Last time I checked up on Comicsgate, which was years ago, Eric July was a rising star who seemed quite chill.
Is it possible to get an at least somewhat short breakdown of how he became the target of, well, whoever it is that has beef with him (I thought he was a favourite in the Comicsgate-crowd)?
Briefly,
- July announces he's putting out a IG comic book entitled "Isom" (apprently named after one of Eric's great grandfathers). Initially Ethan gives Isom a glowing review*! He would even go on to draw up a variant cover for the second issue. For best audio a-log read-a-long, click here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TL35d3LoUVE.
- July has a runaway successful campaign despite the mediocrity, and is more successful than both sequel Cyberfrog campaigns combined. Inevitable comparison to Cyberfrog commences.
- As a natural result of being one of the most manipulative, insecure, and fragile super egos on planet Earth, Ethan uses the occasion of July's ongong beef with virtuous pedophile Vito Gesualdi (and Masterson) to add his voice to Vito's pointed critiques of the comic book in a Yellowflash stream.
- July objects to this pile-on and begins to allude to his haters while not naming you-know-who directly. Eric sends Ethan a DM calling him out on the bad optics with a declaration that he would respond in kind publicly moving forward. Ethan speaks directly with Eric and they are "cool" again.
- Ethan upon reflection of his own cowardice, later interprets this initial message as a "threat" which "scared" him but decides to be brave and releases the DMs months after the fact without saying anything to Eric since they supposedly squashed the beef. Ethan feels compelled to act because God knows how many other people have been threatened by July and are living in terror. EVS is a selfless hero of the people and releases the most nitpicky of negative Isom reviews as contrasted to his fear-driven submissive review he posted initially.
- Propaganda war begins in earnest from Ethan's camp (now consisting of Dax and Vedo) to make Ethan a martyr for merely expressing himself honestly, when Ethan used his "honesty" as a way to shut down comparisons between his terminally late projects and the brand new bland which shot to the top due to July's well established hype train, logistics, and basic market research (superhero=strong man who beats up bad guys), making a certain "comic artist pro" look like a clueless amateur.
- Scivergate becomes a full time Rippaverse a-log operation despite the fact that the only stated goal of Scivergate was to be able to sell comic books to customers who want to buy them. But it really is about covering up their own underperformance, unprofessionalism, general incompetence, and complete disregard towards the precious consumer/paypig.
- Ethan confesses to telling other pros not to work with Rippa, offically becoming the very same pile of shit as the industry shills who precipitated Comicsgate from the start.
- Everything is fake, gay, late and a lie. The end.
I defer to the more complete and succinct timeline from
@Fleetwood or if our estranged chronicler
@Mister Dongs would like to add his own version.
* Taken from this great vid:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kAVCDrmCeuw
