Reminder that the current ranks of Dub Defenders are filled with people like this.
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It's always the same unironic statements from supposed "fans" of anime who defend inane pop-culture reference riddled localizations and the abhorrent standards of American dub VA work.
"The original was bland, it needed spicing it up!"
"They really gave personality to the characters!"
"The original VA work is just as bad, you just can't tell because you don't know Japanese!"
Once upon a time, actors who actually worked on the stage or TV did dub VA work, now it's all Funimation nepotism hires who can only do two voices, incredibly niche e-celebs, and people who were picked up for cheap by Crunchyroll and can't change how their voices sound half the time. Plus, it's all part of an increasingly cliquey talent pool of untalented people. As opposed to Japan, where the talent pool is considerably wider, and the VAs have professional training, because it's a trade. You hear complaints about non-actor celebs in Japan providing voices for dubs of foreign movies, but it's nothing like over here.
They don't hire people because they posted 30-second audio clips of them narrating obnoxious memes to social media and they got a few likes, or they're a niche micro-celeb TikToker or Youtuber with a stupid screenname or because, even though they have less acting skill and range than a cinder block, they know someone who knows someone who knows someone.
