With Apologies to Sena Bryer

[BigBoom550]

I’d say the hole she’s digging keeps getting deeper but so far there’s no consequences happening so it seems more like she’s digging up gold so she just keeps going. Honestly calling Gaius a coloniser isn’t the worst, with what the Garleans original game plan was its par for the course. I’m more side-eying the “Wuk is a precious ray of sunshine so she’d never ever say anything bad.”

Is that a hint if we get more Wuk in the future it’s just gonna be more sunshine and rainbows and talk-no-jutsu? Guess we’re just gonna talk around the whole we killed your monarchs and installed a child king, or is that standard ruling under
precious cinnamon roll princesses?

Also since her usual voice is just un-accented Wuk Lamat her doing Gaius monologue “casually” doesn’t seem like it’d be different if she put on the Wuk voice? I didn’t listen to clip so grain of salt take. And also if it’s Gaius speech is bad why even do a casual take of it???

Speaking as a corpo drone: there's no consequences we've seen yet. It's only been a month, the bean counters are still getting together to figure out wtf just happened. They need to gather data, sort it (we're here atm), compile reports on strengths and weaknesses, then push it up the chain for meetings.

Wuk's divisive enough she alone is likely getting a specific report, which is independant of Bryer's behavior... initially. With Wuk being divisive as she is and Bryer throwing fuel on the fire, and potentially stepping on IP law in places, she's stapling herself to this mess.

It'll take time. Likely there's meetings right now specifically about localization due to the VA performance all around this time, and the suits are reviewing it at the moment more than likely.

[Bonoki]

At this point, it seems Sena has embraced the idea that 'all publicity is good publicity,' which allows her to make a series of hot takes unprofessionally with confidence.

[Aniise]

You are Sena, in real life. Not WukLamant-P. Notice how all the other VA's got their check and kept it pushing. I don't see any of the others writing up "spicy takes" on characters in relation to their job. It's just so unprofessional and weird.

This SO much.
It really seems that she is starting to confuse her own identity with the identity of the fictional character Wuk Lamat. Like they are linked or one and the same, somehow.
Adding to this, her followers on X aren't doing her any favors by calling HER Lamaty'i instead of Sena. Also, those same people will call you transphobic if you don't like Wuk Lamat. Not Sena...Wuk. And Wuk is certainly not trans.
There seems to be some serious confusion going on and it's almost creepy.

[sharplysurreal]

This SO much.
It really seems that she is starting to confuse her own identity with the identity of the fictional character Wuk Lamat. Like they are linked or one and the same, somehow.
Adding to this, her followers on X aren't doing her any favors by calling HER Lamaty'i instead of Sena. Also, those same people will call you transphobic if you don't like Wuk Lamat. Not Sena...Wuk. And Wuk is certainly not trans.
There seems to be some serious confusion going on and it's almost creepy.

damn imagine someone with gender dysphoria having no clear boundaries of identity

[Lyndina]

Well...definitly changing to german/ japanese voices now so that i never have to hear this thing again. If Square continues to work with Bryer ill quit after almost 10 years. Dont need to pay a sub to be insulted as racist,bigot,etc just because i dont like a song.

[Papayatar]

Speaking as a corpo drone: there's no consequences we've seen yet. It's only been a month, the bean counters are still getting together to figure out wtf just happened. They need to gather data, sort it (we're here atm), compile reports on strengths and weaknesses, then push it up the chain for meetings.

Wuk's divisive enough she alone is likely getting a specific report, which is independant of Bryer's behavior... initially. With Wuk being divisive as she is and Bryer throwing fuel on the fire, and potentially stepping on IP law in places, she's stapling herself to this mess.

It'll take time. Likely there's meetings right now specifically about localization due to the VA performance all around this time, and the suits are reviewing it at the moment more than likely.

It’s only been a month? Why does it feel like it’s been soo much longer.

Same reason they're doing everything else. Attention.

Yeah I knew. Just sad I guess she’s going for the any attention is good attention.

[ViaDesperare]

At this point, it seems Sena has embraced the idea that 'all publicity is good publicity,' which allows her to make a series of hot takes unprofessionally with confidence.

She'll probably end up dragging Kate down with her at this point. What a PR disaster, but what an entertaining events of drama though. Hopefully this keeps going strong, it's been fun to watch.

There was a thread on ShitpostFFXIV that just got locked about this. You can't speak about Sena in any of the FFXIV reddits, so it seems she's extremely protected there. You can only really talk about her here and 4chan.

[Rueby]

It’s only been a month? Why does it feel like it’s been soo much longer.

When you're not having fun, time goes by so slowly....but when you're enjoying yourself, time flies by. Maybe that's what's happening to you?

[Isala]

She'll probably end up dragging Kate down with her at this point.

Good. They're both birds of a feather, and removing both of them is better for the health of this game.

There was a thread on ShitpostFFXIV that just got locked about this. You can't speak about Sena in any of the FFXIV reddits, so it seems she's extremely protected there. You can only really talk about her here and 4chan.

And nobody is surprised. It's been a very long time since even that side of XIV was allowed to have any teeth, instead of being just another hugbox.

[Tehmon]

I am of the mind that there's no reason to go after Sena, and the real '' culprit '' are the people who hired her to begin with. Of course you're going to take the job offered to you regardless whether you are fit for the job, there's zero question about it especially in this economy. But at this point Sena is becoming a bit mad with power and her perceived victim status, and her actions are justifiably under great deal of scrutiny. I don't think any company wants the kind of press where an employee is going '' if you don't like our product, you are transphobic, sexist, racist etc '', especially when Yoshi-P has said how important criticism and feedback is to the game's development (regardless of whether they are able to take all criticism into consideration due to time and budget constraints).

Probably a good thing in further expansions to reconsider hiring American talents, if this is how some of them act online. And that's just kind of balls for all the good American VA's who just took the job, got paid and that's it.