Funimation Audio Leaks - Sacred Ointment memes for degenerate teens

[Scarlett Johansson]

What is this about Bulma and Android 18 being next though?

 

[Sir Wesley Tailpipe]

Not until 2 years ago from what I understand. Cosby’s reputation was clean too up until 2014.

There were rumours and hints about Weinstein being a thug and threatening creep for decades, but the closest to anything concrete was when he tried to run over Troy Duffy at the Sundance Film Festival, as seen in the Documentary Overnight, about the making of Boondock Saints. He had managed to intimidate or buy off his rape victims well enough to keep them silent for years, but there were multiple stories from directors about screaming fits, threats and physical intimidation. Those incidents were part of why it was easy to believe the rape allegations.

 

[Eyeshield]

What is this about Bulma and Android 18 being next though?

Rumors about their VAs being the next to have another exceptional audio. These being rumors, I wouldn't know if they're true. I don't even know where they came from.

 

[KF_jafo]

I wonder if the evidence preservation order means Funi can't purge the servers of all these old recordings.

The order would include scope - what stuff you absolutely CANNOT destroy. I'm sure those recordings are in (and imagine all the billable hours by both legal teams reviewing them all). All employee and contractor records and contracts are probably in. Because this opens the door for potential unlawful termination filing. There would undoubtedly be more as well.

And here's where it can get interesting. Most smaller companies are really bad in document disposal. Some documents can be legally disposed after a certain period of time (depending on the document). In other words, they could have legally destroyed them years ago. But once the Litigation Hold/Preservation Order hits, they can't. And now they're subject to discovery by opposing counsel. It's a bad place to be...

Now this doesn't mean they CAN'T purge it - obviously the records are under their control. However if you are caught, there will be major consequences. Setting aside the obvious contempt of court issues, you effectively lower the burden of proof for the plaintiff. Every argument he makes will be looked at in a much more sympathetic light. I am aware of one case where defendants essentially couldn't mount any defense and smartly decided on a very lucrative settlement rather than risk trial.

You have to be a special level of stupid to ignore such an order. On the other hand, Funimation has proven to be a special level of stupid on a consistent basis.

 

[Kosher Salt]

Their little employee handbook doesn't actually state that you need to be directing your words at a person, I could be working there and my equipment fails and I call it a "stupid faggot piece of shit". By their own handbook I'd have been homophobic and would be disciplined.

The thing is, Funimation didn't actually just make that up. It's part of the federal equal opportunity employment laws.

Facts About Sexual Harassment

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Sexual harassment is any unwelcome conduct of a sexual nature which creates a hostile or offensive work environment. The only thing that's missing is a complainant. If one person was offended by the sexual degeneracy of the VAs, that could be sexual harassment. It doesn't mean that they have to go straight to termination, but it has to be dealt with promptly and seriously.

The part that Funimation just made up is the part where they can selectively enforce it. Vic's jellybean joke, quite honestly. could easily have resulted in some type of HR discipline. However, it goes from just silly to outright hypocritical when they had other VAs using company time and equipment to voice and edit non-work-related porno clips, while Funimation looked the other way. If just one person reported that they found that type of conduct offensive, then Funimation HR should have treated it just as seriously as they treated Vic's jellybean joke. Really makes me wonder how many people were bothered by that sort of thing, and whether anyone (any unnamed leakers, for instance) might have ever commented to management or HR about the unprofessional and sexually offensive environment...

Funimation could potentially be facing a very expensive series of sexual harassment lawsuits... this is the type of thing where one person can sue, and then when other employees start to see dancing dollar signs they start saying "hey I had to work in this offensive work environment too, so where's my check?" This is starting to look like it's shaping up to be an absolute disaster for Funimation.

 

[TheShortWaveCerealKiller]

The order would include scope - what stuff you absolutely CANNOT destroy. I'm sure those recordings are in (and imagine all the billable hours by both legal teams reviewing them all). All employee and contractor records and contracts are probably in. Because this opens the door for potential unlawful termination filing. There would undoubtedly be more as well.

And here's where it can get interesting. Most smaller companies are really bad in document disposal. Some documents can be legally disposed after a certain period of time (depending on the document). In other words, they could have legally destroyed them years ago. But once the Litigation Hold/Preservation Order hits, they can't. And now they're subject to discovery by opposing counsel. It's a bad place to be...

Now this doesn't mean they CAN'T purge it - obviously the records are under their control. However if you are caught, there will be major consequences. Setting aside the obvious contempt of court issues, you effectively lower the burden of proof for the plaintiff. Every argument he makes will be looked at in a much more sympathetic light. I am aware of one case where defendants essentially couldn't mount any defense and smartly decided on a very lucrative settlement rather than risk trial.

You have to be a special level of stupid to ignore such an order. On the other hand, Funimation has proven to be a special level of stupid on a consistent basis.

As I said earlier if any other studios come knocking on their door wanting to see about if they've done this shit with any other of their IPs Funimation is up shit creek without a paddle. Because they can't destroy those recordings at risk of getting caught but, if they are caught they are potentially losing that IP.

Its an interesting case in general since no matter what they do right now they rep is on a downward spiral and mixed with the already horrendous behavior of their TOP voice actors this doesnt bode well for the future of Funimation. Not to say theyll go out of business that would be just silly to blindly speculate but, their spot as #1 is definitely at jeopardy.

 

[Dr. Dickhead]

I'm mildly curious as to which of the people saying "oh this was said in private years ago" blew a gasket over "grab em by the pussy".

And I am quite curious if, in the scenario that funi loses its license to Toei owned IPs, if other licensors will see Funi as toxic for their brands and revoke or at least refuse to renew any new licensing agreement.

We're basically throwing shit at the wall and waiting to see what sticks, but I doubt this will be an overnight thing. The recordings are basically buckshot to the abdomen. With fast and precise care, it can be treated, and they would theoretically recover (eventually). I just pray to C'thulu, Satan, Jesus, [insert all other religious figures here] that at least one of these protected accounts can be baited enough that it finally explodes in a beautiful shitstorm as we sit here laughing under our umbrellas.

Edited for typo

 

[Carpenter Trout]

Also those VA's sense of humor is garbage.

yeah, reminds me a lot of trashy movies like the Scary Movie series. Never liked this kind of humor,personally (though I understand that some high schoolboys might laugh like crazy at this shit)

Teehee teehee Penis teehee

[boosted laugh track + seinfeld theme]

 

[UptownRuckus]

I feel like this may be related. Funimation now has ads for 50% on some of their merch. I wonder if they got some bad news

 

[KF_jafo]

As I said earlier if any other studios come knocking on their door wanting to see about if they've done this shit with any other of their IPs Funimation is up shit creek without a paddle. Because they can't destroy those recordings at risk of getting caught but, if they are caught they are potentially losing that IP.

Agreed, this would be a good time to come knocking with questions. On the other hand, unless the contract had provisions giving the other party the right to conduct on-site audits (which I would very strongly doubt), and outside of legal action, Funimation could (and would) just deny, deny, deny.

It will be interesting how it affects FUTURE contracts. As I said, there probably aren't provisions about on-site audits of materials. Perhaps there will be. And you can be DAMN sure there would be provisions protecting the IP owners from Funimation's negligence, with specific penalties spelled out.

Regardless of what happens with Vic's case and this PR shitstorm, the days of "business as usual" are over at Funimation. AT MINIMUM, Sony is going to keep them on a tighter leash.

For all the "artists'" talk about oppressive "corporate" people being in charge - this is EXACTLY why. Because this is what happens when you let the toddlers run the daycare. Grownups need to be involved.

 

[ItalianMobStripper]

I'm mildly curious as to which of the people saying "oh this was said in private years ago" blew a gasket over "grab em by the pussy".

Same. One of the particular reasons I hate AniTwitter, is because the exceptionality of the individuals that compose it.

This portion of the autist gang thinks the jellybean thing is textbook sexual harassment, that makes Vic deserving of never getting any income to eat again; but then, make more racy jokes with their friends publicly.

One of which is, and I quote: "I want to you to scrape my butthole with your fingernails until it bleeds"

 

[UE 558]

I pretty much agree with the sentiment that on their own, these clips aren’t too heinous (“faggot ass clothes” even made me laugh), but the hypocrisy coupled with how draconian Toei is with their properties kinda leaves our KickVic Kommandos in quite the embarrassing predicament

 

[Boss Bass]

So someone thought it would be funny to record Thanks Doc and the Kamehasutra and now don't want to be held to their own standards on "professional behavior"?

PONDER
MY
ASTONISHMENT.

The Kami-Sutra is RIGHT THERE.

 

[Cheetahman]

Did sjws cancel cancel culture to fit their agenda? Pot calling the nigger black this is bullshit.

If we're being honest, this is really more like nigger calling the kettle black.

 

[Psyduck]

If we're being honest, this is really more like nigger calling the kettle black.

Ackshyualleh, this is more like the nigger calling the nigger a nigger

 

[Boss Bass]

Going to try one more time.

Let’s pick a random innocuous company like 3M. Their logo is a red 3 and a red M. Here’s 85 fucking pages of brand guidelines. If you are a contractor, even in a non-external area, you have to follow this - http://multimedia.3m.com/mws/media/726116O/brand-activation-guide.pdf

I can tell you, that’s absolutely normal for companies whose brands are not “famous”. For companies with major brands (Disney, Aflac, Owens Corning, Kellogg’s, General Mills, etc.) it’s way more stringent, with strong language informing contractors that they are not to use the characters in any way.

Dragon Ball is the 12th most valuable IP in human history. You can’t fucking disrespect the brand like this without blowback. The only question is if it’s worth Toei’s Time to enforce.

 

[TexOffender]

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[Mr. Zed da Robot Poon Fed]

One of the rules of the Farms is don't pozload my neghole. If the lolcows come here like Shane did, that's fine. But Ron Toye was coming to Joseph offline. Ergo, the Farms smelled gay ops, but Joseph persisted, possibly opening the Farms itself to legal action.

Thus, he was banned.

Are we ever going to see those documents he has on La Choy, though?

If no VA ends up tweeting about the leaks it 100% proves Funi does have control over their "contractor's" social media activity. There is absolutely no way all of those dumbshits would be able to keep their mouths shut about this without being explicitly warned to by their employer.

Well, Kirsten Munro said something about it, I believe. I don’t know how much relevancy she has in anything nowadays, though.

And she liked tweets from the blue orca.

There were rumours and hints about Weinstein being a thug and threatening creep for decades, but the closest to anything concrete was when he tried to run over Troy Duffy at the Sundance Film Festival, as seen in the Documentary Overnight, about the making of Boondock Saints. He had managed to intimidate or buy off his rape victims well enough to keep them silent for years, but there were multiple stories from directors about screaming fits, threats and physical intimidation. Those incidents were part of why it was easy to believe the rape allegations.

All of this shit started with liberals and progressives in Hollywood. These “feminist” icons that let Weinstein do this. That needs to be addressed.

 

[WhimsicalTrolli]

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The English voices were probably done before the vic stuff happened tbh.

 

[Eyeshield]

Going to try one more time.

Let’s pick a random innocuous company like 3M. Their logo is a red 3 and a red M. Here’s 85 fucking pages of brand guidelines. If you are a contractor, even in a non-external area, you have to follow this - http://multimedia.3m.com/mws/media/726116O/brand-activation-guide.pdf

I can tell you, that’s absolutely normal for companies whose brands are not “famous”. For companies with major brands (Disney, Aflac, Owens Corning, Kellogg’s, General Mills, etc.) it’s way more stringent, with strong language informing contractors that they are not to use the characters in any way.

Dragon Ball is the 12th most valuable IP in human history. You can’t fucking disrespect the brand like this without blowback. The only question is if it’s worth Toei’s Time to enforce.

Know where we can get a copy of the whole Funimation Employee Handbook that Nick used?

Are we ever going to see those documents he has on La Choy, though?

Hmmm... IDK. I THINK someone else has them, but I'm not sure.

As for his talk with Ron, it's in the main thread. IDK which page though.