very stupid VA drama | Asmongold TV

August 22, 2026

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Voice actors, unions, and the coming AI reckoning

The Genshin Impact voice actor drama has escalated into a full-blown war between union-aligned English VAs and the game's player community, and the central argument from Asmongold is brutally simple: the voice actors are about to lose their jobs to AI, and they're making it worse by alienating the only people who could have supported them.

The immediate trigger is a push by SAG-AFTRA to get Genshin Impact's developer, HoYoverse (a Singapore-based company with Chinese roots), to sign an interim agreement that would force the game to go union for its English voice cast. Union and non-union VAs who want the game to unionize have been publicly pressuring the company, calling non-participating actors "scabs," and trying to rally the player base to their side. But the campaign has backfired spectacularly.

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1 Timestamped Outline
2 (01:30) **Opening: Voice Actors Want Genshin Impact to Go Union** - Asmongold introduces the video about non-union and union VA's demanding Genshin Impact sign SAG-AFTRA's interim agreement, calling it "so funny"
3 (04:39) **The Customer Doesn't Care About Your Process** - Asmongold explains why consumers side with companies, not workers in entertainment
4 (08:59) **The Real Consequence: AI Replacement Is Coming** - Asmongold predicts the outcome of the union push
5 (11:20) **What Game Companies Should Do: Accelerate AI Adoption** - Asmongold lays out the business case for replacing union VAs
6 (12:49) **The Genshin VA Drama: A VA Deletes His Account After Being Refuted** - Asmongold reviews the specific incident that sparked the video
7 (14:39) **Asmongold's Self-Defense: "Telling It Like It Is" Is Kindness** - Asmongold defends his confrontational style

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