Gamergate Triggerhappy: Diversity & comics
Considering how gamergate managed to pull on the brakes to the injection of identity politics and censorship in games, and managed to start a cultural change against the new authoritarianism of the alt left, one could think the alt left would consider a better plan of action if they want to try in another kind of hobbies, and that after Trump, they would realize that calling half of a country “racist”, “misogynist” and “nazi” doesn’t help to win the over to your side.
Lol, nope, think again mofo. Full on charge forward with the “sexist harassers” banner towards comic readers who complain about the injection of identity politics and bad writing in superhero comics.
“Comicsgate” is a thing that has been going in an out for some time because of the stupid Marvel and DC are doing in their comics (specially Marvel), but it seems to have taken a more serious take recently with the attempts of several Marvel artists of destroying the life of a youtube comic critic; “Diversity and comics”; because he criticized the bad writing of their social justice comics and the lack of professionalism of many Marvel artists on social media. This seem to have escalated to the point that several of them conspired to harass him at a convention, with the intention that he snaps, hit someone, and have an excuse to beat him up. Which is even more funny if we consider that D&C is a former Marine :D.
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This is why I haven’t been reading the big American comic publishers for years now, comics have been pretty alt left leaning and progressive for a long time, but the shit really went bad around 2010, around the same time it went bad for video games, mostly thanks to corporate convergence of larger properties, like the Disney buyout, and the internet giving attention to extreme feminists on youtube and tumblr making it seem like they had the voice and the ears of an already progressive corporate empire.
Just stick to smaller publishers and more International comics, like Manga.
Or heck even French comics, which are ‘liberal’ in the traditional interpretation of the word. .
I think i haven’t read a full superhero comics since they started to make those “ultimates” stuff the canon thing.
I’m not one for comics, but I really feel sorry for comic readers having to go through the same shit we did.
One thing that I have to point out is that it isn’t simply because D&C was criticizing their comics. I can give him points for his channel criticizing them but when it comes to twitter he was making personal attacks on the writers and saying things that didn’t have anything to do with the comics but saying that it somehow effected the comics written.
And in a way I can understand what he means they’re pushing their ideology, something they basically live by, into comics and making characters their mouth pieces.
He’s a critic and often times a jerk which can hurt those critical of the hamfisted way ideologies are currently being pushed in comics if they make him something of the figurehead of this ‘comicsgate’.