The growing crunch on smaller channels is something that's been going around lately.
05/06/2021 - OZ ART CREATIONS - THE TRUTH ABOUT WELL READ
In this unusual solo stream set to a double exposure of the outdoors and Oz drawing "Uncut Koala 3" (a replacement original art piece of an anthropomorphic Liam-Koala, complete with uncircumcised penis .for Etsian Wiggle Wiggle/Pink Rage Ape), Oz embarks on a long monologue lamenting the ultimate outcome of his "Oz Show" project.
Apparently what was intended with the Oz Show was a long-form analysis and deconstruction of what he describes as the the "emotionally disturbed, troubled, undeveloped" personalities and characters wandering around the world of Comicsgate, for the enlightenment and entertainment for himself and his audience. Instead what happened was that the insane people that went on his show, that he courted, found common ground, organized themselves into a group and fought with him for control over his own show. This reversal of the power dynamic involved does not appear to have pleased Oz, who comes across as defeated and depressed. With that, Oz feels the time is right for delivers his diagnosis:
First described by Oz are the people like Testefy and VikkiVerse who, being straight white people, cloak themselves in the flag of the customer to take on the position of entitlement from the creator and appropriate the rhetoric of the victim. In reality they are content creators themselves in competition with himself, their channels being centered around drama and critique of others and thus are always in search of grievances with other creators. His audience being angry at him for the offense of him stringing them along and leaving them in the back of a call-in show while ushering on other guests is, what he feels, the perfect example of this.
Next is the coordinated effort behind the scenes for these people to reinvent themselves into provocative shock jock personas, as Frog did successfully, and using smaller shows like Oz's to do so; together they work collectively to manipulate viewership metrics (described by Oz as "brigading") to coerce "the people" (read: Oz) to continue helping them in this goal despite "the host" (Oz) getting nothing out of this, not even a genuine experience with an individual.
The most egregious example Oz can think of this is the transformation of longtime Comicsgate proletariat and sometimes Oz show guest Well Read User1 from the monotone, pretentiously serious-sounding (in Oz's estimation) character he was a few months ago to a furious detractor of his show and his business, the Australian describing Well Read's new presenting of himself as "total badass guy" persona as the resort of someone with no other qualities to but still wants the attention of others and a minimal amount of opportunities to be seen as worthwhile in real life.
Oz would like to leave those like Testefy, Smug Pug, Wiggle Wiggle and Well Read with a final thought: if they're putting on these fake personas to receive the attention they're starving for in real life; none of the attention they garner would validate a single belief or value held by their true, authentic selves but the construct they've created. The problem that originally existed is still there and that, in the end, Oz posits that pretending to be an asshole for attention is ultimately a psychologically unfulfilling and self-defeating choice in the long run.
Closing his monologue, one gets the sense that after the complaints about cliques and brigading, the core of Oz's complaints is that his original artistic vision, of being a sort of Louis Theroux of Comicsgate and engaging in passive "gonzo journalism" of the crazies within the community, only to slowly be turned into a put upon, spat upon janny and stagehand for a Loud Asshole Variety Hour. One where his audience tests and finetunes the latest attention gathering gimmick to launch upon Comicsgate livestreams and threatens consequences on Oz if he complains about it.
Oz closes with the line "I don't think it's too much to ask for authenticity. And I don't think it's too much to ask that when you come on my show, you're a bit respectful".
But where one channel dies, another finds new life:
09/06/2021 - [CONQUEST COMICS - Rule of 3 taken 5 times. Argue and Rumble, a WAR for your minds!
While Oz in his intellectual hubris might have withered under the waves of the... less balanced undercurrents of Comicsgate, one person where the opposite is the case is fellow countryman Liam Gray.
Word having arrived to Liam that his many, many enemies have sectioned off and begun to battle each other in a threeway free for all, and having multiple campaigns in the works that he will have to sell by himself, the toppled Orange Koala senses it's the time to escape the watchful, wrangling eye of his colorist Lydilol and enter the field once more.
Liam opens with a rant on the state of saturday morning cartoons and how they've degenerated from their dayglo, childlike innocence from the 80s to joyless, woke sludge. The blame for this can be laid at the feet of the feckless millennial creators that these franchises have been entrusted to; they make cartoons
they, as 20-30 year olds, would want to watch and that is an act of supreme selfishness in Liam's eyes. When the children realize how their childhood culture has been mutilated with cynical, irony and insincerity, they will visit a great reckoning upon the creators of drek like Rebecca Sugar. Hell to pay, Liam prophesies.
Thus concluding the more subdued and measured part of the stream, Liam goes to the main subject of discussion, deftly seguing from the reckoning due the pedophile CalArts cabal, creators of
Steven Universe and
Infinity Train to the reckoning due against his many, many enemies (who are also pedophiles). Prodded on by chat member "
Simple Jack", Liam relates his own experience about being smeared as a child predator by Testefy when in fact he is working close in hand with the FBI against child predators and is also denouncing them at this very moment as the two of them speak. The man in question is always trying to "help" their business and channels while being an unemployed man living in squalor.
Liam digresses to the time-consuming nature of being a youtuber, that those who are unable to exert self-control lose themselves to the grind of constantly producing content, citing the The Fandom Menace as a good example of this. The need to produce more content for their channels has completely divorced the Star Wars fandom from the impossibility of this point of the franchise being restored somehow. The level of ownership and entitlement exhibited by a minority of the Star Wars fandom is hardly a new thing, according to Liam, as he cites
The People vs George Lucas as a convincing argument for this behavior being what led to George Lucas selling Star Wars to Disney in the first place.
Simple Jack brings the stream back on track by describing Testefy as a necessary evil in the service of generating views, sending Liam into a monologue about how everyone knows who Randy Hegg is and where he is and that it's only a matter of time before someone knocks on his door to give him the bullet. Liam is careful to caution that he will not be the one to do it. There's a return to 2020 as Liam even begins dusting off the old narratives of yesteryear, blaming Testefy as being one of the forces urging him to turn against Frog, ignoring the past year where Liam did that all on his own after Nasser returned to Comicsgate in the face of Liam's diktat months, after Testefy and Liam fell out. Liam returns to the topic of it being an open secret that the creator of Ren and Stimpy is a pedophile as well. Liam spends the next 30 minutes or so outlining the proclivities of well-heeled people in the western animation industry and their history of grooming, calling upon the audience to look it up for themselves.
After playing a Finatra mashup of his debate with Sketch, Liam returns to his calumny against his tormentors, recounting his persecution at the hands of VikkIVerse through the Stan Lee estate and how he escaped litigation by doxing himself to them and even then at the skin of his teeth. How he's been the victim of black hat hackers, that they've made attempts to hack his backer information and even destroyed his router and two computers. All this because Liam was the whistleblower for SlickJimmy ([citation needed]) and the rest of TUG's daughters' simps.
"FBI's got it all" Liam yells into the mic, "y
ou fucking sick degenerate parasites. FBI's got it all, fuck they got all your fucking conversation. ALL YOUR FUCKING INFO. ENJOY YOUR FUCKING FREEDOM WHILE IT LASTS ANYWAY....
This is a fucked up world to operate in, in case you haven't noticed guys. I want to sell comic books and I want the medium to sort of comeback and be popular again. I don't want it to be a retro fad because it has 90 years of tradition right? I want to make us- I want to make us have a comeback. I know I can't do it myself BUT ALL IT TAKES IS ONE THING."
Returning to form, Liam continues his
spirited debate with Simple Jack and a handful of others in the chat, describing his reporting to the local authorities of his former disciple turned traitor Etsy Ciderhype for cyberterrorism as a merciful warning to a "disabled piece of shit". That, reflecting back with what he's received from his so called ideological brethren, Liam's mistake was that he was if anything
too merciful towards his enemies. With his true believers cheering him on, Liam says he should have ignored the big names cautioning him otherwise and struck all his enemies down once and for all like with SWC. These people even go so far as to question his ability to make a Conquest Comics hut; coughing through "drywall lung", Liam says (paraphrasing as this goes on for several minutes) if even half the inadquacy his drug-addicted, degenerate critics can put aside their child pornography to hate upon him is projection, they are beneath contempt
Overall I would describe it as a classic Liam episode, on occasion even factually going back to yesteryear.
