Anime News Network (ANN), Christopher Macdonald & Co. - "Unbiased" Reporting on All Things Anime Related By Snobbish Quebec-Based Web Company

[Nontransferable]

Predictable, but Macdonald has not learned to keep his mouth shut when he REALLY should:

https://twitter.com/ANN_Ed/status/1137467635573149699

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"an independant lawyer with no stake in the Vic Mignogna vs. Funimation, etc. lawsuit"

He liked a popular #KickVic tweet back in early February. Also, he is clearly a weeb. There's a bunch of anime jokes sprinkled throughout his legal analysis, there's a Vegeta Funko POP visible in the background of his video, he volunteers at conventions and reviews contracts for the hotels.

 

[Scarlett Johansson]

ANN is going after Ty Beard?

 

[JamFlowMan]

ANN is going after Ty Beard?

Wouldn't be surprising. In their minds they just need to discredit one person and that discredits everything so they'll just go down the list one at a time looking for something they can turn into headlines.

 

[Scarlett Johansson]

I still want to see Zac and Hope fry. I'd make a comment ala Marchi about wanting their heads but nah. I'd rather they get beaten to death by a group of geisha wielding betamax video recorders.

Seriously I don't understand how Hope is allowed to remain on the site because what she did to get the job was ethically and morally wrong and wouldn't fly in an irl job job.

 

[xyz741]

Regarding mpark6288, and his dispensing of legal instruction, he currently writes "serial web fiction", this is HIS OWN WORDS from his site (emphasis mine):

It was recently shown to me that I had been doing the grammar of my dialogue wrong, and not even realized it. As someone with an English degree and who obviously wants to write (and has some published writing work), this was obviously tremendously embarrassing.

So, he's clearly a very meticulous and precise practitioner of his knowledge. He also claims he came into this "with no bias" but as Nontransferable said, he retweeted anti-Vic stuff back in February.

 

[inception_state]

Regarding mpark6288, and his dispensing of legal instruction, he currently writes "serial web fiction", this is HIS OWN WORDS from his site (emphasis mine):

This piqued my curiosity, so I went and looked up what sort of web fiction he actually writes:

Border, Kansas is a serial web-fiction set in the town of (amusingly enough) Border, Kansas. While it may look like an unassuming metropolitan area complete with a mayor, a police force, and humble people going about their business…not everything is as it seems. The shadows hold a little more depth, the forests a little more wild, and the streets a little more…something.

And the title of his most recent chapter:
11.4 The Other Kind of Vampire

It looks like his side gig involves trying to write the next Twilight... Does this guy deserve his own thread as well?

There was also this interesting bit in his bio:

Who are you?

My name is Matt Parker, and I’m an attorney living in Omaha, NE and not currently practicing law (since I have a Colorado, not Nebraska, license). I’m originally from Denver, CO and went to undergrad at the University of Northern Colorado. I attended Law School at the Washburn University School of Law in Topeka, KS, which is also where I first encountered Kansas and began visiting the people and places who would help inspire Border.

 

[Munchingonfish]

Mike Toole was sperging out

I know nothing about this thread, so sorry for being uninformed, but ANN editor Michael Toole is talking about how someone involved in this garbage fire was able to get someone on here to dox that Douchete guy.

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[I Love Beef]

https://archive.md/v3uVB

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See what employees say about what it's like to work at Anime News Network. Salaries, reviews and more - all posted by employees working at Anime News Network.

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Well, it's a start.

 

[I Love Beef]

Quite well I predict.

What's your personal over/under on (another) one of them getting outed as a sex pest during or shortly after all this autistic lawfare?

I'm not Mr. Pullara himself, but I can assure you that it's probable. Justin Sevakis has been given allegations of rapey behavior at conventions, and we've yet to get more witnesses of Dylan Kleiman's boy grooming. Who knows what other ass grabbing tail chasing degenerate escapades have been happening at Ass News Network? And I wouldn't recommend they should deny it. This is the Information Age- If you're in high corporate, I'm sure there's some sort of decadent and affluent indulgence going on there at the top of centralized power.

Speaking of @LordKaT , however, and @jellycar , this is also for you: The tale of how Hope "Jacob" Chapman fucked her way to Anime News Network employment.

Where it all began: A backstory

Right around the early to mid 2010s, Hope Chapman was still in That Guy With The Glasses and was seeing a fellow coworker, Nash Bozard of his own streaming radio and talk show Radio Dead Air. Some background to help know who this schmuck (I'd say pitiful, but this guy is so smarmy and so greasy that I'd say that he got what was coming to him) that got to lay down and get dirty with Hope; Radio Dead Air was this pirate radio station Nash liked to host, and what else he liked to do was a skit called "What The Fuck Is Wrong With You", in where he'd shill out crazy news stories and make fun of people being presumably being more stupid than him.

Jason once considered him a good friend, as he was also a computer tinkerer and tech expert who helped him host tech related shows on his livestreams, and helped him also do episodes of wat, in where they post up out of nowhere videos for entertainment. This however came to a falling out however, when Spoony's massive ego trip, 2013 incoming, and when the break up was about to happen. (cite and correct me if I am wrong, Jason) We'll talk about this more later. Oh, and Nash even happens to be a lolcow himself! https://kiwifarms.net/threads/john-edward-nash-bozard-iii-nash-nash076.37017/

Some further backstory from, guess who? Zac Bertschy. According to him, their so called romance was up in the air long before the break up as well. https://web.archive.org/web/2016061...me.tumblr.com/post/52760739920/enough-of-this

Spoiler: Big Ass Image

With even more eyewitness accounts to be scrutinized.

And so, the story begins.

So around the beginning of 2013, Hope suddenly broke up with Nash... for what, your "workplace environment"? Nash not giving her what she needed? Whatever, Hope. Both of them had moved into a townhouse at this point, and soon after Nash was out of a job. Nash made a twitter post on this that has apparently been made long private about this.... but as every other source on the internet says, the truth has a way of coming around.

https://archive.fo/Zr3IF

It was obvious however at this point that TGWTG was pretty much going down hill. Doug had grifted 90K from his fans, none of his stuff was funny, Spoony was kicked off because he was really a serial killer all this time, Blistered Thumbs was failing, and as everything a few years later would expose everything falling apart by the time Blip got shut down in 2015, Doug Walker, Rob Walker, and Mike Michaud were shitty CEOs, and Jason pretty much let the internet know about it. What was a girl to do? She already sold out her former anime reviewer group for a taste of internet stardom, and she couldn't stomach ever going back to the Deep South because she knew deep down she was a rotten skunt who cheated and backstabbed her way to the top.

(I'm not going to lie, there are many holes that have to be filled here, but one thing is for sure, she met Zac somewhere, and I know Marzgurl is a major connection)

So why not turn to Zac? I'll leave his own "confession" for you to dissect.

Some other fun things when this all happened was during Nash's slump, the one time he came back live on air had someone impersonating Zac and insulting him and telling him to kill himself, a spectacle that wasn't recorded but did happen. Every fan of the shit Nash and Hope shilled got so buttmad over this and the breakup that they outright told off Hope and Zac to get AIDS and die and fuck off into oblivion. For months. Gee, it's like being an absolutely questionable and somewhat controversial person as a star and doing irresponsible shit will backlash on you!

But hey, it was totally worth it joining in your poor schmuck's lover's job he totally just didn't pull any strings to get you hired in right?

Oh,and just because I love to piss people off, here's something for you GayOps RWBY and Rooster Teeth fans.

https://archive.md/SkNui

This was one of the things the two enjoyed doing as a couple.

But hey! I guess love, even if it's based off of something so shallow, rotten, and dare I say, evil, will always remain, right?

Right?

Funny I say this.

https://archive.md/1bN4s

Because she broke up with him and he.... well.... still can't date. But hey! They're BFFs FOR LYFE! Totally not incel fuming, I swear. I mean, it's not like it was because she turned into a he because Caytlyn Jenner was once a dude and LGBT SJW movements were huge when she became a guy in 2015, right?

Mike Toole was sperging out

Hahah, what an exceptionalist hypocrite faggot you are, Mike Toole.

If the Weeb Wars ever had the ball in their court, Anime News Network I'm sure would have formed some sort of SJW faggot weeaboo moral monitoring branch to 1984 and Fahrenheit 451 anime fandom, make their own bullshit merchandise, and shill out with their bedfellows at Colon Drop while dickriding themselves on that sweet sweet wave of twitter dopamine and ego rush. Fucking hell, I bet if they ever achieved a percent of what the fuck we've been doing here, like not be complete legal fuckups and jokes of social standing and aid in getting proof of evidence all while abiding by the law, they'd be the ones flaunting endlessly about how much they're the winners in the end.

He shouldn't even be talking about this place. If Weeb Wars ever probably happened and regarded 4chan back in the mid 2000s when they were legit being the fucking "Internet Hate Machine" before Eternal Newfag Summer and Alex Wuori, I'm sure his stupid ass and the rest of the crew would fucking toss rocks at that beehive too and not expect to receive retaliation until their site would be taken down faster than it was hacked in 2017. I'm not even talking about "haxxorin" and "daa-ooxxxxxxin'" "that will come soon" either; ANN is some of the most socially, legally, and professionally inept and unaware losers up in the professional world, no matter how "ironically self aware" they claim they are as dipshit hipster nerds. Fuckers have absolute shit PR, absolutely shittier people incapable of meeting good social standards for the job, and I'll be honest in that good luck doesn't last forever, though they should be even more fearful about when it will run out. These dipshits couldn't even land apprenticeship programs let alone a mailroom position at a major publication.

As for Ty? I ain't scared worth shit. Mike ought to check his fuckin' mailbox in the next several months, and tell us by his internet dickmeasuring crusade masquerade how scarier it is to be in the lion's den with The Beard and Amazon Prime themselves in the flesh when his and his cohort's legal assbeatings occur in a court of law when they demand he go up to the stand and explain whatever dumb bullshit he's been spewing up on his Twitter account like a fucking hugbox daycare manbaby. So you know what? I want you see you snark there, Mike. Let us know how your shitty wannabe MST3K stand up routine goes in a court of law. Maybe it will be like Seinfeld. Let us know if the court laughs with you or at you. We'll be waiting.

 

[Pedro Sanchez]

I still want to see Zac and Hope fry. I'd make a comment ala Marchi about wanting their heads but nah. I'd rather they get beaten to death by a group of geisha wielding betamax video recorders.

Seriously I don't understand how Hope is allowed to remain on the site because what she did to get the job was ethically and morally wrong and wouldn't fly in an irl job job.

Literally everyone at ANN is there because of nepotism. All their forum moderators and most of the reviewers were all part of Zac's "Can You Survive" livestreams for years before they got jobs at ANN. It's just part and parcel for the website

I'm actually genuinely surprised at how quiet Zac and Hope have been about all this, at least in the past month or two. Although from what they've been saying on Twitter they've been going through some huge personal problems since they've divorced and probably too busy to talk as much shit as usual.

 

[Scarlett Johansson]

I thought they were just engaged, no? Or did they get married without ceremony?

I'm surprised Zac hadn't hooked up with the founder of ANN. Lord knows he probably loves getting pounded by Asian boys. Or watching Thai ladyboys bounce on his flaccid cock.

 

[I Love Beef]

I thought they were just engaged, no? Or did they get married without ceremony?

I'm surprised Zac hadn't hooked up with the founder of ANN. Lord knows he probably loves getting pounded by Asian boys. Or watching Thai ladyboys bounce on his flaccid cock.

They got married without ceremony. I believe their date of elopement was.... 2018?

oh wait 2016, August 2016 infact https://archive.md/wEEZ6

Spoiler: Some meandering thoughts

I do feel a bit bad, because the nugaty human core that is my conscience tells me it's sad to mess with these people, but at the same time I've scraped my knees knowing that love isn't merely just feeling- It's also a matter of action to reinforce those feelings to show they are true as well, and it's not just give and expect. And as Hope and Zac have show me throughout the years with their very stupid and disrespectful actions, you reap what you sow. Hope has lied and climbed on the backs of others, while Zac thrives on bitter virtrol and can't stand the sight of others being happy even if he's a broken person, and both are caught up with a crowd that's about to ruin someone unjustly and unfairly. A bit presumptuous of me, but it's been an enlightening experience; even Jesus needed to endure suffering and pain to display his passion, even Buddha faced the unwholesome of life to want to understand the truth; etc. The worst of these people brings me to that point, I feel. thank you, and also fuck your faces dead, Hope and Zac, you two fucking scummy pieces of anime weeaboo shit

Haha, joke's on him, I think him and Macdonald are already close bedfellows. Even Asian dudes think Zac's too much of a pussywhipped beta to be a bottom.

 

[Scarlett Johansson]

Macdonald even in a relationship I wonder?

Don't feel bad. I used to like Hope's reviews but then she turned into a psychotic attention seeking sjw

 

[5t3n0g0ph3r]

I'm surprised Zac hadn't hooked up with the founder of ANN.

Isn't Justin Sevakis gay? With Zac declaring his bisexuality when Chapman trooned, I'm surprised this didn't happen already.

 

[Tipsy Tea Cup]

Old but gold.
Justin in response to him being on the Fix The Broken Staircase sheet.

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[AnOminous]

Old but gold.
Justin in response to him being on the Fix The Broken Staircase sheet.

He is a man, therefore he is a lying rapist, plus he doxed the victim, so he should be thrown in prison for that public rape too. What a violent, evil male.

 

[Tipsy Tea Cup]

Just organizing some stuff.

https://kiwifarms.net/threads/weeb-wars-animegate-kickvic-vickicksback.53670/post-4494106

 

[GeePee]

Isn't Justin Sevakis gay? With Zac declaring is bisexuality when Chapman trooned, I'm surprised this didn't happen already.

what's funny is that Hope has said he identifies himself as a homossexual man and is now apparently seeing a girl...which would make him a bissexual one,not homo.Does he even know what the hell he is anymore?

 

[5t3n0g0ph3r]

Special thanks go to @AlexJonesGotMePregnant

Here is another entry to the eventual "Notable ANN Forum Inhabitants" section:

Illia Sadri - Jennifer Lynn Hunt. Better known as the Professional Contrarian on Twitter. KickVic man-faced tard.

I poked around a bit and the professional contrarian seems to have a bigger role the current wave of drama than I thought. She's posted all over the ANN forums with no detail about vic but insisting over and over that he is an evil man. I also read through some of her absolutely awful fanfiction and it paints of a picture of a very sad, lonely woman who injects herself into others' fights because she wants to offer the protection she feels she never had. As she cannot substantiate any of the accusations she throws at Vic, she must be screaming inside constantly at her own inability to effect the positive change she wants to see in the world, never realizing that she her lies and disgusting behavior create more victims.

She recognizes that she barely looks like a natal woman as far back as 2003, and I suspect her hate of Vic is probably largely due to her gay.


Her fanfiction, coupled with her aggressive and unhinged, unexplained and unjustified accusations indicate a god complex:
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Her posts on ANN as far back as january show her and the moderators of the forums fighting nearly all the other users, trying to shove the idea that vic is an evil man down the throats of the other forum users who even back then wouldn't buy it. She brags about being able to "discreetly address" some of the problems as constaff but never gives any actual details. She does manage to call Vic a pedophile despite not making any claims of pedophilic behavior.

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Nothing new, but I wonder if her own personal vendetta against Vic started with the homophobia and blew up. She blames Vic for the commercialization of her little cons and sounds super salty over his success in an industry that she never accomplished anything notable after decades.

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Super salty loser using rumors to ruin a man's career over jealousy. I've been searching for a while for any actual evidence online (as I'm sure others have) and a very consistent thing I've found is that nearly all online discussions about this point back to this bitch and her accusations on ANN forums- it's used constantly as a "primary source" when others are pushing the Vic-is-a-predator agenda. She has no evidence herself, at all, she just gets nasty and falls back to the standard #metoo motte-and-bailey.

My spidey-senses are telling me that if there was a conspiracy to "clean up anime" and Vic was first on that list that she has played a bigger role than what has surfaced. I know there are private boards for con organizers and people related to it, but I suspect a lot of them are private. She reuses her handle all over the place; if anyone happens to be members of any of that, it'd be interesting to see if she's ever talked about Vic before the ANN hitpiece that she was oh-so-ready to propagate.

 

[Kosher Salt]

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He was blacklisted, they say? Hmm.

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"an independant lawyer with no stake in the Vic Mignogna vs. Funimation, etc. lawsuit"

He liked a popular #KickVic tweet back in early February. Also, he is clearly a weeb. There's a bunch of anime jokes sprinkled throughout his legal analysis, there's a Vegeta Funko POP visible in the background of his video, he volunteers at conventions and reviews contracts for the hotels.

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Dem ratios, though...

There was also this interesting bit in his bio:

His website hasn't been updated in a while. He's licensed and able to practice now. Apparently he specializes in bankruptcy, creditor/debtor, and just a smidge of intellectual property.

Matthew William Parker - Nebraska State Bar Association

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Lawyer Matthew Parker - Iowa Attorney - Avvo

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