User blog comment:Jkphantom9/Shane Newville: "An Open Letter to All Who Treasured Monty Oum"/@comment-6003266-20160512212120

Before everyone just jumps to Shane's side on this, I'd like to point out two (imo) good points made on the subreddit:

"I feel like I must remind people of who Shane is talking about he says "they". The director of RWBY Volume 3 was Kerry Shawcross with co-directors Miles Luna and Gray Haddock. Executive productors were Burnie Burns and Matt Hullum. (source is the credits to RWBY Volume 3 episode 12 on Youtube) These are all people that were very close friends with Monty, people that discussed the 10 year plus future plot of RWBY with, people that he worked on the animation of RWBY with. I really doubt that Shane and Sheena were the only people that understood what Monty wanted for RWBY's future."

"Shane may not be directly lying (that's a poor choice of wording on my part) but he's as human as the rest of us. Emotions get in the way of facts, and Shane was very emotionally invested in everything about and around RWBY, which alters his opinions and his recounting of how things went down. Also, he doesn't know what might have been going on at RT which made them make these changes, they might have had some good reasoning to do so."

Another thing that I noticed is that Shane tended to take things a bit out of proportion here. An example: At RTX, when the thanked the VAs for helping make RWBY what it is today, he seemed to have interpreted that as them not giving credit to Monty.

However, despite all of that, if this is true, the treatment of Sheena is ABSOLUTELY unacceptable.