Fans created fan content and sent it addressed to voice actor David Wald to Crunchyroll. Instead of forwarding, they opened the package and put the stuff on a freebies table for employees to take.
Dear friends: if you sent me anything care of Funimation or Crunchyroll in the last 5 years, I apologize, I didn’t get it. I learned yesterday that @Crunchyroll opened my private mail, threw away your letters, and passed out any included items to their staff.
Dear fellow workers at @Crunchyroll - below is a photo of the complete contents of one of the packages addressed to me that was opened and distributed to employees. If you ended up in possession of any of it, I would very much like it returned to me.
According to his tweets, he received two items that were still on the freebies table.
A follow-up tweet of his voices further, broader dissatisfaction:
Me, thinking: “…Jeez, it’s a good thing I didn’t tell them about the gay discrimination. Or the medical discrimination. Or the union busting. Or the continuous culture of fear. Or the hostile workplace environment, or…”
I can’t navigate or see Twitter unfortunately, but apparently; The disappointed fans commented as well. And other voice actors also vented some of their frustrations in interacting with Crunchyroll.
uhhh… I’m not a lawyer but I do know that opening someone’s private mail is a crime (in Canada) and after searching it up I already found 2 sources (after a 2 second search) so far that also states the same in the US
https://businessanywhere.io/is-it-illegal-to-open-someone-elses-mail/
https://thelawdictionary.org/article/what-is-the-federal-law-for-opening-mail-not-addressed-to-you/
The fact that the contents of the mail were also pilfered and redistributed without the knowledge and/or consent of the recipient might mean that Crunchyroll/the user in question might have committed a felony crime
“We have investigated ourselves and found no wrongdoing” in 3… 2… 1…
Crunchyroll has be scum ever since they went legit.
And was scum before.
Man, why is Twitter X so popular. I hate the closed platform, unordered tweets and replies, no contexts on tweets, segmented content and texts. Otherwise I would have explored and added more links and context.
It’s a collections of tree that can references other branchs.