Rant: I hate that Quinn keeps casting Hollywood actors
This has been bubbling in my head for a while. It's pissing me tf off. Erotic audio roleplay is a medium that was built from the ground up by passionate amateurs. Amateur VAs, amateur writers, and fans who built up a fandom by taking a chance on people based on the work they put out and not their "star power". The stuff made by SAG/Hollywood VAs sucks. Erotic roleplay voice acting is a very specific type of acting, that you have to develop over time. Despite that, all the hype goes to them. All of the advertising that Quinn is doing is based around them acquiring some trending TV or movie actor. It feels like the people who BUILT THE ENTIRE SCENE and are ACTUALLY GOOD AT IT are getting sidelined by outsiders that are more marketable to people outside the community.
I have a theory that they're only doing this because it's an easy way to get press coverage. Magazines and newspapers will publish just about anything as long as a celebrity is involved. A few headlines about how they got the Heated Rivalry actors to do a sexy fae audio series gives them enough free publicity to justify the heightened cost of hiring them.
IDK. It just doesn't sit right with me. It feels like they're trying to overshadow the people who built this medium for stunt casting that can get them a headline on The Hollywood Reporter and Rolling Stone. The real NSFW VAs who have actual track records of making good content (and actually have love for the game) are the ones who deserve recognition. It's disappointing seeing the people who built NSFW audio up from nothing being treated as less legitimate than people who don't know shit about the scene.