Voice Acting Alliance
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EVERYONE ON THIS SITE IS A FAGGOT. |
The Voice Acting Alliance (or VAA for short) is a website that harbors primarily culturally devoid teenagers that spend all of their time "voice-acting" (dubbing the latest episode of Ouran High School Host Club, Naruto, Bleach, Lucky Star, or any other popular anime released in America.)
Most users have either abandoned the website or are rabid, daily users whose lives are comprised of getting constructive criticism on their vocal performances. In fact, the general populace that frequents this website are 20-year-old community college students that spend all of their time gossiping about other amateur voice-actors as pathetic as themselves. They forget that they've mostly abandoned their real lives in favor of a more ideal internet life in which they can mold their own self-image as they would like others to see them. Yet, they are the most vicious, backstabbing nerds you'll meet in your life. The sole purpose of the VAA in recent years is not to teach people the art of voice-acting, but to be as two-faced and superficially nice to newbies as possible while loathing everyone that's been there for more than a week and hoping people focus on the public displays of 'kindness.'
As most know, competition breeds rivalry, and this is especially true on the VAA. The one thing that separates the VAA from real-world voice-acting is the fact that your life consists of dubbing episodes of anime that you and your friends voice because you fantasize about being in the anime, whereas real-world voice-actors don't usually play the games or watch the anime they voice in because they're too busy making money and having respectable hobbies.
Starting Up
The VAA is riddled with faggotry and if you wish to avoid it you'd be wise to follow several basic tips.
- Make a username that has no capitalized characters.
- In addition, make your username a blatant Japanese/anime reference (i.e. Shinigami or Ichigo).
- Create a demo reel after several days using only audition lines for characters you didn't get.
- In said demo reel, use a variety of horribly inaccurate impressions.
- Begin a page using broken English asking for auditions and bump it a fuckload.
- Openly troll people in the General Chat (that's what it's for).
- Realize that you will never be a legitimate voice-actor.
- CUTCUTCUT
And so on. In order to get the best results from your first experience it is ESSENTIAL that you lack basic communication skills, as those who do are plentiful on the boards and most often thrive.
Auditioning
The largest component on the VAA are "productions", which consist of some douchebag starting up a dub or "abridged series" (there are at least 100 of each abridged series on YouTube, most of them complete fucking garbage) that you can audition for, and here are some tips for snagging that oh-so-desirable lead role.
- Buy a microphone from Best Buy.
- Don't try and sound realistic - just overmodulate the mic.
- Audition for EVERY SINGLE CHARACTER even if your range is complete shit.
- If your pitch isn't good enough, modify the pitch to show your skills.
- Get the part.
- If you don't, you know what to do.
Remember, if you don't end up getting a role you like, be sure to bitch and moan to ensure your future casting in roles for which you audition. Be sure to audition for "full series" dubs. They're always seen through to the end 100% of the time.
Critique
A critique request is another way of saying "Hey, I want to be complimented." Most of the time people are too afraid to be honest with people and end up filling them with false hope, leading them to have an inflated Internet ego. In order to get the maximum quality critique response, use your Rock Band microphone.
Demo Reels
A demo reel in the professional realm is meant to showcase one's vocal strengths, such as the ability to convey emotion, maintain stability during loud yells, as well as discern the voice-actor's attention to mic quality/management.
A demo reel on the voice-acting alliance needs to be all of these things.
- Lengthy and uninteresting
- Low-quality
- Unprofessional
- Final Fantasy Dissidia
On the VAA, there is no such thing as professionalism.
The Harsh Truth
The VAA was made with the intention of bringing people together to get projects done, make social links and improve one's vocal abilities. There are several problems with that.
- Weeaboos make up the vast majority of the boards.
- Weeaboos have no money because they live with their parents.
- You can't buy nice microphones if you have no money.
People
The people you'll come in contact with are all fucking retarded. They consist of:
- Furfag
- Wapanese
- n00bs
- Know-it-alls
- Moe Girls
- Moderators
- Internet celebrity - They're too cool for the VAA.
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