EVS appears on the Blaze, when does Eric pull up for a head to head talk?

At some point you Rippafans are going to wake up and realize you’re in this little tiny bubble with a world view built on lies, it’s only a matter of time. Even Gary and Jeremy no longer shill Yaira or Rippaverse, they’ll still be friends with Rippa, which is nice, but the money grift is coming to a close as the truth that Rippa isn’t cut out to head this movement comes to bear.

I came here to edit in one last thought. I hope the beef here remains authentic and real, that’s what keeps this so captivating. If the Blaze and Alex get too hands on and try to create artificial drama for show, I think that would kind of kill the thrill of it all.

There’s captivating drama here, it just needs a means of reaching more people and maybe an entry point  for people to get up to date on how this is a big deal. Comics are a major pillar of entertainment, this Youtube sphere having their influence on this space is interesting, the clashing of fans that we see in on these forums and on twitter.

People are engaged, you don’t even have to be a comics fan to be interested in this battle. You just have to care about the future of culture, the future of entertainment, the future of creatives being able to earn a living, and of course us fans get caught up in the mix as well with our own biases and perspectives. We may not agree on much, but we can agree that whichever side you land on, you can’t look away.

Complaining about the fire? I’m literally blathering about how damned entertaining this all is and that I can’t look away. I hope Rippaverse can turn it around and Eric can grow as a person from the perspective of wanting the world to heal, but in the meantime this drama is entertaining as fuck.

It’s fine if you guys think i have some abnormal infatuation, whatever. I relate to EVS as a creator and creative, and he puts on a good stream. I find it kind of bizzare to take things so far, but whatever.

Of course we’re out for attention, either for our thoughts, or for the things we’re posting about. That’s the point of a forum, literally everyone that makes any post anywhere is out for attention for their post. That’s the point.

This is kind of a fascinating take DarthVengeant. To me everything you just described is essentially attention, maybe a better word for it is “engagement”, but there’s something to be said for this era of internet celebrity at any cost, lol cow farming, reaction content, whatever you want to call it.

Believe it or not, I actually agree with you to a great deal, I hate this stupid celebrity and attention seeking culture we live in, and a great deal of what bothers me about the Rippaverse is I see a company founded 100% in attention and life brand type stuff, with very little substance, from my perspective Eric hasn’t really built a company that gives back. And if we’re being fair, EVS is falling down this same rabbit hole, with every Trashcast he’s essentially saying “Look Eric, I can do the same thing as you, ragebait and farm fans with livestreams, who needs to draw comic books?”

You’re right this is a tad immature, in some ways we’re like a  junkie going after that high, Nick Rekieta on a Wednesday night . But this is what the world is, for better or worse.

In my mind I like to think I’m “team meritocracy” and “team providing something of quality for your customers”, but quality in comics is subjective and people should be free to enjoy what they enjoy. But it’s a fine line, because sometimes people take that freedom and they join cults, or groups where likeminded people all focus their hate on others to produce a growing hate and division like leftists, or Disney Star Wars fans.

It’s a really fucking weird world to live in, with many shades of grey. Some of us are prone to tendencies we dislike in others.

This kinda goes back to Star Wars. Remember when Luke goes into the cave to  face Vader on Dagobah? He lets his fear and anger consume him and he sees himself in Vader as he defeats him. That’s EVS right now, he’s becoming the image of Eric he sought to fight. Angry, obsessed with internet celebrity, not producing comics, farming a cash cow audience that don’t demand excellent comics.

You’re right, things are decaying and this squabble only highlights that. I guess I rationalize this as, well since there’s little of substance in this world, I have to engage with SOMETHING. Or, “this is my slice of cake for the day, i’ll watch some Rippaverse/ EVS drama”.

I wish I knew what the answer is. Most people like their drama, and if you want to enact positive change you have to tap into that drama.

This forum exists because Jeremy Griggs talked shit about Kathleen Kennedy.

One uniting theme of these forums that pulled me to them was there was a group of people here who wanted to be better. One thing that made me initially excited about Rippaverse was Eric wanted to be better. He always put out those videos talking about how you can’t just be an alternative, you have to be a GOOD alternative, and I loved the positive energy he fostered in his viewers.

In my eyes, we live in such a wretched world full of scum and villainy, that we have to get down in the mud and do some slinging to enact positive change.

You cannot have an honest and frank, civil conversation with a leftist to change their mind on say gun violence statistics. These people’s do not operate on honesty, they are manipulators who use tribalism and emotions to gaslight, as a weapon. You gotta get in that mud and get to fucking flinging, you gotta shame, you gotta get a little dirty and engage in the dirt and the grime because that’s where the average every day mind is.

We Meme’d Trump into office in 2016. We used pepe frog pictures and photoshops of Hillary Clinton in hand cuffs to save this country.

I know it looks counter productive, I know it’s immature to focus on drama, and not demand higher level discourse and to want a better world of civil conversation and level headed takes right now. But this is where we are. We are in clown world and people would rather sit at home with a beer in one hand and a bag of potato chips in the other complaining about their favorite internet celebrities over developing a craft, spending time with their kids, reading a book, or building community.

Yes I’ve shat of Eric SOUNDLY in my threads, but I’ve also encouraged him to do drawing streams, to start smaller and aspire to make better books. I’m not appealing for Eric to be canceled and destroyed here, though his own tendencies to want to do that to his detractors is very off putting. As a professional creative myself I’m trying to give that perspective that you can’t be style and no substance. It’s my greatest problem with the Rippaverse.

We want more out of all this, we want to see pen to paper, we want to see more than just drama. It’s still interesting for now, but this drama is wearing thin, if we don’t start seeing creations out of comic book kings or interesting new comics, this is all going to fall apart, and maybe that’s the ultimate destiny of all of this. Because kids these days don’t have the attention span for comics. The audience for both Rippa AND EVS is shrinking, and there is a real chance that this may all degrade into infighting E-Drama.

We do seem to be entering this dystopian Idiocracy future. Pure ragebait, pure celebrity. Why watch Star Wars when you can watch someone get angry at Star Wars? Some of us are getting addicted to the drama. Even Critical Drinker’s movie kinda imploded, and that was the shining light on the hill that this scene could produce something great. I respect the Epicverse guys for wanting to produce quality content, but I also understand how FUCKING HARD that is, and it takes YEARS and requires some really rare talent to be able to produce these things and they are untested.

The world has become broken. We watch train wrecks and we have all become so far removed from quality culture, and craft that we’ve lost respect for it. People used to play instruments, they used to gather round the fire and listen to live music from friends and family, we used to be writers and readers and partake in a higher level of culture and we would suppress stupid drama bullshit like this and demand others grow up and work to make the world better, not focus on immature failings, but try to elevate one another so we could be more mature and productive like you say.

We are all a product of this broken world, conditioned not to aspire for anything greater, not held to a higher standard by adults in the room, and time and again we go on youtube or facebook, or Twitter, and what does the algorithm tell us is success?

Ragebait and Drama.

You’re 100% right about this. I’m actually gearing up to get to work right now, I despise what’s become of gaming and I’m trying to make a decent little indie game that has no wacky goofy mechanic, I don’t post goofy bullshit trying to market it or appeal to woke companies that use social strife to insulate themselves. Just busting my ass trying to make a game that I hope is fun. I do try to abide by that code that we should be productive and we should try to create things of value.

I don’t know what the solution is. We are standing in the rubble of the comic book industry, in the rubble of the gaming industry, we celebrate mediocrity, we lowered our standards, we lost our attention spans, and we lost the grit and determination to stand up and fight for what’s right, and now we sit in our puddles of mud and complain about Star Wars.

Dunno what the point is, just agreeing it’s a crazy world and I don’t know what the answer is.

For me the answer is to close this internet browser open my project and get to work. As for how can we fix this world? End the drama and appeal to our better natures? I have no friggin’ clue. But in the strife and the frustrations we do find struggle, and there is purpose in struggle. Props for having principles and standing by them in good faith DarthVengeant. You and ComicsGate have been a steady and positive force in my shitpostings.

The abject unfounded righteousness of you neckbeards. Well i tried extending the olive branch.

If you want to embarrass yourselves acting like whiney dicklet Rippastans, go right ahead. I’m not going to bother engaging with you babies in the future. At this point it’s just a tired routine trying to explain my positions or that it’s ok for people to have opinions that differ from yours.

What gets me is you annoying assholes seem to think you have the moral authority to claim ownership of the zeitgeist. Of what should and should not be discussed.

People are allowed whatever the fuck opinion they want, thank you very much. Don’t like it? Eat a dick. Or cry into into the void.

You talk about immaturity yet act like little control freak bitches. Stop fucking bothering me. Or don’t, whatever. I will say this, I’m not going to let Rippastans or whatever the fuck this pushback is dissuade discussion of the decay Rippa and his followers caused in this community.

From the very inception of The Rippaverse post you guys have proven without any doubt that the Rippaverse has had a profoundly negative affect on discourse and the general temperment of this community. At every turn you fuckers have escalated the situation ad nausium to the point that literally anyone who engages with you lot walks away with a supremely negative impression of this fan base. You guys have destroyed the image of the Rippaverse and in many ways the fun atmosphere of geeks and gamers. Comic fans are full of nerds and geeks, some goofy, some fun, some neckbeardy.

Then there are you Rippastans. Diminutive, neckbeard petulant dick bag dick riders. Rippaverse has become a torrent of neckbeard righteousness, yelling, downvoting, claiming everything anyone says is full of shit, saying no facts are true. Claiming all opposition is “gay ops” everyone opposed to Eric July is a total piece of shit that needs to be doxxed, arrested, or worse. It’s vile the culture you have all fostered in this space. But it’s all EVERYONE ELSES FAULT for calling it out. Grow the fuck up.

You lot say you’re not Rippastans, but you sure as hell smell like them.

Eat shit and have a good one.