Ugh it has been awhile since I have posted on here, but rant incoming???
Damen made a post calling the sk8 fandom the sweetest and he is very clearly speaking of his own personal experience with the fandom and he is also a busy guy?????? He doesn't regularly interact with the fandom so how tf is he supposed to know about fandom drama? Why do people think that VAs or other people involved in the process of creating anime/games/whatever regularly interact with the fandom? They don't. Jonah is literally the exception to this because he is a twitch streamer.
Also if you think Damen was hogging the cast streams as much as Jonah or Ry did then you didn't watch the fucking stream.
Also, as much as I love Adam, he is the antagonist. The depth and breadth people hate him is super fucking dumb and childish and shows a lack of any critical thinking, but fans hating the antagonist should not be something that VAs have to concern themselves with. Especially a VA who interacts with fan content of their own character and that is basically it jfc. Also none of this is to try and make light of the situation with David and Jonah (who is a twitch streamer and regularly interacts with fandom) should have probably said something, but how is any of this being placed on Damen's shoulders?
VAs aren't involved in zines so why tf would he or any of them know about it.
And yes I know this tweet was just made to show how shitty the fandom is (as if every fandom isn't shitty 🙄), but the person who made that tweet acted like Damen should have done more I guess? Idfk the post talks about Adam like he is a real person who got his feelings hurt instead of a narrative tool (like all characters are). I don’t disagree with everything in that post but it left out instances of proshippers being absolute assholes and acted like VAs are super invested in online fandom.