Frog has really been a stream machine. I couldn't be bothered for most, but I saw he's doing drawing streams! It was mostly worthless and I was about to tune out when Trevor Nickell asked whether Ethan would wait until he actually had something to ship before starting an IGG.
Frog seems to have taken the State of Comicsgate presented on the Poz Show personally, as he does most criticisms of Comicsgate as a whole. As for me personally,
I warned him way back in February that at 426 days between launch and expected delivery,
Cyberfrog: Rekt Planet customers were already the longest waiting customers in CG. I don't really have much else to add on the matter since that post nine months ago; in my opinion Comicsgate customers should accept waiting for years for their comics as long as they continue to overwhelmingly support the practice in the face of on-time alternatives. Said guarantee of support seems to be shakier these days since Frog has gone on to blow past those extremely generous margins (we're now at 614 days since the launch of
Rekt Planet with no end in sight), with Frog's youtube programming pivoting towards these perceived issues and is now putting out solo drawstreams of him engaging with his increasingly impatient chat while showing that progress is being made on
Rekt Planet.
The other change is a lot of
ESG-funding related streams; with ideological leadership falling upon Frog to provide, he's been producing a lot of content with the challenging task of trying to relate the extremely dry matter of a DNC-controlled Congress altering regulations 401Ks and social security retirement fund management to his entertainment-hungry audience, elaborating how it results in a near limitless source of investment capital for global media megacorporations and incentivizes them to create woke content and hire woke people. His latest stream went so far as to show the audience WarnerMedia's showcasing of DC Comics as proof of their "diverse and inclusive" values and therefore qualification to receive a high ESG rating to be prioritized for investment capital. The point of this all being, shouting "get woke go broke", complaining about how the Disney Sequels suck and the original, critical stage of OGCG is and in truth always was just pointless screaming into the void. These executives in board room meetings simply do not care what fandom thinks; hell, they don't care if DC Comics' tiny business makes a profit or not. What they actually care about is access to the collective retirement funds of all working Americans. DC Comics could sell zero comics this year and they'd still be soliciting Superman/Batman gay erotica regardless so long as the gay content boosts AT&T/TimeWarner's ESG rating.
All this builds towards Frog's closing argument which, summarized as best I can, is that youtubers complaining about America's culture being made woke by big corporations and claiming victory based off of low Rotten Tomatoes scores or underperforming box office yields amounts to little more then peddling empty copium to an audience that just wants to be told what they want to hear at this point. The current imposed woke cultural hegemony isn't going to be fought by superchatting someone like the Quartering or Jeremy Griggs having a tantrum about it on youtube and somehow hoping the manchild meltdown is going to make Bob Iger ignore his stakeholders; if people want to take action, al that can really be done is supporting otherwise blacklisted or suppressed art and culture, which is Comicsgate.
At the same time, Frog's reconnecting with the Comicsgate everyman is a rich source of entertainment.
On this ESG stream, a sidetopic of rapproachment between him and under 100 subscriber "Telepathic Bunny" was tragically derailed when the autist in question evoked
Amit Raina's critique on the State of CG stream describing Comicsgate's transformation "from a fan group to a fan club", at which Frog exploded "Comicsgate didn't become my fan group! My fan group became Comicsgate you dummies!
How dare you?!"
Putting aside the burning question of if Comicsgate has degenerated into a e-celeb fan club devoid of its original values, Anna TSWG, currently selling a heavily supported and endorsed $25 cosplay calendar to Comicsgaters, continues to yield delicious content.
Earlier this week a Brie Larson stan account made a Bounding into Comics parody twitter account with this premier tweet, to which Anna and Cecil reacted to by calling upon their twitter their followers to flag the account down for impersonation, showing how truly not mad they were at this material.
Incidentally Anna being confused with a sex worker is apparently something that is not exclusive to the online world, as the latest JACK show Anna exploded at the other panelists after Cecil brought up their fun meetup in Nashville with her boyfriend and Yellowflash where they went to a strip club. Anna was less than enthused at this being brought up ever again, given that a drunk bar patron crotchgrabbed her in front of her three male friends who proceeded to "just stand there and be useless". Her own boyfriend stood there and did nothing, while Cecil presumably looked for a corner to masturbate from while he watched, while Yellowflash showed no interest in stepping up for Anna's boyfriend. Apparently youtube celeb does not translate to toughness in real life bars. This was was then compounded by the arrival of "Captain Chokeout", never the most tactful Englishman, who met Anna's indignant answer of what she was wearing (lol) with a trenchcoat with peals of laughter, explaining that that's what all the strippers in clubs wear in between sets, to which Anna reacted by leaving the stream in a rage. The stream was then quickly privated by Jon Malin in short order.
Tragically, Anna learned the hard way that when you're a big star, like the drunken rando at a strip club, you can just grab women like Anna by the pussy. You can do anything. #cecilgate
They're part of the fourth wave of Comicsgaters to rise to prominence over 2021, along with varied individuals like Gabe Eltraeb, Aaron Lopresti, Well Read, Lord Finatra, Leroi, Matt Bahr and Ali Sanguis. The "Crackpack" comprises of people who joined Comicsgate because they were fans of youtube CG livestreams like Frog's shock jock-style shows, the JACK show, etc. as opposed to previous waves who joined because of comics related reasons. Howard Stern had a Wack Pack; Comicsgate e-celebs have given rise to a Crackpack, with a self-styled aesthete centered around smoking crack as well as sometimes cooming. They encounter a fair deal of gatekeeping and pushback from any of the cliques in Comicsgate concerned with optics in any way whatsoever, and are finding it difficult to get traction beyond a few of the smaller creators. In any case, here's an example of this accurate and no doubt flattering reflection:
It really is a book for those with a good, aquired, refined taste, confident and secure in what they like, and those interested in new takes and broadening their palette.
It's completely fine for others to stay plebs and consoom their feed through the trough of mainstream comics and mainstream imitations however, where would the medium be without them.
lol yeah we're looking at this generation's moebius right here
