Why do I get this weird feeling that Monica Rial is going down the same road that Amanda Winn-Lee went down when she destroyed her own career way back in the early 2000's?
I think there's several reasons why the main players in the Kick Vic movement are doing this, the most common factor is a mix of financial gain/career advancement and I would also say that there's some fucked-up sociopolitical angle to this as well, particularly in the case of Marchi, useful idiots like Shane and Ron, and the lower-ranked Kick Vic people who fell for the astroturfing efforts.
But there's definitely personal projections as well. Chris Sabat doesn't like Vic's political views and religious beliefs and he probably sees Vic as his main competition, so he'll probably take the financial gain motive a lot farther than all the others. That's probably why he's been the least visible of the suspected big-shots in all this. I think of all the people in Kick Vic, he's most likely the only who would even consider the remote possibility of this backfiring.
Amanda Winn-Lee is a notoriously hedonistic and constantly intoxicated harlot who ruined her own career due to her seedy antics at conventions and probably has some weird sexual issues of her own and is definitely projecting with her attacks on Vic despite Vic being probably the only major VA who advocated for her to voice Rei Ayanami again in the Rebuild movies and the Netflix re-dub.
I truly think she's probably a female pedophile who may have preyed on teenage boys at conventions which could be a reason why she's completely blacklisted from the anime con scene. Yeah, her voice-acting career is dead and that in and of itself would probably keep her from being a guest at the big cons.
But considering her prolific work in the 90's and early 2000's and her ties to both Evangelion and Persona 4, wouldn't she at least do the occasional appearance at the smaller cons?
Even for a primadonna like her, it'd be easy weed money at the very least. But that's best discussed further in Amanda's own thread.
To bring this back around to topic, I think Monica Rial knows her party-hard ways are going to come back to bite her and she doesn't want to end up like AWL did.
I don't think she has the weird sexual behaviors that Amanda Winn-Lee has displayed on camera and social media (plus any 90's con rumors) so she probably wouldn't be completely blacklisted from most cons like AWL was.
But it is well-known that Monica Rial doesn't like being an anime voice actor and probably hates going to conventions, unlike Vic who not only enjoys the cons, but also gets more money from the cons due to autographs and photos with fans. If she loses her job at Funimation (her primary employer) she'll lose her main income and probably be less of a draw at cons, meaning less money for her appearances.
So I would not be surprised if she got on board with Kick Vic not only because of personal grievances with Vic but also so she could play the hero by taking down Vic, which would definitely improve her job security.
But Monica did not expect Vic to fight back, especially not in the way that he did. None of the Kick Vic people did.