Seems like a stupid idea to kill Qrow unrelated to anything to do with Vic. He's one of the most popular characters in the show. Killing off Qrow is like the writers of The Walking Dead saying "Yeah, we just don't have anywhere left for Daryll to go so I guess it's time to kill him off." (I wouldn't put that past them, but to be fair they're basically the bottom of the barrel in terrible tv writing) - You just piss off your fanbase and lose a bunch of viewers instead of making him present in the background but irrelevant. Not really the smartest move to make when one of your voice actresses got onto twitter and started telling RWBY fans to stop watching the show if they didn't agree with something happening in it. And that's without getting into how irritated fans will be who liked Vic's performance in particular. (I don't personally care and never knew Vic voiced him to begin with because it's unlike his normal voices, but then I think RWBY's been a garbage pile progressively lighting on fire since halfway into s3. Someone who actually cared about RWBY would likely have a much more aggressive opinion on it)
Man. I was willing to give him a pass for talking to Monica and Marchi. They're his coworkers(?), and it's not his fault he's picked to replace Vic anymore than Ian whatshisname is at fault for getting one of Vic's minor Funimation roles. But then he just had to include Ron.
What a shame.
Not a good look for Jason.
Their defense is seriously 'I decided three stories that did not contain harassment of any sort were credible indications of rampant harassment', huh? Really seems like they'd have been better off going with "We didn't find anything wrong, but I did find his voice annoying so we fired him anyway, which is technically a result of the investigation'.
Probably shouldn't have put his four disc collection of both DVDs and BDs prominently displayed in his photograph flexing about how smart and cultured he was, then. Then again, I guess he's such a cultured and smart anime fan that he has Card Captor Sakura, Disgaea, Tenchi Muyo (GX, I think?), Inuyasha and Ranma 1/2 in his collection, and can't figure out Vic voices one of the main characters in Tsubasa.
Oh yeah, he's also got One Punch Man there. Which is another Vic role. And at least one DVD of Dragonball. At this point he is either a sub watcher trying to flex about dubs he knows nothing about, or he just wanted good boy points by trying to dunk on Vic the Public Figure With Too Much Power's crippling irrelevancy and banked on people being too dazzled by his ugly wall clock to verify the anime in his bookcase.
Terez knows that it's rock solid despite being a VA and not a lawyer because she plays the less popular counterpart of a dragonball super character, and you just start being right about everything once you make it big.
Uncensored Huniepop is absolutely a hentai game. The girls send you various nudes and hentai pictures of them as you build your relationship, and then when you max out their affection you play a game where they make porn noises as their clothes fall off, and afterward display a picture of them in a post-sex position with bodily fluids on them. Even the censored version that put underwear on them in those images was basically borderline h-game. The only reason it got mainstream was because the dev had a strange kink for putting actual gameplay in it between those scenes.
You are the first person I've ever seen who apparently doesn't find the Japanese female seiyuus in hentai to be the most annoying and grating screechy things on this planet.
I think the discord is really what burned Marchi. She might have gotten away with a slap on the wrist if it had just been the tweet, especially if they couldn't directly connect her to the rest of the conspiracy. She'd just have been an opportunistic defamer with an axe to grind, like AWL. That's why they freaked out so hard when the discord got leaked and tried to meme it into a joke. I suspect discovery of that discord is going to utterly ruin Marchi's position (and maybe help cement civil conspiracy, since two other prominent hangers-on were involved), and they all know it.
Dom doesn't seem to have done much of any impact to Vic, but she's so annoying I hope she gets roped into the lawsuit anyway. She's a jumped-up sagging cosplay woman who thinks she's someone important because Chris Sabat flirted with her a few times and she managed to cozy up to Monica. Imagine some random real life friend of Tom Cruise peacocking around twitter like they were someone important just because they'd befriended a super star. That's Dominique, but 5000x more pathetic and willingly throwing herself into a civil conspiracy lawsuit.
These two sets of quotes really just blows GIGANTIC holes into their claim that they were 'just trolling'. There's not a hint of a joke in these tweets. Aside from Horsemouth being irreverent and Marchi making a crack about Jack later, there's no reason to believe they're lying about their connections to Funimation. They're claiming to have secret information, they're using their personal connections to Funimation to increase the authority of their claims, and there is no clarifying tweet attached to that saying 'this is a joke, idiots'.
My conclusion is that it was never a joke, it was always a purposeful attempt to increase the weight and validity of their claims by announcing how they're the people who did the investigation and made the decision (just like Samantha claimed to), and they just never banked on being called on it. Even if someone did research and outed those as lies, it wouldn't undo the damage, because most people would still believe they were agents of Funimation and they could fall back on 'we weren't actually lying, it was a joke', to everyone else. They were just too dumb to understand that doing so was making it worse for them legally, because they expected Vic to go off and (literally) die.
