Sorry if I oversimplified some explanations of the drama.
You have nothing to apologize for, man. This EJ shit just blew up bigger than anything we had been doing and became inconvenient, no fun, and gay. Your work has always been righteous. I never forgot that and everybody in this thread should know it. That Mandy saga was pretty funny.
I recall thinking that July was destined to be an also-ran and good for a mediocre issue or two and he was way too normie for the real core of CeeGee but was allowed to hangout due to his token value. As it turns out, I was way off about the amount of interest, hype and money he could generate, but nothing surprised me about the comics themselves.
Pretty much. It was just a wait-and-see thing but it looked like a Youtuber merch operation larping as a comic company. Everyone thought it was going to be huge, but very normie.
This can't continue for much longer, can it?
We'll see. No one in CG appears to be having fun with it so that's a good sign.
There are some long-time and well-respected users here who have raised perfectly valid criticisms of July, but a thread is something else
Dongs was being tapped to re-work the OP for this thread and I had been grappling with the former Fandom Menace / FNT characters with a mind to do a new thread for PG, basically through the entire run-up to Eric launching Rippaverse and beyond. I dunno what Dongs had planned for this thread, but I never even had a placeholder for EJ. Not because I didn't think he was interesting enough for it or had no content, but because it just wasn't that important given the huge cast of other more deserving retards.
As for a thread about EJ, ditto about the one hack thread attempt. The sentiment in this thread way back originally was re-inforced by the reaction to that, though. Nobody wanted to take on the work of explaining to people already positively predisposed to Eric July why a black man with dreams is a bad idea, especially one who is popular, successful, and aligned against an enemy of the site. As much as I'd like to be able to laugh at him, it's not a good look. And if I'm correct about him overall then that will become clear in time no matter what I say. If I'm wrong then I'll have underestimated him. I think on the whole we handled his early activity pretty well, though.
Regardless how all this plays out, though, you've always been one of the coolest people here,
@Captain Manning and I've relied on your insight on more than one occasion. I would award you a Purple Heart for dealing with this shit if I could.
