>>57926626
>SAG-AFTRA
SAG-AFTRA continually rejected offers that already gave AI protections because they wanted ridiculous increases in salary. The thing about SAG-AFTRA is that they act less like a union and more like the shittiest talent agency imaginable, they have a near complete monopoly on the US acting industry and they only backed down recently because the actors they represent were getting desperate.

With Genshin Impact in particular, the game was never actually a union project because it's illegal for the Chinese developer to sign agreements with foreign unions, SAG knew this and still tried to strongarm the game into becoming a union project. It was never a part of the strike but rather it was a collective effort by SAGfags in the game to turn it into a union game. What's really disgusting is that both in and out of Genshin a lot of SAG actors are huge jackasses that harass non-union members and try to get them blacklisted from the industry in order to get them to become union. In particular, Paimon and Keqing got recasted because their VAs harassed the new Kinich VA calling him a scab. All of this has resulted in Mihoyo (who were already hiring more outside of the US) silently choosing to not hire union anymore, which hurts American VAs because of this predatory union.

SAG and its members have had a long history of shitty behavior throughout this strike and before that, here's an hour long video explaining everything.
>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6NVgwS2IbLA