The former voice of bayonet has come off Calling for bad pay for talent in the gaming industry to pocket the controversial anti-abortion group Billboards 4Life. It all started with her boycott of bayonet 3, after misleading fans about her removal from the project. She’s now urging them to take the money they would have spent releasing the Switch game and donate it to charities instead, including the Kentucky-based nonprofit whose sole mission is to “help towns and cities.” covered with giant signs” aimed at guilt and shameful would-be parents.
“My posts struck a chord with people,” she said tweeted. “Low wages are resonating not just in the gaming industry, but around the world beyond, around the world. To donate your boycott money, there are many small local charities that need your help.” While Taylor suggested traditional charities like donations to food banks and organizations that help the homeless, she also sponsored 14 organizations to which she has contributed directly in the past would have.
These included the London Academy of Music & Dramatic Art’s student pizza fund and several animal welfare groups, but also Billboard’s 4Life, whose roadside propaganda features artistic recreations of praying fetuses and quotes like “I could dream before I was born!”. Taylor was promptly ratio’d.
“Your posts struck a chord with people because you intentionally misrepresented the whole situation,” one person replied. “That and one of these charities is anti-abortion,” replied another. “I didn’t have ‘Bayonetta’s original VO kinda sucks’ on my bingo sheet this year, but here we are.”
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the previous bayonet Voice actress became one Mini Internet Hero earlier this month When she revealed she stopped working on the series because of the “insulting” pay, she was offered to continue playing the titular star. In several videos that went viral, she urged fans to boycott developer Platinum Games for only offering her a flat rate of $4,000. was caught in the crossfire Jennifer Halewho was then harassed about replacing Taylor.
but Bloomberg reported later that Taylor was actually being offered closer to $4,000 per session for a total of closer to $15,000 for the project. Negotiations with Platinum reportedly only collapsed after she refused to agree to higher wages and backlogs from future sales. While Taylor denied ever charging a six-figure sum for the project, she did eventually confirm that the $4,000 figure quoted in the original videos was for a brief cameo after Hale had already replaced her, and not for it voicing the entire project the way she did originally led fans to believe.
Even before today’s promotion of Billboard’s 4Life, Taylor was scrutinized by some fans who she followed on Twitter and what tweets she liked. Regardless of Taylor’s beliefs and behavior, it’s true that the story of low pay resonates with people in games and beyond. Not only speakers, but developers throughout the industry often face unequal pay and exploitative working conditions. Boycotting a particular game probably won’t fix that. unions could.
