Before JDA comes back to flex on us with the receipts for his latest rosewater enema or whatever,
Frog put out a few livestreams recently.
Comicsgate Kings this week opened with such scintillating topics like Mike Baron's water bill ($43.61, which Baron is outraged by) and Billy Tucci "regaling" the audience with longwinded stories about his various old man infirmities like how he hurt his thumb last week and how one time he got bit on the face by a spider when vacationing in Mexico. It required the application of a steroid-laced ointment. Frog talked about some food he ate the other day and then tweeted pictures of and watching a Chris Rock set, describing it only as "too liberal". The overall atmosphere of
grim death, already pervasive with the elderly CG Kings crew, was only enhanced by the morbid topics tabled for discussion by Frog - news about desiccated mummies and Marvel removing the Stan Lee death tribute for the Netflix Luke Cage series.
Suffice it to say, none of our enfeebled heroes were ready for the greatest threat to the ensemble since it's inception:
a telegenic high energy asian woman. Irene Strychalski was quickly noticed in the chat by Frog, who described her as "our most requested guest on this show", as superchats from her many admirers already began to roll in to put her on. The panel already maxed out at 10 guests, it was decided that CG King Andy Smith would be called upon to make the ultimate sacrifice to make room for Irene and was tossed the fuck out.
Both fans and panelists alike were delighted at the addition of teenage squeals and giggles by the quickly fast-tracked "Comicsgate King" Irene, applauding her brave and stunning take of
yelling at a tiktok video of some woman fake-crying over being scared of a bug. With the notable exception of Shane Davis, who visibly grimaced and squirmed in his chair at the sight of the Fiendish author, no doubt over some alcohol-fueled social and/or marital transgression made over a now privated livestream. Invigorated, the audience proceeded to superchat hundreds of dollars to get the panel to start drink shot after shot and lauding Irene as even betterer than Anna as the subject of their
simple affections. Modestly, Irene giggled and said she'd
never do anything to her bestie Anna in response to Jon Malin and Dale Keown's goading. Sadly, the CG Kings couldn't hold on to their super chat liquor like they used to and Frog quickly loaded two 2 hours of clips until the show was taken down for Youtube policy violations. An aptly named stream if ever there was one.
The next stream,
"The Next DC COMICS/WARNER MEDIA Bloodbath is COMING" was a discussion between Frog and TUG of the upcoming Time-Warner / Discovery merger, framing the the inevitable removal of redundant and superfluous positions in the face of the merger between the two multinational global media conglomerates with the old refrain of "get woke go broke" and that the long-awaited comeuppance upon the SJWs will happen any day now. TUG was content to let Frog carry the stream and wait for the opportunity to shill his comic. Somehow this was the only stream to be set to unlisted.
After unlisting the previous entr, Frog had another try at the same topic,
"WARNER MEDIA PURGES SJWs! Furry Convention FILTH!", unburdened by the dead weight of TUG and the obligatory shilling of his self-insert comic before
TUG disavows Comicsgate again once the check clears TUG no doubt repays loyalty in kind, with the bonus topic of a disastrous ABDL furry convention.
Pops van Zant, aka "Grandpa Comics" aka Ryan Niswander has launched his crowdfunding campaign
Enter The CRoMniVerse: Anthology Vol #1, a 90+ page anthology dedicated to CRoM, the green mascot of the Madness Comics publishing line (this being said line's debut issue) described as a "literal internet troll", brought to life by a who's who of literal whos like DarkGift Comics, Vic King, Hex Allen and Doc Blaylock. Will it meet its fixed $8000 funding goal? Almost certainly not, but we'll always have this lovely depiction of what I call "Shrekfamous" by Shae the Red to remember the campaign by.
Simple Zack decided to make a video about how turning crowdfunding into Amazon is going to kill everything good about crowdfunding. This video was mainly a response to getting backlash for commenting on a Douglas Ernst tweet.
Douglas Ernst seems to have taken exception to Greatest Ally Zack's seething "question" about what would these fancy-pants on time people also have to offer if they didn't have that. So much so that he forgoed his usual livestream fare of shouting out his collaborators, exchanging pleasantries with Captain Cummings and Comic Book Hut and revisiting the Allegiance Arts Screwjob of '19 to verbally brutalize Richard for an hour and a half. Given the scope and vitriol, I suspect that Ernst has been "wishing a Zack would" for quite some time now.
A sound thrashing of Meyer's mindset, from his laziness in refusing to engage potential customers anywhere beyond ranting into his cheap phone in his apartment, about how even the Ya Boy Zack commentators are siding with Ernst. He even dropped a vital piece of information of when he and Meyer stopped talking in the first place (which if nothing else,
@Absurdity might find interesting):
I can't say whether this stream was effective or not (I had no idea Doug could be so entertaining), but it did beat Richard C Meyer into privating or deleting 20 million views worth of videos as well as releasing an unprecedented 40 minute cope stream, amounting to Meyer sagely explaining to his betters that rapid fulfillment is bad because Zack finds it "boring" (because really business is about what Richard personally finds emotionally fulfilling) and that crowdfunding
done correctly is actually about shifting all the risk to investors. Two things I'm sure any customer would be no doubt overjoyed to hear.
Ernst seems to have had his own thoughts on the video.
