Please remove me too.

Right? I get wanting to hear some more diversity, but defaulting to fly over state America is so small minded and bizarre.

Did you catch anything globe trotting fishing ;-D (trying to thinking of a pun but I’ve kaled)

All the money in the world and these bozos still use AI ‘art’ 🤭 it’s a little embarrassing.

🤫 😭 people are so silly. 🤠 I feel terrible for the sensible Americans that are seriously lacking in visibility amongst all of this lunacy.

Seriously. We wonder HOW someone like Trump became president TWICE, and then we get comments disparaging any accent that isn’t ‘murican. Are people ok? Do they not want to double or triple down? The world is not a monolith of “Deep South” American accents. It’s OK to hear British and NNES voices 3

Dare I say verging on “cultural appropriation” (Ren fair style), when there are so many other accents in the world, both from NES and NNES- maybe it’s time to make up a new accent that can be used exclusively in fantasy acting? 2

This. I get not necessarily wanting exclusively British accents (even if Tolkien was famously British and the Shire was literally influenced by preindustrial Britain), but jumping from that to “WE NEED MOAR AMERICAN VOICES” as if they’re somehow in shortage in America feels a little bit gross 1

In all seriousness though- given that Tolkien’s settings were inspired by preindustrial Britain, having American accents would just feel off to me. If anything, at least having fantasy populated by British accents gives a break from everything sounding American.

Or Australian or Irish or whatever.