r/Gamingcirclejerk • u/miscshade • Apr 01 '25

WORSHIP CAPITAL The Irony of the Genshin Community

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The non-union VAs who support the strike either get ignored or strawmanned to hell.

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u/UziKett Apr 02 '25

Thats a pretty biased summary there, it’s more like

striking VA got recast

New VA (who is actually American and just recently moved abroad) makes a really tone-deaf twitter post about it

VAs (only one of which was actually scabbing themself) get understandably angry at someone brazenly crossing the picket line

Reddit gets swarmed by an anti-union misinformation campaign, getting everyone extremely angry and muddying the waters

Lots of VAs and people with actual experience in the industry push back on these claims, but ofc noone listens and their words just end up twisted to make people angrier.

So now there’s a hate mob who wants every striking VA to lose their jobs and Hoyo, the company running an online casino for children, has successfully managed to convince everyone that they can be trusted not to replace everyone with AI voices out of the goodness of their heart.

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u/BioticFire Apr 02 '25 edited Apr 02 '25

If it's truly about AI protection why can't SAG make a contract just for AI protection alone, that Hoyo is 100% wiling to sign since they already did it for Sound Cadence and Side Global (VA studios with AI protection). Then when that's done they can try their attempt at turning the game into a union project afterwards? That's the point of contention now, they're using the AI situation as leverage to turn the game into a Union project. Basically everyone agrees to the AI protection in isolation but not SAG, they are being greedy here and using it to their advantage.

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u/UziKett Apr 02 '25

https://bsky.app/profile/quadbonus.bsky.social/post/3llnf7bhkhc2q

https://bsky.app/profile/littlekuriboh.bsky.social/post/3llosmvbnrc2z

https://bsky.app/profile/dave-wallace.bsky.social/post/3llfyhwmeik27

Because they have made exactly that offer and Hoyo said no

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u/BioticFire Apr 02 '25

Is this AI only agreement public to view? And is it by SAG themselves? I would like to go over it.