EVS saying this sort of thing is like Anime Lawyer wishing you a million dollars. It's passive-aggressive bitch-made misdirection. EVS negs the fuck out of people and talks out both sides of his mouth, so he can pretend to be the good guy and re-write the narrative. Only tards fall for it repeatedly(his audience is now 100% tard).
Take DougT: EVS knew Doug was way more talented, hard working, and conservative. He needed to get rid of him.
STEP 1: The love-bomb: "I love Doug, go buy his comic everyone!"
STEP 2: Find something to bitch about, no matter how tenuous: "Wow, Doug was on a panel talking about his DECADES of comic crowd-funding experience and he didn't even thank me, EVS for being the sole reason for his success! He's being disloyal, guys! Doug would have lost his house and probably died in a ditch without our help and he STABBED ME IN THE BACK."
STEP 3: Now there are 2 ways things can go. The tards have been whipped into a frenzy of anger against the target. Either the target tries to mend the fences, leading to apologies, humiliation and a loss of clout relative to EVS in the eyes of the tards, or he tells EVS to fuck off, which is confirmation to the tards that he was guilty of backstabbing. DougT chose option 2 and told EVS to fuck off. This caused a mass-refund of his book by the tards, which almost did put him in a ditch.
The same strat was used on Nerkish and Lim, who also told EVS to fuck off.
Creators with lesser spines or financial security often simply groveled to the fat man.
Now though, his army of tards grows thin, and with them his leverage is diminished. He can no longer love-bomb or refund-bomb someone effectively. People can now safely ignore his sperging.