in an early tweet about it. Doing that kind of thing just pointlessly invites controversy and provides no benefit for the person doing it. If I recall, even Reuban was directly asked about it in an interview, he didn't just jump out on twitter all "hashtag ISWV!!". With kickvic the actors don't just get the buttpats from their side, they also get an in with Sabat, and will end up with better roles in the future if things go his way. Who do they get an in with if they stand up for Vic? What new roles will they receive? What offsets the price they pay for jumping into the controversy and getting muddy?
People compare this to Johnny Depp where his friends in the industry spoke out, but with Johnny he had actual criminal complaints against him and (manipulated) video evidence. He
needed their support. And even then they overplay who was involved.
Sure, it would be nice for Vic for these people to jump to his rescue, but they can support him just fine by privately emailing him, or by keeping him on their platform so he can keep making money and talking directly to his fans. It's not like ISWV is a ghost town that needs their voice. All that can happen for them is getting angry fujos on their tails, and people constantly trying to blackmail cons to get them fired. Would
you want that idiot Crimson Chin calling up every con you go to for the next year?
I think Carey's advice applies equally to KC and ISWV VAs: silence is golden. Pointedly
not talking about it in and of itself helps to ruin the KV narrative that everyone knew and couldn't speak out until now.
"Victhewop" is a meme onto itself.
Also, it's interesting to note that people who probably had more physical interaction with (the LA crew) haven't had any strong words for Vic.
It's certainly memorable. But I think KF itself only found out the name around the time of the depo video. Apparently it's publicly available, but I don't know where.
I think it says something that out of the LA crew the only two I know of who've dipped their toe were Yuri Lowenthal (he retweeted #bethere) and Steve Blum who threw Vic right under the bus. Really makes you wonder what's different about Steve from the rest of the LA crew.
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