I mean, I didn’t provide a lot initially and that’s on me, and I think you’re being sincere and I appreciate you’re perspective. I didn’t look onto leftwing male sub at all, I trusted without further research, my bad. I agree that it’s disappointing to see so much incels in the comments, they completely validate her deflections. Even so, I can pretty clearly give the rundown of why I see her this way.
She abused DMCA. This is bad for fair use. Fair use protects artists ability to speak freely. I’m also an artist so this hits close to home. You can’t attack people for disagreeing with you (it’s illegal).
Regardless, she targeted the mods. The benefit to this is by eliminating all her content, she made all criticism disappear. Her choice in target was also an issue. Why go after BHJ and not other discriminatory hangouts on reddit? Is it because what they post is perceived as credible? Personally, I believe the mods were diligent, and I think so did she, which resulted in more valid criticism to rise to the top, and motivated her to go after this sub in particular.
She also deflected blame to incels through posting. Hater comics, responses in comments, and the implicit brigading. The comics mods are a bunch of simps. She used them to blanket ban tons of people who clearly didn’t deserve it. I think this is easy to miss, but she really doubles down on some shitty takes and dissenters get nuked by downvotes. Hivemind also happens here, but not nearly to the same degree.
You can try to percieve all these actions in good faith. I don’t. Her overreactions are in line with someone who is desparately insecure and controlling. I think the only reason we give a damn about this conversation is the same reason we ended up on lemmy—putting your eggs all in one basket. Comics has a lot of great work which is not so great if a mod bans you for not liking pizzacake.
I think you probably understand where I’m coming from if you got this far, and I truly appreciate your time to read this because I spent an embarrassing amount of time writing this. If you still disagree, I can’t say I blame you. This really is a rabbit hole for me to hyperfixate on. Either way, I think I got what I needed off my chest.
Thanks for your response, I honestly enjoy trying to understand other people’s opinions and you are clearly coming at this from a different experience to me. I dont draw comics or frequent their subreddits. I agree on her DCMA action being abusive of that system, and I don’t like it either - for me her behaviour is however softened somewhat by the fact a mod rejecting her proposal to remove her work suggested DCMA requests as her next step if she was unhappy with their response though.
If she was intending to maliciously use DMCAs as a tactic though, it’s weird that she hasn’t gone after other subreddits after that win in the following year - if she was successful with DCMA takedowns on BHJ, why not go after r/comedynecrophilia next for instance? I don’t know what she decided, but it does seem like even prior to this affair she got a special kind of vitriol directed to her work that I just never understood (last time I was on Reddit regularly was late 2022 which was prior to any of this). Quickly looking on comedynecro they seem to constantly use her work and most of its pretty negative, so perhaps she is afraid of encouraging more blowback… Either way it must be pretty exhausting for (iirc?) some 1-person webcomic who has to engage with the community.
I personally find her work pretty average (some is good but mostly just ok or meh), so I think I’m at my limit for going into the weeds on her personal reddit dramas. I take your position as sincere and it is a lot more nuanced than I thought at first, appreciate your time explaining it and I hope you enjoy the rest of your weekend.
I mean, I didn’t provide a lot initially and that’s on me, and I think you’re being sincere and I appreciate you’re perspective. I didn’t look onto leftwing male sub at all, I trusted without further research, my bad. I agree that it’s disappointing to see so much incels in the comments, they completely validate her deflections. Even so, I can pretty clearly give the rundown of why I see her this way.
She abused DMCA. This is bad for fair use. Fair use protects artists ability to speak freely. I’m also an artist so this hits close to home. You can’t attack people for disagreeing with you (it’s illegal).
Regardless, she targeted the mods. The benefit to this is by eliminating all her content, she made all criticism disappear. Her choice in target was also an issue. Why go after BHJ and not other discriminatory hangouts on reddit? Is it because what they post is perceived as credible? Personally, I believe the mods were diligent, and I think so did she, which resulted in more valid criticism to rise to the top, and motivated her to go after this sub in particular.
She also deflected blame to incels through posting. Hater comics, responses in comments, and the implicit brigading. The comics mods are a bunch of simps. She used them to blanket ban tons of people who clearly didn’t deserve it. I think this is easy to miss, but she really doubles down on some shitty takes and dissenters get nuked by downvotes. Hivemind also happens here, but not nearly to the same degree.
You can try to percieve all these actions in good faith. I don’t. Her overreactions are in line with someone who is desparately insecure and controlling. I think the only reason we give a damn about this conversation is the same reason we ended up on lemmy—putting your eggs all in one basket. Comics has a lot of great work which is not so great if a mod bans you for not liking pizzacake.
I think you probably understand where I’m coming from if you got this far, and I truly appreciate your time to read this because I spent an embarrassing amount of time writing this. If you still disagree, I can’t say I blame you. This really is a rabbit hole for me to hyperfixate on. Either way, I think I got what I needed off my chest.
Thanks for your response, I honestly enjoy trying to understand other people’s opinions and you are clearly coming at this from a different experience to me. I dont draw comics or frequent their subreddits. I agree on her DCMA action being abusive of that system, and I don’t like it either - for me her behaviour is however softened somewhat by the fact a mod rejecting her proposal to remove her work suggested DCMA requests as her next step if she was unhappy with their response though.
If she was intending to maliciously use DMCAs as a tactic though, it’s weird that she hasn’t gone after other subreddits after that win in the following year - if she was successful with DCMA takedowns on BHJ, why not go after r/comedynecrophilia next for instance? I don’t know what she decided, but it does seem like even prior to this affair she got a special kind of vitriol directed to her work that I just never understood (last time I was on Reddit regularly was late 2022 which was prior to any of this). Quickly looking on comedynecro they seem to constantly use her work and most of its pretty negative, so perhaps she is afraid of encouraging more blowback… Either way it must be pretty exhausting for (iirc?) some 1-person webcomic who has to engage with the community.
I personally find her work pretty average (some is good but mostly just ok or meh), so I think I’m at my limit for going into the weeds on her personal reddit dramas. I take your position as sincere and it is a lot more nuanced than I thought at first, appreciate your time explaining it and I hope you enjoy the rest of your weekend.