Infected The Rick and Morty fandom and haters

[Alec Benson Leary]

So I am at a bar and brought up szechuangate to the bartender I know, who I haven't seen in like 6 weeks. He said "those people are stupid but it's the least of the show's problems, did you know that misogynists online are harassing all of the female writers?"

There is no doubt if that was a big story this thread would have been mocking the narrative behind it but I have barely seen mention of it even here. Help me kiwis, what the fuck is he even talking about? Is he just falling for the " everything is gamergate" schtick?

 

[Cosmos]

I found this comment by a Harmon fan that's really insightful:

Here's another story about Harmon - During GamerGate, one of the people from his podcast started telling people on twitter to kill themselves and got banned. Harmon talked to people who work at twitter to get him unbanned and them fake quit twitter for a while.

Also, soon after that video of him screaming at an audience of people to stab nazis (Trump voters) which someone already posted, he got on twitter and started inviting people who criticized him come join him in a special room he has prepared for them, with the implication seemingly being that he's going to murder them.

Okay, Dan Harmon definitely needs a thread. If no one else wants to do it I can take a stab at it. I just need more links to get me started.

 

[Cosmos]

So I am at a bar and brought up szechuangate to the bartender I know, who I haven't seen in like 6 weeks. He said "those people are stupid but it's the least of the show's problems, did you know that misogynists online are harassing all of the female writers?"

There is no doubt if that was a big story this thread would have been mocking the narrative behind it but I have barely seen mention of it even here. Help me kiwis, what the fuck is he even talking about? Is he just falling for the " everything is gamergate" schtick?

No, that's a legitimate thing.

• https://www.reddit.com/r/rickandmorty/comments/6slp3l/nobody_cares/dleys99/
• http://ew.com/tv/2017/09/21/rick-morty-dan-harmon-female-writers/
• https://www.reddit.com/r/rickandmor...attacking_rick_and_mortys/?sort=controversial

 

[Doug_Hitzel]

Man, Dan just can't contain his creativity.

Don’t forget his live fantasy roleplaying show.
The name? Harmonquest.

He makes Trump look subtle and restrained.
“Dan Harmon presents, in association with Dan Harmon Productions, Harmonquest, a Dan Harmon Original from the mind of Dan Harmon.”

 

[Y2K Baby]

Don’t forget his live fantasy roleplaying show.
The name? Harmonquest.

He makes Trump look subtle and restrained.
“Dan Harmon presents, in association with Dan Harmon Productions, Harmonquest, a Dan Harmon Original from the mind of Dan Harmon.”

And Rick constantly thinks about self-Harmon.

 

[Alec Benson Leary]

No, that's a legitimate thing.

• https://www.reddit.com/r/rickandmorty/comments/6slp3l/nobody_cares/dleys99/
• http://ew.com/tv/2017/09/21/rick-morty-dan-harmon-female-writers/
• https://www.reddit.com/r/rickandmor...attacking_rick_and_mortys/?sort=controversial

I didn't realize this was going on.

Jesus, can't these losers stick to rioting over corn syrup? Why the fuck do they have to make Dan Harmon look like a better person?

 

[Doug_Hitzel]

I didn't realize this was going on.

Jesus, can't these losers stick to rioting over corn syrup? Why the fuck do they have to make Dan Harmon look like a better person?

Don’t be silly, nothing can make Dan Harmon look like a better person.
He hired female writers to shield him against criticism. That’s cowardly and sexist at the same time.

 

[Super Collie]

Don’t forget his live fantasy roleplaying show.
The name? Harmonquest.

He makes Trump look subtle and restrained.
“Dan Harmon presents, in association with Dan Harmon Productions, Harmonquest, a Dan Harmon Original from the mind of Dan Harmon.”

I keep seeing advertisements for this show on TV and it honestly looks like one of the worst shows on the planet.

 

[Y2K Baby]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pv_CSarZsYE

 

[KM 749]

Here's another example of Harmon's entitlement. On adult swim, immediately after the latest Rick and Morty episode finished, a bumper aired that poked fun at the writing on Game of Thrones' seventh season (which had just aired its season seven finale). As a Game of Thrones fan, Harmon did not take the joke well and immediately took to his Instagram to spew insults at the makers of the bumper.

https://www.instagram.com/p/BYb48kpD3RK/?taken-by=danharmon

Here was the bumper that offended him:

That's it.

 

[Y2K Baby]

Here's another example of Harmon's entitlement. On adult swim, immediately after the latest Rick and Morty episode finished, a bumper aired that poked fun at the writing on Game of Thrones (which had just aired its season seven finale). As a Game of Thrones fan, Harmon did not take the joke well and immediately took to his Instagram to spew insults at the makers of the bumper.

https://www.instagram.com/p/BYb48kpD3RK/?taken-by=danharmon

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Here was the bumper that offended him:

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That's it.

Jesus Christ, why the FUCK does he care?

 

[Xerxes IX]

Jesus Christ, why the FUCK does he care?

Spoiler: that's an easy question to answer

He's autistic.

 

[Tlazolli]

How did Dan Harmon get in the industry again? He's like a successful Dobson.

 

[From The Uncanny Valley]

Spoiler: that's an easy question to answer

He's autistic.

You don't say.

 

[Chris did nothing wrong]

How did Dan Harmon get in the industry again? He's like a successful Dobson.

He was a member of some Wisconsin comedy groups and was lucky enough to get a script filmed for a pilot. His first television work, about a super-smart astronaut (Jack Black) and a talking motorbike (Owen Wilson) on the run from NASA.

 

[Doug_Hitzel]

How did Dan Harmon get in the industry again? He's like a successful Dobson.

He is so neurotic, obnoxious, and self-hating that Hollywood thought he was jewish.

 

[vertexwindi]

Don’t be silly, nothing can make Dan Harmon look like a better person.
He hired female writers to shield him against criticism. That’s cowardly and sexist at the same time.

He went through a rough divorce and then immediately bragged about hiring a dozen female writers from what I remember.

 

[ShittyRecolor]

No, that's a legitimate thing.

• https://www.reddit.com/r/rickandmorty/comments/6slp3l/nobody_cares/dleys99/
• http://ew.com/tv/2017/09/21/rick-morty-dan-harmon-female-writers/
• https://www.reddit.com/r/rickandmor...attacking_rick_and_mortys/?sort=controversial

To play the devil's advocate, some of the weaker episodes of season 3 were written by the new female writers (like the Mad Max one), but a., that's still no grounds to tard rage and harass someone and b., one of the absolute worst episodes in all of Rick and Morty, Interdimensional Cable 2, was co-written by Roiland, so they really don't have a point in claiming the girls have ruined the show forever.

I keep seeing advertisements for this show on TV and it honestly looks like one of the worst shows on the planet.

I did watch it because I have a soft spot for tabletop RPGs and needed some background noise while drawing, but unless the guest player of the episode was really on money the show quickly devolved into desperately trying to meme-ify their old jokes and that awkward kind of gay humor that tries to come across as edgy yet progressive and inoffensive simultaneously. It's also where I started to notice that something's a bit off with Harmon: he was playing this pussywhipped, comically incompetent character and using self-deprication to come across as endearing, but it really felt more like the kind of self-flagellation that hides narcissism and entitlement.

It's always :autism:, isn't it?

Reading Dan's Twitters, I'm starting to believe he is using a lot from himself when scripting and dubbing Rick. He actually is an outed prick with an ego problem. Hm. That sounds familiar...

Spoiler: How Harmon sees himself

Spoiler: How people actually see him

 

[oddish]

Also, soon after that video of him screaming at an audience of people to stab nazis (Trump voters) which someone already posted, he got on twitter and started inviting people who criticized him come join him in a special room he has prepared for them, with the implication seemingly being that he's going to murder them.

Small correction to this post:
I saw his "special room" tweets in context just now. Turns out Harmon has made up his own little hashtag "#HarmonBlock2017" and the "room" is his block list. At the moment he is using his hashtag to inform people he's blocked them for asking him questions, disagreeing with him, having opinions he doesn't like, criticizing him in any way or making jokes that are funnier than his. He even blocked H3H3 after asking his followers to diagnose him and Ethan's response probably hitting a little too close to home.

 

[vertexwindi]

Small correction to this post:
I saw his "special room" tweets in context just now. Turns out Harmon has made up his own little hashtag "#HarmonBlock2017" and the "room" is his block list. At the moment he is using his hashtag to inform people he's blocked them for asking him questions, disagreeing with him, having opinions he doesn't like, criticizing him in any way or making jokes that are funnier than his. He even blocked H3H3 after asking his followers to diagnose him and Ethan's response probably hitting a little too close to home.

It surprises me that it took Dan until he worked on Community to figure out he's a raging aspie.