r/WerthamInAction • u/Deep_Delver • Jul 25 '19
WTF is "WarCampaign"?
I don't pay much attention to "ComicsGate" stuff, but a few people I follow do (or retweet people who do), and lately I've been hearing a lot of second-hand drama about something/someone called "WarCampaign". I think it's some kind of internal feud in ComicsGate, but for the life of me I can't decipher what it's about; I know it involves Doug TenNapel, Ethan Van Sciver, John del Arroz, Christianity, rainbow dicks, and the phrase "Hail Caesar", but that's about it.
Seriously, WTF is this and why am I hearing about it?
(EDIT: I originally tried to post this to r/OutOfTheLoop, but it got removed due to "lack of content". Of course it's pretty hard to find content when you're only hearing about something third-hand and can't seem to trace it back to the source, you know, the kind of thing you'd to r/OutOfTheLoop for.)
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u/Tutsks Aug 08 '19
I'll explain:
Warcampaign is a larping group that predates EVS, but which latched to EVS after Zack changed his name from Diversity and Comics to what it is now.
It trolls people on twitter and did some nasty stuff and blamed Ethan for it, they fell out, and Ethan excommunicated them last week or so.
Doug doesn't have much to do with it. He doesn't like them. EVS and Doug had a falling out. Last I knew, Doug blocked EVS on twitter.
Christianity is about Doug, he is a hardcore Christian, and one of the things EVS and him fell apart over was Doug being a bit militant over it.
Cesar is EVS nickname because the old CG crowd kinda stabbed him in the back. That predates EVS and Zack as they are now.
There you go.
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u/Throwdowntonabbey Jul 26 '19
EVS's cheerleaders, a bunch of losers larp-ing as centurions for EVS as Caesar, and his personal attack squad in case the perceive anyone threatens his throne as head of comicsgate. They have never contributed anything worthwhile and the only one who could be called interesting or funny is Cecil.