Originally Posted by
arus2001
Putting aside the "apology letter" Vic shortly released after this picked up basically admitting he was too much of a touchy feel christian and that's his story, this also hasn't just been Marchi and Rial running solely off their own personal accounts. Funimation did their homework and there was a fair bit of evidence/testimony that fueled their release of him and eventually went into various proceedings a few months back. There was someone on twitter who had been tracking all the publicly available info, some with legit legal backgrounds, that people affectionately came to call "The Threadnaught", but the Vic stans seemingly succeeded in getting the account (temporarily?) banned, so it's not something I can link to atm.
I wanted to be skeptical, too, but as more and more info kept coming in those post-January weeks, I eventually found myself leaning into the camp that believes he did do some shady shit. Eventually started seeing a cosplayer that goes by Dominique Skye getting involved. Was a story that circulated around before Vic got into dubbing where he worked for a school/church group and had lured a girl back to his place alone, took off his shirt, and started making advances before his housemate got back and basically saved her ass by chance. Some women in more behind-the-scenes positions as Funi popped in some of the evidence. Tales of Haberkorn and Vic trying to get under-21 con-goers drunk to bang them surfaced, too. Which probably contributed to Todd's divorce back in the day, too.
I know we have some in poopdeck ree'ing about cancel culture or totally missing the fucking point about #MeToo, but this has simply been a lot more than some random shithead trying to smear a guy. End of the day, there is also technically nothing stopping Vic from establishing his own dubbing company to compete with Funimation after this should he be so inclined, where those who do believe he did nothing wrong can work with him. However, it's also a safe bet he'll not be freelanced by Viz, Sentai, or other studios for major roles because the industry is fairly insular and still pretty small in the grand scheme compared to other media. Maybe in a few years when he's less nuclear he'd have a better chance, but a lot of people won't forget. On the other hand, you could also look to other long-time VO males like Crispin Freeman, Richard Epcar, Kirk Thorton, J. Michael Tatum, or basically anyone who's worked the biz a while having none of this shit haunting them. So, is Vic's case a fluke, or is there actually something to it all?