Tony Goldmark said that Lupa's been way more toxic about this situation than the Walkers. She just needs to move on and continue her work. Everyone should. P.S. I'm a fan of you, Lupa and everyone else on CA formally or currently.
Look, I’m really glad that Tony has not seen as much of the bad stuff happening as many other people have. But his one singular experience absolutely does not speak for the two dozen other people who’ve spoken up about their bad experiences. I shouldn’t really have to repeat what I’ve already written, that I can understand how Allison can come off as aggressive as she has. But really–REALLY–look at the facts. 20-some-odd people have brought up very specific things on a pretty large sliding scale from “kinda douchey” to “holy shit, this is totally and completely unacceptable.” Tony’s experiences do NOT represent the rest of us. I’m not asking him to, either. If nothing bad has happened to him, then good. I would NEVER wish for something bad to happen to him or any of the other producers.
We’ve all continued our work just fine. But here’s the thing. If it’s coming out now, it’s for a reason. There’s too many of us who have been sitting on it for too long, and in some cases some people got SERIOUSLY hurt and had their lives ruined because we were all bullied into our own separate corners and never spoke up and did anything about it. We could have protected more people, but we didn’t. We said nothing. Or, in the case of some folks, some things were said, but nobody backed them up, or nobody was taking them seriously, or nobody was listening.
Well, people are both talking AND listening now. And, look, I know that it can come off as though we are out to tear down the monument that is Channel Awesome. I can think of a couple of people that this might be true of. But honestly, and I said this in another “tumblr ask” already, we have ZERO expectations that Channel Awesome will either change or go away. What we DO want to do is protect innocent people who might be getting taken advantage of, who might be getting their good talents and work ethics run into the ground by a company that doesn’t care if they live or die, a company that doesn’t even care about the image put out to their fan base and whether or not those fans have a good opinion of them. I’ll repeat that PEOPLE GENUINELY GOT HURT because people either didn’t speak up sooner, or people’s hearts were too hardened to listen. We don’t want that to happen again, either to another producer or to the fan base that is trying to get close to them.
Tony, I’m glad you’re okay. Good luck to you out there. But I’m sorry, two dozen people HAVE been hurt, and ONE person who has NOT been hurt does not make those other two dozen stories go away.
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