[Gamerant] Critical Role Removes Hundreds of Videos from YouTube
[Gamerant] Critical Role Removes Hundreds of Videos from YouTube
Critical Role silently removes hundreds of videos from its official YouTube account in its effort to scrub a bad actor from its past content.
Considering the reasoning, I have zero issue with this. BWF is scum, and a good cleaning of their presence from the brand is perfectly in order.
I don't follow Critical Role, mind explaining?
Sorry, stepped away to make dinner. Looks like others gave you the reasoning though.
BWF is Brian Wayne Foster.
He’s one of the (now ex) members of critical role. He was engaged to Ashley Johnson (from critical role, Ellie in TLOU games, waitress in avengers) and they separated with restraining orders because of abuse and general assholeishness.
So critical role is removing him from their content as best as they can so he doesn’t get visibility and such.
That's such a tough call I don't envy having to make. Some of the content created while he was ok is one of a kind. I'm picturing the interview he had with Quyen Tran where she shared her and Sam's 9/11 story. We're missing that verbal history for people to hear, now. Balancing that with not giving him air time, or worse, having to pay out to him must have been an extremely hard decision.
Jesus, I remember when they announced he wouldn't be back for Talks at the start of C3, but I had no idea about any of the reasoning behind it.
Tough decision for sure, but definitely one that speaks to their integrity as creators and as a company. Best wishes to them moving forward, and hope Ashley is doing well of course.