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bunnyofdoom
Mar 29, 2008

I've been here the whole time, and you're not my real Dad! :emo:
Man, him trying and failing to get Depp's lawyer is not exactly surprising.

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Happy Landfill
Feb 26, 2011

I don't understand but I've also heard much worse
So...the side chick has completely turned against him? am I seeing that right?

Alan Smithee
Jan 4, 2005


A man becomes preeminent, he's expected to have enthusiasms.

Enthusiasms, enthusiasms...
What’s sad is his fans aren’t going to turn on him for this. They’ll just go “lol based”

Escape From Noise
Jul 27, 2004

Can't stop, won't stop (stepping on rakes)

Detheros
Apr 11, 2010

I want to die.



lol, lmao

Exercu
Dec 7, 2009

EAT WELL, SLEEP WELL, SHIT WELL! THERE'S YOUR ANSWER!!

Happy Landfill posted:

So...the side chick has completely turned against him? am I seeing that right?

Side chick thought she was main chick because Vic kept referring to actual main chick as his ex.

Side chick asks Vic to please clarify things on stream, because it's harming her rep and Vic goes "can't I just say you're a delusional fan?" And on stream Vic goes "oh, she's just an acquaintance." So now side chick is mad and upset and working through it and dropping fat Vic receipts everywhere.

Dawgstar
Jul 15, 2017

https://twitter.com/statestace/status/1674206021311512576

Whomever talked about his fans not caring nailed that. "YES THAT IS SO TRUE, WE'RE HUMAN."

Air Skwirl
May 13, 2007

Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed shitposting.
He should be forced to wear a hat that says "Pobady's Nerfect" for the rest of his life.

Caros
May 14, 2008

Dawgstar posted:

https://twitter.com/statestace/status/1674206021311512576

Whomever talked about his fans not caring nailed that. "YES THAT IS SO TRUE, WE'RE HUMAN."

I won't stop until he gives an apology video with a slide whistle.

Dawgstar
Jul 15, 2017

Caros posted:

I won't stop until he gives an apology video with a slide whistle.

Maybe it's like a 10,000 channel point redeem.

TenementFunster
Feb 20, 2003

The Cooler King
vic almost certainly would have got some money from ron toye (or at least got him and rial to shut up about all the sexual harassment he's done) if he initially hired a someone half as competent at reputation management as Camille Vasquez instead of a wills and trusts attorney


i imagine every rich dirtbag on the planet is ringing her phone off the wall, tho.

Exercu
Dec 7, 2009

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Nah, Toye has, through this entire thing been almost clinically unable to shut up. Ain't no way, no matter how good a lawyer Vic got, that Toye would be silenced.

Mors Rattus
Oct 25, 2007

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I mean, why should he shut up?

Exercu
Dec 7, 2009

EAT WELL, SLEEP WELL, SHIT WELL! THERE'S YOUR ANSWER!!
Sometimes talking too much about the case can hurt the case. Obviously there was so little case here that he's probably safe, but if there'd been any real case against him, he could've put himself in some real-rear end financial peril.

TenementFunster
Feb 20, 2003

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Mors Rattus posted:

I mean, why should he shut up?
years ago, a decent attorney could have made a colorable argument that toye (and maybe even sony) was defaming vic before vic was huffed enough farts to decide he should try to defend his reputation and outed himself as vic mignogna.

basically anyone with any skill at defamation defense or PR/reputation management would have been smart enough to use "vic's" (but actually probably nick and ty's) warchest to settle with toye/rial/Mari Iijima to keep this out of discovery. his own deposition is what really doomed vic's career, not ron toye's tweets.

this entire case was an oscar wilde-level example of "Don't sue for defamation if it's true!"

Exercu posted:

Sometimes talking too much about the case can hurt the case. Obviously there was so little case here that he's probably safe, but if there'd been any real case against him, he could've put himself in some real-rear end financial peril.
toye really started going buckwild on twitter, even about events/victims of which he might not have had sufficient knowledge. it all ended up being true, or at least enough of it was true that vic's reputation was shot - but it only came out after the depositions. someone on vic's side who knew how to handle this kind of case wouldn't have let it get that far. toye absolutely would have taken a fraction of whatever Ty Beard was paid to shut up.

TenementFunster fucked around with this message at 22:17 on Jun 29, 2023

Exercu
Dec 7, 2009

EAT WELL, SLEEP WELL, SHIT WELL! THERE'S YOUR ANSWER!!
Eh, falsity's not the only relevant thing. Even if it weren't true, there's no such thing as "sufficient" knowledge in the actual malice standard. Being a credulous moron is never defamatory when it's about a public figure.

It's true though that the deposition was a complete killshot and only an imbecile would let the plaintiff in a defamation suit sit for a deposition with the TCPA looming over their heads.

TenementFunster
Feb 20, 2003

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Exercu posted:

Eh, falsity's not the only relevant thing. Even if it weren't true, there's no such thing as "sufficient" knowledge in the actual malice standard. Being a credulous moron is never defamatory when it's about a public figure.

It's true though that the deposition was a complete killshot and only an imbecile would let the plaintiff in a defamation suit sit for a deposition with the TCPA looming over their heads.
i'm not a defamation expert by any means, but I could see an argument for actual malice where someone doesn't actually know if something/many somethings are true but tweet like they are anyway with the intent to harm someone's reputation/career. i think even ron toye would admit that he was stirring poo poo up because he rightfully had malicious feelings about vic and was trying to get him blackballed. but i'm talking less about the black letter law and more about what scumbags can get away with when an attorney threatens/pays people to shut up.

anyone with vic's crowd-sourced piggy bank and anything like competence would have had a great chance to make toye/rial go away. hell, stormy daniels took $130k from a guy who was way more famous and way wealthier for a way more salacious story!

Mors Rattus
Oct 25, 2007

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My point is ore that, sure, in another reality where anyone competent was on Vic’s side, sure, shutting up might be a good idea.

We don’t live in that one.

Happy Landfill
Feb 26, 2011

I don't understand but I've also heard much worse

Exercu posted:

Side chick thought she was main chick because Vic kept referring to actual main chick as his ex.

Side chick asks Vic to please clarify things on stream, because it's harming her rep and Vic goes "can't I just say you're a delusional fan?" And on stream Vic goes "oh, she's just an acquaintance." So now side chick is mad and upset and working through it and dropping fat Vic receipts everywhere.

loving incredible :magical: for about as long as I've been aware of Vic he has always had his one girlfriend, and later wife, which made this chick sitting there and acting like his one and only pretty funny to say the least. He was straight up calling his wife his ex, what an rear end in a top hat. Girl, get a divorce, you absolutely don't need to put up with that poo poo

MechaX
Nov 19, 2011

"Let's be positive! Let's start a fire!"

Happy Landfill posted:

loving incredible :magical: for about as long as I've been aware of Vic he has always had his one girlfriend, and later wife, which made this chick sitting there and acting like his one and only pretty funny to say the least. He was straight up calling his wife his ex, what an rear end in a top hat. Girl, get a divorce, you absolutely don't need to put up with that poo poo

Well, in his deposition he did casually admit to cheating on his wife for almost the entirety of his relationship almost any chance he could get sex (usually at or through conventions I think)

Happy Landfill
Feb 26, 2011

I don't understand but I've also heard much worse

MechaX posted:

Well, in his deposition he did casually admit to cheating on his wife for almost the entirety of his relationship almost any chance he could get sex (usually at or through conventions I think)

I remember that. :shepface: I am Jack's complete lack of surprise

Agaragon
Nov 16, 2018
Did anything ever come of Ty Beard forging Vic's signature a few years back at the near beginning of this mess?

Exercu
Dec 7, 2009

EAT WELL, SLEEP WELL, SHIT WELL! THERE'S YOUR ANSWER!!

TenementFunster posted:

i'm not a defamation expert by any means, but I could see an argument for actual malice where someone doesn't actually know if something/many somethings are true but tweet like they are anyway with the intent to harm someone's reputation/career. i think even ron toye would admit that he was stirring poo poo up because he rightfully had malicious feelings about vic and was trying to get him blackballed. but i'm talking less about the black letter law and more about what scumbags can get away with when an attorney threatens/pays people to shut up.

anyone with vic's crowd-sourced piggy bank and anything like competence would have had a great chance to make toye/rial go away. hell, stormy daniels took $130k from a guy who was way more famous and way wealthier for a way more salacious story!

No, that's probably not going to be enough. Actual Malice has nothing to do with being malicious, it has to do whether you believe what you're saying.

Actual malice requires a subjective belief that either what you're publishing is false, or that you had strong subjective doubts as to their accuracy. The second part of that is St. Amant v. Thompson (The reckless disregard for truth element in defamation claims requires a plaintiff to show that the defendant had serious doubts about the accuracy of the material.)

So it is *not* sufficient that Toye doesn't know that it's true, they need evidence that Toye subjectively thought it was probably false, but tweeted it out anyway. It's a high-rear end bar.

Happy Landfill posted:

loving incredible :magical: for about as long as I've been aware of Vic he has always had his one girlfriend, and later wife, which made this chick sitting there and acting like his one and only pretty funny to say the least. He was straight up calling his wife his ex, what an rear end in a top hat. Girl, get a divorce, you absolutely don't need to put up with that poo poo

Oh, no, that was Michele Specht, who was his fiancée and left him because he was cheating on her (with a whole bunch of people) including with his current girlfriend, Haileigh something or other, who he then cheated on with aspiring porn actress Farah Fatherless while claiming Haileigh was his ex, and now said aspiring porn actress is on the war path. Real life really out here trying to compete with the most salacious telenovelas, I swear.

Exercu fucked around with this message at 08:32 on Jun 30, 2023

MechaX
Nov 19, 2011

"Let's be positive! Let's start a fire!"
https://twitter.com/farahfatherless/status/1674799632621387779

loving hell the target was MarzGurl

Cassius Belli
May 22, 2010

horny is prohibited

N.B.: Twitter turned on a login wall this morning. It may be useful to use Nitter to punch through when/if it's working (ex: https://nitter.net/farahfatherless/status/1674799632621387779), and/or to screencap for posterity.

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Cassius Belli fucked around with this message at 19:42 on Jun 30, 2023

Gyges
Aug 4, 2004

NOW NO ONE
RECOGNIZE HULK

Interesting play to get the police to help you prove that you conspired to murder someone. Does being in Vic's presence just naturally destroy your brain?

ImpAtom
May 24, 2007

Gyges posted:

Interesting play to get the police to help you prove that you conspired to murder someone. Does being in Vic's presence just naturally destroy your brain?

I mean even if they both go to jail one of them is far more likely to die miserable and alone in his prison cell than another just based on age alone.

Waffleman_
Jan 20, 2011


I don't wanna I don't wanna I don't wanna I don't wanna!!!

Also by stepping forward with evidence, she could potentially get a plea bargain for a reduced sentence

Gyges
Aug 4, 2004

NOW NO ONE
RECOGNIZE HULK

Waffleman_ posted:

Also by stepping forward with evidence, she could potentially get a plea bargain for a reduced sentence

While true, until she came forward nobody was even looking for a dumb as gently caress murder plot. Surely Vic has done other completely moronic and embarrassing/illegal things within her documentational power that don't also find her lawyer shopping.

ImpAtom
May 24, 2007

Gyges posted:

While true, until she came forward nobody was even looking for a dumb as gently caress murder plot. Surely Vic has done other completely moronic and embarrassing/illegal things within her documentational power that don't also find her lawyer shopping.

It is entirely possible that once freed from his cult of influence she feels genuine regret and wants to make a threat known before someone actually does get hurt.

MechaX
Nov 19, 2011

"Let's be positive! Let's start a fire!"

Gyges posted:

While true, until she came forward nobody was even looking for a dumb as gently caress murder plot. Surely Vic has done other completely moronic and embarrassing/illegal things within her documentational power that don't also find her lawyer shopping.

The only reason this is even unraveling now is because Vic pissed her off; Vic's never going to stop preying on people and it was only a matter of time until he did convince someone willing to do this poo poo unconditionally (and they kind of have a paper trail already and she probably wanted to pull the ripcord now before poo poo goes south and someone comes back to her after the fact asking questions)

Happy Landfill
Feb 26, 2011

I don't understand but I've also heard much worse
I do wonder if anything will come from this. Still utterly bonkers.

Dawgstar
Jul 15, 2017

Have proceedings reached the point yet where Vic has had to pay out for anything? I was given to understand he'd moved some assets around, like selling his house to his mom to try and counter it, but didn't know how well that would work.

Midjack
Dec 24, 2007



Dawgstar posted:

Have proceedings reached the point yet where Vic has had to pay out for anything? I was given to understand he'd moved some assets around, like selling his house to his mom to try and counter it, but didn't know how well that would work.

Courts usually suplex you into the basement for doing that to escape judgement.

Regalingualius
Jan 7, 2012

We gazed into the eyes of madness... And all we found was horny.




Midjack posted:

Courts usually suplex you into the basement for doing that to escape judgement.

I’d imagine that goes doubly so when you’re the plaintiff?

Mors Rattus
Oct 25, 2007

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He hasn’t had to pay poo poo because we’re still in appeals, I’m pretty sure.

MechaX
Nov 19, 2011

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Mors Rattus posted:

He hasn’t had to pay poo poo because we’re still in appeals, I’m pretty sure.

It got kicked back to trial court after Vic got blown up all the way up to the Texas Supreme Court

He hasn't paid yet because the only issue left to litigate is the fact that Vic needs to pay even more in attorneys fees to one of the attorneys, and the question is how much more

TenementFunster
Feb 20, 2003

The Cooler King

Exercu posted:

So it is *not* sufficient that Toye doesn't know that it's true, they need evidence that Toye subjectively thought it was probably false, but tweeted it out anyway. It's a high-rear end bar.
yeah, actual malice for public figure defamation is a high bar, but toye might have met it! dude was really going hog wild! i'm not saying i would have preferred vic's odds over toye's, but there's a sufficient basis for vic at least bringing that claim based on an allegation that toye was making some of that poo poo up with the intent of harming vic's career. like you said, proving it would have been hard, but that could have been a matter for a jury (or leverage in a settlement negotiation). instead, vic's lawyers hosed it up so profoundly and instead made their client defamation-proof.

vic might have actually had something - or at least a colorable argument - if it wasn't for nick and ty bead's absolute incompetence in legal strategy, subject knowledge, and even basic court procedure (still loling that ty submitted documents to the court that he notarized fraudulently). vic has a great malpractice claim.

Wasabi the J
Jan 23, 2008

MOM WAS RIGHT
Look who are we getting to revoice his performances when we damnatio memoriae this dude?

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TenementFunster
Feb 20, 2003

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Wasabi the J posted:

Look who are we getting to revoice his performances when we damnatio memoriae this dude?
thankfully, dozens of more talented japanese people have already stepped up to the plate

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