This is a little long but you can use the bullet points as a TLDR of the TLDR
I'm sick of reading and posting in the comicsgate thread because it became all about this bullshit and worse.
1. Comicsgate, used to be another thing, now is Ethan Van Sciver's club
Comicsgate in 2016-2017 was a movement/or harassment campaign depending on your side. It was made up of an assortment of twitter and youtube users fed up with certain comics creators or companies being too woke or low quality. In 2018 various Comicsgate people start to crowdfund their own comics. Ethan Van Sciver a DC comics artist of Green Lantern and Flash jumps ship and joins the Comicsgaters. By 2019-2020 he takes it over kicking or alienating all the original people by internet bloodsport. Comicsgate in 2024 is Ethan Van Sciver and his dwindling inner circle and fanclub.
2. Eric July le based black man youtuber makes capeshit
Eric July is a black libertarian ancap youtuber making similar content to Comicsgate and was friendly with them until recently. In 2022 he announces the Rippaverse, his own comic superhero universe and it makes a couple million dollars. Comicsgate/Van Sciver support it initially. Van Sciver does a variant cover for July's ISOM #2.
3. Dick & Vito hate Eric and his comics, are obsessed
Vito, a fat disgusting "comedian" from LA is crowdfunding a comic and has a podcast with Dick Masterson (The Biggest Problem in the Universe). He is the first of this group to focus on July. Before the book ISOM came out Vito was nit picking it, got trounced in a debate with July etc. Masterson made fun of Vito for being obsessed. In May 2023 Masterson reviews ISOM #1 Eric's first comic. The review is negative. Eric July flips out, refutes every point of the review declares Masterson his enemy, and starts calling him "Buster Baxter". Masterson doubles down, emboldening his fans to start mischief. Riley (fat guy who fought with Ethan Ralph when he went to Digibro's house to get Pantsu's stuff) declares himself the Clippaverse and says he will shave Eric July. July ends up DMCA striking Riley's logo and Riley shows up at July's warehouse while July is not there. Later another Dick Show fan poses and leaves some stuffed animals at Eric July's ancestor Isom Knox's grave (the forum claims he pissed on the grave but this is not likely true). Yet another troll sends an email to a ministry school called ISOM causing a lawsuit that is later settled. Eric July becomes a mainstay subject on every episode of the Dick Show and Biggest Problem in The Universe. All of this enrages July and he makes videos reacting to it.
4. Ethan Van Sciver tries to ride the fence, ends up on the wrong side. Goes full retard. Comicsgate allies with Dick & Vito in endless tard war vs July.
Masterson, Vito, July, and Van Sciver all appear on a YellowFlash2 Flashcast stream. Van Sciver tries to play both sides saying Eric should take the criticism and use it. The rest fight with Vito and Masterson who appear separately. Eric says
hell to the naw naw and sends text messages to Van Sciver after the show telling him to cut it out. Most of the anti-woke nerd youtubers side with July (except notably Rekieta) but Ethan Van Sciver is a fan of Masterson and Rekieta. Van Sciver tries to play both sides for a few weeks but starts appearing on a show called Geek Getaway that also hosts Riley, Vito, and the guy who allegedly pissed on the grave. July continues to make veiled references to Van Sciver's disloyalty in his videos. Van Sciver doxes the private conversation and does his own bad reviews of ISOM #1 and #2. At this point he has chosen a side. He makes a video with Riley and Mint Salad in person. He has Masterson, Vito, Geek Getaway, even Ethan Ralph (also a July hater) on his show. Smaller Eric July hater channels pop up, mostly all Comicsgate friendly and some get monetized. Ethan Starts "Trashcast" a show dedicated to obsessing over Eric July in the style of Masterson and the other small hater channels. He has now become full retard. Eric July on the other hand takes a step forward, stops chimping out about da haters and continues to publish comics. Van Sciver collects money for comics that ship years late and is basically ComicsGunt.
