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Nothing this weekend, nor next weekend, in fact the next possibly big release is Minecraft on April 4th. So it'll probably end up doing what Captain America did, except I expect it to make a little more because it's definitely more family friendly and there aren't many family movies out right now.

Chalk it up to great release schedule
I saw a video going over mainstream reviews, they fucking hate the movie.
The bad word of mouth will slaughter this flick.
I don't think hate watching is real in the grand scheme of things, so it shouldn't make much money if any at all.
 
A young actress or any actress for that matter, saying something dumb has no impact on anything. Maybe it impacts a movie promotion and that is only when it starts rolling downhill, in terms of social media and entertainment media. The captured audience of FNT/The Fandom Menace can't bring down a movie or talent in Hollywood.

I believe Nerd and other grifters tried to play that game with Cynthia Erivo in the lead-up to Wicked, it had no impact because the people who went and saw Wicked, most likely aren't losers watching Heels vs Babyface (a bald unintelligent man who looks like a gorilla) rant about pronouns while playing a video game.

In a comic book, when you had the invasion of untalented people, there's nowhere to hide, 23 pages or so of decompressed storytelling for 3 to 5 bucks an issue. When it sucks, and it did suck in 2016 and on, you were getting taken in terms of what you were buying. You can go see a movie, and even if it's flawed, you still have the movie-going experience, performance, direction, musical score, and so on. You can have a lot of fun at a 2-star or 2 and 1/2 star movie. Comics is simply three things: IP, writer, and artist. That's it. The products are simply too different and the expectations are too different. One is an experience, the other is reading alone.

What was going on in comics at the height of 'woke' is much different than, and I think the first woman to cross Nerd and his lemmings was Brie Larson for some reason, there's no there there. It's all smoke and mirrors. And given that they are supposedly against cancel culture, it's the same tactics. Trying to destroy someone's career based on political opinions. Yeah, a lot of people in Hollywood are left of center, who gives a fuck? Plenty of them campaigned with Harris, but the swing voters didn't listen and voted for President Trump. And then they can go watch a movie or watch some sports or whatever the hell. Normal people don't 'live' their politics.

No one's life is going to end just because fucking Snow White is a so-so movie.
You are confused. Brie Larson didn't ruin her reputation over Biden or Kamala, she did it by being the most obnoxious snob she could possibly be in the window of opportunity she was given to be a success. Even among her fellow libs. Her specialty I believe was crying and nudity, which won her an Oscar. In a way you could say she is a traditionalist in Hollywood.

Great art in a comic book can mask a lame plot or script, just like CG can overwhelm an audience if it's cutting edge. Great writing can win over critics, but you still need serviceable artwork to actually be a success.

The invasion of untalent ever so slightly coincided with Disney's Marvel takeover. All those comics were there to do was to prep the market for their wokey-dokey Disney Princess model of storytelling. The trad nerd grift is strong, but it's all the idiot libtards left them after torching every single brand they stamped their hooves on. It's long past over, all we can do now is point and laugh and duck and cover. I could never do what the pop-cultural pseudo conservatives do simply because I really can't be bothered to see a movie or a series that makes me astral vomit at the thought of seeing it.

But that's the real problem: finding the humor in any of this. It takes a higher intellect to be able to put things in perspective and find something to laugh at, even if it's at one's self. It is the undeveloped mind of a spoiled child that must be taken seriously and rewarded at all times even when it comes with little to no effort. It's a market that caters to the super myopic and the unsocialized and it's led by worthless suits so rich and proud that they can afford a whole decade's worth of mediocrity and failure just to stick it to the working stiff who would rather not be reminded of all the forced corporate human-centipede morality jargon every time they want to be entertained.
 
But that's the real problem: finding the humor in any of this. It takes a higher intellect to be able to put things in perspective and find something to laugh at, even if it's at one's self. It is the undeveloped mind of a spoiled child that must be taken seriously and rewarded at all times even when it comes with little to no effort. It's a market that caters to the super myopic and the unsocialized and it's led by worthless suits so rich and proud that they can afford a whole decade's worth of mediocrity and failure just to stick it to the working stiff who would rather not be reminded of all the forced corporate human-centipede morality jargon every time they want to be entertained
Tldr:
Shit sucks bro
 
You know he makes money talking about pop culture right? Or are you so retarded you don't get that?
Also it's shit, calm the fuck down nigger.

It doesn't take any kind of exceptional skill. If you call grifting a talent, sure (and I certainly throw FNT's enemies,Frog and his ilk in with them). It's all the same nonsense with infighting, cross-fighting, and trying to position for control over the overlapping pay pigs. I'm sure for a crowd of middle-aged disillusioned male Republicans, it matters deeply to them that Snow White is bad, that Rachel Zegler said whatever she said. Squeezing them as money is, like, ok, good for you? Nerd and the rest were right place right time and benefited from the YouTube algorithm. I find that impressive the way you'd find any Youtuber who does well for themselves. It's not on the same level as traditional creative talents that are honed through years of dedication and expertise.

Jeremy's two biggest claims to fame are saying Kathleen Kennedy's name with a silly theatrical inflection and being disavowed by Zach Snyder on a charity stream, as Zach brought up the importance of unity and rejecting hate ('muh brand' Jeremy would go on to say).
 
A young actress or any actress for that matter, saying something dumb has no impact on anything. Maybe it impacts a movie promotion and that is only when it starts rolling downhill, in terms of social media and entertainment media.
We unfortunately live in very fake and gay times where everything is hyped up culture war bullshit. Thanks people that pushed "the personal is political" swill, now the rest of us live in the nightmare of making that a reality. Even non-entertainment focused right wing news figures were covering the lady-sasquatch's comments, especially once it got out that they took one of the cornerstone classics of animation and re-wrote it into an antifa puff piece.

Anthony Mackie'a retarded comments about Captain America didn't cause CA4 to bomb, but that story going viral a week before release didn't help it any.

The captured audience of FNT/The Fandom Menace can't bring down a movie or talent in Hollywood.
They never claim to, they've always just given their views. Their views just happen to resonate with a lot of people hence their explosion in popularity from 2018 to 2022 where this downturn in western media was at it's fever pitch. Autistic nerd talk has always been heavily negative and involved a lot of shitting on things and impassioned screeching over bullshit. This is the natural state of these spaces, it's why access press can no longer compete in this media market, it's too inauthentic to the end consumer of this media.

Only schizo's like Zach and Vito the Pedo have made the claim that FNT, etc, have the power to bring down movies or talent. All FNT, etc ever claimed is that these entities are doing it to themselves with their magic super power of basic pattern recognition.

I believe Nerd and other grifters tried to play that game with Cynthia Erivo in the lead-up to Wicked, it had no impact because the people who went and saw Wicked,
They said repeatedly Wicked would be financially successful because it's an adaptation of arguably the most popular modern play and it's aimed at women and gays and the adaptation actually caters to that audience. Half of them even gave it a positive review. It actually performed worse than they thought it would financially and award wise, getting snubbed from awards because a tranny themed musical also released last year.

None of this means the lead actor isn't fucking crazy.

Minecraft looks like horrendous, globohomo corpo gobbldygook and it's lead actor is a massive unlikable cock in reality but it will still probably make near if not over a billion at the box office because it shares a title with one of the most popular video games of all time.

What was going on in comics at the height of 'woke' is much different than, and I think the first woman to cross Nerd and his lemmings was Brie Larson for some reason, there's no there there. It's all smoke and mirrors.
The Brie Larson backlash pre-dates Nerdrotic even having 100k subs, she just said a lot of really stupid inflammatory bullshit during press tours that even turned normies heads. It didn't help that her character was completely unlikable in the MCU which people unfairly projected onto her which only exacerbated things. Ryan K has been a Brie simp for at least 3 years now and they praised how she has handled media since then (though they still use her in thumbnails for the meme of it)


And given that they are supposedly against cancel culture, it's the same tactics. Trying to destroy someone's career based on political opinions
Making fun of public figures when they say or do stupid shit is not cancel culture.

An individual saying in their opinion a public figure should be fired because they are damaging their companies reputation and hurting their bottom line is not cancel culture.

There is no organization, campaigning effort or institutional power enacting it to make it a reality. It's just angry nerds with microphones stating their opinions.

You yourself said they have no power to effect anything, so how in God's name are they enacting cancel culture with "the same tactics" if they have no sway or influence over anything?

It is pretty weird how much of a hate boner these middle-aged dudes have for a Snow White remake of all things. Or any of these forgettable Disney remakes or capeshit films. Really must pay the bills.
They discuss and review movies and TV for a living and it's one of the only tentpole releases in 2025 (Minecraft, Lilio and Stitch live action, Jurassic World sequel and *maybe* 28 Years Later? There are more capeshit releases but I don't see them being tentpoles just like CA4 wasn't).

Youtube channels of this size do more than pay the bills, if they've managed their money right a few FNT hosts are probably multi-millionaires at this point.

Wouldn't call it a hate boner, it's rarely malicious and more done with a sense of humor. Woke intersectional re-imagining of a classic + lead actor that can't shut up on social media = red meat for this kind content mill.
 
we can only hope can't we? I wonder how Richard is going to take the news if it doesn't make enough money to shut the other idiots up.
The thing is, the only time Richard usually brings up movies once they are more than a year old is to crap on them. There are exceptions like Furiosa, which is especially funny because Furiosa was a complete failure, but usually he only talks about movies and TV shows while they are out. For example, he is unlikely to bring up Joker: Folie a Deux or Crow Remake out of the blue. If he notices one of his enemies mentioning them he might mention them, but he's unlikely to bring them up otherwise. This is because he didn't really like them, and he doesn't really care about them.

For example, Richard just brought up Helldivers 2 to complain that people complaining about the horrible community managers and the CEO of the company are "media illiterate." ( https://archive.ph/rVw9Z )

Considering that HELLDIVERS is an homage to Verhoeven's STARSHIP TROOPERS which is basically taking the characters from Archie and turning them into stormtroopers, this shouldn't be surprising. It's basically Media Literacy. This pearl-clutching from the Woke Right is embarrassing. You DESPISE art, artists, creativity & culture. Just leave. Go watch Matt Walsh.

All because the CEO said that people who enjoy playing the game his company made, Helldivers 2, are fascists. (The funny thing is the CEO later clarified his comments, but that isn't what Richard is defending here. Richard is an idiot.)

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Does Richard play Helldivers 2? No, he isn't a gamer. It's just that some of his enemies are gamers so he has to defend it. Much like I doubt very much Richard wants to sit through a screening of live action Snow White, but he'll defend it because the people he hates are criticizing it.
 
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For example, Richard just brought up Helldivers 2 to complain that people complaining about the horrible community managers and the horrible CEO of the company are "media illiterate." ( https://archive.ph/rVw9Z )


All because the CEO said that people who enjoy playing the game his company made, Helldivers 2, are fascists.

A new low for Richard and ArrowHead to make me side with fucking Grummz.

Makes sense though, Richard fails to ever deliver books just like ArrowHead fails to ever deliver weapon balance changes anyone likes.
 
A new low for Richard and ArrowHead to make me side with fucking Grummz.

Makes sense though, Richard fails to ever deliver books just like ArrowHead fails to ever deliver weapon balance changes anyone likes.
Yeah, it even looks like it was PC Gamer basically misreporting what the CEO said, but Richard didn't know that when he did his kneejerk reaction.

(I'm actually annoyed by all the stuff with Arrowhead because one of my old favorite games, Magicka was made by them. Magicka: Vietnam was one of my peak gaming moments back then. )
 
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Jon Malin only made like 40k after 2 months on his latest project? I was scrolling thru his streams and he doesn't even link the backer igg page on his streams and im not invested in looking. 40k as ethan Rees about Eric July only making 450k? its so fucking over and I am loving it.

Pod Awful is a sperg gay op worm but I got to give him props for finally buck breaking EVS. Evs hasn't even done a stream in 2 days. at this point Katy Did Dogs with her bots is going to overtake evs, and jon in views soon, she already has with her botted ratio's.

RIP CGtm maybe you should have drawn your shitty books.
 
It doesn't take any kind of exceptional skill. If you call grifting a talent, sure (and I certainly throw FNT's enemies,Frog and his ilk in with them). It's all the same nonsense with infighting, cross-fighting, and trying to position for control over the overlapping pay pigs. I'm sure for a crowd of middle-aged disillusioned male Republicans, it matters deeply to them that Snow White is bad, that Rachel Zegler said whatever she said. Squeezing them as money is, like, ok, good for you? Nerd and the rest were right place right time and benefited from the YouTube algorithm. I find that impressive the way you'd find any Youtuber who does well for themselves. It's not on the same level as traditional creative talents that are honed through years of dedication and expertise.

Jeremy's two biggest claims to fame are saying Kathleen Kennedy's name with a silly theatrical inflection and being disavowed by Zach Snyder on a charity stream, as Zach brought up the importance of unity and rejecting hate ('muh brand' Jeremy would go on to say).
So this is Zack right?
 
We unfortunately live in very fake and gay times where everything is hyped up culture war bullshit.
Woke up to this, great writing, just wanted to give you props for a great take down
The thing is, the only time Richard usually brings up movies once they are more than a year old is to crap on them.
Absolutely, otherwise he'd actually mention things he likes, you know, since he's such an artistic movie-goer, and yet he oddly only ever brings up movies his enemies saw and disliked...
He's not trying to spread film positivity, he's not trying to get people to see movies to save Hollywood, he's just trying to counter-act the people his boss he doesn't like. It's incredibly poorly written drama, enjoyable in the way a bad movie can be enjoyable...
Jon Malin only made like 40k after 2 months on his latest project? I was scrolling thru his streams and he doesn't even link the backer igg page on his streams and im not invested in looking. 40k as ethan Rees about Eric July only making 450k? its so fucking over and I am loving it.
This is insane, how many backers? Do you know what the project is called or the link to the page? I need to map out the fall of Malin's campaigns since Ethan loves his little graphs that prove Eric's about to be homeless
 
Nothing this weekend, nor next weekend, in fact the next possibly big release is Minecraft on April 4th.
A guy told me McDonalds is going to have some kind of Minecraft promotional tie-in Happy Meal for adults. It occurs to me now that Zack should have pivoted to reviewing fast food instead of reviewing pop culture youtubers.
 
@YesNoMaybe your whole post was soy/zack pilled but here goes:
A young actress or any actress for that matter, saying something dumb has no impact on anything. Maybe it impacts a movie promotion and that is only when it starts rolling downhill, in terms of social media and entertainment media. The captured audience of FNT/The Fandom Menace can't bring down a movie or talent in Hollywood.
The audience of FNT etc were only captured from doing productive things with their lives. They were people who had given up or about to give up on gay nerd shit and instead of working out or volunteering somewhere they sit around watching youtube.
I believe Nerd and other grifters tried to play that game with Cynthia Erivo in the lead-up to Wicked, it had no impact because the people who went and saw Wicked, most likely aren't losers watching Heels vs Babyface (a bald unintelligent man who looks like a gorilla) rant about pronouns while playing a video game.
The impact they have sometimes give promotional campaigns some ammo. I vaguely recall when FNT exiled cow Mecha Random quotes were used to say there's no place for racism in Star Wars etc I think even by Ewan Macgregor?
In a comic book, when you had the invasion of untalented people, there's nowhere to hide, 23 pages or so of decompressed storytelling for 3 to 5 bucks an issue. When it sucks, and it did suck in 2016 and on, you were getting taken in terms of what you were buying. You can go see a movie, and even if it's flawed, you still have the movie-going experience, performance, direction, musical score, and so on. You can have a lot of fun at a 2-star or 2 and 1/2 star movie. Comics is simply three things: IP, writer, and artist. That's it. The products are simply too different and the expectations are too different. One is an experience, the other is reading alone.
You can ironically enjoy any media. If you are enjoying the kind of bad reviews Comicsgaters used to do then you are doing just that. You could get so much negative enjoyment from picking up I am not Starfire or some junk, just like watching a B movie. Some people can't get over spending money on or owning a physical thing that sucks, but it's all about how funny it was and the fun you had hating it.
I can't even understand why anyone would go to the theater in the first place.
It's outdated, Covid put the theatres on serious notice they are dying. I'm pretty sure the early streaming figures into the gross totals of movies now where that used to be a residual thing.
You are confused. Brie Larson didn't ruin her reputation over Biden or Kamala, she did it by being the most obnoxious snob she could possibly be in the window of opportunity she was given to be a success. Even among her fellow libs. Her specialty I believe was crying and nudity, which won her an Oscar. In a way you could say she is a traditionalist in Hollywood.
Her big moment was saying something like there were too many white males in the press. She happened to be the youtubers first and biggest hit with the algorithm and now they are just looking for the next Brie like Juju looks for the next Maddox. In reality Brie is not really any worse than almost any actress. Says the occasional libtarded thing but has had some excellent roles outside of Marvel. Her dumb quotes wouldn't stop me from watching her but some people won't let it go. Same thing would happen on the other side if an actor supported Trump in any small way.

Youtube channels of this size do more than pay the bills, if they've managed their money right a few FNT hosts are probably multi-millionaires at this point.
Where is @Mister Dongs with a chart of the net worth of grift tubers? Some of the hosts and even a few of our comics spergs made a million+ but most of them bought houses and toys with your money.
The thing is, the only time Richard usually brings up movies once they are more than a year old is to crap on them.
Richard has notoriously horrible taste in movies and tv. He has bad taste in comics too. Unironic bad taste too, not like the B-movie enjoyment mentioned earlier. He should quit as a media critic.
This is insane, how many backers? Do you know what the project is called or the link to the page? I need to map out the fall of Malin's campaigns since Ethan loves his little graphs that prove Eric's about to be homeless
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CG is down to less than 600 all-in simps that will buy any crap they already have. No more guaranteed six figures for the kings. Those guys drove away too many big spenders on merch in pursuit of the superchat.
 
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A guy told me McDonalds is going to have some kind of Minecraft promotional tie-in Happy Meal for adults. It occurs to me now that Zack should have pivoted to reviewing fast food instead of reviewing pop culture youtubers.
The more I look at those Jack black Minecraft toys the more I think that this movie is a glorified shit post.
 
A guy told me McDonalds is going to have some kind of Minecraft promotional tie-in Happy Meal for adults. It occurs to me now that Zack should have pivoted to reviewing fast food instead of reviewing pop culture youtubers.
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stick to your own lane Zach, reviewing fast food is my shtick
 
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