I'm watching this while I draw this morning. It's amazing how repetitive this behavior is in these people. I can drag their campaigns with my own for years, but the minute I stop allowing them to squat on my livestreams, contributing virtually nothing, they turn on me with extreme hurt feelings and bitterness.
There is no, "Hey, thanks for getting me started." Just venom and hatred.
I'm particularly unimpressed by one (former?) CGer here who is very mad that I didn't help him take down a phony mirrored Kickstarter campaign of his own campaign. "I went thru some real shit...!" Same thing happened to both of my CyberFrog campaigns. I handled it by contacting Kickstarter, and then asking my fans to do the same thing. It was some kind of Eastern European scam, but harmless. KS pulled it down after a week or so, and it had zero effect on anything. I even monetized it by making a video about it. This guy is acting like it fucked up his whole world, and it seems like he's doing it for sympathy, or to generate outrage. The chat is responding to him with love and support.
"If you didn't want to have me on your channel anymore, that's okay, but a little support...I mean, that would have been nice." WTF.
There was some confusion that this individual had "left ComicsGate," because he was streaming daily with a fuming Liam Gray, during the phase while he was cursing CG and threatening to punch my teeth out. Conclusions may have been drawn by others that made pretty good sense to me. Evidently saying that aloud was "fucking with a little guy's campaign."
"That fucking pisses me off," says another fellow, upon hearing this tale.
Another one, "I remember hearing that you were going to be helping smaller creators? WELL WHAT FUCKING CREATORS HAVE YOU FUCKING HELPED? NO ONE," exclaims a new Preston Poulter.
"He only cares about his own pocket! He's a bully!"
"That's why we're building our own thing, brother."
It's a zoo. These days, when a small creator asks for my help, I have to think about this inevitable and recurring behavior pattern, and I think twice.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DxVj00RtT1w&t=5535s