So why did they want Vic framed for serial rape exactly? I know that one bitch who accused his fans of swatting her said he was a douche in general but even those mundane allegations sound like over the top lies.
If I had to fancy a guess, based on my previous experiences from the Autism Holy War, it's because narrative trumps everything. You gotta remember, these speds don't live in reality, and they
really don't like reality reminding them that their ideals are about as grounded in reality as Scientology. Because of that, narrative is tantamount to a religion to these asshats. It's for the sake of narrative that they hoax crimes, it's for the sake of narrative they claim outright horse-shit is legit, and it's for the sake of narrative that they embark on these retarded crusades in the first place. Everything -
everything for them is a full-on Autism war and in the name of the objective (which rarely can they define), the ends justify the means.
Back when Gamergate was in full swing, it wasn't enough that GG opponents had full support of the press, social media platforms, and could go before Congress and the UN, they had to try to bury any and all resistance. They had to actively hunt down and try to exterminate pockets of resistance, which is why they went after 8chan, tried to shut down various pro-GG platforms and had to manufacture scandals from whole cloth half the time (see: Dan Olson), claim random trolls were legit threats (Wu in general), or flat-out hoax crimes (USU Sarkeesian Hoax) to get evidence to back their claims. The mere
prospect that someone could have the gall to ask for proof (which they could never provide beyond the most token of shit like people calling them names on Twitter) was enough to get them to plot and scheme and attempt to get entire platforms shut down.
Comicsgate saw similar. The speds in the opposition had de jour control of the entire fucking official medium, and the sales figures were showing that. First, they attacked their customers for daring to voice disagreement with their diversity-at-gunpoint horse-shit, then they attacked those same customers
again when those customers voted with their wallets en masse. So how did these assholes when the customers they spend about two years shitting on decided to not only fuck off, but make their own comics? They lost their shit, tried to shut it down, hoaxed
more crimes (comics store break-in hoax), and in Mark Waid's case, conducted tortious interference to keep Jawbreakers from coming out.
The big problem (for them) is that as time's gone on, their narrative has had less and less penetration with the people it needs to, and the links in the chain needed to keep it going are starting to fail. Not only are the big platforms less likely to bail them out (since they have more eyes on them than ever before, so it's bad optics), but they can't just make a shitstorm and get all the major outlets cover it anymore since all the big clickbait outlets laid off their workforces. The common user on the internet is also
sick to death of this shit and wants this ideology to fucking die already.
I think they expected that their connections to powerful people would keep them safe, and the fact that, historically, they've gotten away with pissing off their customerbase previously made them arrogant. They didn't just want Vic deplatformed; they wanted him destroyed. The simple fact that anyone could defy them in any way was enough to make them apoplectic, and even though Vic himself had minimal real involvement with the shitstorm beyond a press release, the fact that his supporters had the balls to point out the lies was enough. They fell back on the old tactics: hoaxing crimes, using the words of trolls to shore up their "I'M SO
HARASSED!!" defense, and trying to leverage everything they could to sustain the narrative, but the framework isn't there anymore, and there's too many people who've seen this shit too many times now actively covering the chaos.
