#1s — Public Fediverse posts

The Nerkish incident in 2018 was the initial and only needed indication that comicsgate was fake.

Nerkish was just a regular guy who occasionally made fun of SJW "woke" comics. He initially started, interestingly enough, on tumblr, making small simple comics that made fun of leftists and social justice warriors (the eternal SJW). Nerkish blew up in popularity with very early comicsgate when he "roasted" Richard C. Meyer's comic, Jawbreakers.

For further context, Richard C. Meyer was initially known as "Diversity & Comics," a youtube channel that started in late 2017 that criticized SJWs in the comics industry. Richard is now known as "ya boi zack" because he claims someone on 4chan said that Richard's name was "probably Zack." The real reason is that Richard started calling himself that because he thought it made him sound younger.

Richard's involvement with comicsgate started primarily because he had already considered himself close friends with Ethan Van Sciver. Richard was always known for not being very smart, even from the beginning (even his own fans would constantly make fun of him for his embarrassing dogshit taste in movies and TV shows, yet couldn't fit the square peg in the round hole that richard's taste in EVERYTHING was dogshit because he was a 90 IQ dolt) so he was clearly not aware that Ethan Van Sciver doesn't actually have friends due to borderline personality disorder, bipolar disorder, and other possible or unknowable mental illnesses, which were genetic as other people in Ethan's family (also-comic creator Noah Van Sciver having made a comic that told the story of their biological father, a mormon, having bipolar disorder and abandoning the family when they were children).

For clarity, instead of calling him Diversity & Comics or D&C or zack or "ya boi zack" or any of that gay shit, I'll just refer to him as Richard.

Richard's channel blew up in late 2017 and 2018, so he started to show off some of the comics he had made to show that "going back to the 90s" was the best solution for comics. He had mistaken the 90s speculation bubble as "great readership" and wasn't smart enough to know, and not honest enough to admit, that Marvel had gone bankrupt in the 90s because the huge sales were all fake, people buying #1s thinking they were basically big colorful savings bonds that would one day pay for a college tuition or something.

Richard's comic was called "Jawbreakers" and it sucked. There was no way around it, it was just a bad comic. Richard's fans, soon to become "comicsgate," all loved it. However, it was Nerkish "roasting" (really just critically analyzing it, with some actual jokes about how stupid the book was) turned Nerkish into a comicsgate star. But only at first.

It didn't take long for the usual comicsgate behavior to kick in, and it's important to remember this out of all the parts of comicsgate, because it proves that comicsgate was not only dishonest, but mentally ill at its very core.

Around the middle of 2018, Nerkish's discord server (which was started by one of his enjoyers, Nerkish was really more of a guest there) was getting screenshotted constantly by Ethan Van Sciver's "War Campaign," the gay superfans of ethan's (he doesn't really deserve to be considered a proper noun) who had required each other to take dick pics to prove their loyalty. The screenshots of Nerkish's discord server included pretty tepid jokes about jews and so on. Very quickly, ethan van sciver attempted to use this to force Nerkish to swear loyalty to him. The DMs of this leaked, which turned into its own fake scandal (ethan whined that people within comicsgate, such as Kamen America artist Tim Lim, were trying to sabotage the movement by showing proof that ethan was a fraud).

Will continue this later, but I'll throw in the leaked DM screenshots for now.