This Girl Lied About Working with Studio Ghibli and Ruined EVERYTHING 

hi, I am a Brazilian civil engineer and I actually slept with Miyazaki during the production of Spirited Away.

You know the Titanic? I filmed all of it live in person and then hand delivered it to James Cameron telling him to make a movie about it.

I'm from South America, I was waiting for this Joey, thank you. 😭😂

She's a graphic designer for a company that produces architectural glass. How could she even have ANY experience related to animating?? She's a real 🥜-case 😭

Noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo, the first time Joey talks about my country and is about GERALDINE?! NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO Joey, to be fair, the story was only supported by media outlets, I suspect the company to where she was working was the one pushing the story. But people online in Colombia were already suspecting what was happening and were in fact the first ones to called it fake

I never imagined I would see this article on Joey's channel. In Spanish this story has so much content, so many facepalms... definitely a fanfiction in her mind.

In Latin America we have been memeing her for a month. Anyway, its even more cringe than the article says - SHe lied on her resume to get a Job (as graphic designer) at TecnoGlass - When the movie was nomiated to the OScars, Tecnoglass decided to make a small promo feature of her. She literally couldnt lie so she went with it. Its a whole ass corporate video talking about how tecnoglass hires talents, the CEO and her boss talk about how proud they are to have emerging Colombian Talent working for them - The video went viral, local press started to interview her, she was in Colombian newspapers! - A university decided to PAY HER to speak to future animators - Real animators started to suspect she wasnt telling the truth since the language she uses wasnt technical for animation (She said drawings, but never talked about inbetween, fotograms, etc). - When the twitch streamer interviewes her so she had her "right to reply" and defend the acusations, he asked her to show her best drawings she had at hand. After all she said she hand drew 200.000 "drawings" (she called them that instead of fotograms) so he asked if he had a hand drawing she could show. She proceeded to take a school notebook, with doddles and drawings much like the ones the quiet anime emo kid used to draw in the back of the class at 15 yr old. Meaning, not bad, but not profesional grade by no means. When he said "Those are your best drawings?" SHe started to stutter and said, "welll yeah this is just a sketchbook and Its a quick draw I did" She was ultimately fired from Technoglass, and went in hiding like Joey said In spanish, there are a lot of memes that dont quite translate as well or as funny. THe boy and the hare is called "El Niño y la Garza" in spanish. And she was memed to theath with the phrase "La niña y la Farsa" (the girl and the lie)

Compulsive liars are wild. I can't imagine willingly putting yourself in a position like this and then just continuing to dig the grave deeper and deeper

Each time she talked again about this, she fucked up a lot more

As an unemployed graphic designer, I'm beyond appalled. She among gods knows how many others are the reason why it's damn near impossible to get an honest job. Sweetie, clout is earned, not given. Just sayin.

As a colombian, i feel embarrased...

25,000 frames for 10 seconds. That's some very detailed animation... Completely unrelated, but the most anime ever gets up to is 24 frames/second and that is pretty uncommon, reserved for fast paced action scenes. Most scenes in anime are 12-16fps, but they've developed work arounds so you don't notice it. Ever notice how static most conversation scenes are? Or how there's a lot of walking scenes that show the legs as little as possible?

Colombian resident here. This story was a big boom. The reason why a lot of people straight up just believed it is because Anime (Or animation in general) is not as popular over here (the cinema where I watched the movie was almost entirely empty, and was one of the smallest cinemas in the city). Peope just don't care too much about it, sadly. For people who actually like anime, I'd say it was clear that something was fishy. For once, the 25,000 frames was clearly bullshit. The girl never ever showed drawings either (which is insane to me). The main fault of this directly falls on the media outlets that decided to spread missinformation like they had found the chicken of the golden eggs. Again, animation is not a big part of Colombian culture so its understandable that they didn't know anything about it, but their mistake was just deciding to publish the information and do the interviews without even considering the possibility of them lying.

what a bizarre situation, being from Colombia and watching joey cover some silly news from my country 🤣🤣🤣. btw, when that happened everyone was memeing on her and I think it actually gave the movie a big local publicity boost.

Omg Joey you didn't see the videos of her trying to speak Japanese with the most basic phrases. This was bad, its kinda wild seeing this covered by English speakers, much more ones so far away from LatAm

Yeah, I’ve seen this floating around a few times. The biggest clue was when they used the words “Miyazaki” and “affectionately” in the same sentence.

The thing is that she even got paid to give conferences in univerities and even lied about being able to speak japanese xDDD

the fact that in the interview, she said that Miyazaki was proud of her, everyone knew that was false haha knowing that Miyazaki doesn't even respect his own son

As a Colombian and artist myself, I feel so embarrassed ahjwj 😭 hasta pena ajena me dio 🤣🤣 It was worse that the media fell on her lies and her fully wrong explanations about animation had me dying inside..

The movie is called El Niño y la Garza in Spanish, they're memeing her saying La Niña y la Farsa (the girl and the farce)

Regarding the way "they communicated" she said in an interview that she and the production spoke in a mix of japanese and english, she then proceeds to say the most basic ass japanese words like "ohayo gozaimasu" and "arigato gozaimasu" to prove she was fluent in japanese haha, in every interview she just lied more and more, it was hilarous, you can probably find clips on of her interviews.

my theory is that she bullshited some of this to her employer (i studied at the 東大!) and kept doubling down and adding more bullshit (I worked at Ghibli!) until her employer decided that she would be good publicity for his company and at this point she was too scared to get caught lying that she kept going on and the rest is history.

My daily dose of japanese moistkritical

As part of Latin America, I am ashamed of her at the same time that I am ashamed of the media that gave her the platform for speaking without a quick research beforehand, SMH.

Surprised Joey didn't cover this sooner, greetings from Mexico. ✌😎

NDA: Can't talk about it but will do interviews. Also even if Studio Ghibli decided to change their animation style; At 60 frames per second, that's over 400minutes of material.

I never ended up getting a job with my BA in graphic design even though I was applying for jobs for something like 15 months. And then there's people like this who just straight up lie and steal on their portfolios. Glad I'm not part of that hustle anymore. I still love art but the competition is too intense. Sending love to any other artists reading this.

As a graduating animation student , that girl has no clue about animation at all. The girl couldn't even do a proper ball animation during the interview. If she couldn't even bounce a ball, how could she animate 25 000 frames of the film, spoiler; she cant. The ball exercise is essential even for a veteran animator to practice. And also that amount of frames for one person is absurd, even for anime industry standards. The movie I have seen with the most frames was The Thief and The Cobbler and it was 48 frames per second which was admittedly more than the average amount of frames but still 2500 frames per second...idk what she was thinking. Probably not at all. And I love how folks instantly bought it without a single thought. And without asking for proof or process work. Sure it can depend on contract HOWEVER she could've displayed her own personal work which she did not. First she she claimed to be an illustrator, then it was animator. Couldn't even tell the difference between illustrator and animator. And I love how she cant keep up with consistency in her own lie. You also know its bs when she claimed that Miyazaki praised her. He wouldn't do that for his own son but he would for a complete stranger, suuuuuuuuure!

I don't think they quite had _this_ in mind when people generally say "fake it until you make it".

Wow I'm surprised this news is still spreading,I'm from Mexico,and yeah these news about "la Colombiana" were huge, I also started doubting this woman as soon she started saying that she was friends with Miyazaki,also from what I remember she claimed that she worked on the first MINUTES of the movie,not seconds,oh and also,it was confirmed that the company she worked for, fired her after this whole deal was revealed to be nothing but lies

We can confirm that Joey can, in fact, divide by 10 with a calculator

When you're too much of a weeb, you start to believe the anime you watch is made by you.

As a Colombian, she got turned into public joke of the country

As someone who just entered the animation industry, this story freaking hurts my brain.

I remember that, it became a meme for weeks in the spanish speaking anime community.

Oh my god, I'm from Latam and the amount of clowning made to her at that time was monumental. I still feel really sorry for her though.

It's tragic to see someone go to such lengths for recognition and utterly ruin their credibility in the process. It's a harsh lesson on honesty and integrity.

Not only she ruined her life career, she also embarrased her country in the eyes of the international anime culture. Well, this is gonna be seared into my memories for a long long time whenever I visit Colombia now.

Not Joey talking about "La Colombiana", this just makes it worse lol

Thanks for the video, i might add that she claimed she was scouted by Ghibli given that her art style was recognized as similar to the studio´s by her colleagues and professors at her own Art Phd at Tokyo University. In my inner circle of friends some have gone to Japan to study and are working to further their education in there. For them, her claim to have assisted to a art postgraduate course at Tokyo University was another element of her narrative that made no sense, given that Tokyo U does not have any career related to arts. She used an stolen image of a Japanese degree to support her title.

I just realized Joey had two channels (I'm subscribed to both). I sometimes wondered, why was it not TheAnimeMan anymore. I'm fucking stupid smh.

A correction for Joey, deviantart didn't only have fanmade stuff xD there were (and some still are) many artists posting artworks of their own stories, after the page changed layout tho (and now with using posts from its database to train AI and allowing posts made with AI) many left the page

im from Chile and yes, this news was EVERYWHERE like a month ago, like EVERYWHERE

It's crazy that someone would lie about something like that. I personally was VERY fortunate to be able to work on the boy and heron with my personal hero Hayao Miyazaki. We'd often brush elbows as I did remote work from the states and he'd often refer to me as "whitie". It's a time of my life I'll never forget.

hi im the missing son of that girl and hayao miyazaki

to be quite honest, the work that she did make herself, in her own sketchbook , that she proudly showed of on that stream..... was reallly not up to par with someone even getting into the animation parts of art academys ..... let alone anywere CLOSE to someone working for an actual animation studio. and its kinda insulting to all artists that she just tried to lie to get her 15minutes of fame instead of actually putting time and effort into developing her art.

As a latino, yeah this was pretty big in all latin america. A lot of youtubers and animators on twitter were really shocked by this and it got a lot of fuzz. Fun fact, during this incident the girl made some ads for a engineering institute like telling a story of success, that is why she's wearing a white helmet, lmao.

como esperaba que esta noticia llegue a Joey, dude, geraldine being like "oh boy, ive got a story for you"

Actually it was a part of a glass company advertising where as a joke she said in the ad "I've worked in Gibli"... but things got out of hands.

“Every lie we tell incurs a debt to the truth. And. sooner or later, the debt is paid.” Btw, Your spanish pronunciation is not that bad (.w.)/

Taking "fake it 'till you make it" to a whole new level.

It feels weird to hear Joey talk about LA COLOMBIANA, and it was a wild ride lmao

Spanish speaking girl here 🙋‍♀Oh Joey, you have no idea the rabbit hole I went into when all this was happening, I'd love to sit with you and show you all her interviews and podcasts and twitch streams, SHIT. WAS. WILD. lol

Colombian here, yeah we bullied and made a mockery out of her, honestly im more ashamed of sharing nationality with that girl than any stereotype lol. Also, it's surprising how many colombians watch Joey haha. Que hubo parceros?

Colombia mentioned, but why did it have to be because of this....

Taking “fake it til you make it”, a bit too far

During the prusso-japanese war in 1912, my great-great- grandfather reported in his journal that he was talking to a japanese person so basically I am the heir of the Ghibli legacy

Just to clarify, as a business owner and former admissions interviewer.....this girl would likely be rejected on the first round. Few things piss us off more than a totally lack of integrity. Lying about being an animator? For what?! I had a job applicant lie about being in a British soccer team, while being a full time student in America.

Oh boy a Joey video notification! I wonder what's the topic to- ... Yo no hablo inglés, no tengo idea que dices y jamas he visto esta mujer en mi vida.

And when we were starting to forget about this here in Colombia, Joey appeared to restart the fire xd

Random Japanese here. I work as an English conversation teacher in Tokyo and several years ago I had a student who was working as a layout artist in Ghibli. She was a very talented young lady, and since I'm a big Ghibli fan she'll tell me about the stuff that happens at the studio, the amount of drawings she had to work on, etc. She DID mention that while she was working there she did have the chance to SEE Miyazaki sensei, but TALK with him? Interact with him, hand in hand? Nah. Sadly she's no longer taking English lessons, but it would have been somewhat interesting if I had the chance to tell her this story...

"La colombianaaaaaaa!" This has been a riot for months

I’m from colombia I really disliked the local news media how easily fall for a scam.

It's now going to get out but I also worked on boy and the heron. I did 240 frames. Sure I don't have any animation experience but trust me bro. I worked with Miyazaki but my name isn't in the credits 😂

Hand in hand work? Sounds like a real Tommy Tallerico claim. 😂

It is funny how my wife recently worked as an animator for a movie and when they watched prerelease version, some people were not in the credits, lol. But some people who worked for a few weeks, instead of over a year, were :D hopefully they fixed it for a full release. Also she got promoted as a team lead in credits (they had a lot of small teams, and you adjust ypur colors and style to the lead, lead adjusts to the people who draw for a boss :) ). Frame people almost never met the bosses and there was no chance at being friendly friends with studio heads :) Studio in Poland though, and it was an interesting foreign job as it was mixed remote/local thing. Also, imdb exists. Studio made a page for a .ovie and adedd all artists listed for it. I winder how lies got no cheking, do japanese not list their animators?

As a Colombian.. I am so ashamed. My parents are both graphic designers and I legit nod my head ):

Bro lmao no way Colombian here

Did you know: I worked on one billion gajillion frames of the hit anime Megamind 2

Seems like she tried to pull off an Elizabeth Holmes to me. Lie till you majke it. Just that she was exposed very much earlier on, because her lies already had 0 credibility by ripping off other people's works or making statements that can super easily be checked and falsified. Honestly, Idk why you would destroy your own career by making such blatant lies in the age of the internet, where people can quickly exchange and fact check information. Pretty pathetic.

I was waiting for this, I'm Colombian.

I feel like this could have been a massive power move if done right. She got this overnight fame. It would have been such a bombshell if on the twitch stream she announced "yeah it was a lie, i didn't really work on the movie. I did all this for attention to promote myself as an artist." and have a decent portfolio to offer. but she shot herself in the foot by only showing off stolen artwork. She even said she was a graphic designer, she could have landed herself a better job.

As a Colombian this hurts to hear

it's about yesterday, or 2-3 days ago i watched a video about hayao miyazaki hates western foreigner (america)....

Silver line of the story: nice to see Joey has a good Colombian audience. Eso parceritos 🇨🇴🙌🏼

You know the pixar movie Cars, Cars 2 and Cars 3? Yeah I was the one driving all of them, at the same time.

Omg my art nerd side actually heard about this before my anime nerd side 😮 crazy story, as a graphic designer myself, damn girl, humble urself & work on your craft… no need for all this nonesense

All LatAm viewers coming out for this chisme

Columbians in the comments beong embaraced for their country😂😂

I mean, she clearly is in the wrong for lying, but taking into account the scope of this case, the ones to blame are the media. Imagine you post a tik-tok saying that you worked in a very famous movie without showing any evidence whatsoever, and a few days later you lie appears in the most important newspaper in your country taken as a fact. As a Colombian, I don´t care at all about her or what she did, but the fact that some of the most important journalism companies in the country do such a poor job at corroborating their information is honestly demoralizing.

I was on the location scouting crew for the Martian. Most difficult part was the 1 year space travel before we could land on Mars

Hi, I'm a candy store owner and back in 1735 I sold a candy bar to Miyazaki's grandpa which gave em the motivation for "boy in the harem"

She actually. said she worked on the entire first 10 minutes of the movie. She even said "the Colombian opens the movie!". Dude, Miyazaki not even likes his son and he is going to like her as a mentor or something? Please.

5:11 no way joey using a calculator for 25000/10

yeah, Im from Chile and it was a Huge mess, all anime fans where like " It´s obviously a scam!" and the Colombian news keep reporting her as true, until a Streamer related to anime exposed her

She’s a graphic designer, why am I not surprised? Not only are they self advertising in random people’s stream chats and social media DM’s, but now they’re also trying to scam people irl.

Un poco tarde pero se aprecia 💝

- So actually you lied! - Not at all! It was just a bad faith exercise.

I'm a graphic designer in corporate world for 19 years now + lived in Japan before, learning Japanese language & culture. Just want to say, this Geraldine is giving graphic designers a bad rep name, while seeking fame latching unto Studio Ghibli. I suspect this is her delusional, sloppy way of advertising herself to Miyazaki - to hire her 😅. I doubt Geraldine went to the University of Tokyo - if she has, she would be fluent in Japanese + know inherently how Japanese speak & talk, especially about work + more aware of the hidden dos & don'ts of working/living in Japan + adapting Japanese style of illustration, including manga which is one of the core forms of Japanese art. She doesn't check any of criteria boxes mentioned here, period.

Hayao Miyazaki: i need 25 000 frames for this 10 second clip Studio Ghibli: But..but... That's impossible sir! Our staff can't possibly make that many frames. We don't need to make that many frame for- Hayao Miyazaki: enough! Contact... The Columbian. How shit goes down in her head probably .

Regular Colombian, overbragging about what they dreamed last night. Typical. I used to work with software product support. Colombian calls has a 25 minute grace, while everybody else had 10 minutes. Comes to show that everyone in LATAM know they are $TμP¡D to the core. And yes, I am waiting for the replies to prove the point further.

Animation in film is 24fps. You can animate on 2's and 3's for most scenes with fast or fluid action being animated on 1's. Even if she was animating on 1's, 10 seconds of runtime equates to 240 individual frames/cels. Not 25,000. The pure, concentrated ignorance pulsing through this woman is the most offensive thing about her. Flabbergasting.

let's just say that after she lied to her friends and stuff, at the first sign of a reporter asking questions, she should of immediately said, "OK this is getting out of hand, i was just bullshitting my friends, this is a prank that has gone too far, sorry for your wasted time." and it would have been the end of that. but now she ain't know as "the colombian", she is known as "the liar".

Saying you did 25000 frames on a studio ghibli project is like randomly telling people you can bench press over a million pounds. Like…it’s such a cartoonish and bold face lie you can’t help but imagine the person who told it was an idiot

The amount of memes from this situation was marvelous. Imagine that "fustrated miyasaki" photo and a text template saying "Mr Miyazaki, here is the coffee made by the colombian girl"

Imagine if she didn't lie and actually worked. She could've actually achieved that goal.

You know no face from spirted away? The character was based off me 😔. The production crew even begged me to voice the character, and I politely refused out of the kindness of my heart to allow other smaller voice actors have a chance. 😊

It’s definitely embarrassing for the Colombian press that didn’t do something as basic as fact checking her story and going head first to her lies just for some “representation” piece.

The joke in Spanish: The boy and the heron/ El niño y la garza/ now they call her "La niña y la farsa" (the girl and the farce) The joke in Japanese: the original name of the movie is "How do you live?", now, for her, we gonna call it "How are you going to live tomorrow?"

I always questioned how someone can just keep rolling with it,fully aware that your lies has holes in it and that you would be caught at some point. Like I get that some people are stupid but this is just another level of it god dam,like Joeys right she could have just stopped at "I worked on the film",like I'm genuinely baffled that she kept going and kept adding more unbelievable stuff to the lie,like was she purposely gambling her life or something?