the way this fandom talks about rob manion is really fucking weird??? to the point that when i joined the fandom i thought he had touched kids or something but no?? he just did a really shitty thing?? like he got punished and asked to leave and stuff but allot of starkids still follow him on socials and he’s been doing well in the last three years since that stuff came out like i’m starting to think he might have changed… like i’m just saying if people who knew him irl seem cool with him nowadays i think it’s time we stop doing weird dehumanizing shit like putting trigger warnings for his name. he’s literally just a person who did something bad, paid the price, and has seemingly learned to be better. - someone who has experienced similar harassment and eventually grew to trust the other person again after some time
why do you tag things "tw robert manion"? (genuine question) (not mad) (new to the fandom so i have no idea what happened with the robert manion situation)
Long story short: he's a piece of shit
Slightly longer version of the story:
He sexually harassed someone, was kicked out starkid (that's why he's not in nmt 2, npmd or Workin Boys), then started talking shit about starkid on insta lives while starkid was doing a backer kit campaign, and then said in another live that in beauty in the beast he thinks Belle should be black to add depth of racism with the town hating her and Gaston would be fetishizing her (and said in that same live that one of his dream roles is Gaston)
If you would like more information on everything that happened, like spefically when stuff happened and what exactly were some of things he's said I've explained the situation a few times and made many posts while the situation was happening so I would suggest going through the tag "robert manion" or "tw robert manion" on my blog to find those posts
Okay i would l o v e if they did all 3 in rep (maybe over the summer so I have the time/money to go??) but obviously they’d need someone to replace R***** M***** (🤢) for Hidgens (and maybe Ethan?? Are Wiley and Ethan ever on-stage together? Bc if not Joey could do it!) and my personal vote is Thomas Sanders
also no im gonna say it robert manion was Always horribly miscast as ethan green. hes already really poorly underwritten character but manions portrayal is just so dry and feels so comical in how outdated this trope is in an extremely modern feel of black friday his death feels like such a joke
now i hate robert manion. BUT i will say that some people make it their entire personality to hate on him. like you are not informing anyone by having a long ass text about him as your pinned we ALL know by now !!! can we just collectively ignore him please like
The absolute tea that Starkid posted a picture of the opening number of The Guy Who Didn’t Like Musical on Instagram, and tagged/mentioned everyone but Robert 💀
little disclaimer before i get to the tags: not trying to raise any chaos or anything… i genuinely want to know because in my memory the issue wasn’t That Bad (not trying to diminish anything ofc) bc i thought it was all mostly resolved by the time it was publicized..
Robert insisted again in his life stream last night that he chose to leave Starkid on his own because of something traumatic one of the Starkids did to him and because “Starkid has to many white, cis, straight, people”
HE LEFT BECAUSE STARKID HAS WHAT NOW?
First off I can't prove wether or not one of thr Starkids something traumatic to him so I'm not going to comment on that however I simply don't believe that he left bc of mental health bc in the post Starkid made it very clearly stated that they decided Robert was no longer apart of Starkid.
Second: yes a majority are white cishets but like. Too many? Huh?
Mariah: Mexican, Jewish, pan
Lauren Lopez: Mexican, Jewish
Corey Dorris: Black
Corey Lubowich: Asian, Jewish, gay
Brian Rosenthal: Jewish
Esther: Jewish, trans
Jae: Nonbinary
Meredith: Bi, uses she/they pronouns
Jim: Nonbinary
Clark: Bi
James: Black, gay
Brant: gay
Darren: half asian
Carlos: Columbian
Bryce: Black
Tiffany: Black
Lauren Walker: Black
Sango: Asian
Joe Walker: Jewish
Dylan: Jewish
Ali: Jewish
Britney: Black
Janaya: Black, bi
Like. What does he mean by that? Also he's white and cis too? (I definitely missed some so feel free to tell me more to add or anything I got wrong)