Frog's desperate attempts to rope Ya Boi Zack into his ComicsGate Tour of Forgiveness by getting him to join a stream are turning into their own little filler subplot.
In review, the week started out with the announcement of a special guest appearance by Ya Boi Zack, a much-hyped event which Frog was so giddy about he was compelled to create multiple trailers to promote what amounts to a conversation with his friend.
After Zack predictably ghosted the entire thing, Frog was forced to simulate it by streaming himself replying in real-time to one of Zack's videos. This doesn't seem to be going well, as I'm about 55 minutes in and it's broken out into an argument twice so far. At one point Frog became so angry he had to walk away from his computer.
Frog is turning into Zack's Liam.
Fuck it, lets go.
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For those of you unaware, Ethan Van Sciver ran a tremendous six hour live stream for Norah's Saga, a book by the people who took 200,000 dollars of backer money and failed to keep any promise made to backers. On the stream were employees of Allegiance Arts.
Currently, Norah sits at 34 grand; most of which was the result of Frog pushing the people who defrauded his audience.
Apparently someone, somewhere said something about not backing Allegiance products. Which caused Simple Zach to drop an incredibly condescending, out of touch scolder video.
Simple Zach begins as is his wont by meandering around unrelatedly. It's simultaneously impressive and mind blowing that after half a decade he hasn't
evolved or improved at all. Simple Zach eventually gets to his point after a minute. He gripes about people encouraging him to go on livestreams, he doesn't like them, and really, he feels they didn't help him.
This is false. Livestreams, Twitter, and other forms of engagement have a tremendous impact. We saw this with Damegang, Zenotype, Trixie and countless other campaigns that the right signal boost can make all the difference in funding. Richard just doesn't appreciate that because Frog has been doing that for him...
Simple Zach proceeds to give a...less than accurate description of events. He essentially makes it sounds as if it was an either or Wal-Mart. For those of us who possess the power of memory this will sound familiar. Its because it was essentially what Mike S Miller tried to do...
Simple Zach then chides people for getting angry and not backing a subsequent project the Saints, stating that he doesn't really care if a project he backs his late, or even delivers? This sounds more like he doesn't back campaigns for the actual book?
After another non-sequitur into movie theaters being over, Simple Zach transitions back. He actually says that the book is YA, not his thing. But he was worried it was going to get rejected and was pleased when it didn't. For Simple Zach, the connection that Kelsey Shannon has built relationships with other people via Livestreams and that he promoted on a Livestream is too much for the Simple One to connect the dots...
Frog then ran a stream where he talked at a video of Richard the SIMPle because he's such a good friend and ally he'll refuse to even come on a stream to have a conversation with you.
Dickie's video seems to frustrate Frog, who attempts to correct the many contradictory and condescending things noted above. It's hard to feel sorry though, as Frog gushes over Simple Zach, playing a Culture Warz video the Simple one made about a Marvel book receiving criticism. For those of you with the super power of memory, Frog praising Simple Zach as a culture warrior is odd as first and foremost a culture warrior has to actually acknowledge culture as valuable and worth fighting over. Which, Simple Zach made a video where he stated the exact opposite last year...