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It's now clear that Lim and Pellgrini have a more robust strategy for growth and discovery than the vast majority of Comicsgate.
Kamen America will be purchased by more unique readers than any single CG book offered in 2021.

It's a sound strategy.
1. Ship early and often to sustain interest.
2. Get the books on digital platforms.
3. Do conventions.
4. Get some of the books into comic book stores.
5. Augment with webtoons.

All of those actions lead to discovery, don't require hours long investment in an insular culture and focus on enjoying the actual content - rather than meta commentary.


Ethan is a good manager of a herd of approximately 1,500 +- backers who can be periodically milked for $75+ for his projects plus a half dozen or so he designates each year.
Edit - the number of nerd-cows who want to volunteer to be human ATMs for Comicsgate apparently has a low ceiling.
Now that the novelty has worn off - the reality of CG is $50-$75 buy ins for books that won't get shipped for a year or more. It's a niche within the fringe hobby of comic book collecting.

A good approximation for the backers of CG - look at the number of likes on Ethan's videos - it's a fairly good barometer of the current number of individual backers.
The apparent number of total unique backers for CG continues to shrink and hasn't yet found a bottom.

There is obviously less incentive for aspiring CG personalities to make content - what gets made is meandering stream of consciousness rambles.
CG becomes less and less visible and relevant, there's now no compelling reason for anyone to argue with CG. CG needs an opponent but the opposite isn't true.
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EGB said:
It's now clear that Lim and Pellgrini have a more robust strategy for growth and discovery than the vast majority of Comicsgate.
Kamen America will be purchased by more unique readers than any single CG book offered in 2021.

It's a sound strategy.
1. Ship early and often to sustain interest.
2. Get the books on digital platforms.
3. Do conventions.
4. Get some of the books into comic book stores.
5. Augment with webtoons.

All of those actions lead to discovery, don't require hours long investment in an insular culture and focus on enjoying the actual content - rather than meta commentary.


Ethan is a good manager of a herd of approximately 1,500 +- backers who can be periodically milked for $75+ for his projects plus a half dozen or so he designates each year.
Edit - the number of nerd-cows who want to volunteer to be human ATMs for Comicsgate apparently has a low ceiling.
Now that the novelty has worn off - the reality of CG is $50-$75 buy ins for books that won't get shipped for a year or more. It's a niche within the fringe hobby of comic book collecting.

A good approximation for the backers of CG - look at the number of likes on Ethan's videos - it's a fairly good barometer of the current number of individual backers.
The apparent number of total unique backers for CG continues to shrink and hasn't yet found a bottom.

There is obviously less incentive for aspiring CG personalities to make content - what gets made is meandering stream of consciousness rambles.
CG becomes less and less visible and relevant, there's now no compelling reason for anyone to argue with CG. CG needs an opponent but the opposite isn't true.
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Cool, cool. Will Tim and Mark be joining Mike in boomering the internet?
 
EGB said:
It's now clear that Lim and Pellgrini have a more robust strategy for growth and discovery than the vast majority of Comicsgate.
Kamen America will be purchased by more unique readers than any single CG book offered in 2021.

It's a sound strategy.
1. Ship early and often to sustain interest.
2. Get the books on digital platforms.
3. Do conventions.
4. Get some of the books into comic book stores.
5. Augment with webtoons.

All of those actions lead to discovery, don't require hours long investment in an insular culture and focus on enjoying the actual content - rather than meta commentary.


Ethan is a good manager of a herd of approximately 1,500 +- backers who can be periodically milked for $75+ for his projects plus a half dozen or so he designates each year.
Edit - the number of nerd-cows who want to volunteer to be human ATMs for Comicsgate apparently has a low ceiling.
Now that the novelty has worn off - the reality of CG is $50-$75 buy ins for books that won't get shipped for a year or more. It's a niche within the fringe hobby of comic book collecting.

A good approximation for the backers of CG - look at the number of likes on Ethan's videos - it's a fairly good barometer of the current number of individual backers.
The apparent number of total unique backers for CG continues to shrink and hasn't yet found a bottom.

There is obviously less incentive for aspiring CG personalities to make content - what gets made is meandering stream of consciousness rambles.
CG becomes less and less visible and relevant, there's now no compelling reason for anyone to argue with CG. CG needs an opponent but the opposite isn't true.
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Get a fuckin' life, Edwin.
 
EGB said:
It's now clear that Lim and Pellgrini have a more robust strategy for growth and discovery than the vast majority of Comicsgate.
Kamen America will be purchased by more unique readers than any single CG book offered in 2021.

It's a sound strategy.
1. Ship early and often to sustain interest.
2. Get the books on digital platforms.
3. Do conventions.
4. Get some of the books into comic book stores.
5. Augment with webtoons.
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Nonsense.
1) Tim is successful because he is a doctor. (but he is not actually successful because he is losing money on every book published)
2) Tim is successful because he lacks the courage to quit his job and do comics full time like a real pro. If you don't dress like a heroin addict and live on your couch all day, you are not a comics pro.
3) Tim and Mark are constantly losing money on every book they publish. Its simply IMPOSSIBLE to successfully make comics without charging $25 a book.
4) Tim and Mark are conservatives and Trump supporters. That makes them bad people.
5) Tim is doing Manga and Anime stuff. Not Western comics. This makes everything they are doing invalid. Kamen America is NOT a real comic. Manga is not comics. REAL comics are always based on something that was popular in the 1990s.
6) Tim is doing digital. No comics pro would ever do digital. Digital is for retards.
7) Nobody reads webtoons. Webtoons are for losers. What people who read comics want are dollar store toys and starter jackets.
8) Tim and Mark don't even stream on a weekly basis. NOBODY can be successful in crowdfunded comics without streaming.
9) Conventions are for losers.
10) Tim and Mark produce their comics too quickly. By doing so, they sacrifice the quality that real comics pros put into their work. There is no heart in their books. They get the story beats wrong. You can tell its all just a grift to get as much money as quick as they can (even though of course they are losing money on every book published).
11) Comics stores don't exist anymore. As Richard C. Meyer explained in the spring of 2020, Comicsgate defeated mainstream publishing and their stores. There is no direct market anymore. There is only indiegogo. Putting books in stores is as retarded as digital publishing.

What the customers want is

- More THOTS on streams like Witten
- More pissing on livestreams
- More waving guns around on livestreams
- More old bald guys reliving their glory days on streams.
- More toys, more chrome, more jackets and more merchandise of every kind.
- More 1990s nostalgia.
 
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Strix454 said:
Nonsense.
1) Tim is successful because he is a doctor. (but he is not actually successful because he is losing money on every book published)
2) Tim is successful because he lacks the courage to quit his job and do comics full time like a real pro. If you don't dress like a heroin addict and live on your couch all day, you are not a comics pro.
3) Tim and Mark are constantly losing money on every book they publish. Its simply IMPOSSIBLE to successfully make comics without charging $25 a book.
4) Tim and Mark are conservatives and Trump supporters. That makes them bad people.
5) Tim is doing Manga and Anime stuff. Not Western comics. This makes everything they are doing invalid. Kamen America is NOT a real comic. Manga is not comics. REAL comics are always based on something that was popular in the 1990s.
6) Tim is doing digital. No comics pro would ever do digital. Digital is for retards.
7) Nobody reads webtoons. Webtoons are for losers. What people who read comics want are dollar store toys and starter jackets.
8) Tim and Mark don't even stream on a weekly basis. NOBODY can be successful in crowdfunded comics without streaming.
9) Conventions are for losers.
10) Tim and Mark produce their comics too quickly. By doing so, they sacrifice the quality that real comics pros put into their work. There is no heart in their books. They get the story beats wrong. You can tell its all just a grift to get as much money as quick as they can (even though of course they are losing money on every book published).
11) Comics stores don't exist anymore. As Richard C. Meyer explained in the spring of 2020, Comicsgate defeated mainstream publishing and their stores. There is no direct market anymore. There is only indiegogo. Putting books in stores is as retarded as digital publishing.

What the customers want is

- More THOTS on streams like Witten
- More pissing on livestreams
- More waving guns around on livestreams
- More old bald guys reliving their glory days on streams.
- More toys, more chrome, more jackets and more merchandise of every kind.
- More 1990s nostalgia.
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SaidNoOneEver said:
Have you ever considered South Louisiana? Plenty of sheetrock work available right now.
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Louisiana is a nice place to visit but I wouldn't want to live there.
I'm not a tradesman for that matter.
 
Least Concern said:
You have a fundamental misunderstanding of how NFTs work. A key point is that the network which stores the ownership information is decentralized and also used by (in this case) the popular Etherium cryptocurrency, so no single entity can shut it down; the information will be accessible for as long as at least one computer storing the Etherium blockchain exists.
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OH look.... i have a monkey and i didn't even have to pay $0.36 for it.
Like i said you don't own anything and it all can be gone anytime.
But by all means keep buying digital stuff... when your power goes out and you are sitting in the dark at least i'll have a comic book in my hands to read by lantern light.
 

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OH look.... i have a monkey and i didn't even have to pay $0.36 for it.
Like i said you don't own anything and it all can be gone anytime.
But by all means keep buying digital stuff... when your power goes out and you are sitting in the dark at least i'll have a comic book in my hands to read by lantern light.
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Stu, you don't understand. It's like, real online and stuff. Don't you want to own a string of ones and zeros? :lit:

In all seriousness, it's possible for digital property to be valuable. The problem is we're talking about art. It has low utility and when you consider how volatile digital stuff like this is to begin with, well...

VIkkiVerse said:
Get a fuckin' life, Edwin.
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The real question is, if it's such a slam dunk, why isn't his buddy Mike doing it? Could it be Mark and Tim aren't a couple of fags chasing Ethan behind every Pizza Parlor?

EGB said:
Take your meds. It's not my fault you choose to waste hours a week "reporting" on comic weirdoes.
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"S-shut up! I'm not the crazy one."
 
EGB said:
It's now clear that Lim and Pellgrini have a more robust strategy for growth and discovery than the vast majority of Comicsgate.
Kamen America will be purchased by more unique readers than any single CG book offered in 2021.

It's a sound strategy.
1. Ship early and often to sustain interest.
2. Get the books on digital platforms.
3. Do conventions.
4. Get some of the books into comic book stores.
5. Augment with webtoons.

All of those actions lead to discovery, don't require hours long investment in an insular culture and focus on enjoying the actual content - rather than meta commentary.


Ethan is a good manager of a herd of approximately 1,500 +- backers who can be periodically milked for $75+ for his projects plus a half dozen or so he designates each year.
Edit - the number of nerd-cows who want to volunteer to be human ATMs for Comicsgate apparently has a low ceiling.
Now that the novelty has worn off - the reality of CG is $50-$75 buy ins for books that won't get shipped for a year or more. It's a niche within the fringe hobby of comic book collecting.

A good approximation for the backers of CG - look at the number of likes on Ethan's videos - it's a fairly good barometer of the current number of individual backers.
The apparent number of total unique backers for CG continues to shrink and hasn't yet found a bottom.

There is obviously less incentive for aspiring CG personalities to make content - what gets made is meandering stream of consciousness rambles.
CG becomes less and less visible and relevant, there's now no compelling reason for anyone to argue with CG. CG needs an opponent but the opposite isn't true.
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Welcome to 2019 Edwin.
 
EGB said:
It's now clear that Lim and Pellgrini have a more robust strategy for growth and discovery than the vast majority of Comicsgate.
Kamen America will be purchased by more unique readers than any single CG book offered in 2021.

It's a sound strategy.
1. Ship early and often to sustain interest.
2. Get the books on digital platforms.
3. Do conventions.
4. Get some of the books into comic book stores.
5. Augment with webtoons.

All of those actions lead to discovery, don't require hours long investment in an insular culture and focus on enjoying the actual content - rather than meta commentary.


Ethan is a good manager of a herd of approximately 1,500 +- backers who can be periodically milked for $75+ for his projects plus a half dozen or so he designates each year.
Edit - the number of nerd-cows who want to volunteer to be human ATMs for Comicsgate apparently has a low ceiling.
Now that the novelty has worn off - the reality of CG is $50-$75 buy ins for books that won't get shipped for a year or more. It's a niche within the fringe hobby of comic book collecting.

A good approximation for the backers of CG - look at the number of likes on Ethan's videos - it's a fairly good barometer of the current number of individual backers.
The apparent number of total unique backers for CG continues to shrink and hasn't yet found a bottom.

There is obviously less incentive for aspiring CG personalities to make content - what gets made is meandering stream of consciousness rambles.
CG becomes less and less visible and relevant, there's now no compelling reason for anyone to argue with CG. CG needs an opponent but the opposite isn't true.
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Get off the drugs dude
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EGB said:
It's now clear that Lim and Pellgrini have a more robust strategy for growth and discovery than the vast majority of Comicsgate.
Kamen America will be purchased by more unique readers than any single CG book offered in 2021.

It's a sound strategy.
1. Ship early and often to sustain interest.
2. Get the books on digital platforms.
3. Do conventions.
4. Get some of the books into comic book stores.
5. Augment with webtoons.

All of those actions lead to discovery, don't require hours long investment in an insular culture and focus on enjoying the actual content - rather than meta commentary.


Ethan is a good manager of a herd of approximately 1,500 +- backers who can be periodically milked for $75+ for his projects plus a half dozen or so he designates each year.
Edit - the number of nerd-cows who want to volunteer to be human ATMs for Comicsgate apparently has a low ceiling.
Now that the novelty has worn off - the reality of CG is $50-$75 buy ins for books that won't get shipped for a year or more. It's a niche within the fringe hobby of comic book collecting.

A good approximation for the backers of CG - look at the number of likes on Ethan's videos - it's a fairly good barometer of the current number of individual backers.
The apparent number of total unique backers for CG continues to shrink and hasn't yet found a bottom.

There is obviously less incentive for aspiring CG personalities to make content - what gets made is meandering stream of consciousness rambles.
CG becomes less and less visible and relevant, there's now no compelling reason for anyone to argue with CG. CG needs an opponent but the opposite isn't true.
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Let it go Edwin. Let it go.
 
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EGB said:
Take your meds. It's not my fault you choose to waste hours a week "reporting" on comic weirdoes.
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DA Talks and I do our weekly livestream for fun, Edwin.

You a-log @FROG and ComicsGate because you're an obsessive wackadoo who should just point out on the doll where EVS hurt you and seek help somewhere else.
 
NasserRabadi13 said:
Wait what did Edwin say about Mike?
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Edwin was just complaining about CG and their numbers again when Mike just told him to chill out about it. Then Edwin went on to say that he rarely talks about CG except on discord. Yet here he is now.

On the flip side of things, I did find this to be a quite funny comeback from Mike concerning Ethan’s stream last night.

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More crypto talk derailment, but nft nonsense I will never get. What stops me from saving some other guys nft monkey pic and making it my avatar as well? Do I get into the club now, or do I have to own a crypto certificate that says I own the 'original' set of pixels?
 
Rupin said:
Edwin was just complaining about CG and their numbers again when Mike just told him to chill out about it. Then Edwin went on to say that he rarely talks about CG except on discord. Yet here he is now.

On the flip side of things, I did find this to be a quite funny comeback from Mike concerning Ethan’s stream last night.

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Have you got a screen shot of the superchat?

This is pretty funny.
 
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