#rvbzero

[Image Descrption: A tweet from Torrian saying ‘Always wanted to work on RvB and even-though I’m the only animator, these lovey peeps helped make it happen!’ with an image beneath it of the credits for the Death Battle episode of season 14.]

[Image Description: A tweet from Torrian saying ‘I’ve always wanted to animate Carolina’, quote tweeted in response to Jen Brown, Carolina’s VA, announcing Carolina’s inclusion in the season.]

[Image Description: A quote from an interview by Torrian with Syfy. “Initially, I was inspired by some of the previous seasons that took a more action focus or included more action elements, I think around season 8, 9 and 10, when they involved a class of characters call the Freelancers [The Project Freelancer Saga], which was when they included the legendary animation director Monty Oum,” Crawford told SYFY WIRE. “I was really inspired by that sequence of events that happened within the RvB lore.” The quote continues, but this is the relevant piece of information for this post.]

If we want to get real picky, there’s even this simple little tweet:

[Image Description: A tweet from Torrian from 2013 saying ‘Ahh my robot arm! lol #RvB’]

Which he’d honestly have literally no reason to post if he hadn’t seen the damn episode that quote is from. Like, come on.

I don’t know where people got the idea that Torrian and his team have never ever seen the show before. I know that Fiona said she hasn’t and has no interest in watching previous seasons, but Fiona is not a writer. I’ve never seen a direct quote, I’ve never seen any evidence of the claim that no one else on the team is a fan of the show. I’ve only seen unsubstantiated rumours being spread around based on an interview most people haven’t seen, and that no one has ever provided quotes for so that people don’t have to dig through a long podcast episode themselves. 

It may be true that they’ve joked about old seasons, or made jokes that didn’t land. But many of the more negative claims have come from people who then do not back up their information and let their claims get spread around without any basis. Including a fairly public incident where someone lied about Fiona’s words and painted them in the worst light possible!

Torrian, at the very least, has clearly watched the show before. I can’t speak for the others as easily and I don’t feel that I need to. To say that the team has never watched the show before is false. To keep spreading that idea is disinformation that has been used to deliberately stir up negative attention towards the zero team.