The Genshin Impact devs have put out a response to the sexual misconduct allegations surrounding their anime sport‘s English voice actor for Tighnari, Elliot Gindi. The voice actor has been accused of grooming, emotional abuse, blackmail, and having inappropriate relationships with followers, a few of whom had been allegedly underage on the time.
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These accusations had been raised on February 7, and each Gindi and HoYoverse have now put out responses to deal with the state of affairs. The voice actor’s acknowledgment of his actions got here first within the type of a TwitLonger. In his rationalization, he admits to threatening to take his personal life if his misconduct acquired uncovered, but additionally denies knowingly having relations with anybody underage.
HoYoverse has now adopted up with its assertion in a reply to GamesRadar+, saying the next:
“We deeply remorse the hurt and injury that occurred to our followers, players, group and anybody affected. Both our inner groups and exterior companions together with our voice performing studio have been working collectively on an pressing answer. And we’ll preserve you posted on the progress.”
This was all dropped at mild when a former mod on Gindi’s Discord server named Matty – AKA FretCore on Twitter – tweeted out a Google Doc filled with screenshots of Discord conversations, textual content messages, and different DMs containing sexual content material between Gindi and followers. Given the content material contained, we advise warning when opening.
The particulars within the doc had been despatched to Matty by people with whom Gindi allegedly had these relations, as she was a mod in his Discord on the time. She has since left the server.
Several Genshin Impact voice actors have additionally weighed in on the state of affairs as nicely, together with Brianna Knickerbocker (Hu Tao), Alejandro Saab (Cyno), and lots of extra. “Fans belief you with their hearts and to abuse that belief and benefit from your place is deplorable,” stated Jackie Lastra, who voices Xiangling. “My coronary heart is with the victims. We see you.”
