Karli Walker

VA 🎙 Commercials | Character | she/her

[Karli Walker @karliwalkerVO]

I booked my first NATIONAL commercial campaign 🤩🎉

A BIG thank you to Lisa at Impressive Talent for getting me this audition 🫶
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#voiceacting #commercialvoiceover #nationalcommercial

[Karli Walker @karliwalkerVO]

I need “Nick Fuentes was the warning shot” on a pin, stat.

[Karli Walker @karliwalkerVO]

The remake of #UntilDawn has brought back so many memories of Supermassive Games’ scenes. I still can’t get over Brenda Song’s performance in #TheQuarry 🐺🌲

[Karli Walker @karliwalkerVO]

In light of twitter’s impending TOS changes, I’m going to be more active…elsewhere. You know where. You know what to do 🫡

[EmmaLlama 💀🖋 Vtuber @TheEmmaLlama]

My heart goes out to every woman who has come forward about their experiences in FFXIV in the last few days.

It’s alien and absurd to think that some of the things we’ve had to deal with for years now has been normalised as “just drama” or has been downplayed by people in the raiding scene to the point where heinous shit happens to us and we’re too afraid to mention it because of the backlash we’d get from the perpetrators friends and the raiding community as a whole for “starting stuff.”

I’ve been sent sexts and dick pics on the day of joining a static MORE THAN ONCE just because I’m a woman.

I’ve been flirted with aggressively during raid time when I’m literally just there to raid, as if it’s a dating meetup just because I’m a single woman.

I’ve been kicked from a static before because I turned down another static member’s advances (who happened to be the raid leaders best friend). I was told by that raid leader that I was kicked from the group for “making things weird” by saying no to the guy asking me if I wanted to be his girlfriend.

I’ve been stalked both ingame and IRL by a guy from a static I was in because I didn’t send him nudes when he asked for it.

When I turned down advances from a man in a static that is a STRANGER to me, he then secretly tracked and followed me around ingame on an alt to see who I emoted to and talked to so he could then /tell them lies about how I’m a bitch he had to kick from a static because I was demanding all the loot go to me.

A man from a static I was in harassed me ingame to the extent he was suspended for several days by a GM when I reported it yet he told any mutual friends we had left that it was no big deal and was just a mix up, and they all believed him over me.

One guy in a static I was in would harass me constantly and say the harassment was training for me to become his “yandere wife” in the future despite me telling him I didn’t want to date him.

In the FIRST EVER static I joined, I was love bombed by a guy in it when he found out I was single until it escalated to the point he mailed me sex toys covered in his own semen for me to “play with” despite me turning him down and even having him blocked at that point.

Writing this all out you must be thinking “woah she’s been in a lot of statics for this all to happen” but no, this is across like 6 statics from ARR to ShB.

Over the years I just dealt with this shit, never really saying much about it, not even to my best friends, because I thought it was a one off case or there was something wrong with me because I let those events affect me, but to hear that so many other women have gone through similar things is just so heartbreaking.

When I thought it was just me, somehow I rationalised it as being no big deal when in truth it is. It is a big deal. And its heartbreaking how common is it and how common it is for us women to feel like we can’t say anything.

This is why I don’t try join new statics anymore despite loving to raid hardcore. I’ve been raid leader of my own team for the last two expacs because I feel unsafe if I apply to a strangers team, unsafe that one of these events will happen again and that I’ll be the one kicked and punished for it. Like I can’t trust anyone else to “be in charge” of the group because what if they enable this shit yet again.

We don’t just have to worry about whether the team we’re applying to matches what we’re looking for in terms of skill or commitment, we have to worry about SO much more.

To all the people who’ve had to “put up” with these kinds of things, my heart goes out to you truly. You deserve better and I hope the dialogue around this issue in the FFXIV community is something that stays open forever, so it doesn’t take one big event every 5 expansions for us to feel safe to ask for help.

It shouldn’t be regarded as “nothing major” or “drama” when a female raider brings up this occurring in the static she’s in to people involved with that static.

YOU deserve better than that.

[Melissa Medína @melissamedinavo]

My whole perspective changed as a Voice Actor a few years ago after realizing that actors get paid more per hour than pretty much everyone on a project. Director's hourly rate is often lower, Casting too, Writers get paid less, Project Managers, Schedulers, & the Audio Engineer gets paid the least per hour despite doing the most tedious work & cleaning up after the actor & director.

So when actors complain about little things like formatting of scripts, time of day, traffic, show up late or show up with ego, decide to be hard to work with or think they know better than the director...think about how that might be received.

I think people assume these roles get paid more, I know I did, because of the influence & power that comes with some of those roles. And yes the rates eventually go up, at least for Directors & Engineers because they get more sessions than actors. But bigger projects don't use the same Director or Engineer for every session either so they may split the work among several.

I know some TV show-runners who got paid less than their actors & cast themselves in their project just to get some decent pay & have some fun. The Show-runner.

Now that our studio is developing a game & has provided full Audio Production for quite a few games & animations, it's even more amazing to me how these things get made at all!

So the LEAST Actors can do is realize it's not about you. You get to show up, have fun, & leave while others clean up your stuff & make something out of it. So show up, be respectful, work hard, & realize your expectations & experience are not the only thing that matters. You're a collaborator, a small part of a whole process that came before you & will continue after you. And that's beautiful, considering how many people don't get to play for a living. Enjoy it.

[Karli Walker @karliwalkerVO]

Moreover, two people who spoke against him in court were discovered to have been paid 10k each to do so, lying under oath. Does this sound like a fair trial to you? Do the right thing. #MarcellusWilliams

[Karli Walker @karliwalkerVO]

@GovParsonMO there is no DNA evidence linking Marcellus Williams to the murder he was accused and convicted of. BOTH prosecution AND the victim’s family have asked you to take him off death row. Do the right thing.

[Karli Walker @karliwalkerVO]

@CuiCui48 Baby’s first national commercial 🫡

[Karli Walker @karliwalkerVO]

I booked my first NATIONAL commercial campaign 🤩🎉

A BIG thank you to Lisa at Impressive Talent for getting me this audition 🫶
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#voiceacting #commercialvoiceover #nationalcommercial

[Karli Walker @karliwalkerVO]

@MoullietMVP Thanks Al!

[Karli Walker @karliwalkerVO]

Y’all, we did like 7 of these

[Karli Walker @karliwalkerVO]

@NygaardSimon 👏👏 thanks Simon!

[Karli Walker @karliwalkerVO]

Episode 3 of Phobos is out!! 😘🎮

[DOOM 3: Phobos @Doom3Phobos]

Episode 3 is out! 🥳 https://t.co/iHIF3mJVEl

[Karli Walker @karliwalkerVO]

@Neopets is it true you can help people find their old accounts?

[Karli Walker @karliwalkerVO]

Help protect against dubbing job loss due to AI! https://t.co/OfiBagmP74

[Karli Walker @karliwalkerVO]

@jordanreyn I got great communication. They even held my booth in a warehouse for a month bc I ended up moving the same time it was ready. Definitely need to walk that email back and offer clarification though

[Karli Walker @karliwalkerVO]

@jordanreyn Agree that it was poorly written but I too actually read the email and understood that it was not pro AI. And I also am not one to refute people’s experiences. I believe them if they felt they got poor customer service. I was a surprised to hear that though bc…

[Karli Walker @karliwalkerVO]

@MisterKeyrock @JuneYoon_ I always love the “walking back” argument as if that’s not how science is supposed to work with a new thing we don’t have all the information for. Team Yoon all the way

[Karli Walker @karliwalkerVO]

@alexmitarpx Hi Alex, you can find my commercial demo on my website - https://t.co/QrgAEEJi1o. Thanks!

[Todd Spence @Todd_Spence]

A lovely story about Paul Reubens: When I worked at Jimmy Kimmel Live, my friend was in charge of prepping the green room for guests, being on hand in case they needed anything during their visit (food requests, working the TV, etc) and tonight Paul Reubens would be there... 🧵