I will say this: Jamie Marchi is a disgusting waste of humanity, but if anyone deserves blame for this enabling this behavior, it's the Funimation management. To this day, I cannot for the life of me understand why Funimation couldn't tell their voice actors to keep their stupid mouths shut even in the midst of the lawsuit - not just Jamie and Monica, but also Schemmel, Edwards, Tatum, DC Douglas, Grelle, Sheh, Martin, Rager, Weidenheft, Sabat et al. Not only are they tainting their own reputation, they're also dragging Funimation's image down with it.
I work at a professional private company and I can assure you that if I so much as make one of the tweets Jamie made, I would have been fired on the spot and rightly so. Even though I'm a nobody, my one lone tweet could have brought some complaints and even some negative PR. But Funimation isn't some private company; it's a multi-million-dollar company owned by a billion-dollar-corporation.
Not only are many of Funimation's key figures well-known in the anime community, but their social media is tied to their profession. As Vic himself said in his deposition, "what Funimation may not get is that these voice actors have been employed by them for many years and when they speak, the public at large…sees Funimation”. Yet for reasons that defy the most generous attempts of logic, they still sit on their hands and let their VA's babble on, despite losing tons of customers, hundreds of thousands of dollars in revenue and widespread respect among fans. I just don't get it.
Ty once described "Igor" as a "tragic figure" in this whole ordeal, but I think that the title would also apply to Jamie, not because she's innocent, but because she's going to be used as a scapegoat for everything that's wrong at Funimation while the real culprits will continue to hide behind-the-scenes. I think if she was disciplined earlier and learned some humility, she would not have behaved this irrationally, but she wasn't and now she thinks she's going to get out of this scot-free when her fate has already been sealed. I never thought I'd express pity for Jamie, but I have to admit, I kinda do.
Oh come on, worstkindofeurofag. First those gross drawings and now this?! Haven't we suffered enough today?