A /co/mrade goes digging

The thread (Live for now) – Archived Thread

And the links, for those interested

https://archive.today/4gX6p https://archive.today/amGTQ https://archive.today/f1cPi https://archive.today/aaF91 https://archive.today/OzvZO https://archive.today/7uCPs



Let’s preface this with a few important reminders: Following someone on twitter isn’t damning evidence of anything. Someone following you on twitter isn’t damning evidence of anything either. Both are really quite harmless acts on their own. Many people follow controversial or infamous individuals just to see what they’ll say next, or to keep up to date with the latest dumb thing they’ve said.

However, when you have a large network of powerful industry professionals, editors of popular, highly trafficked websites, and e-celebrities with huge followings all following a very specific set of people, even using blockbots and other tools to establish a nigh-impenetrable echo chamber, that is a problem and it does represent a more troubling and worrisome trend.

Comics have always been a target of moral panic and over the years, but now the threat of censorship and ideological corruption are coming from within because people with ridiculous agendas to push have dominated the conversation within communities and around the people with the most influence.

Maybe this means nothing, maybe it won’t even matter. It’s still interesting, though. There are connections there, no matter how tenuous they may seem.