thomas severely underpaid brei grace for her work on roleslaying with roman

thomas then laid brei off after creating a work environment that was bad enough to make her not want to return

thomas made a post “announcing” that rswr would be on “an indefinite hiatus”. but it was only available on his patreon (im not a patron so i can’t link the post or show a screenshot, but if i find a screenshot i will edit it into this post)

to amend the above point: i had seen many people saying there was a patreon post that touched on the subject of brei being laid off and rswr taking a hiatus, but in actuality, according to a patron, thomas mentioned the matter in a patreon livestream, not a full blown post. i apologize for the misinformation

just days later, thomas makes a tweet about his merch sale, and most (if not ALL) his current merch was designed by brei, who will not see a penny in royalties, and this is apparently a regular thing with thomas

finally, an entire week after the patreon “announcement” and brei being laid off, thomas says this on the youtube community page (among other things, but this is what im focusing on):

and brei has to clarify that she was laid off

i want to point out the phrase “brei is currently not part of our team” and how thomas fails to acknowledge that HE is responsible for that. HE laid her off. and like a cowardly snake, he’s hiding behind vague corporate speak because he doesn’t want to admit the truth

unfortunately for him, the truth is out there

i know i sound really serious and dramatic and yall are probably not even taking me seriously and you have your pitchforks at the ready, but guess what? i couldn’t care less. i mean this IS serious, which is why im taking it seriously. but at the end of the day im just informing the community of what i know. what you do with that information is up to you

im not “cancelling” thomas, or trying to start a witch hunt, im just so sick of everyone pretending thomas is a perfect harmless little angel who can do no wrong. cos guess what? he HAS done wrong. he’s done wrong by brei. but everyone is so busy sucking up to him that they don’t seem to care that brei is suffering because of him

and this isn’t the first time he’s done wrong by an artist, either (let’s never forget the mad libs incident)

to summarize: thomas doesn’t make it a habit of properly compensating the artists he hires, he makes their experiences a living hell, and then he lies through his teeth about it

like i said, do with this information what you will, but i don’t know how thomas sleeps at night

(oh, and if you plan on harassing me over this post, im literally just gonna block you lmao don’t waste your energy)

Which! It’s valid criticism! But defenders go “well, Thomas is human! You can’t expect him to be a content mill!”

Again! Fair rebuttal! However, the Finale Is Never Coming criticism is a symptom of the larger problem at hand. And the problem that I personally have with Thomas is that he has no regard in setting a clear path of communication nor boundaries.

There’s no communication with his fans or his patreon. And no. Insta stories that say “Editing! 🫶” And selfies with the caption “Filming 😻” are not communication, that’s stalling.

There’s no communication with the people he hires. Why are animations getting paid cents or not at all for their work. Why are employees learning their jobs are over via tweets and YouTube community posts. He doesn’t care about the staff he has, or about the freelance he employs and it’s shown through how he treats them, how they now have to dance around how they talk about their experiences online because they’re afraid of legal repercussions.

Thomas has cultivated a deeply parasocial bond with his fan base, one that he is exploiting for money, attention and defense, because you can’t even comment under his posts politely asking for a more in depth update without getting a victimized response from him or a fan rabidly clawing into their screen to protect their favorite Internet personality.

HOLY CLICKBAIT (Pearls VA has been found to be MAGA btw)

But maybe he knew he would get more viewers by not addressing it because now he's getting lovely comments from @.conservativevibeisabigot saying "so many losers upset about the va having a different opinion im glad you didnt make it about that"

Or from @.ErikaAuburn80 saying "...please don't go to the fascist woke side it's the dark side and I love this guy I love his old vine vids still my fav to this day"

He's gotta make sure his videos reach all ends of the political spectrum ig

Oh

Also, the thumbnail is ai again btw.

He will do ANYTHING but make a real sanders sides video.

Man I feel so bad for old fans still hanging on and new fans who haven’t actually gotten to experience an episode drop and the fandom boom after.