Swann Grey ❄️
@swannsvoice.bsky.social
Queer Nonbinary Korean-American #VoiceActor 🎙️ |»| Like the bird with two N’s 🦢✌🏼 |»| 🌈they/them
Demos & contact → swannsvoice.carrd.co
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Swann Grey ❄️
@swannsvoice.bsky.social
· Nov 22
Heya! I’m Swann (like the bird with two N’s 🦢✌🏼), a queer nonbinary Asian-American voice actor.
If you’re up for random lifestuffs, anti-genAI discourse*, or me fanflailing over my talented friends, you’re in the right place ✨
Wanna work together? Check out my website for my demos and let’s chat! 📧
If you’re up for random lifestuffs, anti-genAI discourse*, or me fanflailing over my talented friends, you’re in the right place ✨
Wanna work together? Check out my website for my demos and let’s chat! 📧
Y’ALL I LEFT MY EMOTIONAL SUPPORT WATER BOTTLE AT HOME AND HAVE WORKSHOPS ALL DAY
a man wearing a yellow vest and tie is screaming with his mouth open
ALT: a man wearing a yellow vest and tie is screaming with his mouth open
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December 6, 2025 at 3:53 PM
Y’ALL I LEFT MY EMOTIONAL SUPPORT WATER BOTTLE AT HOME AND HAVE WORKSHOPS ALL DAY
One week without badminton, and somehow I’m sorer than when I went without for almost a whole consecutive month and change, damn
December 4, 2025 at 11:41 PM
One week without badminton, and somehow I’m sorer than when I went without for almost a whole consecutive month and change, damn
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🚚Another Guest Arrives at ALA 21!🌌
Please give a warm welcome to Ben Balmaceda! A Chilean VA with a broad portfolio of roles under his belt!
Read more about Ben here: https://animelosangeles.org/project/ben-balmaceda-featured-guest/
Visit animelosangeles.org/registration & get your badge today!🏰
Please give a warm welcome to Ben Balmaceda! A Chilean VA with a broad portfolio of roles under his belt!
Read more about Ben here: https://animelosangeles.org/project/ben-balmaceda-featured-guest/
Visit animelosangeles.org/registration & get your badge today!🏰
December 4, 2025 at 1:00 AM
🚚Another Guest Arrives at ALA 21!🌌
Please give a warm welcome to Ben Balmaceda! A Chilean VA with a broad portfolio of roles under his belt!
Read more about Ben here: https://animelosangeles.org/project/ben-balmaceda-featured-guest/
Visit animelosangeles.org/registration & get your badge today!🏰
Please give a warm welcome to Ben Balmaceda! A Chilean VA with a broad portfolio of roles under his belt!
Read more about Ben here: https://animelosangeles.org/project/ben-balmaceda-featured-guest/
Visit animelosangeles.org/registration & get your badge today!🏰
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SAG-AFTRA's strike might have straightened things out in the US – but in the UK, contract negotiations for game actors are still a mess of exploitation, AI clauses, and non-standard rates.
www.gamesindustry.biz/contracts-fo...
www.gamesindustry.biz/contracts-fo...
Contracts for game actors are a nightmare in the UK
SAG-AFTRA's strike might have sorted things out in the US – but UK contract negotiations are still a mess of exploitation, AI clauses, and non-standard rates
www.gamesindustry.biz
December 3, 2025 at 4:02 PM
SAG-AFTRA's strike might have straightened things out in the US – but in the UK, contract negotiations for game actors are still a mess of exploitation, AI clauses, and non-standard rates.
www.gamesindustry.biz/contracts-fo...
www.gamesindustry.biz/contracts-fo...
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Kadokawa stated that it did not approve of an AI dub, and Sentai stated that it wasn't aware of the dub beforehand.
Amazon Streamed AI English Dubs on Banana Fish, 'No Game, No Life Zero,' Vinland Saga, Pet Anime
Voice actors speak out against AI dubs, Kadokawa & Sentai Filmworks respond
www.animenewsnetwork.com
December 3, 2025 at 6:52 AM
Kadokawa stated that it did not approve of an AI dub, and Sentai stated that it wasn't aware of the dub beforehand.
Jury summons today, should’ve brought my work computer 🥲
December 3, 2025 at 5:03 PM
Jury summons today, should’ve brought my work computer 🥲
👰🏻♀️ROLE ANNOUNCEMENT🐺
I am the voice of Iris Servine in the Spooktober 2025 visual novel, #Houndwife!
Thank you @krhodesva.bsky.social and team for having me on, and to @/nathanwagner_vo for playing across my monsterfu…lly loving wife 🖤
Go check it out! 🔗⬇️
I am the voice of Iris Servine in the Spooktober 2025 visual novel, #Houndwife!
Thank you @krhodesva.bsky.social and team for having me on, and to @/nathanwagner_vo for playing across my monsterfu…lly loving wife 🖤
Go check it out! 🔗⬇️
December 3, 2025 at 3:44 AM
👰🏻♀️ROLE ANNOUNCEMENT🐺
I am the voice of Iris Servine in the Spooktober 2025 visual novel, #Houndwife!
Thank you @krhodesva.bsky.social and team for having me on, and to @/nathanwagner_vo for playing across my monsterfu…lly loving wife 🖤
Go check it out! 🔗⬇️
I am the voice of Iris Servine in the Spooktober 2025 visual novel, #Houndwife!
Thank you @krhodesva.bsky.social and team for having me on, and to @/nathanwagner_vo for playing across my monsterfu…lly loving wife 🖤
Go check it out! 🔗⬇️
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A second announcement? No way!
#OctopathTraveler 0 releases this week, and I’m excited to announce I’m voicing the role of ALFYN!
My colleague Greg Chun did such a wonderful job w/ this character in their initial appearance, & I’m grateful to have his blessing/support in helping continue the role!
#OctopathTraveler 0 releases this week, and I’m excited to announce I’m voicing the role of ALFYN!
My colleague Greg Chun did such a wonderful job w/ this character in their initial appearance, & I’m grateful to have his blessing/support in helping continue the role!
December 2, 2025 at 1:09 AM
A second announcement? No way!
#OctopathTraveler 0 releases this week, and I’m excited to announce I’m voicing the role of ALFYN!
My colleague Greg Chun did such a wonderful job w/ this character in their initial appearance, & I’m grateful to have his blessing/support in helping continue the role!
#OctopathTraveler 0 releases this week, and I’m excited to announce I’m voicing the role of ALFYN!
My colleague Greg Chun did such a wonderful job w/ this character in their initial appearance, & I’m grateful to have his blessing/support in helping continue the role!
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Never thought I’d get to be part of the digital world, but I can happily announce that I voice Mummymon and a handful of colorful characters in the English dub of Digimon Ghost Game!
Huge thanks to the folks at Transperfect for the chance to live out a childhood dream!!
Huge thanks to the folks at Transperfect for the chance to live out a childhood dream!!
December 2, 2025 at 1:26 AM
Never thought I’d get to be part of the digital world, but I can happily announce that I voice Mummymon and a handful of colorful characters in the English dub of Digimon Ghost Game!
Huge thanks to the folks at Transperfect for the chance to live out a childhood dream!!
Huge thanks to the folks at Transperfect for the chance to live out a childhood dream!!
How the fuck do I turn off #GoogleGemini when I never opted in AND have turned it off literally (I mean /literally/) everywhere? Genuinely sick when I saw this email.
December 2, 2025 at 1:33 AM
How the fuck do I turn off #GoogleGemini when I never opted in AND have turned it off literally (I mean /literally/) everywhere? Genuinely sick when I saw this email.
What I really don’t understand about genAI images is, isn’t it actually just writing, not art? You craft a prompt of words (i.e., writing), and the genAI program translates that into a pictorial mutation — that’s how that works, right? Like, am I crazy?
December 1, 2025 at 4:00 AM
What I really don’t understand about genAI images is, isn’t it actually just writing, not art? You craft a prompt of words (i.e., writing), and the genAI program translates that into a pictorial mutation — that’s how that works, right? Like, am I crazy?
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This is - somehow - 100% legit.
November 30, 2025 at 4:00 AM
This is - somehow - 100% legit.
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As someone who works in the tech industry--absolutely.
They are testing the waters. These are top-down orders. The ONLY way to stop it is a visceral negative reaction. Write articles. Post your rage. Email. Post. @. All those things.
Only you have the power to kill it.
They are testing the waters. These are top-down orders. The ONLY way to stop it is a visceral negative reaction. Write articles. Post your rage. Email. Post. @. All those things.
Only you have the power to kill it.
Let me give some insight on this, as a producer in the dub industry who worked with major streamers, who's witnessed first-hand where this push for AI is coming from.
tl;dr: Only CEOs want this. Tell them how much you hate it. Be loud, email, call, @, post. You will kill this.
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tl;dr: Only CEOs want this. Tell them how much you hate it. Be loud, email, call, @, post. You will kill this.
🧵⬇️
The only thing less human than these AI dub performances is the decision to sign off on them
A company this big can pay human actors a decent wage, not produce slop that intentionally removes the human element.
A company this big can pay human actors a decent wage, not produce slop that intentionally removes the human element.
November 30, 2025 at 5:07 AM
As someone who works in the tech industry--absolutely.
They are testing the waters. These are top-down orders. The ONLY way to stop it is a visceral negative reaction. Write articles. Post your rage. Email. Post. @. All those things.
Only you have the power to kill it.
They are testing the waters. These are top-down orders. The ONLY way to stop it is a visceral negative reaction. Write articles. Post your rage. Email. Post. @. All those things.
Only you have the power to kill it.
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We did it! We just crossed the finish line on the Kickstarter with just 2 days left to go! Now that we've reached the goal, I can finally shut up about it forever.
Going back to our regularly scheduled posting from this point on! :D
Thank you all who backed this thing, I knew we could do it!
Going back to our regularly scheduled posting from this point on! :D
Thank you all who backed this thing, I knew we could do it!
Just ONE WEEK left in our Kickstarter campaign, and we're still looking for the last 17% of the way to hit our goal!
I know we can get there, but we'll need your help! These last few days are crucial, so don't wait!
www.kickstarter.com/projects/sch...
#schoolnightseance #kickstarter #lastchance
I know we can get there, but we'll need your help! These last few days are crucial, so don't wait!
www.kickstarter.com/projects/sch...
#schoolnightseance #kickstarter #lastchance
November 30, 2025 at 3:30 PM
We did it! We just crossed the finish line on the Kickstarter with just 2 days left to go! Now that we've reached the goal, I can finally shut up about it forever.
Going back to our regularly scheduled posting from this point on! :D
Thank you all who backed this thing, I knew we could do it!
Going back to our regularly scheduled posting from this point on! :D
Thank you all who backed this thing, I knew we could do it!
Oh. I forgot I had auditions unsaved open on Reaper before yesterday’s blackout.
November 30, 2025 at 10:01 PM
Oh. I forgot I had auditions unsaved open on Reaper before yesterday’s blackout.
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Fuck genAI.
“But if it’s done ethically–”
There is /nothing/ ethical about surrendering an opportunity to tell a human story to anything other than a human.
Cast humans as humans.
Not humans’ voices as humans, consent or otherwise — /humans/ as humans.
It’s not that hard.
“But if it’s done ethically–”
There is /nothing/ ethical about surrendering an opportunity to tell a human story to anything other than a human.
Cast humans as humans.
Not humans’ voices as humans, consent or otherwise — /humans/ as humans.
It’s not that hard.
November 29, 2025 at 9:16 AM
Fuck genAI.
“But if it’s done ethically–”
There is /nothing/ ethical about surrendering an opportunity to tell a human story to anything other than a human.
Cast humans as humans.
Not humans’ voices as humans, consent or otherwise — /humans/ as humans.
It’s not that hard.
“But if it’s done ethically–”
There is /nothing/ ethical about surrendering an opportunity to tell a human story to anything other than a human.
Cast humans as humans.
Not humans’ voices as humans, consent or otherwise — /humans/ as humans.
It’s not that hard.
Me: I’m gonna finally get off my ass and cook today!
Power:
Power:
November 29, 2025 at 11:37 PM
Me: I’m gonna finally get off my ass and cook today!
Power:
Power:
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The death of browsing is part of the reason art is the way it is now. Our opinions are largely fed to us by algorithms. Spending a spare 15 minutes wandering around a bookstore or comic shop or video rental place was how you found stuff you wouldn't ordinarily pick up and thereby expanded your taste
Bookselling is like the most "people go to the store and buy what looks cool to them without a particular agenda" type business left, and your purchases have a huge influence on what is ordered, what is displayed, and what is recommended.
November 29, 2025 at 6:44 PM
The death of browsing is part of the reason art is the way it is now. Our opinions are largely fed to us by algorithms. Spending a spare 15 minutes wandering around a bookstore or comic shop or video rental place was how you found stuff you wouldn't ordinarily pick up and thereby expanded your taste
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Absolutely fuck this, man
This is what happens when you treat every piece of art you license like just another line of a spreadsheet
This is what happens when you reduce work that real people put so much love into down to fucking content slop that you shovel out for as cheaply as you can
This is what happens when you treat every piece of art you license like just another line of a spreadsheet
This is what happens when you reduce work that real people put so much love into down to fucking content slop that you shovel out for as cheaply as you can
Hey just so you know Amazon decided to give us an AI ENGLISH DUB of Banana Fish instead of actually hiring real voice actors
it is fucking hot garbage
#bananafish #anime
it is fucking hot garbage
#bananafish #anime
November 28, 2025 at 11:22 PM
Absolutely fuck this, man
This is what happens when you treat every piece of art you license like just another line of a spreadsheet
This is what happens when you reduce work that real people put so much love into down to fucking content slop that you shovel out for as cheaply as you can
This is what happens when you treat every piece of art you license like just another line of a spreadsheet
This is what happens when you reduce work that real people put so much love into down to fucking content slop that you shovel out for as cheaply as you can
Power’s been out since 11am……
November 29, 2025 at 11:26 PM
Power’s been out since 11am……
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"The audience understands quality even if they can't articulate it".
The audience doesn't need to be production savvy to FEEL that no effort was made to make something good. They know what feels good as an experience and what feels empty.
But how do you explain that to people SO disconnected?
The audience doesn't need to be production savvy to FEEL that no effort was made to make something good. They know what feels good as an experience and what feels empty.
But how do you explain that to people SO disconnected?
November 29, 2025 at 2:42 AM
"The audience understands quality even if they can't articulate it".
The audience doesn't need to be production savvy to FEEL that no effort was made to make something good. They know what feels good as an experience and what feels empty.
But how do you explain that to people SO disconnected?
The audience doesn't need to be production savvy to FEEL that no effort was made to make something good. They know what feels good as an experience and what feels empty.
But how do you explain that to people SO disconnected?
Fuck genAI.
“But if it’s done ethically–”
There is /nothing/ ethical about surrendering an opportunity to tell a human story to anything other than a human.
Cast humans as humans.
Not humans’ voices as humans, consent or otherwise — /humans/ as humans.
It’s not that hard.
“But if it’s done ethically–”
There is /nothing/ ethical about surrendering an opportunity to tell a human story to anything other than a human.
Cast humans as humans.
Not humans’ voices as humans, consent or otherwise — /humans/ as humans.
It’s not that hard.
November 29, 2025 at 9:16 AM
Fuck genAI.
“But if it’s done ethically–”
There is /nothing/ ethical about surrendering an opportunity to tell a human story to anything other than a human.
Cast humans as humans.
Not humans’ voices as humans, consent or otherwise — /humans/ as humans.
It’s not that hard.
“But if it’s done ethically–”
There is /nothing/ ethical about surrendering an opportunity to tell a human story to anything other than a human.
Cast humans as humans.
Not humans’ voices as humans, consent or otherwise — /humans/ as humans.
It’s not that hard.
The best thing about solo Thanksgiving meals is chatting with folks at the bar. Grateful for math teacher Martha and stepson David for holding me over before noms (and giving me their seat), and art teacher Ramon and graphic designer Marshall for listening to me rant about ADR!
November 28, 2025 at 7:01 AM
The best thing about solo Thanksgiving meals is chatting with folks at the bar. Grateful for math teacher Martha and stepson David for holding me over before noms (and giving me their seat), and art teacher Ramon and graphic designer Marshall for listening to me rant about ADR!
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Hey.
Kindly reminder.
Content creators are not your friends just because you like their work. You do not know who we are.
This goes double for anyone under 18; be very careful about interacting with adults.
If any adult makes you feel uncomfortable, DO NOT ENGAGE THEM. RUN.
Kindly reminder.
Content creators are not your friends just because you like their work. You do not know who we are.
This goes double for anyone under 18; be very careful about interacting with adults.
If any adult makes you feel uncomfortable, DO NOT ENGAGE THEM. RUN.
November 21, 2025 at 5:12 PM
Hey.
Kindly reminder.
Content creators are not your friends just because you like their work. You do not know who we are.
This goes double for anyone under 18; be very careful about interacting with adults.
If any adult makes you feel uncomfortable, DO NOT ENGAGE THEM. RUN.
Kindly reminder.
Content creators are not your friends just because you like their work. You do not know who we are.
This goes double for anyone under 18; be very careful about interacting with adults.
If any adult makes you feel uncomfortable, DO NOT ENGAGE THEM. RUN.