I watched this eleven hour long video on Vic Mignona while I was really fucking sick and it confirmed something that I kind of had a feeling was going on.
So basically thanks to his creepy behavior to women in the workplace and towards children his audience went from teenage Edward Elric and Tamaki fan girls to middle aged conservative men.
My whole view on Vic was basically "I heard that there's a law suit going on. I'll just wait for the results of that." And then he complained about COVID restrictions and I decided that rather he did those things or not I don't like him anymore anyway. Then I forgot about the lawsuit until the video came to my attention. (The lawsuit was apparently practically a joke.)
Anyway, even before that I've noticed a pattern between the people who would defend him and the people who would defend other right-wing pedophiles, and not those who would defend somebody who they're a legitimate fan of.
Like, when people defended the developer of FNAF to me they didn't defend his donations towards massive queerphobes. They defended the games and used "Markiplier got popular thanks to FNAF!" (which isn't true, for the record) and had nothing to do with the man himself.
But with Vic the arguments weren't "but he's a really good voice actor and he helped dubbed anime's reputation" or even "what proof is there?" It was shit like "the Me Too movement is going to enslave all men with false accusations!"
I've even noticed the weird amount of blank reviews on any anime that dared crawled above Fullmetal Alchemist Brotherhood on MyAnimeList. (That's not even the better one of the two.)
Frieren is currently at the top and if you look at the profiles for some of the low-effort 1 star reviews they also happen to have Brotherhood at a 10 without a review attached to it. (By "low-effort" I mean they use some of the most basic language to describe Frieren, like "it's uninspired," while not talking about the anime itself.)
At least unlike some people, Vic Mignona actually seems to be right-wing for a while, and not overnight when he knew that the accusations are coming.
This might also explain the trend of weird right-wingers who pretend to be anime fans while clearly having no clue what they're talking about.
So... I guess it feels nice to have confirmation on this?
...No, I lied. It's not nice.
What's weird is that I was going to meet him in 2019, but he got kicked (lol) from the con I was going to go to. I was able to meet some of the best voice actors that year (I got to meet Jerry Jewell, J. Michael Tatum, Ian Sinclair and D.C. Douglas while there!) so I really didn't actually care.
And from what I've seen in that video it didn't look like I would have enjoyed meeting Vic Mignona. (We'd probably get kicked out since I was there with my husband and with a couple of friends who are a couple. I dunno who would've punched him first.)
Then again we were all in our mid-twenties, so maybe he wouldn't have bothered us since we were at least ten years too old for him.












