Could be both, honestly, because that person she quote tweeted does start off talking about some weebs who are upset about the removal/altering of the guys who harassed Ryuji before talking about the anime industry.
so, it looks like that thread's gone now. mostly because it seemed like more than a little bullshit?
I think the original thread is a bit stupid (considering the revelation that the "homophobic" overtones are entirely absent within the original source material), but it's standard shit. but this response thread is making a lot of claims that the author fails to back up.
the argument of "Japan is a bigger market" is a bit asinine, because of course it is. nobody, even this dude you seem a bit MOTI about, is saying that it's not.
I remember seeing the "underpaid translator" claim a while back, but could never find a verifiable source for it. when I was googling around, i found that even you, when getting into a little slapfight about it on Twitter, couldn't provide one.
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this is the thread that exists now - free entirely of any claims about the financial side of things. it's competent enough. it speaks from a place the author actually seems familiar with.
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this is why we should have an anitwitter thread, imo. so many fun slapfights and endless troves of misinfo from all sides.
Oh, the source for the underpaid translator claims? Those come from GlassDoor salary comparisons from what people were being paid or underpaid while working for the California offices of Crunchyroll, which got brought up again because of CR announcing how they upgraded to newly built offices, which always brings out the reminder posts about it.
Here's some of the posts typically getting brought up about it, when the argument crops up normally, and some of that proof:
It's not that I couldn't provide one, it's that the rates of pay CR gives explicitly compared to the rest of the industry are based on multiple factors requiring self-reporting income and comparisons to them between all points and factors of the industry-- numbers which CR, and Funimation don't announce or report much if ever expect through self-reporting comparisons on sites like GlassDoor by current/former employees;
Mainly because, most of those people's salaries are freelancers, and alot of the information concerning the point is mostly unreliable due to variance.
It's always been agreed upon and known that anime dubbers and script translators are massively underpaid for their work, especially CR employees working in CA -- it just gets muted or ignored in favor of the more annoying Jamie Marchi "IM MAKING ALL YOUR ANIME POLITICAL AND YOU CAN'T STOP ME" cases and reality of general censorship and wokescold mightier-than-thou attitudes from these groups pushing these arguments,
and they know that we all know this.
Ultimately, you don't even need to talk about the financial side of the business to make that point -- because Christina is right, it's not about the money, it's about non-fans, progressive dipsticks, and general RE idiots demanding and crying outrage to make or outright harassing companies to make changes to eastern works (including even fan-translations that are translated accurately to the text), and then purity-spiraling about it's not good enough, and then harassing others about how problematic thier desired changes made it.
For example, how they bullied the fansubber for Goemon into deleting their account because they accurately translated the game, including the term "newhalf", only to then "correct" it to trans because RE heard it used to be a 'transphobic slur' -- only to change the context of the scenes for the worse, because it was part of a dialogue about how the character that self-ID'd with that term struggling with telling their partner about their sexuality.
TL;DR: They hounded him, and Atlus USA using the same tactics -- only to either make it worse or to continue the ResetEra Shuffle.
In fact, this is just part of a bigger reporting cycle concerning ResetEra, because this is literally all they ever do, concerning any situation -- it's just getting watered down by people like I said earlier for attention and a chance to "own the gamers" , "own the chuds", "show what gamer fragility looks like."
To demonstrate this, here are some choice archives about explicitly this constant point of contention, illustrated by ResetEraTake's documentation of it all for Jan and Feb:
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Fortunately, the ResetEraTakes account did us all the favor of documenting everything that comes out about this that we now have this take to demonstrate/illustrate that same point Christina is making:
Don’t you know that side of twitter is nothing but parroting the exact same opinion in different wording? There are different people copying and pasting faux reactions for clout. Carl’s just looking for that sweet influence to earn a couple shekels just like Smug, the trannies RoonKalos, Christiana, and Lilith Lovett.
They all do this to build up a reputation to own the SJWs and have enough simps to send them some dollars. People like seeing stupid people owned, and this thread is proof people will go through hurdles to see fights, or to support the one big account fighting.
You're not wrong, just not the right reasons of why/how I'm involved here.
The majority of most of the people getting the most attention is fueled by people like me doing the groundwork of looking into something, then followed by someone of bigger reach seeing that, or asking them to look into that, who then takes that information, RTs it, summarizes it into cliff notes that then tweets that, and somewhere after the arguments reach the general public of a community on said topic, Lauren gets her grimy hands on it and shits it up.
It basically looks like this:
Niche Investigator/Researcher -> Moderately known twitter poster -> Massively known twitter poster -> "The General Public" -> Smug/Lauren.
If I fit anywhere into this scheme, as I see it, it's at the start of the chain. It's actually a perfect representation of the 48h news cycle observable on Legacy Media, except faster and more invasive & renewable, because of how social media encourages emotional responses both passionate and outrageous.
Lauren was using me (and my research/work) to just jump straight ahead of that line and be able to have the benefit of getting it right & getting it first while being not informative and not funny/likable enough for people to care, which is why she constantly picks fights to make up for that attention-- whereas everyone else in this system, as I see it, do similar if not the same thing, but just appeal to different or similar if not the same niche audiences and communities, while having the benefit of having similar arguments but tackling them from different angles and amounts of experience/observation.
As for "earning a couple shekels" -- you're goddamn right. I'm still among the number of people who went and still are, and at this point, never will be paid for my work, my research, or any amount of my services during my official employment for Lauren, or even out of general appreciation for what I did for her for free as, what I thought I was, a friend.
Boy, was I fucking stupid for ever thinking that.
another brother impoverished, fleeced & cucked by the huwite™ race.
But seriously though, it goes back to what I said before about Lauren putting in the work: she doesn't and I do.
It's not even a money thing, I actually give a shit about my hobby, my ideas, and the things I'm involved in.
I wouldn't waste the reasearch time on the topics if I didn't. I know what my value and worth is to myself, and I'm not going to let someone liek her and this whole experience discourage me or silence me like you've witnessed her try to when I never wanted anything to come to this.
It was my original investigation into her abusive behavior that set off this avalanche of tard cum and gay ops, bore out of my original work experience.
So why not make use of that skill, while making/doing something that gives others some type of value other than just smug arguments on the internet or neverending fights about nothing of importance?
