Trans voice actress alleges stolen wages, toxic culture, and anti-LGBTQ slurs at major gaming company
queerty.comVoice actress and former Rooster Teeth employee Kdin Jenzen says she faced horrible conditions at the company for nearly a decade.
Now, she’s spoken her full truth — and it turns out she’s not alone.In a lengthy statement published to Twitter on Saturday following a round of layoffs, the former Achievement Hunter staffer and RWBY voice actress addressed her time at the company.She alleges that her nine years of employment included being constantly called a queerphobic slur, uncredited for countless projects, underpaid by tens of thousands of dollars, and forced to regularly work 14+ hour days.The full letter is almost unbelievable:My final words on Rooster Teeth & just SOME of my experiences there.Read: https://t.co/r6t0hvaq3k— Kdin Jenzen (@KdinJenzen) October 15, 2022“Every day I came into work I was called ‘F*ggot’ – but they could not use that name in content so when anyone was recording I was called ‘Fugz’ instead,” she explains. “For any fans who used that nickname for me for years, that’s what you were calling me.”The nickname was finally dropped when Jenzen came out as trans (though videos of her being called the name remain on the channel).
That said, her coming out came with a new wave of mistreatment.“During that time my acting manager began to harass me and lie to the community any time I was ‘planned to be on camera and couldn’t show up’,” she writes. “Many times it was said to the audience watching that I ‘had already gone home’ when I was in the other room crunching to finish my job and the work of my manager.”Related: This trans Twitch streamer refuses to let haters take her down.
Instead, she’s fighting back.Even with all the queerphobic treatment she received, the relentless time crunch (and lack of.
