Cabbages: Choices You Make

Wait why does that name look familiar 🤔

HOLY SHIT

WE HAVE A CELEBRITY WHO FINALLY RECOGNIZED LOVESTRUCK’S STRIKE 🤯👀😱

Update:

Hi everyone! We are the Voltage Organized Workers!

The writers of Lovestruck have come together to unanimously demand better working conditions, greater transparency, and increased protections. To that end, we asked the management of Voltage USA to recognize us and meet our demands - and since management has refused, we will be going on strike.

All of the Lovestruck writers are members of marginalized genders and/or sexualities. We have been given an invaluable foot in the door to the industry and a platform to tell stories that represent our voices, our passion, and our experiences. We are also all fans of the app, and we care deeply about the stories we tell.

However, not only are we paid less than half the industry standard rate, we are asked to meet extremely tight deadlines and produce enormous amounts of content without protections or benefits.

We want to see our hard work and commitment to authentic storytelling given the value it deserves.

Want to help us? Well first off–thanks!

The best thing you can do is send messages to Lovestruck contact asking them to recognize us.

All our fans are important to us. You’re the people supporting us, and we hope that you will help us improve our situation. We know that you have your own concerns, and we’re confident that this move will help to address those as well.

While our strike won’t immediately affect content in the app, it will certainly delay stories that you’re eager to see. There is a contact field on the Voltage website, and the more they hear from fans, the more likely they are to want to talk to us.

Above all, please do NOT boycott the game. We’re counting on you still being there and reading the stories you love.

Please also do not send anyone any harassment, on our behalf or otherwise. We do not condone such behavior. Keep your messages respectful. At the end of the day, the people you’re messaging are still our coworkers, and we want to get back to work as quickly as possible.

Message us with questions here or on any of the social media accounts listed below!

(Just bear in mind that there are some questions we can’t answer without breaking our NDAs.)

We’re hoping to have good news for you within a few days, and we’ll be sure to keep you updated of any developments.

<3

Voltage Organized Workers

Twitter: @VOW_Together

Reddit: VOWTogether

Instagram: vowtogether

PLEASE DO NOT BOYCOTT LOVESTRUCK!

As many of you know, leaving a review of a season in the app is important because it helps LS determine which routes continue on.

I did that for Lyris and Nav, leaving a respectful review of the season and added at the end one sentence about supporting the writers. Both reviews were among the top 3 most liked.

They have both been removed! 😳

Moral of the story: leave a review for the seasons you liked.....but if you mention the strike they'll get taken down.

Seriously, Voltage. That is some shady shit and I do not appreciate it.

Shared this on Lovestruck Reddit thanks to @violettduchess‘ great idea. Felt like I should post it here as well since I’m bringing my account back from the dead to support the Lovestruck writers’ strike anyway. I hope it reaches more people this way.

I discovered the app itself two years ago after getting hooked on The Arcana and looking for similar apps. At first Lovestruck was just a nice way of killing the time and I tried a lot of different routes before one, Helena’s, stuck. But over time I began to get more and more invested until at some point last year Lovestruck quietly overtook all other similar apps and became my most favourite storytelling app of them all. The writing quality far surpassed that of most of its competitors and the frequent updates were a godsend for someone who likes to have something to look forward to in the morning like me.

I’ve struggled with anxiety and depression pretty much all my life and have been having a particularly hard time of it lately. One of the things that has helped me the most have been the stories that I’ve been reading on Lovestruck. They have helped me find something to be happy about, kept me company or even just given me hope that things might get better in the future. Routes like Nora, Lucas, Nav and Jessa for example have been absolutely essential to my mental health and it’s all due to the fantastic writing in them. Both fully released EAA routes are full of so much hope and optimism it makes me feel warm and fuzzy and reminds me that I should not be giving up no matter how difficult things might get. Nav and Jessa are constant sources of fun and delight. And, of course, there are beautifully written routes that I live for like Xenia, Liora, Lyris, Yvette, Cecelia…

The stories told by the incredibly talented people working for Lovestruck have become one of my main coping mechanisms and have added so much joy into my life. I feel like I want to hug and thank the writers practically all the time and frequently gush about their work both within the app and on the Lovestruck Facebook page. I would give them the world if I could because I feel they deserve it for everything they’ve done for me without knowing it. I’ve been wanting to throw all the money I can at Lovestruck because I was assuming it was going to the people actually working on the stories I love so much. Imagine my profound disappointment when I learned that was not in fact the case. I hope the strike works in the writers’ favour and they manage to secure the better working conditions they’re striving for. I’d happily go without everyday story updates and wait as long as it takes for my favourite routes to be updated if it means the writers get more room to breathe so they can work in peace instead of being stressed by deadlines. It broke my heart to learn they weren’t paid fairly for their work, I hope that changes, it’s not right.

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