Does anyone know what this new issue with Doug is? I am not in the hoop so much anymore, but I watched Ethan's live stream this morning and someone superchatted about Doug "destroying comicsgate" and Ethan said Doug needs a timeout. Any thing what he said? I think it was something to do with Indiecron.
Yes, I know I could watch several hours of live streams to figure it out, but fuck that. Hoping someone actually caught it already.
The TL;DR? Jesus, there's no such thing, both the lore and spedery are deep on this one.... here's what I gather, but I'm open to correction since I'm vomiting this out from memory.
The anti's have been quiet lately which means, as usual, it's time for comicsgate to descend into factional infighting again.
Doug went full exceptional and started calling everybody SJW's (again? FFS Doug) over Indiecron's decision not to list Brad Ashworth's book 'The Handyman' on the site, thus re-igniting the whole 'gate-keeping controversy'.
Apparently Ashworth got some help setting up his indiegogo from a Warcampaign bete noir, Crypto comics:
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Ashworth's association with Crypto kept him off the site and this caused the ruckus.
The lore on that nonsense is thus, Warcampaign uber-sped 'Pan Boy' got in a spat with Crypto over the last split.
I gather that Crypto sided with Jon Del Aroz. JDA had threatened or implied that he'd be happy to use indigogo customer information to dox comicsgaters and Crypto implied he'd be happy to be a conduit for that. So all this stems from the JDA and Warcampaign feud.
Pan Boy threatened to call around and punch Crypto IRL to which Crypto responded with a video waving a couple of guns around and essentially telling him that would be a bad idea.
After Handyman got refused, Nassar boycotted Indiecron and didn't submit his new book to the site. Fair enough, that was his principled stand and he didn't make a big deal of it.
Doug however weighed in like a bull in a china shop and started shrieking SJW at everybody. Hollaring and beating his chest about loyalty and really laid into the Indiecron guys. Doug's attitude was that Ashworth was being attacked using guilt by association, which is a fair point, but it's not like the guys running the site have any obligation to platform somebody they don't like.
Doug really had a meltdown, climbed up on his cross and declared martyrdom for Ashworth and everybody that didn't support him heretical, which seems to have led some of those involved in the site to leave and Edwin Boyette has taken over managing the site.
Now Doug's in comicgate timeout while Ethan tries to work out how to rehab his image.
Reasonable Jon Malin goes through it with this stream:
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