I like how your avatar could be viewed as a more-realistic version of Pumpkin.

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Frozen pizza, by Heggie's. It was ok!

Cheese!

This weekend I ate some pizza…

Nothing wrong with that approach or attitude, but when your sole source of income is your webcomic and the support you get from fans (via Patreon, donations, or direct-marketing of merchandise), it raises the stakes quite a bit.

I'm sure that applies to some of the folks at the core of a given fandom. Don't know if that holds true with the greater fandom communities of Tumblr users in general, though, who get swept up in the kicked-hornets'-nest of controversy once it emerges. But I do understand your point more fully now.

Well, that's kind of agreeing with my originally stated point, then. That Tumblr "incites and enflames the most outspoken, demanding, and entitled elements of the fandoms…". I guess if you want to conflate Tumblr callout culture with the behavior of Gamergate, that's a point you could make, but it feels like a bit of…

Oh believe me, I know that the true origins of Gamergate stem from Eron Gjoni's "Zoe Post" and the horribly misogynistic response of a pretty toxic corner of the gamer community. That was long before Adam Baldwin first used the Gamergate hashtag and the "movement" found a bullshit title to cloak themselves in. I…

A couple of years back, some comments he made on Twitter got misinterpreted as erasure of a segment of the trans community. When he started getting angry responses, he reposted some of them mockingly (and drunkenly) which led to a lot of anger on tumblr and cries that he was transphobic. At the time he was just…

All she wanted to do was be with Eddie. And for that she gets turned into a statue, forced to do a song and dance in a swimming pool, and be abandoned when her castle lifts off into outer space. Sad, really.

Nineteen now.

That reminds me of an article I read about Jeremy Shada, the voice actor for Finn on Adventure Time. He was approached by a fan at a convention recently, who demanded that Shada explicitly confirm that some same-sex romantic subtext in the show was actually canon. When Shada refused to comment, the fan apparently…

There's also the fact that for shows and entertainments that aren't on TV, building a rapport with a fanbase is one of the few paths toward being successful and sustainable. Welcome to NightVale, for example, requires engagement at the Internet/Social Media level in order to support itself and be assured of a healthy…

I don't think I understand your point here. For one thing, I don't know which comment of mine you're referring to. I honestly think there's a large gulf between what GamerGate is/has become and the actions of a fandom when it perceives a creator's done something wrong, and senses a duty to shame/punish their behavior…

Not in the same sense as this article is discussing. Gamergate reacted to games journalists first, then expanded to criticize cultural commentators and fans who seemed to be trying to open up the audiences games culture addressed or embraced. Eventually that grew to include certain games creators, but it can't really…

That's a good point. It's probably a big part of the reason too. There's also the fact that tumblr's design and comment/reblog system seems to encourage a sort of echo-chamber mentality, which keeps misinformation alive longer than it usually would.

True, but that's outside the scope of this topic. The article (and my comments) were about fandoms and artists and the interactions between them.

I think there's also the fact that webcomics (which is increasingly my media-of-choice these days) relies so much on online fanbases for their livelihood, as well as feedback and recognition. That lack of a buffer probably makes things highly intensified on each side.

As off-putting and horrible as either of those places are/can be, they don't rally for outreach or direct-to-creator criticism as much as Tumblr seems to. 4chan's media-focused boards especially tend to be vicious in their criticism, but they rarely direct that criticism at the creators themselves. Whereas I've seen…