The Pushback has been break neck this time around because they pretty much gunned for the biggest name in dubdom for very nakedly obvious personal gain.
I'm not even sure their motives were that purely mercenary, although it is fairly obvious they can look forward to a bigger slice of a small pie if Vic just goes away.
Ya know, a huge body of adoring fans which will be something these unlikeable, unhinged fucks will never get.
I think that's more the motive. It is motivated by the visceral loathing of ugly little trolls for the popular guy. Like incels, they hate, fear and are jealous of the Chad. He is also everything SJWs hate. He's white, male, a Christian, not apologetic for any of that, and well liked anyway.
They are motivated mainly by seething resentment and want to destroy something they will never have, because they are repulsive little petty people.
That is one possible approach. The other is to use the 80k worth of serious litigators to pound the ex-coworkers, conventions and companies in the ass until they retract their statements publicly, reinstate his job and pay restitution.
A major problem is that any relationship he's had with many of these other VAs is permanently queered and it just isn't plausible they could ever work together on good terms again. Any goodwill there has been burned to the ground.
Even in the best set of circumstances real financial damages have been done to Vic.
And then someday you find yourself going through the crazy tweets by foaming dangerhair autists archived by the forum that literally murders trannies as part of your job.
Beats the hell out of defending pedophiles.
Yeah, I can't find anything specific either that says donating to your own GFM is a fraudulent.
As a lawyer, Nick holds himself not just to standards of pure legality but ethics, and there's a general rule (8.4(c)) prohibiting dishonest or unethical behavior. I think it is clearly deceptive to donate to your own GFM to seed it, whether or not it is clearly prohibited.
I don't know whether Nick is basing his decision on something specific in the TOS or just his opinion that donating to a GFM he organizes would fall beneath his level of ethics.
