Quick update:
The big Comicsgate/Fandom Menace crossover event is still the leading source of content these days, with other events like Liam appearing on Piper's 8 hour disasterpiece of a drunkstream, JDA's appearance on the Killstream for IBS with a no-show Quartering, various new launches and Jon Malin's new variant cover taking a backseat.
Social justice Star Wars streamers are busy pre-locking down their twitters before going live out of fear of the Kiwi that Smugs. Even naifs like 'Hannah', operating under the belief that Rewriting Ripley were doxed for their "ship" by people intolerant to Reyloism that refuse to engage in civil discourse, know vaguely of this new shadow to fall upon the Star Wars fan community. As opposed to an overt deplatforming campaign tied to a former LucasFilm employee, hiding behind blockbots while host Mariet Guerrero declares "there is zero purpose to having dialogue" with people who disagree with them.
At first the rest of the stream proceeded with the women (the men were silent) loudly declaring that it should be acceptable to enjoy the sequel trilogy without being swarmed by speds. The short-haired heavyset one repeats that fandom arguments shouldn't result in personal attacks on appearance at least a dozen times. Then "That Star Wars Girl"
brought her followers, due to a
pre-existing beef with "
Meg", crashed this stream in the comments for a confrontation over calls to shut her down. They they start talking about how it's okay to shut down hate speech. Then the (male) host finally interjects to argue that if he was a shill he'd have more than 74 subscribers after 4 years but his DMs are open for any sort of discussion and he just wants to discuss fucking Star Wars.
Fandom Menace leader Jeremy Griggs/DDayCobra/Geeks + Gamers responded to being bullied by Reylos by wrapping himself in the trans flag and
vowing to cuck so hard to the left that they will find nothing to cancel him with and directing his employees towards twitch game livestreaming, a move regarded as "bitchmade" by all except the most deeply entrenched simps. Not even Rewriting Ripley themselves seem to respect the gargler guy or his "brand" afterwards, declaring Frog to be
"the backbone of the Fandom Menace".
Recreational internet sleuth
@VIkkiVerse sparked up a conversation with Comicsgate founder and secret CG Grand Wizard
ThatUmbrellaGuy about how Griggs, or someone with access to his iMDB,
has him listed with "executive producer" credits for not just all of Geeks + Gamers but also all of TUG's, YF's, Frog's and essentially all the "Anti-SJW pop culture commentary" sphere's livestreams.
TUG, after a brief smuckling about how these people are idiots and he doesn't actually have any relationship with Griggs, eventually realized this was actually true and took to youtube to blow the lid off this conspiracy.
Using Occam's Razor, the man of mailbox cuts to the quick of the matter - that this is part of a massive conspiracy of the SJWs and unnamed edgelords (presumably Vikki) to tie Geeks and Gamers with all right-of-left youtubers, brand them as "alt-right" and, once that's cemented, use the iMDB accreditation to tar everyone else associated with them as well. Destroying them all in one fell swoop. TUG doesn't really have all the details of how this would work all fleshed out or what exactly anyone can do about it, so he closes out by inviting the viewer to join in him saying "fuck you SJWs" in the comment section and that it's not just the stupids who believe this crap that are of concern but also the unnamed psychopaths (again, presumably Vikki) who spread it.
Doug Ernst launched
Soulfinder: Black Tide yesterday by the unprecedented switch from crowdfunding comics to putting the money up front himself and selling the already completed comics from an online webstore owned by himself, cutting out the KS/IGG middle man. The launch stream itself was a fairly unfocused litany of complaints about comic creators like Mitch Breitweiser who don't fulfill their campaigns, creators drunkenly picking fights with to distract from related failures, Nasser for leaking Doug's DMs in this thread, and me for calling him thin-skinned. Even "Shadow King" shows up to troll the chat about how Ernst betrayed Mitch, which predictably sets him off. Also for some reason he heavily courts Comic Book Hut and he Hut's patronage, followed by a rant about how males need to be assertive and take charge that isn't really related to anything.
One person that noticed, and seems especially enthused over this transition of Ernst's is Ya Boi Zack. Zack comes off as extremely thrilled at a business model that requires zero crowdfunding campaigning and has literally zero wait time between launch and delivery. Now I would argue that online stores are hardly a new thing - Nasser Rabadi and Jon del Arroz are very familiar with the concept of print-to-order books being sold off of Amazon, which if anything is even more efficient than what Ernst is doing. Ultimately what I figure this will prove is something I've posted about in the past: that while "zero wait time" is a common complaint, some of the most successful CG campaigns have the highest wait time between launch and delivery -
not so much because thats what people want but that's how important effective marketing is. People may be happier with immediate fulfillment, and ideally will be that much more likely to buy more product, but it is not a replacement for promotion.