Again, I don't disagree, but dead weight is still dead weight. I think your concern about driving Cecil off would be more on point if he were worth a shit.
No argument here about Cecil's worth. The question is about how much of the fanbase would be lost by shedding this particular piece of white girl wasted dead weight. That
is of worth.
He went into a lot of rage videos against Mags and Heather and whatshername queer and brown person then realized that they are more like avatars for a broken system (but in Zack logic) then forgot about it and made more rage videos and the circle continues.
Well I mean it's been five years at this point and it hasn't been 24 hours since he's made a video railing at Heather Antos' tweets.
Summary: Other woke people are putting Heather Antos on blast for allowing Valiant Comics to highlight brown Puerto Rican white supremacist Comicsgater Kenneth Rocafort's work on the main page of their website. Valiant is too busy dealing with the whiplash with the NFT crash after rebranding themselves as an "NFT company that also did comics" to care about Heather's bullshit at this time, but Antos' peers want to know why Rocafort's art, the best Valiant has to offer, hasn't been cancelled. Exasperated, Heather assures her fellow karen that she will
personally not hire any member of a hate movement, but she can make no guarantees of her employer. Simple Zack's take: "Heather's trying to cancel people! I hate her! Aaah!". I'm not a mindreader here but it begs the question of how much a guy who's been handed millions of dollars at this point is being held back by a girl who makes less than minimum wage working for a c-list imprint she has no power over.
Zack also put out
another video where he tried to gaslight about how unnamed people read into his video where he talked about unnamed people, which doesn't really pass muster when you refer to conversations you had with specific people verbatim during the vaguebooking. He also fishes out the idea of ceasing criticism altogether. He's reminded of when "fellow publisher" Joe Quesada once told him that he could be a critic
or he could be a publisher, and he's now starting to understand what that means. Since he's already sunk hundreds of thousands of dollars into publishing comics, he's not going to give up on being a publisher, but the criticism and throwing stones in the industry is really getting into the way with that. Or, in other words:
He doesn't want to "fade into obscurity and go back to a normie IT job" by the way. He could get a "normie IT job" as a third party IT contractor in McAllen, Texas doing what he was doing any time he wants. What Meyer actually wants is for the SJWs in comics to forgive him, without him having to apologize, and acknowledge him as a real big boy publisher who is allowed sell to the direct market and Bookline, and all his complaints amount to a 50 year old having a big crying jag because it's super unfair these people don't go out of their way to help out the singular guy who built his business off of shitting on them and inspired countless others to do the same. "I'm trapped!" the transaction-based guru cries out, "These SJWs should give me everything I want because it's the right thing of them to do!"
New Jersey comic convention Garden City Comic Fest
was beset by many Comicsgaters this weekend, including a rare personal appearance from the Frogfather himself. New Jersey is, appropriately, one of the spiritual hubs of Comicsgate, along with Texas and Australia.
Frog seems to have amused himself by indulging in his inner Jerseyness in the form of getting buzzed at the nearby bar and doing his best Tony Soprano impression as a bad boy "made man of comics", showboating his ill gotten wealth over his former industry peers. This was followed by hanging out in a bar parking lot
smoking cigarette and talking with Billy Tucci and Graham Nolan. Nolan and Tucci talked about the steaks they ate and also their trucks. True to form, Billy complains that Graham Nolan can operate his fancy electronic truck with all the gadgets and buttons better than he can while Nolan complained that Comicsgate is misunderstood and, as far as he can tell, is a group of fun guys who like talking about and making comics.
Comicsgate Outreach Update:
Eric July was invited present his very hyped new project, "the Rippaverse" to the CAPS audience. July, as covered by
@Ike Aim has notably forgone marketing his product itself in any way whatsoerver in lieu of presenting a corporate mission statement and an informal contract between publisher and customer where the former guaranteeing to uphold canonical integrity and not getting all racist and shit with the reader. Despite this unorthodox approach to business, July has over 11,000 signsup for his imprint before launch, rivaling that of
Rekt Planet back in 2020 (though it's questionable that July will gross over $100 per backer like
Rekt Planet did). The point being, despite the complete void of meaningful information about the comics themselves, the project will be of great import in the world of self-published comics and it only makes sense for similar fringe creators to network here; July is a talented self-promoter and entrepreneur with his own audience, and Comicsgate is full of old guys with centuries of valuable of practical experience. What's needed here is a talented diplomat, a man able to build bridges, to cross the divides not just professionally but across fandoms and wildly different life experiences in order to find and establish common ground.
Besides that July's customers already waited for quite a while for time his Ripassverse without even knowing what to expect. The only thing he told them was to Gatekeep it from imagined wokists as if they were interested in his shit.