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Amanda Winn Lee telling Evangelion fans to "learn Japanese and translate yourself or eat a dick" and to "STFU" in recent tweet about translation
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After thinking about this entirely too much, I think this is where I have settled, too.
I would say that in this instance, Amanda Winn Lee is not the young artist exhibiting her work for the first time, she's an old veteran who paid to show up unnanounced as a customer, and she's sticking up for the young artist because the critics in line ahead of her just compared the young artist unfavorably to the great Amanda Winn Lee.
She absorbed a ridiculous amount of criticism when it was aimed at her. But she's not going to sit quietly when she sees it happening to the next person (albeit, with a polarity shift), and especially not when her own name is being invoked in the criticism.
Amanda Winn Lee wrote the original gay-leaning translation, and before any of this stuff broke, she was tweeting about her pro-LGBT stance. She's not straightwashing. She's saying to cut the translators some slack and stop accusing them of personally being homophobes, because translation is hard.
Good ol entitlement.
There is no straightwashing of their relationship.
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I read this whole thread and there's something amusing to me that discussion derailed from evangelion to the discussion of consuming penises as an insult.
Also forgetting any discussion about that, it's sort of sad how much shit and pain she's clearly gone through over the years. Thanks to social media and stories of youtubers or streamers losing it due to the toll it takes on people, we're finally having a discussion on that but goddamn it probably was even worse back then as the only fan interaction one would get might have been crazy letters written by weirdos insulting you for no reason whatsoever. I understand there was also probably some positive ones for sure but something about everything I've read and seen makes me think the negatives outweighed the positives.
Also forgetting any discussion about that, it's sort of sad how much shit and pain she's clearly gone through over the years. Thanks to social media and stories of youtubers or streamers losing it due to the toll it takes on people, we're finally having a discussion on that but goddamn it probably was even worse back then as the only fan interaction one would get might have been crazy letters written by weirdos insulting you for no reason whatsoever. I understand there was also probably some positive ones for sure but something about everything I've read and seen makes me think the negatives outweighed the positives.
Im not so sure what you are getting from what i said. There is no difference if you are young or professional, a criticism is still a criticism even though it is trash. You cannot force everybody to like your work, thats actually okay too. If i were her, i would just move on, no need to give insults your customers. But thats me though, it differs on each person
Not sure what entitlement is. But thank you, i will just move on
Some move on, I think the lady who was Rogue's VA in X-men TAS is an Australian politician now.
Still haven't seen 1 episode of Evangelion, is it worth watching in this form? I just wrapped up Neverland.
13 pages for a tweet that is obviously venting? Shes expressing a very relatable frustration, thats all.
Yes, 100% it still is. It's good to know context on the changes (and that they are dumb), but overall the difference between the two is pretty minor and not enough in and of themselves to ruin the show.
There critisicm and then thers vitriol. Echo chamber dogpiling from "fans" is rarely ever just critisicm
Canada, not Australia.. but yes she's a politician..
Sigh
And here I was imagining this secret weeb poli living in Tas of all places.
I mean, Amanda Winn Lee is not insulting her customers. She has nothing to do with the new Netflix dub of Evangelion, aside from being a customer herself, and her name being invoked in some of the criticism.
You suggested that a young artist should quietly absorb criticism, and try and maintain a professional appearance, while trying to use the vitriol to make their next work better. But Amanda Winn Lee did that. And now the critics (considering themselves aligned with Amanda Winn Lee's previous work) are criticizing a new young artist, and she's stepping in to defend that artist, because she doesn't want to see other people going through what she had to go through.
What customers?
She got paid for a translation, the people buying the product she translated aren't her customers.
Other than how weird it is to hear "The Third Children" when referring to one of the kids sounding odd, I had no issues with the translation. Though I still prefer the original.
Considering how worthless anime fans are, especially when to do with anything localised, I can't see any possible scenario where that tweet isn't justified.
Lmao
Lmao
For 20 years. She keep hearing that shit for 20 years. I say at that point she deserve to call them a shithead
LOL. Would've been super dope if she went YOU CAN (NOT) ESCAPE.
Amanda is great. Shame she's almost but retired from the industry but I'm glad she's still iconic on twitter.
It's more worth watching in the Netflix form than the old dub. Whether it's worth watching in any form is highly subjective.
Women can't express themselves anymore? They need to fit the very specific woke ruleset.
Let's cancel her! That's great and it totally makes sense, especially considering 20y of harassment she suffered that were the fuel to said tweet!
Resetera is a joke.
Let's cancel her! That's great and it totally makes sense, especially considering 20y of harassment she suffered that were the fuel to said tweet!
Resetera is a joke.
that's hilarious. The fact that that dude is a year older than me is sad...what happened to this generation...they're such babies
I dont see anything wrong with what she said. More than she was just frustrated and make sense given the amount of entitlement some people have nowadays. She should be encouraged, as any other woman online, to be helself. We as men are not to approve or police her message, but to encourage a safe environment of mutual respect.
Can we pls stop generalizing anime fans? Liking Anime doesnt make you a piece of garbage. As with any other medium, bas apples and all...
Can we pls stop generalizing anime fans? Liking Anime doesnt make you a piece of garbage. As with any other medium, bas apples and all...
The only reason an Anime fan would get upset by what i (and others) are saying, is if i'm talking about them.
Like when we say everyone who plays videogames are trash?
I mean I know usually people don't talk about everyone specifically, but generalizations are not good at all.
I play video games probably an unhealthy amount, and when somebody says "gamers are trash" I don't lose my shit, because I know what they mean and they're right.
I guess we all know that. Again, generalizations are bad tho, but everyone can do whatever.
Gamers are trash though.
Again, to get upset about it is a sign on insecurity. Cause if you know that's not you, then there's no reason to be upset.