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The writing is on the wall. Throat Goat Ethan Van Sciver is visibly in the process of winding down what's left comicsgate as he prepares for what he believes is going to be a return to DC Comics and the mainstream. Ethan famously said he was "limping" (in regard to the health of his business and comicsgate) in 2025. One year later the leg has been amputated and Ethan is dragging in 2026. The spectacular flop of his "New Cyberfrog #1" broke Ethan. Ethan and his zeros fell into the EXACT SAME THINKING that permeated mainstream comics. Ethan abandoned the "boring" comic book fan audience and put all his stock into trying to court the "expanded audience" of bottom tier youtuber drama and internet bloodsports. That new audience never manifested. He drove away all the creative voices and talent in comicsgate, he drove away the fans by treating them like expendable dirt beneath his bloated heel. Streams went from being fun celebrations of comics and comic fans, with some laughing at actual clowns in the mainstream, to mean-spirited attack shows about who on the internet got under Ethan's thin skin today. He devoted 3 years to a sad one-sided jihad against Eric July for not bending the knee ad subjugating himself to Ethan's will. Ethan fancies himself a leader of men, and in the time since he hijacked the comicsgate movement and turned it into his cult of personality, "VanSciverTown 2.0", he has proven himself time after time to be anything but a leader. He fractured they already small movement into so many splinters no one can keep track. Whenever opportunities arose where Ethan could have made a selfless choice for the betterment of "comicsgate" Ethan ALWAYS chose the most selfish option possible. - Stacking up late and unfulfilled campaigns continuallly until he owed $2.4 million in product to the backers that trusted his word, selfish. - Blaming those backers for being upset about having their hard-earned money taken from them and getting nothing in return, selfish. - Chasing out all the talent under 50 years old, selfish. - Brining in the degenerate clown show of JujuTheCow and PedoVito and their posse of mouth breathers, Selfish. - Carrying on a 3-year cryfest over Eric July and Rippaverse, selfish. The list goes on. Now he sits in 2026 where comicsgate is gone. It's a STRUGGLE for Ethan and his main zeros to make $100k. It takes months of begging now. The old backers have left, been burned too many times, or have been milked completely dry. The new viewers don't give a flying screw about comics and are only there for the "social club" and the to watch all the drama. There is no enthusiasm left in comicsgate everyone is going through the motions, fulfilling their tired worn-out obligations to maintain the status quo. The few diehard fans are obligated to protect comicsgate from all criticism. The middle tier creators, (once called "comicsgate kings") are obligated to kowtow to Ethan, Shane, Jon, Mandy and to carry their water. Ethan is obligated to pretend that he's working on his $2.4 million in overdue product and that he gives a damn about his fans. Saggy Face Shane is obligated lick Ethan's ass at all times and to protect and make excuses for Ethan's lateness. Similarly Fat Horse Mandy Summers is obligated to pretend like she gives a fuck about comics and she's not already halfway out the door on streaming with Shane and planning on taking Dale with her when she goes. Cecil and AnnaThatRetardGirl are obligated to pretend like they are still friends with Ethan and his zeros after they got backstabbed. Crying Jon Malin is obligated to pretend that Ethan's TRASHCAST and his general shitty behavior didn't destroy the comicsgate that once lifted Jon and Richard to millions on Jawbreakers. Comicsgate is about to end the year with only one campaign reaching $100k and that campaign is the 4th issue of Chicken Bitch Shane Davis's Pacific Rim ripoff those books used to be an event that cleared 100k in days, not months. But this works for Ethan because he is planning to leave Saggy Face Shane holding the corpse of comicsgate. Ethan is finished with comicsgate, like any good parasite he has killed the host by poisoning it and draining every last bit of life out of it. Now he is leaping from that corpse and he thinks he's going to be able to return to @DCOfficial comics after all the feces and venom he as spread all around independent comics. 2027 is going to be the year we watch this fat tub of slop try to jump!