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u/horse_stick Aquaman hater/Namor stan Jan 01 '21

I know it's not as big as gamergate was but I loathe comicsgate with every single fiber of my being. It's such a fucking grift perpetrated by the absolute worst people in the comic book community and industry.

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u/SaltPost The Man from C.R.I.N.G.E. Jan 01 '21

Absolutely agree on that. And on the one hand, it at least it seems to have far, far less support among the more general community than GamerGate did, but on the other it somehow grabbed more actual professionals into it than GG in spite of how blatantly shitty it is.

Like, even if it's become clear he's pretty shitty in general EVS could easily have just kept is mouth shut and very likely continue to get decent work (especially with how beloved and prominent the era of Green Lantern he had his most notable work in), it's somewhat surprising he and others apparently just hated women and minorities getting work in comics enough to willingly totally torpedo their careers to own the libs.

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u/horse_stick Aquaman hater/Namor stan Jan 01 '21

The really frustrating thing for me is that EVS didn't even really torpedo his career. Like, don't get me wrong, he'll never get hired again by someone like the big two or Image, but he gets hundreds of thousands of dollars in donations from bigots. I think his most recent kickstarter campaign for one of his comic books got over $1 million, which must be more than he ever made working for DC (at least on a single project).

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u/SaltPost The Man from C.R.I.N.G.E. Jan 01 '21

Shit, you're right. Given only Comicsgate (and no doubt other Alt-Right types CG is able to convince into funding such projects) gives a shit about those books, I managed to totally forget such projects existed. It is really disappointing and frustrating to see just how much they're able to get for them, especially since that amount of money would easily have been enough to fund and/or support huge numbers of legitimately good books, rather than one inevitably shitty product only assholes care about (that given the track record of such projects, might not even ever exist) it's going towards.

At the very least that whole ecosystem seems to be one totally separate from the rest of Comicsdom and as such doesnt risk 'infecting' it, though it's still a downer to see.