I still get harassed on my channels by people still in support of Christian Henson (Spitfire Audio cofounder) after his transphobic rants, and Spitfire refuses to clear up if they're still paying him. It's been years now and this shit still sucks.
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@hyenablood.yeen.world wants to start a labs / pianobook alternative and I agree with him. We need focus, time, and energy. If anyone you know, including you, are interested we should talk. We can make it happen.
I wanted the dude to realize aligning himself with bigots while being one of the driving forces of music software in the industry was bad.
Instead of taking responsibility he went off and started his own company (Crow Hill), presumably still getting monetary gains from Spitfire behind the scenes.
Christian: you never apologized, never made a single attempt to fix the damage you did. It's cowardly and despicable and your fans constantly make transphobic jokes in your comment sections. You're a disgrace.
And like nothing fucking happens? Like he is by all accounts just doing fine? His wife is a terf too so he didn't become Very Divorced like Glinner, but like, ugh. Please can being a bigot or a Nazi have some kind of repercussions????
Right now my community is in crisis. A local politician has been attacking a trans high school kid. Showing pictures of the kid, posting her name, causing death threats to her family.
We’re talking about an elected official directing a hate campaign against a *child*!
I don't know if it makes much difference; I can't get rid of the horrible people in your comments; but your making that video meant so so much to me personally. I've shared it with so many people and it did so much to help me feel not alone. To feel like being trans won't segregate me forever.
This is an odd coincidence, but I recently thought about your old video regarding “He shall not be named” and thinking about if Spitfire has dunked him yet, since I recently got their videos recommended on my timeline. Fortunately I found your thread just now, thank you for keeping up the good fight
P.s: I also saw your Discord submission review and thought I could chime in to the server to ask the folks before I found you on BSky, unfortunately I’m not ok financially yet to support your patreon (hopefully one day soon, maybe I’ll buy you a round irl just for the spitfire fiasco video).
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Losing LABS sucks. Losing pianobook sucks (my favorite patch was even made by that transphobe 😭).
But it's seeing musicians in marginalized communities potentially throwing money his way that stings the worst.
@hyenablood.yeen.world wants to start a labs / pianobook alternative and I agree with him. We need focus, time, and energy. If anyone you know, including you, are interested we should talk. We can make it happen.
Instead of taking responsibility he went off and started his own company (Crow Hill), presumably still getting monetary gains from Spitfire behind the scenes.
Until you do, I'm still boycotting you and encouraging others to do the same.
Fuck transphobes, fuck bigots, fuck you.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4JxJUITSb8A
We live in a time where rich, powerful people are comfortable attacking the vulnerable to score cheap points with bigots. It’s deeply distressing.
We’re talking about an elected official directing a hate campaign against a *child*!
What the hell is happening?