DCM is the gayest of all ops other than pointless lolsuits. Edwin can't take any criticism apparently.
He's picked a fight with EVS to virtue signal. We have come full circle. This is worse than when pros were doing it because Edwin was a target then and employs the same tactics.
This kind of exceptionalism only makes Ethan look good, so it's in EVS's interest to spin that wheel because everyone is laughing at Mike Miller and this desperate attempt to punch upward and miss.
They picked religious virtue signaling over selling comics. The reason MSM was denied from kickstarter probably has more to do with the fact he's already fulfilled the campaign and KS is for works in progress. His attempt to expand his ponzi scheme through KS being rejected for hateful conduct is just their woke and broke wannabe union employees trolling that stupid faggot more.
Here's the thing about Doug, Mike and Edwin.
At first, this just looked like sabotage, Ethan was in the way of their own star shining brighter so they wanted him gone. That would be fair, that's just selling hot dogs and wanting to get rid of the competition. It benefits CG fans because it encourages creators to produce a better product.
Then I read the Dave Sim letters, where Mr. Sim and Edwin were going back and forth. For a long while, Edwin been sending letters on behalf of Comicsgate creators and putting together a network. He also has Indiecron, which he says he's operating at a loss.
I want to know why. Why does someone take on administrative duties and try to do deals, why is someone looking to influence the subject matter of videos (that TUG video only references content he got from Edwin,) why is someone investing time / resources in a website to promote a movement where he had no direct interest, why does someone start talking about punching down. There is no reason for his fingerprints to be all over the place, but there they are.
Doug, Mike and Edwin are all self-professed Christians and the catalyst for their departure seemed to be Ethan's objections to Mike harassing Gay Pride month. Mike and Edwin were really interested in offing Warcampaign and made a lot of damning claims that don't seem to be supported by facts. Exchanges between Ro and Mike and Edwin seem especially charged.
My feeling is the three of them want to co-opt Comicsgate as both a movement and a commercial effort. Not sure to what ends, but controlling who Ethan talks to, what he talks about, and when he says it seems really important to them. Mike is getting a little attention off getting kicked from Kickstarter, Edwin did that video, now he does this channel strike (over something he knows better than.)
For his part, Doug has been inviting some high-profile guests to his channel to for interviews, and it looks like his channel is growing at about 1/72nd the rate Ethan's did over a similar timespan. Mike's audience, OTOH, is not growing. I can kind of see how he's attracting CG dissenters while also pulling some audience away from Mike.
It all seems pretty greasy. None of them have to talk about Ethan, they could be building an audience without bringing him up all the time. I remember what it was like for Imus when Stern was on his ascent, he tried a lot of moral posturing and sanitizing that didn't have the intended effect - all the cool kids listened to Stern, Imus shared audience with Rush Limbaugh clones.
Guess I'm saying we are watching a DMC campaign in progress, it's just a weirdly inept in its execution. Maybe someone close to them could send a copy of the handbook so we could see some more competent ops?
