The catalyst for this shit storm is something else entirely. Anime News Network's writers
created a list of "abusers in the anime industry"
as a
response to
one of their own big names in the SJWeaboo sphere
getting outed as a sex pest. This list allowed them to bury the Hazukari/Dylan Kielman story. Multiple ANN staff have said there are
worse people than Mignogna that they
won't go after, which says to me they weren't collecting names for altruistic reasons. Broly reminded people Vic was around and given the drama in his history, he was the perfect fall guy. This autism was all contained on Twitter until ANN's article.
ANN has unpersoned Hazukari,
deleting every article he wrote for them. They haven't published anything about the accusations against him. If they've publicly unpersoned him, that means they believe he's guilty. Their decision to not cover that story isn't because he's a no one. They've reported on
literally whos in the past. One of their contributors is outed as a hazard to teenagers at conventions yet all coverage is limited to their personal Twitter accounts. Is admitting that one of your own is a sex pest not good for advertisers? Did they think it wouldn't make a good story?
I'm sure we're beating on dead horses at the moment but this does need to be brought back up. Bringing up back this topic from the thread on Hope Jacob Chapman:
ANN is a seething cesspit of twofaced pent up teenager days angst and oldfag anime fan vindication with an agenda and made with corporate entity form, and by talentless faggots that spent their youth being the kind of weeaboos that hated dub actors no matter how good they were and actively went to conventions to spite them (for further evidence, look up not only Amanda Winn Lee, but
Apollo Smile), spent it all day being indulgent and complacent fanwhores instead of doing anything with their inspiration other than be fanwhores, and spent it being exceptional individuals than be a human being.
I know that I'm the one who goes on and on and on about this shit, but honestly this is the example of giving all of those faggot ass "expert film critics" their own paper instead of their own isolated periodical that the paper knows anyone can just gloss over before they use it as their pet's shitbed, or giving concert dwelling posers their own stage time. I don't even have anything against critics or crucial, critical, and insightful critique and criterion. It's just that these faggots are the fucking mutant freak spawn of late 1990s-2000s smarmy know it all cynicism, consuming way too much MST3K, the 2008 That Guy With The Glasses wannabe AVGN "internet critic" faggotry, the ass end of turn of the century western anime fandom, and all paved with so much white American baizuo exceptionalism and entitlement that I hope the world learns what happens when you give fuckers like these a public platform and why you shouldn't. And if anything, I hope this teaches the other freaks and insular bitter geekoid faggotasses on the true darker side of the net to stay and wallow in their shit communities that they spawn from. And being on Kiwi Farms, this means a lot.
These fuckers are diseased in more than just the SJW faggot ways of letting in the jihad fuckers and Mr. Garrison transsexual aspirants who can't fuck from their original gender. Anyone who is bitter and as jaded as them, they'll let on in and let them have in on the festivities. And when worse comes to worse, they'll protect them and pull strings to divert attention. I'd turn my back on them and call it a day, but that day had long past when I could smell the shit from miles and miles away. These fuckers gatekeep so much as the Maoist regime, they could call anyone's work child pornography and at the same time praise and give endless recommendations on their whim if it doesn't match to their 1990s era outdated fan expectations than actual understanding of how good anime is supposed to be structured and made to the Japanese standard. And turning us back on track, they would go as far as to protect one of their child molesting and boy grooming convention stalkers and blame a voice actor with nothing but the convention social gossip sewage as their cited sources, and work with the production company that sponsors them and hires said voice actor in slandering his name and outright needlessly destroys his livelihood, along with censoring out anyone with dissenting opinion. Let's also not forget Marzgurl was once a writer for their outlet, and that we spent about half of today and last night talking about one of the supporters of KickVic being a voice actress whose brother was caught red handed with a hard drive full of actual child pornography.
If there's one thing I'm not nostalgic for and is ready to put in its grave, it's the long overdue lich of shit end of anime fandom from the 1990s who now have a news media mouthpiece, and all of their neopotism, hypocrisy, arrogance, and fathead entitlement. Again, as everything has pointed out, this is but one head of the hydra that is beast of KickVic, but ANN is dangerous in that they are not just infowar and intelligence, but subcultural influencers, and what they can spread out is a lot worse than can be said for Variety and other news outlets online.
