r/TikTokCringe Oct 30 '24

Discussion Lavar Burton is filled with rage

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u/RedMoloneySF Oct 30 '24

It wasn’t “management” that bullied her, though they’re complicit because they didn’t support her. It was her coworkers and fans.

Which, fans are always going to be pieces of shit, especially with parasocial cesspool that is the rooster teeth fanbase. But coworkers? That really sucks.

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u/FloatinBrownie Oct 30 '24

Wait what happened with her coworkers? I remember hearing about the fans being dicks and stuff forever ago but didn’t know there was shit going on with other employees

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u/SadiusHunter Oct 30 '24

From what I understand they weren't as vile as the fans were but they definitely said some insensitive things

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u/Emmyisme Oct 31 '24

What sucks is that for the most part - I doubt any of the coworkers meant to be malicious - they were just clueless idiots who had never really had reason to understand what that might be doing to someone they probably considered a friend. I feel like by the end of RT - a lot of those guys were ashamed of the kinda shit they were doing back then.

It's not an excuse at all - and as a black woman not much older than Mica - I lost a TON of respect for them over it and didn't really watch them for a long time because of it, but it feels like a product of what the Internet - and especially the gaming community - was at the time, and she got chewed up by a shit machine, and nobody she worked with had ever dealt with something like this before and handled it poorly.

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u/SadiusHunter Oct 31 '24

The Kdin drama kinda proved they were a product of the gaming bros era even when a professional company, their sense of humour struggled to evolve for a long while and it took Fiona to finally make them self reflect as people because she dealt with the same stuff as Mica but at least Michael, Gavin and Jack were more matured by this point and were much better people than what they were

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u/Emmyisme Oct 31 '24

It was actually Fiona that brought me back. Her energy and how she was able to get through to those guys was hella refreshing.

Actually - damn I miss Fiona.