Ashley Birch is a whiney cunt

Guess who just had a puff piece published about them in the Washington Post? We get to learn all about the plight of overpaid, under-worked voice actresses.

washingtonpost.com/business/economy/in-24-billion-video-game-industry-voice-actors-dont-make-enough-to-live-on/2017/10/27/944a0800-98d8-11e7-87fc-c3f7ee4035c9_story.html?utm_term=.ddaa0868dbce

>But it was a role in the small game “Life Is Strange” that has meant the most to her.

>The game tells the story of two 18-year-old women — Max and Chloe — trying to discover why a friend has disappeared. The story is centered on the emotional lives of female teenagers — an unusual topic for video games — and addresses teen suicide, depression, bullying and drug abuse. The game unfolds over five episodes, each two to three hours long, like a TV series.

>Fans and critics loved it. And it won a clutch of awards, including the BAFTA for best game.

>Burch was the voice of Chloe, a vulnerable punk rock girl. At gaming conventions after the game debuted, Burch again and again saw fans who had dyed their hair blue, just like Chloe. Hundreds of pieces of fan fiction about Chloe were posted online.

>“I put a lot of myself in that character,” Burch said one afternoon. “My interpretation of her is ultimately about part of me.”

>So Burch was crushed when the game company approached her earlier this year to talk about a new edition of the game. They wanted Burch to return to a role she loved. But the ongoing strike made that impossible.

>“It was really hard for me,” she said.

>She kept quiet about it until this summer, when the new “Life Is Strange” — a nonunion production — was unveiled at a gaming convention. The game’s publisher tried to blunt the blowback by announcing that Burch had been hired as a story consultant.

>Fans weren’t happy. A typical response on social media: “aw man i got sad again over Ashly Burch not returning as Chloe Price ... :/”

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>getting this triggered by a slow news day puff piece.
Come on, you're just looking for reasons to get angry at this point.

i hate communists. the bitch should find a new job if she dont make enough

>budget actors, models, and VAs don't make enough to live on

you don't fucking say

get a real job if that's a problem

Who's fucked more men, her or Anthony?

I hope she and her brother get blacklisted from the industry indefinitely

If she's not making enough money then why doesn't she go back to doing her "Hey Ash" series and putting them on youtube?

This literally has nothing to do with politics. Are you just looking for reasons to bitch now?

She's not even a good voice actor, she only has ONE voice.

IMO if your character is instantly recognizable with your voice you're hardly a voice actor. Voice acting is supposed to be a skill where you can do a plethora of voices.

This thread got pruned 4 times yesterday, you should've censored anything about B*rch like pic

Sounds like the union is the problem then, stopped her getting work in an attempt to get her better work. They have an over-inflated sense of self-worth, many voice actors.

Which is funny because they are just the retarded cousins of real actors.

she bad tho

>with the exception of the high-profile VA's, most of them works for peanuts and can't make enough to get by
>strike in order to gain better wages and more benefits in the industry
>WP makes a story citing a VA who is upset that she must miss recording 4 new lines of dialogue because she has to stand in solidarity with those who are on her pay tier or lower
>voice actors are suffering because there are those trying to make life better for everyone by using upstanding, traditional, and legal tactics to get fat cat publishers to provide them enough to live off of.
>this is a bad thing
This is why nobody trusts mainstream news anymore.

This whole time, I thought she got work because she wasn't a part of the strike.
She has zero range and an obnoxious voice.

it's communism

The hate the voice actors get here is a bit overdone, but from the beginning I thought the strike was a bad idea and wouldn't go well for them.

Not really. Being able to do lots of voices is a boon to be sure, but sometimes you want someone for their distinct voice. For example, Patrick Warburton (also a real actor, to be fair) basically sounds the same in every role but is always a great fit for the character.

She literally started out making some shitty show about her playing games. She has no professional background or training in voice acting, shes fucking terrible. The only reason she had any work at all is because of her brother and his shitty fucking writing. Fuck the Burch's

user, he's right. You're just being retarded.

>Complaining about voice acting work.
>Still worked on Life is Strange prequel as a "writer"
lol daycare jobs.
Day care jooooobbbbs

>I hope she and her brother get blacklisted from the industry indefinitely
They already are.

Ash. Gay men probably find Anthony just as insufferable as the rest of us do.

>we should have a fair slice of the 25 billion dollar pie

she won't outright say it but that's what she expects and will possibly push for by going to journalist sites

it's not quite communism but it's a shitty union mentality

I suppose the goal of a voice actors union is to encourage as much nepotism as possible, one step closer to being like hollywood! Hopefully they can get some big shot producers to start molesting women, that should lend some credibility.

Her "acting" is genuinely awful. The replacement actor they got for BtS is much better.

I have to agree, Warbuton is the example of an extremely well casted voice actor. Burch on the other hand is constantly in roles with not only poor writing, but poor direction and just overall poor casting. She's not a good voice actress, shes in the same league as Will Wheaton where their just talking and nothing else.

>Gaming fans feared delays for their favorite titles before a tentative deal was reached late last month.

What? No fucking gaming fan cared about the voice actors strike, much to their chagrin.

Do these people really think we were all sitting her hoping that a deal was worked out because what we really cared about was that Ashley Burch was the one doing the voice acting?

She might be a whiny cunt, but I'd still like to slam her through a table and then break her back with a camel clutch while grinding my erection into the small of her back

What qualifies as a real job anyhow?

VA is a legit job though, just not for vidya/anime. Commercials, telephone prompts, and audio books are all pretty lucrative, but most of the job involves networking/marketing.

i just summed up the article in a sentence and you were dumb enough that you got offended while also thinking it was unrelated

I think the Union is warranted in some places, like the silent hill 2 voice and mocap actors not getting proper payment from Konami for multiple years. But in the case of Burch, and Will Wheaton who are on the strike for absolutely no good reason its ridiculous. Voice actors deserve proper pay, they really do, but not when their clearly fucking incompetent and just plain terrible. I really dislike Will Wheaton just for clarification

and you are a triggered cuck that has to keep replying to post that is not videogames.

I always wonder what these people with no real skills that you need to work your ass off to get will do for a living when they get older and lose their looks etc.?

>working in a union
>nothing to do with politics

I remember seeing an interview with Lowenthall once where he said that being a voice actor wasn't about having lots of voices, which he called "being a character actor". He said "sometimes I raise my pitch a little bit, sometimes I lower it a little bit, that's basically all there is to it".
In short Lownethall is a hack.

>Voice acting is one of the easiest elements to perform when it comes to the story
>Story is one of the most unimportant element of 80% of videogames
>Play a character you identify with, even go on to say you're basically playing yourself
>The already easy voice acting comes even easier for you
>Get an article how you're sad you couldn't get your easy cushy job that you cared about because you were on strike for not getting enough money

Thank god for w/e his name is who voices Nathan Drake, he knows damn well he doesn't matter as much as the devs and he announced it on stage.

I know her brother most likely is.
Ashly herself? I think she still has a few more uses left in her woman card.

Get a life OP

B-B-But goy, the voice actors need better pay and conditions! They need to yell in the studio for hours at a time and permanently damage their vocal chords!

Why does Sup Forums love sucking the dicks of corporations so much?

>it's a shitty union mentality

No, this is a special performers mentality. You don't hear of road workers demanding royalties from road tolls. This shit is purely because of the obnoxious self-importance that almost every goddamn performer possesses.

>Don't make enough to live on
Bullshit, she's probably living well beyond her means then.

I don't hate Yuri, but he has basically 2 voices. His own, and British accent. It's kinda hard to call him a hack when Johnny Yong Bosch and Steve Blum have basically one voice.

>Thank god for w/e his name is who voices Nathan Drake, he knows damn well he doesn't matter as much as the devs and he announced it on stage.

He also has an actual huge range of voices as well. He can do more besides the Nathan Drake voice.

Something that requires actual skill instead of just sounding good at delivering lines. If you make it in voice acting you can get huge deals and ask for a lot more because you're more recognizable. But if your job can be replaced by literally anybody (except mutes I guess?) then you should probably reconsider your career.

blame someone for harrassment

>She has no professional background or training in voice acting
This is the case for many modern VAs, especially those that work in dubbing. Reminder that Cristina Vee just made fandubs on Youtube as her work history before becoming a professional, and even has roles as a voice director (such as in Skullgirls, where all of the acting was complete garbage).

>Thank god for w/e his name is who voices Nathan Drake, he knows damn well he doesn't matter as much as the devs and he announced it on stage
I fucking love Nolan North for that moment. Guy is also incredibly talented. Fuck these Union faggots.

>boohoo why can't I live for years on a SINGLE mediocre voice acting job that probably took less than a month of my time and which I would've never gotten if I hadn't been an e-celeb in the first place

she is not a voice actor

You don't think sounding good speaking lines is an actual skill? What about acting in general? Playing a part isn't a skill?

Why don't we hear you read out loud on vocaroo and see what a stuttering autistic mess you sound like, and then we can talk about whether or not it's a skill.

>Steve Blum have basically one voice.
youtube.com/watch?v=a3hsdevGgwU
Blum is much like Nolan North, people think he only has one voice, which is really recognisable, and have no idea that they've been listening to a shitload of other characters with totally different voices that are from the same guy.

The victim bux only get you so far. Anita can call in a bomb scare and send round the collection plate for whatever kickstarter she's doing, but she can't even get people to watch her videos. Utter nonentities like Burch will probably end up eking out 600 dollars a month on patreon.

>But if your job can be replaced by literally anybody (except mutes I guess?) then you should probably reconsider your career.

Not him but do you respect blue collar work over voice actors? Because all or most jobs (even white collar work) is going to get replaced by machines and robots eventually.

a job that can pay bills and not a failed dream job, electrical, networking, engineering, roughnecking, farmhand, plumbing, fuck even garbage men

voice acting and modeling can be real jobs if the person is successful but really any fucking attractive retard off the street can model for budget shit like hot sauce or vaping advertisements or VA for budget games and cantonese cat skin drawings

I didn't personally mind the vas from Skull Girls, besides Vee, I fucking hate her in every role shes ever been in.
You know, I honestly forgot about his Guilomon voice. God damn, I fucking love his work. Theres a difference between having one voice like Yuri and the absurd range Steve has.

Let us not judge too fast, friends

>I didn't personally mind the vas from Skull Girls
But how? The voice acting in that is fucking atrocious, for every single character except maybe Big Band. Even Liam O'Brien, who is normally a competent actor, suffered under Vee's direction.

>random dude I added while back plays this game a lot
>check his steam profile
>Israel flag he's a Jew
Why am I not surprised?

>Why don't we hear you read out loud on vocaroo and see what a stuttering autistic mess you sound like
Sure. Just let me record it in a professional studio dozens upon dozens of times until they can sift through and cherry pick my best take. Face it, voice acting is about as low skill as you can get. Acting has a lot more elements than just good delivery because its actually visible.

>Because all or most jobs (even white collar work) is going to get replaced by machines and robots eventually
Nah. Maybe low skill repetitive work, but if your job even has a smidge of complexity where on a case by case basis little things can change how you proceed then there will always be a human element present in work. Robots and AI will never get to the point where they can make critical decisions in our lifetime, so I still respect blue collar work. And when it does advance enough I'll be dead anyway so my opinion won't matter.

>Guy is also incredibly talented.

He isn't talented. His voice is nothing special. He just worked so hard he became a good voice actor, simply through learning the trade.

A lot of that stuff isn't something you can make a living off of. Engineering is probably the only one, and it's an incredibly hard field to break into.

WAHHH GIVE ME 20 MILLION FOR READING OFF ONE PAGE

A strike isn't worth much if the high profile actors that studios actually care about hiring aren't striking along with the nobodies that can get replaced in an instant.

Footfags are the worst.

True, but Burch and Wheaton aren't high profile.

you sound super redpilled my dude

>He's nothing special he's just good at his job

Anyone can make noises with their mouth, yes. But having a good voice, and acting convincingly with it, is a totally different matter. Ignoring all the people in the world who have naturally shitty voices, you also have to convey emotions that aren't real for a character that doesn't exist. I've been in theater class before, and 8/10 people sperg out and sound awkward as fuck reading a monologue, even if it's just towards the teacher. Acting convincingly takes a lot of skill, and judging by the way you talk, you definitely don't have experience doing it, so I don't value your opinion very much.

>Sure. Just let me record it in a professional studio dozens upon dozens of times until they can sift through and cherry pick my best take.
So what, it's simultaneously easy as hell and ALSO requires them to expend a lot of effort doing so repeatedly for hours? And that contradiction is just an excuse you have to not put your money where your mouth is anyway.

Just say you had a case of sour grapes and that you didn't know what the fuck you were talking about, less embarrassing.

kill you're self
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Is Burch peak talentless eceleb? The sort of person who thinks having a podcast makes them a big deal. Even webcomic artists probably look down on them.

>So what, it's simultaneously easy as hell and ALSO requires them to expend a lot of effort doing so repeatedly for hours?
A sound engineer and director sifting through hours upon hours of readings isn't a voice actor.

>Maybe low skill repetitive work,

So a receptionist or a office assistant?

>Burch was the voice of Chloe
>“I put a lot of myself in that character,” Burch said one afternoon. “My interpretation of her is ultimately about part of me.”

No wonder Chloe was so intolerable.

>*tips fedora*

And someone sitting there for hours and hours following advice and trying to get it just right IS a voice actor, and it's obviously the primary source of where the sound is coming from.

Sound directors can sift through hours of shit and it'll still be shit if the actor is no good, you autist.

>anime profile pic
Ok, I'll bite.
Honest question: Do you think anything Ashly Burch did in LiS is even "acting" - it was mostly just her being herself
kind of like adam sandler or ryan reynolds, they play the same role in every movie.

>Fuck these Union faggots.

t. porky

I don't think you understand how a union strike works. If the union votes to strike then you are on strike whether you want to or not. Ostensibly, in some states of America, you do have a choice on whether or not to strike or even if you are a union member but California does not have such protections and in the real world it doesn't really work that way anyway. Scabs get blacklisted from union jobs and when you are talking about something like SAG-AFTRA that can end your career.

No, the peak is that fag who played Snake.

>giving clicks to the bezos post

>"Low Pay"
>She's drinking pricey nu-male non-dairy drinks to soothe throat irritation.

wow wow wow wow wow wow wow
its like western voice actors really are insufferable cunts

For I second there I read "Ashley" as "Anthony" and I thought "damn, Anthony got a sex change, and he looks like THAT?"

It's funny because the scab VA they brought in to voice Chloe in BtS does a way better job and it's a way better game

Well now you run into the voice actor's dilemma. Voice actors become popular due to a specific voice that they used for a specific character. Unlike tv or movie actors they don't have a face that they can market, their voice is their only trait that the actor or the studio can market. Because of this even actors with a diverse range of voices get forced into a single, distinctive voice. This problem isn't unique to voice acting, even in movies you get actors like Tom Cruise and Will Smith who portray nearly every role they're in the same way no matter the film, but it's definitely more prevalent.

>the year of our lord two thousand and seventeen
>people still give this overrated cunt attention
I don't fucking understand what the big deal about her is. She isn't ground-breaking yet thanks to nepotism, she is all over the place.

Didn't play it. The statement was made about voice acting in general, so that's how I approached it. Nevertheless, I think Burch is a good VA. I thought Tiny Tina was pretty good, and I doubt she was "playing herself" with that character. I've also seen a few episodes of "Hey Ash, Whatcha Playin'", and I thought her actual acting was alright, as well, at least for Youtube standards.

They aren't but they're 2 of the loudest voices of the strike no pun intended. Thing is they're both such douchebags that anybody autistic enough to care about voices in games is put off by them. They both actively HATE gamers and gaming culture and then expect support from the very people they've been attacking for years.

Besides I'd support the strike if it was just about giving actors time to prepare an insuring they had time to rest their voices but residuals? Go fuck yourself.

There is no dilemma, there's a simple difference between VAs like Nolan North who have a recognisable voice (his Nathan Drake everyman) but can also do loads of other voices and act competently, and hacks like Lowenthal who can only do one voice and can't even act for shit in the first place.

>Nevertheless, I think Burch is a good VA.

قريبا، الإخوة. هكذا. اراده الله.

>protecting her voice
>like a professional opera singer

Yeah, the residuals are such a touchy topic, but really they shouldn't get them at all. Yeah, voice acting is major component to games in certain cases, but fuck off the voice of Nico from GTA 4 should not deserve residuals. Regardless of how notable a voice actor is, they didn't put nearly as much time into making the game as the developers.

The problem is you think being a successful voice actor requires being a star. It does not. It is just a job. If you are good you will find work because the industry will always respect skill and professionalism. Make everyone's life as smooth and painless as possible when you work for them and they will hire you again. Think it's all about making you a star and you might not get many callbacks.

Good God, I saw the post for this on reddit, but I didn't click to see that it was actually centered around Ashley Burch whining about a role she thinks she's owed, but didn't get. It's rather pathetic that this is the best story
SAG-AFTRA can manage to try to convince people that they're super important and worth capitulating to.

>good VA
>Tiny Tina was pretty good
Tina would have been almost acceptable if they kept her post roland death dialogue in the game instead of KILL JACK KILL JACK KILL JACK and relegated any form of character into a boring dlc. Burch is a terrible va and Tiny Tina was the subject of Anthony Burch's shitty writing.

I would be completely fine never hearing a voice in a game again desu

Ashley, and one of them probably gave her Hep or AIDS, considering it was a junkie.
Voice acting is probably the easiest and most stress-free job you can ever have, you're allowed to be hideous as fuck, you just need to be literate and not have a shrill or annoying voice.