Harassment Allegations Megathread

[u/MrBKainXTR]

Please keep all further discussion of the workplace harassment allegations regarding Wonderstorm and Ehasz in this megathread.

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Allegations:

https://twitter.com/danikaharrod/status/1191957269774245888?s=20

https://twitter.com/luluryounes/status/1191813982832644096?s=20

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1191924533696950272.html?refreshed=yes

Edit:

Ehasz sort of responded to some of the allegations back in august.
https://twitter.com/generalamayas/status/1192217818965643264

[u/smoked___salmon → u/[deleted]]

No need to be a good person to make a perfect show. Maybe Aaron not good guy, but he write very good stories. In the world a lot of assholes, but no one should care if they doing treir job perfect. We still don't know yet his side of this story.

[u/_Patronizes_Idiots_ → u/smoked___salmon]

Its also entirely possible (and I don't mean to devalue anyone who has legitimately experienced harassment, sexism or harassment in their workplace) but this could just honestly be three people who perceived how they were treated as "harassment" or "sexism". If we're being real here there are plenty of artist types on twitter who will blow things out of proportion for attention or "revenge" just because they were unhappy with their working conditions or disliked their bosses. Again, not saying this is what happened here, just that this does happen.

So far we haven't really heard specifics, context or really all that much beyond vague accusations from these artists and have had no response or clarification from those accused. It could honestly be that this is such a non-issue started by a few disgruntled employees that they're choosing not to respond because it isn't warranted.

In the end Aaron and the higher ups have to make some hard calls as bosses about what to include in the show, how hard to work their employees, and I could easily see that being misconstrued or portrayed by disgruntled people as "harassment" just because they want to stick it to their bosses. We all know the animation industry (in particular at a new, small company) is pretty grueling work.

Really what I'm trying to say here is I don't want to dismiss these allegations, but given the circumstances, the fact that its just been these three people who haven't given specifics and knowing that people are always going to be harsh towards their bosses just because they're in the unfortunate position of having to sometimes be blunt or harsh to get the final product finished, I'm not inclined to believe that Aaron and Justin are bad guys.

[u/flipdark9511 → u/[deleted]]

This is actually false.

https://twitter.com/danikaharrod/status/1191984627352850433

i’m not sure where the info that WS had a huge crew is coming from. wonderstorm had a contract with bardel which ended after s3 was done, and the VAs finished recording a long time ago (they are also not wonderstorm staff).

I would prefer the show not be boycotted either but that isn’t out of the desire to protect people. aaron has been incredibly misleading in how the shows been presented to fans. season 3 was done a long time ago and there was never a single sliver of risk of it getting “canceled

i also hope that the info behind timing of when the show was written and made comes out because that would give a lot of clarity to the people who think no more tdp = a massive loss in jobs. i want tdp to continue so the men at the top can figure their shit out and fix it.

[u/Fandomixture → u/flipdark9511]

Aaron never said that season 3 was in danger, not at least since early this year. He’s said that non of the next seasons have been confirmed by netflix, and knowing the history of cancelling shows the site has, he just wants to make sure TDP makes it until the end. Danika cleared in another tweet that she was talking just about season 3, and that it was true there was no confirmation for the rest.

[u/ihhh1 → u/flipdark9511]

wonderstorm had a contract with bardel which ended after s3 was done

. season 3 was done a long time ago and there was never a single sliver of risk of it getting “canceled

Netflix is funding the show, not bardel. There is no mention of a contract with netflix.

[u/flipdark9511 → u/ihhh1]

Every show produced for Netflix has a contract with Netflix. That's standard operating procedure for pretty much any production. What she's saying is that Bardel finished their work on Season 3 that ended after they completed their work, and that Season 3 was not at risk of being cancelled like he was claiming only a few months ago.

[u/ihhh1 → u/flipdark9511]

Yes, but no one said anything about how many seasons Netflix had contracted.