#tl;dr lily gao is a hack fraud using her race as a publicity stunt which is bullshit

[ludwigfanfunkoven]

fuck it let’s go

here’s my take on the lily gao situation

First, the game releases. Among the performances, Ada’s is noted to be, without a doubt, the worst. Like, super flat, very phoned in, every line I kept asking myself, “was that the right delivery? why did they keep that in? did they just... not do any more takes? why is it so... amateurish?” Of course, a series as huge as resident evil is bound to attract the kind of spergs that would attack someone for a shitty performance; it’s practically a household name at this point after all. So then, it comes out that...

Lily Gao, Ada’s VA, deletes all her instagram posts because she is, allegedly, being harassed. All but one post. About... White Privilege. Red flag #1. Now, sure, I could be wrong at this point, but after the whole Helena Taylor fiasco I’ve come to realize that trusting people paid huge amounts of money to say things into a microphone without any hesitation is foolish at best. I go, “well this is probably horseshit because it smells like ‘pity me’ publicity stunt horseshit from a no-name actress who saw a chance and took it” and call it a day.

Then drops the big post. You know, the “this is my ada” “I’m the first asian actress to play ada” “my ada is a survivor, not sexualized” etc etc bullshit, throwing every actress who played ada before her(including the ones who are, in fact, asian because they voiced her in asian localizations) and basically making it all about her. Turns out, I was right. She’s full of shit and it’s a publicity stunt.