When did Western voice actors stop crossing over into dubbing? It was once common, but now most dub actors come from YouTube with little professional experience
Major Western networks like Nickelodeon and Cartoon Network pay more and are easier to work with, work is a lot more steady as well.
give 10 examples
>>152135731This guy went homo by the way
>>152135742Also most of the anime dubbing studios here will not work with the VA union and will often drop VAs once they've done enough roles to join it.
>>152135731Dub actors from YouTube with little professional experience are cheaper and easier to bully.
>>152135731>When did Western voice actors stop crossing over into dubbing?Dubbing is it's own industry. Mostly a distribution rights industry. Most anime dubbing agencies in the west do it in house because of the State's fear of unions providing a better salary.
A lot of dubbing was done by like three whole companies with twenty professionals working between them and that's when it was barely profitable to try and sell it to Toonami or Adult Swim back when cable television was relevant.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7e9av-GctNM
>>152135767and that's a problem because?
>>152135767Why?
>>152135858Aids.
>>152135731They hired the same VAs because they were casting and recording in the same cities full of actors. Now we have the internet too.
>>152135802Dubbing used to be a profession made up almost entirely of B-list actors from Texas, guys who worked as background extras, waitresses doing it as a second job, failed musicians and so on. Nowadays the pipeline goes straight from YouTube or even cosplay
>>152135731Blame Crunchyroll. They monopolized Western anime streaming and started the practice of hiring YouTube funnymen or wannabe e-girl streamers as voice actors, who work for extremely low rates or literal exposure. These people have no acting experience and deliver terrible performances. Say what you want about the limited options of early dub actors, at least they could actually act.
>>152135731Union rules. Much anime and video game voiceover work is non-union, which means actors that are in the union can't work on them unless they go Fi-Core.
>>152136491Crunchyroll treats dub VAs like promoting at cons is the real job
>>152136557You know, this might be the worst possible takeaway but those unions really fucked everyone over.
