Is there somewhere I could read a good, relatively brief account of what Comicsgate was all about because I have no fucking clue?
Back in the 2010s, there were a bunch of older people reading mainstream comics who got mad and vocal about how bad & political the content was. Because the internet was a thing, they started interacting on various platforms with people working in comics. They didn't get along.
Around 2017, these people started migrating to youtube and doing video reviews of comics. The reviews got alot of views and attention and got comics pros on the left angry.
Then a really stupid ex-marine (Richard C. Meyer) who had been trying to break into comics for years started doing videos and they really took off in terms of attention. He was also doing his own comic book (Jawbreakers). The political hysteria over Trump got people on both sides even more ramped up. Then a comics pro (Mark Waid) called into Meyer's publisher and got the publisher to drop the book. This caused a lawsuit and it also caused Meyer to get alot more funding.
They called it "comicsgate" because it was supposed to be like "gamergate" only there was no real scandal like there was with gamergate.
Richard C. Meyer had been interacting with comics pro Ethan Van Sciver. Ethan saw the attention and money that Richard was making and saw it as a good deal to get into. So he quit his mainstream comics job and started doing indy comics. Several other people with professional backgrounds in comics also got involved.
The comicsgate people would do crowdfunded comics. People would pay up-front for the comic and then the comic would be created over several months and released. Comicsgate was supposed to be this collective movement to create better comics than the mainstream publishers were creating. The movement was supposed to be about fighting the SJWs in comics.
But at about exactly six months into comicsgate being a thing (Summer 201

, everything started blowing up. It turned out that while comicsgate could define what it stood against, it could not agree at all about what it stood for.
There were several years of purges, purity testing, loyalty testing and so on that followed. Nearly everyone who was initially in the movement is long gone. Comicsgate today amounts to nothing more than a group of comics people that Ethan Van Sciver is on good terms with at the moment. And Ethan Van Sciver is a drama machine who constantly feuds with other people.
As far as the comics comicsgate produced, none of them were any good. They were all massively expensive and often took years to produce. People were giving them enough money to not work regular jobs and it would still take years to produce a 48 page comic. Other people in the movement just took the money and never delivered anything.
Comicsgate quickly turned into a movement that produced streaming shows rather than comics. The comics became promotional merchandise that people bought to support the shows. They became like a tshirt or a mug.
To the extent that comicsgate is anything today, its just a name that a group of people used to be invested in many years ago. All the feuds and the in-fighting live on though. Everyone in the movement is mentally trapped in 2019 and doomed to fight over the events of that year forever.