Seems like Vinnie might be turning into another scorned ex-lover. I have no idea why he's hitching his wagon to Liam Gray, but I guess they have a preexisting friendship from the days when they were supposed to write and draw Spider-man together (fucking kek).
So, for a brief (if overdue) update on this post last week about the Rewriting Ripley article that raised eyebrows with its professional-looking presentation. This went on mostly ignored by the Comicsgate rank and file but Dataracer, a rarity that is an active Fandom Menace member dropped this twitter thread that was swiftly amplified by the Quartering.
The two culprits, Katie McCort and Mariet Guerrero, made the classic mistake of posting the rallying cries for their anonymous cancel campaigns under their personal accounts, which were well known as mentally unstable twitter ringleaders in the Reylo fandom. Given the matchup in names and adding that Guerrero actually confirms her age (37) in the first of the two Rewriting Ripley podcasts. This seems like an inexplicably sloppy misstep in what otherwise looks to be a very solid operation.
In follow up tweets, Dataracer next directs to a thread made Jan. 2020 by LucasFilms social media manager Michelle Buchmann (who has since scrubbed their social media profile), calling out for academics "familiar with fandoms and digital culture online" where she was connected with Bethany Lacina and Morten Bay (actual academics). It should be noted that both academics were cited heavily in the Rewriting Ripley article.
This is followed by other tweets noting Pablo Hidalgo's following of the Rewriting Ripley account, then Dataracer recounting the hit pieces penned by Katie McCort in the past about "Reylo persecution" that were then carried and given legitimacy by Bethany Lacina's connections in the Washington Post, railing against the lies levied against him by McCort in the past.
Exposed, the until now polished and well-presented Ripley account dissolved into incoherent, poorly spelled, sprawling twitter sperghetti arguing that youtube clickbait is the first step to domestic terrorism; the sort of fare that one might expect from someone who's defining personality characteristic is masturbating to tumblr gifs of Kylo Ren and not the rigorous, academic thesis levied initially by Katie and Lady V. Everything neatly wrapped up by Dataracer with an assist from the Quartering.
Or is it?
Studying Comicsgate for as long as I have, one gets a sixth sense when it comes to gayops. Does a mentally ill Star Wars Reylo, no matter how obsessive, really have the capability of making all this happen? And what about the colossal drop in writing quality from academic thesis to word salad spazout? These are telltale signs of a Zombienomicon-type figure, hanging in the back while a useful patsy serves as the public face and leader (and inevitable reprisal recipient). But who?
Returning to the Rewriting Ripley About Me page, the author describes themselves as a Webby Award Winner. As far as anyone is aware of, the hosts Reylos Katie and Lady V have not won any Webbies.
But Michelle Buchman has. Referring to her LinkedIn profile:
This would explain the wild rollercoaster of composure and craft going on behind Rewriting Ripley as well as some of the more implausible aspects of Dataracers's explanation - Michelle Buchman is the actual author of Rewriting Ripley and the two podcasters were just sockpuppets. But would former LucasFilm employee Michelle Buchman sit back and let two Reylos take all the blowback for her labeling some of the largest "anti-SJW" youtubers as "alt-right" and calling for a deplatforming campaign while she hangs back with a scrubbed social media footprint?
There’s an absolutely delicious thread on Twitter posted by a Kylux shipper who goes by the handle @saltandrockets. This Kylux shipper is claiming that Reylos have bullied the Star Wars Soci…
Walton seems a bit fixated on the fact that you saw your fans in Jeremy's chat and said that you "loved them." I was watching the stream... that chat was moving way too fast to be able to read anything being said. I just remember seeing some frog emoji spamming.
Seems like Vinnie might be turning into another scorned ex-lover. I have no idea why he's hitching his wagon to Liam Gray, but I guess they have a preexisting friendship from the days when they were supposed to write and draw Spider-man together (fucking kek). I'm sure he's also upset that Shadow of the Kraken is severely underperforming compared to Through the Woods and even City of Venus. Besides that, I understand people having issues with you, but they should also be aware that indie crowdfunding wouldn't be what it is today without what you've done over the past couple of years. Not stroking your ego here, just pointing out simple and observable facts. Same with Zack. People are quick to disparage him nowadays without thinking about the fact that they wouldn't be here without him. Zack may have less relevance to crowdfunding nowadays in the grand scheme of things, but yours is greater than ever and indie crowdfunding benefits immensely from CyberFrog simply existing. People are shortsighted. Now please let me on your livestream to promote my garbage comics or else I'm going to start flaming you on twitter and claiming you tried to cancel me.
Walton doesn't understand that the chat demands something of the host until the host answers them. The chat saw me ask to come on the show, and repeated "EVS EVS EVS" hoping that Jeremy would see it and send me the link, long after I'd gone. The chat is your money. You're supposed to acknowledge them, and Jeremy is a pro, he knows that.
I didn't command them to spam my name, they just did that because that's what chats do when they want something. YoungRippa asked for the link to the stream I was doing, and I missed it because I was screensharing something and not watching the chat. You can watch my chat turn into nothing but "SEND RIPPA THE LINK" for a good 5 minutes before Patrick Thomas Parnell noticed it and sent him the link for me. At no time did I imagine that he was sending a "Hate Mob" to my channel.
The other thing Walton doesn't get is that Jeremy and I are cool, and we have mutual fans. So when I said, "I love you guys" I was just acknowledging the chat's interest in hearing me and/or affection for me, like a good YouTuber should. Jeremy probably didn't give a fuck that his chat was saying "EVS EVS WE WANT EVS." He was talking and getting huge superchats. So why was Walton so mad?
It would explain a lot of the bad behaviour though.
That and the fear that someone will cancel them for their gigs.
This is something that I noticed after watching CG for a couple years, it is a microcosm with all the burdens of the "mainstream" comics community only everything is open to the audience to enjoy the clownshow.
So, for a brief (if overdue) update on this post last week about the Rewriting Ripley article that raised eyebrows with its professional-looking presentation. This went on mostly ignored by the Comicsgate rank and file but Dataracer, a rarity that is an active Fandom Menace member dropped this twitter thread that was swiftly amplified by the Quartering.
The two culprits, Katie McCort and Mariet Guerrero, made the classic mistake of posting the rallying cries for their anonymous cancel campaigns under their personal accounts, which were well known as mentally unstable twitter ringleaders in the Reylo fandom. Given the matchup in names and adding that Guerrero actually confirms her age (37) in the first of the two Rewriting Ripley podcasts. This seems like an inexplicably sloppy misstep in what otherwise looks to be a very solid operation.
In follow up tweets, Dataracer next directs to a thread made Jan. 2020 by LucasFilms social media manager Michelle Buchmann (who has since scrubbed their social media profile), calling out for academics "familiar with fandoms and digital culture online" where she was connected with Bethany Lacina and Morten Bay (actual academics). It should be noted that both academics were cited heavily in the Rewriting Ripley article.
This is followed by other tweets noting Pablo Hidalgo's following of the Rewriting Ripley account, then Dataracer recounting the hit pieces penned by Katie McCort in the past about "Reylo persecution" that were then carried and given legitimacy by Bethany Lacina's connections in the Washington Post, railing against the lies levied against him by McCort in the past.
Exposed, the until now polished and well-presented Ripley account dissolved into incoherent, poorly spelled, sprawling twitter sperghetti arguing that youtube clickbait is the first step to domestic terrorism; the sort of fare that one might expect from someone who's defining personality characteristic is masturbating to tumblr gifs of Kylo Ren and not the rigorous, academic thesis levied initially by Katie and Lady V. Everything neatly wrapped up by Dataracer with an assist from the Quartering.
Or is it?
Studying Comicsgate for as long as I have, one gets a sixth sense when it comes to gayops. Does a mentally ill Star Wars Reylo, no matter how obsessive, really have the capability of making all this happen? And what about the colossal drop in writing quality from academic thesis to word salad spazout? These are telltale signs of a Zombienomicon-type figure, hanging in the back while a useful patsy serves as the public face and leader (and inevitable reprisal recipient). But who?
Returning to the Rewriting Ripley About Me page, the author describes themselves as a Webby Award Winner. As far as anyone is aware of, the hosts Reylos Katie and Lady V have not won any Webbies.
But Michelle Buchman has. Referring to her LinkedIn profile:
This would explain the wild rollercoaster of composure and craft going on behind Rewriting Ripley as well as some of the more implausible aspects of Dataracers's explanation - Michelle Buchman is the actual author of Rewriting Ripley and the two podcasters were just sockpuppets. But would former LucasFilm employee Michelle Buchman sit back and let two Reylos take all the blowback for her labeling some of the largest "anti-SJW" youtubers as "alt-right" and calling for a deplatforming campaign while she hangs back with a scrubbed social media footprint?
There’s an absolutely delicious thread on Twitter posted by a Kylux shipper who goes by the handle @saltandrockets. This Kylux shipper is claiming that Reylos have bullied the Star Wars Soci…
Seriously, a movie about space wizards fighting space nazis has caused somebody emotional pain?
Girl, most people watch Star Wars to forget the existential dread called life. This is why we watch the crapshow called The Fandom Menace, where grown ass adults sperg about movies for kids.
Seriously, the moment SW gets dumb, most people would shrug and just go and watch the next thing. If the Mandalorian never happened, SW would be dead by now.
Following up on @Mister Dongs previous post here, we are proud to break more info from the Rewriting Ripley team. What followed was a multi-week investigation from numerous kiwis from the thread who will be thanked at the end of it. Despite the retarded among us @Furyan previously spilling his spaghetti, ever since the Rewriting Ripley team first entered the digital landscape a dedicated team of autists were determined to unmask them.
EPISODE ONE: THERE WILL BE SALT
A quick refresher on the situation, the Rewriting Ripley team first created their account in December of 2020 and went rather unnoticed.
Their first activity was announcing future podcasts on January 13th coming soon [archive] before finally posting their first podcast [archive] on February 25th 2021 titled "Math Just says You're Misogynistic, Jared" or "Our First Episode is Live & We Have Receipts!" however this too went largely unnoticed by the community at large. It wasn't until March 12th 2021 that the team of podcasters made headline with their second podcast [archive] "Lets talk about the Star Wars alt-right recruitment problem" which promised two episodes exploring the issue. The second episode is set to air on March 25th.
The first episode was accompanied by a Medium article [archive] titled "In Plain Sight: How White Supremacy, Misogyny, and Hate Targeted the Star Wars Sequel Trilogy and Won" which attempted to paint several prominent counter culture commentators such as The Quartering, Geeks and Gamers and our beloved @FROG as alt-right radicals under the influence of Steve Bannon and several other far/alt right political personalities.
The contents of the medium article had previous been livestreamed (now privated) by @FROG and reported on by @Mister Dongs in the thread here. Immediately an investigation by kiwifarms was launched and a group of dedicated investigators decided to look into the origins of the mysterious Katie and Lady V who were credited with the podcast and articles.
The Rewriting Ripley team would also reach levels of infamy within Comicsgate and the Fandom Menace itself with Frog, TUG and Yellowflash reporting on the situation in a series of videos and livestreams linked in the former names of each commentator. The account would face severe blowback which would result in them utilizing what clearly is a blockbot.
The account would receive accolades from the usual suspects in the twitter sphere and maybe have been responsible for the recent drama involving Zack Synder and Jeremy from Geeks and Gamers which has been taking front and center of the thread for the past several days. Our investigation was a long and arduous one involving much time spent searching for the culprits, while previous avenues of discovery yielded little fruit. The website owner took precautions to protect themselves and searching for the copyright also yielded little.
Eventually while researching several other Star Wars female podcasters first, the Fandom Menace themselves would prove useful by confirming several other suspects.
EPISODE TWO: THE FANDOM STRIKES BACK
The first account to tweet out the suspects was one Dataracer who correctly identified one of the suspects we were yet to look into. Naming Katie, as one Katie McCort however leaving Lady V left unidentified.
Dataracer would also post a bunch of image dumps into a collage which showed the connection between the Rewriting Ripley and the two Reylo fans involved. The images also showed a potential incestous relationship between the fans and a former head of social media for Star Wars called Michelle Buchman and possibly former Star Wars Story Group employee Pablo Hidalgo.
The result of which led to our #sobrave and #sostrong female fighters going on a blocking spree and protecting their accounts before finally nuking their twitter accounts.
It would appear Katie's twitter has reemerged as of writing.
The ensuing drama would lead the Rewriting Ripley account to claim she was being doxed by the Fandom Menace and was now receiving death threats.
Everything appeared to happen so fast, it was a herculean effort to screenshot, archive and collect everything, but our story does no end here. After all who are Katie and Lady V? And who could they possibly be involved with?
EPISODE THREE: THE REVENGE OF THE KIWI
Katie / Katie McCort / Katherine M McCort / InFormalMajesty / KMMCORT / Disney Sycophant
Katie McCort had previously made a name for herself as a blogger and ardent Reylo defender. For the uninitiated Reylos are a subsect of Star Wars fandom who ship Rey and Kylo Ren, often taking their obsession far beyond what anyone could consider normal.
PREVIOUS EMPLOYERS:
Idobi Network / Contributor (DEC 2012)
Crittenton Services of Greater Washington / Social Media and Development Intern (SEP 2013-DEC 2013)
The Hamilton Live / Box Office Attendent (FEB 2014)
Zuketunes / Freelance Blogger (JUN 2014 - AUG 2014)
Entertainment Software Association / Data Analyst Intern (MAY 2015)
American University / Teachers Assistant (AUG 2016-DEC 2016)
Magic Leap / Marketing Analyst (MAY 2017 - APR 2020)
Crystal Dynamic / Data Analyst (JUNE2020 - PRESENT)
And nuked her Linked-In, but not before a screenshot was obtained.
UPDATED CURRENT ADDRESS:
158 Ridge Road
West Milford, NJ 07480
ADDRESS:
300 Linden St Apt 15SAN
San Francisco, CA 94102
Please note this address could be outdated, it was extremely hard to find information relating to Katie's current location. This was however her last known location.
DIGITAL FOOTPRINT
When googling Katie's name you'll be surprised to find a wealth of information regarding her and Star Wars including guest appearances on podcasts, medium articles and even Reylo fan fiction competitions. Her first claim to fame was a Medium article [Archive] titled "When Systemic Hatred of Women Online Goes Unnoticed, What Does it Say about Us?" The article would then be cited in several other articles by other Reylo fans including "It's A Trap: Reylos, Racism, and the Whiteness of Data in the Harassment of Women Online" a medium article [Archive]. She also appears on the Steel Wars podcast [archive] as a guest or reoccuring cohost and a call in guest on others [archive].
Not all mentions are positive as she previously featured on Kotaku In Action for her original Medium article, had an article on Disney Star Wars Is Dumb titled "Crazy Person Says Reylo More Popular Than Fandom Menace" [archive]. While her tweets were previously deleted when she nuked her account and now they are hidden they are available on third party sites, which includes how Women Of Color feel left out of the Reylo Community.
This tweet was probably prompted from Katie being called out by a black Reylo fan in a blogpost titled "Whose Job is It To Fix Fandom?" [archive]. In the article the author claims that Katie shared the personal information of a black Reylo fan on Instagram.
EDIT: Updated full name, Date of birth, current address (confirmed) and allegations of doxing a black teenager on Instagram.
Due to the sheer size of this post, I'll be splitting it into two posts to avoid hitting the image or character limits. Stay tuned because our story doesn't end here.
I literally couldn't care less that people who lie about me and hate me, lie about me MORE and hate me MORE.
I realize that I'll always have lunatics following me around with things I've said, quoted without context, trying to destroy me. Over the course of my life, this will happen many more times.
I have been online since 94. In that time I have witnessed a number of internet celebrities and their businesses rise steeply in popularity and then explode like The Challenger. It takes a certain stubborn nature to put meat on the bones of any grand design. However, there always seems to come a point where the swagger turns to hubris, and the architects of these empires effectively start handing out the blueprints for their downfall to the people who most want to see them fail.
I have always thought that you beat the kind of person who posts demented Tumblr tirades about how their cats, Kylo and Rey, refuse to mate with each other, by succeeding in spite of them. If, by your own hand, you bring about a situation where you are expending time, and possibly money, defending yourself against their lunacy, all that does is take you away from the people and the things that you love and the projects that you want to get done. In the process you give oxygen to individuals who do not deserve oxygen. If they must inhale a gas, then let it be methane.
It will not greatly impact me if you do something so dumb that it either holes your career below the waterline, or places an artificial ceiling on how high you can go. It will, however, sadden me if someone who, a few years ago, pulled themselves out of a scrum of people who were intent on kicking them back down, goes on to play a role in engineering their own downfall.
I have seen how the 'fuck all the haterz, I ain't changin'" mentality plays out online. At best it ends with a lengthy time-out in the wilderness, followed by an understated return, and attempt to regain lost momentum, in an online landscape that has moved on and is no longer recognisable.
Wtf I don't understand this shit, we had Katie Mccort cornered are you even willing to take SjwSpiderman to court, and find a psychiatrist to do a profile about him in order to show the Ontario court that he is not only a danger to himself but to his two boys? Eva had her birthday some days ago, are you even willing to set up an example?
In one of Zack video, he said that Renfamous was too young?Wtf.
If you're not ready to engage in a lawsuit, and Ontario made it easy, the guy is a textbook serial harasser. https://www.dentons.com/en/insights...-court-recognizes-tort-of-internet-harassment
This is not a fucking game.
Following up on @Mister Dongs previous post here, we are proud to break more info from the Rewriting Ripley team. What followed was a multi-week investigation from numerous kiwis from the thread who will be thanked at the end of it. Despite the retarded among us @Furyan previously spilling his spaghetti, ever since the Rewriting Ripley team first entered the digital landscape a dedicated team of autists were determined to unmask them.
EPISODE ONE: THERE WILL BE SALT
A quick refresher on the situation, the Rewriting Ripley team first created their account in December of 2020 and went rather unnoticed.
Their first activity was announcing future podcasts on January 13th coming soon [archive] before finally posting their first podcast [archive] on February 25th 2021 titled "Math Just says You're Misogynistic, Jared" or "Our First Episode is Live & We Have Receipts!" however this too went largely unnoticed by the community at large. It wasn't until March 12th 2021 that the team of podcasters made headline with their second podcast [archive] "Lets talk about the Star Wars alt-right recruitment problem" which promised two episodes exploring the issue. The second episode is set to air on March 25th.
The first episode was accompanied by a Medium article [archive] titled "In Plain Sight: How White Supremacy, Misogyny, and Hate Targeted the Star Wars Sequel Trilogy and Won" which attempted to paint several prominent counter culture commentators such as The Quartering, Geeks and Gamers and our beloved @FROG as alt-right radicals under the influence of Steve Bannon and several other far/alt right political personalities.
The contents of the medium article had previous been livestreamed (now privated) by @FROG and reported on by @Mister Dongs in the thread here. Immediately an investigation by kiwifarms was launched and a group of dedicated investigators decided to look into the origins of the mysterious Katie and Lady V who were credited with the podcast and articles.
The Rewriting Ripley team would also reach levels of infamy within Comicsgate and the Fandom Menace itself with Frog, TUG and Yellowflash reporting on the situation in a series of videos and livestreams linked in the former names of each commentator. The account would face severe blowback which would result in them utilizing what clearly is a blockbot.
The account would receive accolades from the usual suspects in the twitter sphere and maybe have been responsible for the recent drama involving Zack Synder and Jeremy from Geeks and Gamers which has been taking front and center of the thread for the past several days. Our investigation was a long and arduous one involving much time spent searching for the culprits, while previous avenues of discovery yielded little fruit. The website owner took precautions to protect themselves and searching for the copyright also yielded little.
Eventually while researching several other Star Wars female podcasters first, the Fandom Menace themselves would prove useful by confirming several other suspects.
EPISODE TWO: THE FANDOM STRIKES BACK
The first account to tweet out the suspects was one Dataracer who correctly identified one of the suspects we were yet to look into. Naming Katie, as one Katie McCort however leaving Lady V left unidentified.
Dataracer would also post a bunch of image dumps into a collage which showed the connection between the Rewriting Ripley and the two Reylo fans involved. The images also showed a potential incestous relationship between the fans and a former head of social media for Star Wars called Michelle Buchman and possibly former Star Wars Story Group employee Pablo Hidalgo.
The result of which led to our #sobrave and #sostrong female fighters going on a blocking spree and protecting their accounts before finally nuking their twitter accounts.
Everything appeared to happen so fast, it was a herculean effort to screenshot, archive and collect everything, but our story does no end here. After all who are Katie and Lady V? And who could they possibly be involved with?
Katie McCort had previously made a name for herself as a blogger and ardent Reylo defender. For the uninitiated Reylos are a subsect of Star Wars fandom who ship Rey and Kylo Ren, often taking their obsession far beyond what anyone could consider normal.
PREVIOUS EMPLOYERS:
Idobi Network / Contributor (DEC 2012)
Crittenton Services of Greater Washington / Social Media and Development Intern (SEP 2013-DEC 2013)
The Hamilton Live / Box Office Attendent (FEB 2014)
Zuketunes / Freelance Blogger (JUN 2014 - AUG 2014)
Entertainment Software Association / Data Analyst Intern (MAY 2015)
American University / Teachers Assistant (AUG 2016-DEC 2016)
Magic Leap / Marketing Analyst (MAY 2017 - APR 2020)
Crystal Dynamic / Data Analyst (JUNE2020 - PRESENT)
Please note this address could be outdated, it was extremely hard to find information relating to Katie's current location. This was however her last known location.
DIGITAL FOOTPRINT
When googling Katie's name you'll be surprised to find a wealth of information regarding her and Star Wars including guest appearances on podcasts, medium articles and even Reylo fan fiction competitions. Her first claim to fame was a Medium article [Archive] titled "When Systemic Hatred of Women Online Goes Unnoticed, What Does it Say about Us?" The article would then be cited in several other articles by other Reylo fans including "It's A Trap: Reylos, Racism, and the Whiteness of Data in the Harassment of Women Online" a medium article [Archive]. She also appears on the Steel Wars podcast [archive] as a guest or reoccuring cohost and a call in guest on others [archive].
Not all mentions are positive as she previously featured on Kotaku In Action for her original Medium article, had an article on Disney Star Wars Is Dumb titled "Crazy Person Says Reylo More Popular Than Fandom Menace" [archive]. While her tweets were previously deleted when she nuked her account and now they are hidden they are available on third party sites, which includes how Women Of Color feel left out of the Reylo Community.
Due to the sheer size of this post, I'll be splitting it into two posts to avoid hitting the image or character limits. Stay tuned because our story doesn't end here.
I'd just like to point out that while this is pretty well-written, TheQuartering has been all but disavowed and banished from The Fandom Menace ever since his one and only stream with them, where he pocketed all the superchats, including ones specifically slated for them.
I'm watching this while I draw this morning. It's amazing how repetitive this behavior is in these people. I can drag their campaigns with my own for years, but the minute I stop allowing them to squat on my livestreams, contributing virtually nothing, they turn on me with extreme hurt feelings and bitterness.
There is no, "Hey, thanks for getting me started." Just venom and hatred.
I'm particularly unimpressed by one (former?) CGer here who is very mad that I didn't help him take down a phony mirrored Kickstarter campaign of his own campaign. "I went thru some real shit...!" Same thing happened to both of my CyberFrog campaigns. I handled it by contacting Kickstarter, and then asking my fans to do the same thing. It was some kind of Eastern European scam, but harmless. KS pulled it down after a week or so, and it had zero effect on anything. I even monetized it by making a video about it. This guy is acting like it fucked up his whole world, and it seems like he's doing it for sympathy, or to generate outrage. The chat is responding to him with love and support.
"If you didn't want to have me on your channel anymore, that's okay, but a little support...I mean, that would have been nice." WTF.
There was some confusion that this individual had "left ComicsGate," because he was streaming daily with a fuming Liam Gray, during the phase while he was cursing CG and threatening to punch my teeth out. Conclusions may have been drawn by others that made pretty good sense to me. Evidently saying that aloud was "fucking with a little guy's campaign."
"That fucking pisses me off," says another fellow, upon hearing this tale.
Another one, "I remember hearing that you were going to be helping smaller creators? WELL WHAT FUCKING CREATORS HAVE YOU FUCKING HELPED? NO ONE," exclaims a new Preston Poulter.
"He only cares about his own pocket! He's a bully!"
"That's why we're building our own thing, brother."
It's a zoo. These days, when a small creator asks for my help, I have to think about this inevitable and recurring behavior pattern, and I think twice.
If you recall, Zack had this nailed a long time ago. The evolution of the YouTube "superfan". Always there on every livestream, sending superchats, then starting to send you stuff in the mail, then superchatting 'did you get what I sent you'?, then getting disgruntled, then finally turning face and calling you the worst person in the world.
Some of these "small creators" are, for all intents and purposes, the same.
Also:
San Francisco? Really? Wow! I never would have guessed.
If you recall, Zack had this nailed a long time ago. The evolution of the YouTube "superfan". Always there on every livestream, sending superchats, then starting to send you stuff in the mail, then superchatting 'did you get what I sent you'?, then getting disgruntled, then finally turning face and calling you the worst person in the world.
Some of these "small creators" are, for all intents and purposes, the same.
I'd just like to point out that while this is pretty well-written, TheQuartering has been all but disavowed and banished from The Fandom Menace ever since his one and only stream with them, where he pocketed all the superchats, including ones specifically slated for them.
Let's not forget Quarterpounder got beat up by a tranny and started a fundraiser for TUG. That faggot has the credibility of a guy selling watches out of a trenchcoat.
Furyan is an angry sped who gets so MATI he can barely type. I'm starting to think his only purpose here is to make the resident a-logs that contribute nothing look like normal functional human beings.
I have been online since 94. In that time I have witnessed a number of internet celebrities and their businesses rise steeply in popularity and then explode like The Challenger. It takes a certain stubborn nature to put meat on the bones of any grand design. However, there always seems to come a point where the swagger turns to hubris, and the architects of these empires effectively start handing out the blueprints for their downfall to the people who most want to see them fail.
I have always thought that you beat the kind of person who posts demented Tumblr tirades about how their cats, Kylo and Rey, refuse to mate with each other, by succeeding in spite of them. If, by your own hand, you bring about a situation where you are expending time, and possibly money, defending yourself against their lunacy, all that does is take you away from the people and the things that you love and the projects that you want to get done. In the process you give oxygen to individuals who do not deserve oxygen. If they must inhale a gas, then let it be methane.
It will not greatly impact me if you do something so dumb that it either holes your career below the waterline, or places an artificial ceiling on how high you can go. It will, however, sadden me if someone who, a few years ago, pulled themselves out of a scrum of people who were intent on kicking them back down, goes on to play a role in engineering their own downfall.
I have seen how the 'fuck all the haterz, I ain't changin'" mentality plays out online. At best it ends with a lengthy time-out in the wilderness, followed by an understated return, and attempt to regain lost momentum, in an online landscape that has moved on and is no longer recognisable.
EVS is ultimately the only person who can destroy Ethan. He's hell bent on wrecking himself for his "internet friends" who will monetize his downfall and profit for months when he's inevitably deplatformed. Ethan is his own worst enemy. Telling him he surrounds himself with clowns is pointless. He'll learn the hard way, just like he did with Dynamite, War Campaign, Breitweiser, the Waid lolsuit and all the other dumb shit he's helped engineer. Live by the pizza parlour dumpster die by the pizza parlour dumpster I guess.
EVS is ultimately the only person who can destroy Ethan. He's hell bent on wrecking himself for his "internet friends" who will monetize his downfall and profit for months when he's inevitably deplatformed. Ethan is his own worst enemy. Telling him he surrounds himself with clowns is pointless. He'll learn the hard way, just like he did with Dynamite, War Campaign, Breitweiser, the Waid lolsuit and all the other dumb shit he's helped engineer. Live by the pizza parlour dumpster die by the pizza parlour dumpster I guess.
EVS is too much of a narcisist to back down and release the lead of his movement even when it is dragging him down.
Add in his insecurities, that he considers all his sycophants as friends and his sense of betrayal if they don't follow him/criticise him and you got a recipe for disaster.
Well, we didn't see this coming. Is Rewriting Ripley in fact an al-right recruitment site? Is this an elaborate ploy to gain a following? Are they HIDING IN ...
www.youtube.com
Mecha talked about how Rewriting Ripley are hateful little people who are Alt-Right recruiting. I like it as the original piece was Glenn Beckian in nature.
MUCH better TFM I knew you can do it!
I'm not familiar with this corner of TFM and I don't know this guy, and yeah it's a little over the top, but I like the energy! Hits all the main points. I'm so glad other people aside from my noble fellow a-logs here on KW have caught on to Ethan's core personality. It will probably take a few more incidents like the stream snipe for someone like Jeremy to realize he's better off without EVS' utterly benign influence.
What TFM desperately needs and the rest of us would honestly like to see is for the Kennedy regime to end. The Mandalorian was a little air-bubble of positivity but the promised corporate Disney civil war turned out to be incredibly lopsided with the Favreau camp being completely stomped out of existence without any sign of struggle aside from Carano herself.
We are firmly in an age where big government and major corporations have the money and the will to flood social media with their own paid goon propagandists. I have no doubt Kathleen Kennedy has her own squad like this. For the life of me I can't figure out why anyone would really bother on Twitter unless their careers depended on it anyway. But the writing has been on the wall since 2015. The best anyone can really do is to document as much as possible and to leave this subject on a slow cook. I don't think most of us could afford it if Disney or any one of these other major rogue corporations decided to aim their social media Death Star death ray in our direction. "Silence Brand" used to be a meme, now it's an unfounded hope.
So in comparison and only in comparison to all this, is dealing with Sciverfraud & friends preferable. Part of it is still because they are small time, part of it is their limited scope in comic books. The more money Ethan makes, the more dictatorial he becomes. His value comes from the ability to rake in the money. There is no real sense of a need to be a critical success.
She's in SF, where Lucasfilm is based, and Magic Leap is linked to Lucasfilm:
Jun 16, 2016
Disney’s Lucasfilm and its ILMxLAB R&D unit on Thursday announced a strategic alliance with Magic Leap, an augmented-reality startup that has raised nearly $1.4 billion in funding. Under the pact, the companies are forming a joint research lab at Lucasfilm’s San Francisco campus to work on storytelling within the Mixed Reality universe.
“The future of mixed reality and immersive entertainment holds incredible promise, and we are honored to work with Magic Leap to shape that future,” Lucasfilm president Kathleen Kennedy said in announcing the deal. “At Lucasfilm and ILM, innovation has always been in our DNA; through this collaboration, ILMxLAB further propels our legacy of exploration and leadership on this new platform for experiential storytelling.”
Magic Leap blows our mind with its incredible technology… that still doesn’t f**king exist
Here’s what $6bn of vaporware looks like
It has kept everyone waiting but Magic Leap has finally revealed that… there are still publications stupid enough to keep printing its bullshit…To recap: the augmented reality startup has received nearly $2bn in funding over four years, values itself at $6bn, and has yet to produce anything but fake technology.
Wed 6 Jun 2018
After years of promises, augmented-reality hype-machine Magic Leap finally revealed its hardware… in the most bizarre way imaginable.
But just like its fake videos, excited developers were left with an all-too-familiar sense of acute disappointment when the live-streamed hour-long program comprised of nothing more than flowery words and vague promises.
The accompanying online chatroom exploded. “Why did she not turn it on??” asked Satchlikemagic. “Show us a live demo,” pleaded Aiursrage2k. “Demo please,” asked HamipaL. “DEMO. DE-Mo. DEM-MO,” chanted Dsky9.
But there was going to be no demo. “WHAT IS THIS MADNESS?” asked Potent_Gamer as the mood suddenly soured.
The hosts then talked for another 20 minutes while the chatroom filled with increasingly angry programmers and geeks who felt, with some justification, that they had been duped yet again by a company that has literally never shown off its technology to the public despite years of development, hundreds of millions of dollars in investment and seemingly endless showcases talking about Magic Leap changing the world.
It's Dongs and Smugs world, the rest of us just live in it.
Imagine being looked down on and judged by some thot who flicks her bean to Reylo fanfic and deems it important enough to be a political statement. Fucking degenerate.
TheQuartering has been all but disavowed and banished from The Fandom Menace ever since his one and only stream with them, where he pocketed all the superchats, including ones specifically slated for them.
Continuing our Rewriting Ripley exposé from above we now come to the second act of this very autistic chapter. While Katie proved a slippy fish to land, her partner in crime Lady V was far easier to find.
Mariet L Guerrero / Lady V / Lady Valkyrie Skye / valkyrie_art / carbonmade
Lady V is the second half of the Rewriting Ripley podcast, another pathetic Reylo who decided to take shitposting to the next level by committing possible defamation and libel under an anonymous account. Well much like her cohost, she no longer has the luxury of anonymity.
PREVIOUS EMPLOYERS:
MacY's Herald Square / Sales Rep (MAR 2008 - FEB 2012)
Iconix Brand Group Inc / Graphic Designer (SEP 2011 - DEC 2012)
The Guardian Project / Graphic Designer (FEB 2012 - JUN 2012)
Uniqlo / Customer Service Advisor (JULY 2012 - MAY 2013)
Calvin Klein / Production and Photo Coordinator (MAY 2013 - DEC 2015)
Michael Kors / Post Production Coordinator (DEC 2015 - PRESENT?)
ADDRESS:
2070 Adam Clayton Powell Jr Blvd Apt 9M
New York, NY 10027
DIGITAL FOOTPRINT
Much like her cohost Katie, Mariet is also an active member of the Reylo community and is also a devotee of social justice. She also appeared on a podcast called Scavengers Hoard: A Star Wars Podcast titled "Episode #132 - A Roundtable on Racism, Reylo and Star Wars Fandom" [archive] which is also shared on the Reylo communities tumblr. Her artwork is shared by Reylo's offsite and again like Katie although her twitter has been nuked, we can find examples of her shaming others for not being woke enough.
Her facebook also contains Trump Derangement Syndrome still after the guy lost the 2020 Presidential election.
She is also an avid Reylo shipping artist you can check her Deviant Art Gallery here [archive], or some wholesome images spoilered below. Surprisingly not too degenerate, but still highly autistic.
Her about page [archive] describes her likes, mixed Puerto Rican/Ecuadorian heritage and of course contains pronouns which are She/her incase you were interested. Unfortunately for Mariet it was her unique artstyle across several platforms that made her so easy to find.
She like Katie also nuked her Linked-In account, twitter and privated her Instagram no doubt expecting the backlash to be fierce.
EPILOGUE: THE DISNEY CONNECTION
Curiously both of these specimens hardly have the resources and knowledge to be able to pull of something with as high production value as the Rewriting Ripley podcast and medium article. After reading the 70 minute long read and comparing the text speech to Katie, the previous contributor, the speech patterns appeared different. It was @Mister Dongs who insisted that there may be another unseen force who was using these two Reylo's as puppets to further their own agenda. While both Katie and Mariet have podcasting experience, Katie analytic skills and Mariet graphic design it still felt like there was someone else who was involved.
Enter Michelle Buchman, a former social media manager for Star Wars and Lucasfilm. Dataracer too felt like Michelle was likely involved from a collection of tweets he posted where Michelle asks twitter for "academics" to discuss a project with, with Katie in the replies.
However during the course of originally searching for Katie, one of our methods was searching for Webby Award winners of the same name to help narrow our search since the author of the Medium Article boasts about being an award winner, but it would appear Katie is not a Webby Award winner.
It would appear that Michelle Buchman however is an Webby Award winner, she is also focused on marketing analytics according to her own linked-in profile.
While we continued to dig into Michelle Buchman we noticed several curious developments, little mysteries and coincidences if you will. The first being that her former twitter handle was taken by a dummy account back in January of this year, right before the podcasts begun.
The most interesting mystery however will be in her dox post below.
Michelle Buchman / Michelle Deidre
The most curious thing about Michelle however is that despite finding traces of her social media profiles, her parents and even some former addresses she has largely been scrubbed from the sites we use to find out targets. Voter registration sites, information aggregators, online white pages, there is no fucking trace of this woman or her current whereabouts. Some of the best doxers on the site assisted us in tracking this woman down and yet we all came up empty handed. I'm told the only way this is possible is Michelle must have paid to have her information scrubbed from the internet, possibly due to the Reylo's attacks on her, or maybe in anticipation of something else. Still I will post what we were able to find below:
FORMER ADDRESSES:
888 Massachusetts Ave
Cambridge, MA 02139
PARENTS ADDRESS: (BURTON AND THERESA BUCHMAN)
15 Gloria Ave
Tyngsboro, MA 01879
DIGITAL FOOTPRINT:
Aside from being bullied by Reylo's off the internet and possibly being the brain behind the Rewriting Ripley podcast, Michelle has her own Bleeding Fool article titled "Is a Crazy Person Running the Star Wars Social Media Account?" which was authored by the Fandom Menace's own Itchy Bacca [archive].
She also starred on a podcast Comic book show on youtube, late last year.
CONCLUSION
So there we have it fellow kiwis, the unmasking of the Rewriting Ripley team. Unfortunately we may be left with more questions now than when we started. I admit it could all be a coincidence relating to Michelle Buchman, but I highly doubt it. The Webby Award connection, her relationship with Katie, the scrubbed social media and in particular the lack of any aggregated profile of her address including in connection to her own parents is highly suspect. It's important to note that according to her Linked-In page she ceased working for Lucasfilm in August 2020, it may be possible there is no true Lucasfilm involvement at all even if she herself is involved.
What's left is a mystery, left for others more interested and autistic than me to solve.
@Smug Freiza once again, you and the pillar men have made some incredible finds. I'm slightly confused on why there is a purple box around some of the info...
Continuing our Rewriting Ripley exposé from above we now come to the second act of this very autistic chapter. While Katie proved a slippy fish to land, her partner in crime Lady V was far easier to find.
Lady V is the second half of the Rewriting Ripley podcast, another pathetic Reylo who decided to take shitposting to the next level by committing possible defamation and libel under an anonymous account. Well much like her cohost, she no longer has the luxury of anonymity.
PREVIOUS EMPLOYERS:
MacY's Herald Square / Sales Rep (MAR 2008 - FEB 2012)
Iconix Brand Group Inc / Graphic Designer (SEP 2011 - DEC 2012)
The Guardian Project / Graphic Designer (FEB 2012 - JUN 2012)
Uniqlo / Customer Service Advisor (JULY 2012 - MAY 2013)
Calvin Klein / Production and Photo Coordinator (MAY 2013 - DEC 2015)
Michael Kors / Post Production Coordinator (DEC 2015 - PRESENT?)
This private information is unavailable to guests due to policies enforced by third-parties.
DIGITAL FOOTPRINT
Much like her cohost Katie, Mariet is also an active member of the Reylo community and is also a devotee of social justice. She also appeared on a podcast called Scavengers Hoard: A Star Wars Podcast titled "Episode #132 - A Roundtable on Racism, Reylo and Star Wars Fandom" [archive] which is also shared on the Reylo communities tumblr. Her artwork is shared by Reylo's offsite and again like Katie although her twitter has been nuked, we can find examples of her shaming others for not being woke enough.
She is also an avid Reylo shipping artist you can check her Deviant Art Gallery here [archive], or some wholesome images spoilered below. Surprisingly not too degenerate, but still highly autistic.
Her about page [archive] describes her likes, mixed Puerto Rican/Ecuadorian heritage and of course contains pronouns which are She/her incase you were interested. Unfortunately for Mariet it was her unique artstyle across several platforms that made her so easy to find.
Curiously both of these specimens hardly have the resources and knowledge to be able to pull of something with as high production value as the Rewriting Ripley podcast and medium article. After reading the 70 minute long read and comparing the text speech to Katie, the previous contributor, the speech patterns appeared different. It was @Mister Dongs who insisted that there may be another unseen force who was using these two Reylo's as puppets to further their own agenda. While both Katie and Mariet have podcasting experience, Katie analytic skills and Mariet graphic design it still felt like there was someone else who was involved.
Enter Michelle Buchman, a former social media manager for Star Wars and Lucasfilm. Dataracer too felt like Michelle was likely involved from a collection of tweets he posted where Michelle asks twitter for "academics" to discuss a project with, with Katie in the replies.
However during the course of originally searching for Katie, one of our methods was searching for Webby Award winners of the same name to help narrow our search since the author of the Medium Article boasts about being an award winner, but it would appear Katie is not a Webby Award winner.
It would appear that Michelle Buchman however is an Webby Award winner, she is also focused on marketing analytics according to her own linked-in profile.
While we continued to dig into Michelle Buchman we noticed several curious developments, little mysteries and coincidences if you will. The first being that her former twitter handle was taken by a dummy account back in January of this year, right before the podcasts begun.
The most curious thing about Michelle however is that despite finding traces of her social media profiles, her parents and even some former addresses she has largely been scrubbed from the sites we use to find out targets. Voter registration sites, information aggregators, online white pages, there is no fucking trace of this woman or her current whereabouts. Some of the best doxers on the site assisted us in tracking this woman down and yet we all came up empty handed. I'm told the only way this is possible is Michelle must have paid to have her information scrubbed from the internet, possibly due to the Reylo's attacks on her, or maybe in anticipation of something else. Still I will post what we were able to find below:
FORMER ADDRESSES:
888 Massachusetts Ave
Cambridge, MA 02139
PARENTS ADDRESS: (BURTON AND THERESA BUCHMAN)
15 Gloria Ave
Tyngsboro, MA 01879
DIGITAL FOOTPRINT:
Aside from being bullied by Reylo's off the internet and possibly being the brain behind the Rewriting Ripley podcast, Michelle has her own Bleeding Fool article titled "Is a Crazy Person Running the Star Wars Social Media Account?" which was authored by the Fandom Menace's own Itchy Bacca [archive].
She also starred on a podcast Comic book show on youtube, late last year.
CONCLUSION
So there we have it fellow kiwis, the unmasking of the Rewriting Ripley team. Unfortunately we may be left with more questions now than when we started. I admit it could all be a coincidence relating to Michelle Buchman, but I highly doubt it. The Webby Award connection, her relationship with Katie, the scrubbed social media and in particular the lack of any aggregated profile of her address including in connection to her own parents is highly suspect. It's important to note that according to her Linked-In page she ceased working for Lucasfilm in August 2020, it may be possible there is no true Lucasfilm involvement at all even if she herself is involved.
What's left is a mystery, left for others more interested and autistic than me to solve.