Careercow Wil Wheaton + Felicia Day - The "Man" who soy'd the World and the Fakest of Geek Girls, SJW sexual harassment fence-sitters

[Starscreams Cape]

Been a while since we've done a blog post update. In this one Wil flexes about being a "NY Times bestselling author".

My editor told me he had news. Still Just A Geek is on the bestselling indie bookshop list, and it’s on the New York Times hardcover nonfiction list, AND it’s in the top ten on the combined hardcover and ebook nonfiction list.

There seems to be a LOT of qualifiers there. I half expected there to be a "Most Books Sold Between Noon and Two PM During a Three Day Stretch" List. But I have no doubt there's definitely people who bought it without knowing, or perhaps precisely because, Wil's a woke sack of crap.

Of course the blog post itself is full of melodrama where Wil is giving advice to his future self. Or maybe it's his past self? I dunno, it's the same old shit.

Still surprised he hasn't weighed in on Musk buying Twitter.

https://wilwheaton.net/2022/04/i-am-a-new-york-times-bestselling-author/

 

[Archie_Kimkicker]

The real question is how much bank he gets for this new release. My money says not that much.

 

[Baggywrinkle]

Been a while since we've done a blog post update. In this one Wil flexes about being a "NY Times bestselling author".



There seems to be a LOT of qualifiers there. I half expected there to be a "Most Books Sold Between Noon and Two PM During a Three Day Stretch" List. But I have no doubt there's definitely people who bought it without knowing, or perhaps precisely because, Wil's a woke sack of crap.

Of course the blog post itself is full of melodrama where Wil is giving advice to his future self. Or maybe it's his past self? I dunno, it's the same old shit.

Still surprised he hasn't weighed in on Musk buying Twitter.

https://wilwheaton.net/2022/04/i-am-a-new-york-times-bestselling-author/

And he STILL manages to whine about his dad while bragging about how great his re-rehashed blog posts are selling in book form. He's very lucky his fans are morons and have money to burn.

 

[Water-T]

JFC - Wil is so hard up for attention and book sales that he had to drag Jerry O'Connell into his "MUH DADDY ABUSED ME!" LARPing, as if it was Jerry's fucking job to notice this and report it when he was just a fucking kid himself. Even worse, his co-star Corey Feldman was facing ACTUAL ABUSE at that time, getting passed around from one pedo exec after another under threat of never getting work again.

I swear to God, if Willie had dared to drag River Phoenix into this, I would have lost my shit, dosed him with several different drugs, then left him to die in the streets like River did.

 

[brahsparagus]

It seems that picture is just begging to be photoshopped.

So many more interesting books for him to be showing off.

Remember the scandal with that Nickelodeon writer who also wrote 'The Cuckold' ? It had a spicy poster and would be a funny shop. In fact, any romantic fiction pertaining to that particular fetish would be hilarious.

I'd do it myself in GIMP but time is money...

 

[Starscreams Cape]

@Boston Brand - Is there any way you can pull some numbers for Wil Wheaton's latest fagnum opus? I'd be curious to see.

 

[Boston Brand]

@Boston Brand - Is there any way you can pull some numbers for Wil Wheaton's latest fagnum opus? I'd be curious to see.

Absolutely. What's the title?

 

[ToroidalBoat]

mask?!

Are "face masks" part of the "official soy look" now?

 

[Mola Ram]

Absolutely. What's the title?

Still Just a Geek: An Annotated Memoir. Publisher William Morrow.

 

[Boston Brand]

Bon Appetit!

Oof. Those are awful numbers. And that drop off...

He's being outsold by that Trans author who write the JK Rowling murder porn Tor had to leak copies to Fandom Menace types to get anyone to pay attention to it, and the Janelle Monae anthology that Harper Voyager sank at least a million dollars on barely to break 5,000 copies on release.

You guys have no idea how much desperate spin is being done in trad publishing right now because a lot of their woke tentpoles are bombing.

 

[Starscreams Cape]

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Oof. Those are awful numbers. And that drop off...

He's being outsold by that Trans author who write the JK Rowling murder porn Tor had to leak copies to Fandom Menace types to get anyone to pay attention to it, and the Janelle Monae anthology that Harper Voyager sank at least a million dollars on barely to break 5,000 copies on release.

You guys have no idea how much desperate spin is being done in trad publishing right now because a lot of their woke tentpoles are bombing.

When Wil was hyping up those dodgy "bestselling lists" he was on I had a feeling something wasn't right. Thank you for being our bloodhound.

If you see in that blog post about this he made it sound like there was a room full of execs who were there to break the "good news". Either, as you say, they are so desperate they're performing these types of charades or they were all having a huge laugh at Wil's expense - hitting the mute button while the room was full of gales of laughter. As much as I'd like to want it to be the latter I'm sure it's the former.

 

[Idiot Asshole]

Is he wearing a shirt that says 'Dad Religion ' and then has a hand flipping the bird in a circle? Talk about broadcasting your issues...

Everything about this picture is awful. All the childish games and toys in the background. The "Fuck You Dad!" t-shirt a middle-aged child is wearing. The same middle-aged child is wearing a mask, but is clearly soy grimacing into the camera. His graying and unkempt facial hair. The book he's holding off which is giving me immense "How do you do fellow geeks?" vibes. Even if I knew nothing about Wil Wheaton and this picture is the first thing I saw of him, I'd never want to be in the same building as him because he comes across as so shallow and annoying.

A few days late but it's a reference to the 80s punk band Bad Religion whose logo is a crossed out cross. They got commercial success in the pop-punk boom in the mid-90s so it's no surprise that there's a shirt out there pandering to millennial manchildren who would've digged them and their euphoric lyrics at the time and some of whom are (horrifyingly) fathers now. Of course Wil is about ten years older than them so him wearing a piece of 90s teen nostalgia paraphernalia comes off as even more pathetic and manchild-ish but that's Wil for you, even among the soy-golems he still stands out as been irredeemably lame.

 

[Boston Brand]

When Wil was hyping up those dodgy "bestselling lists" he was on I had a feeling something wasn't right. Thank you for being our bloodhound.

If you see in that blog post about this he made it sound like there was a room full of execs who were there to break the "good news". Either, as you say, they are so desperate they're performing these types of charades or they were all having a huge laugh at Wil's expense - hitting the mute button while the room was full of gales of laughter. As much as I'd like to want it to be the latter I'm sure it's the former.

If that's true, he's absolutely lying. No executive gives a rats ass about the Bestsellers lists, beyond rare marketing potential.

Most weeks, the threshold to make the NYT Bestseller list is usually between 3-6k books in a week. That's it. And those numbers are usually pumped up thanks to libraries and what not. More than half of the books that make the list only make the list for a week, and then struggle to sell half as many books for the next year... and plenty of other books never make the list, but will routinely sell a few hundred books a week for months and will boast sales numbers that dwarf many "Bestsellers".

Publicists and Egotists are the only people to whom the bestsellers lists matter. Not shocked Westley is the latter.

 

[obsdj]

Oof. Those are awful numbers. And that drop off...

He's being outsold by that Trans author who write the JK Rowling murder porn Tor had to leak copies to Fandom Menace types to get anyone to pay attention to it, and the Janelle Monae anthology that Harper Voyager sank at least a million dollars on barely to break 5,000 copies on release.

How many of those "sales" are bookstores, libraries, that sort of thing?

 

[Newman's Lovechild]

He's being outsold by that Trans author who write the JK Rowling murder porn Tor had to leak copies to Fandom Menace types to get anyone to pay attention to it

That sounds like something I'd like to hear more about. Has anyone posted a rundown on the farms?

 

[Mola Ram]

That sounds like something I'd like to hear more about. Has anyone posted a rundown on the farms?

Ask and ye shall receive. It's called Manhunt. The synopsis:

Y: The Last Man meets The Girl With All the Gifts in Gretchen Felker-Martin's MANHUNT, an explosive post-apocalyptic novel that follows trans women and men on a grotesque journey of survival.

Beth and Fran spend their days traveling the ravaged New England coast, hunting feral men and harvesting their organs in a gruesome effort to ensure they'll never face the same fate.

Robbie lives by his gun and one hard-learned motto: other people aren't safe.

After a brutal accident entwines the three of them, this found family of survivors must navigate murderous TERFs, a sociopathic billionaire bunker brat, and awkward relationship dynamics―all while outrunning packs of feral men, and their own demons.

Manhunt is a timely, powerful response to every gender-based apocalypse story that failed to consider the existence of transgender and non-binary people, from a powerful new voice in horror.

And the delicate flower of womanhood who authored this timely, powerful masterpiece:



Gonna go out on a limb and say this isn't going to dethrone Lord of the Rings, Dune, or anything by Stephen King or Anne Rice any time soon.

 

[Penne Dreadful]

That sounds like something I'd like to hear more about. Has anyone posted a rundown on the farms?

There's a thread going through it in Art and Literature.

 

[Flexo]

Ask and ye shall receive. It's called Manhunt. The synopsis:



And the delicate flower of womanhood who authored this timely, powerful masterpiece:

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Gonna go out on a limb and say this isn't going to dethrone Lord of the Rings, Dune, or anything by Stephen King or Anne Rice any time soon.

It sounds like a parody Mel Brooks would have written to make fun of those people.

 

[Flaming Insignias]

Wil's up to his normal whining on tumblr, Twitter buyout edition.

 

[obsdj]

Of course Little Willy is a Tumblroo.