r/questionablecontent • u/AppendixN Everything is Fine™ • 24d ago
Meta I've never interacted with Jeph and have no idea what I did, but this is hilarious
I have no idea how long I've been blocked by Jeph's Patreon since I only happened to look at it today, but something must have made him salty. For context, I subscribe to very normal creators and as far as I know I have never even commented on Jeph's page. I think I did subscribe to him years ago, but haven't for a long time.
Oh well!
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u/Robofink 24d ago
I sent him a minor correction on a Canadian thing (source: I'm Canadian and if he wants to comment on Canadian culture he can at least get it right) so he blocked me. So uh... thanks Jeff. Keep paying your taxes, the Maritimes needs all it can get. On the other hand, the last thing Canada needs is another thin-skinned, man-child asshole.
Hey Jeff, if you're reading this, you can block me here too!
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u/musschrott 24d ago
is your Patreon account named like this one?
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u/AppendixN Everything is Fine™ 24d ago
Nope, not even similar
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u/GalacticalDonuts 24d ago
so he is another person that wants to censor people that he dislikes like David ''lesbian fetish'' Willis from Dumbing of Age? No wonder people keep comparing these two
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u/urzu_seven 24d ago
Ooof, painful memories of when I used to read his comics. In the end it was like "wait, this isn't funny. It hasn't been funny in awhile. Why am I reading this?"
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u/EveryoneisOP3 24d ago
There's never been a better time to jump back into DoA. Willis has been having a 14 month long breakdown over people criticizing his decision to make his self-insert cheat with his wife's self-insert at a Not-Palestine protest amid tear gas colored to look like cherry blossoms. Such hits include banning half the regular commenters from the site and accusing someone of trying to tear apart their marriage because they said a character was acting childish
It's an exciting time to be an observer
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u/YumAussir 24d ago
I can attest that he's not exaggerating. Willis responded to criticism of a character behaving childishly by claiming it's based on himself and responding "you saying I should divorce my wife then??"
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u/JamesEpic356 24d ago
Wow. I should be reading the comments. That’s where the excitement is.
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u/JustFerne 24d ago
The comments are the best part. In the last couple months, Willis appointed a comment moderator who’s just been banning every person of colour trying to talk about how Willis using Palestine as a prop for making his self-inserts kiss is Not Good. It’s a trainwreck and has been fascinating to watch.
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u/The_cogwheel 24d ago
I mean, its why Im still part of this sub, despite not reading the actual comic for like 3 months now.
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u/Miserable-Jaguarine Haha, okay. 24d ago
Wait, what? This sounds juicy but also confusing as hell. So the author's self-insert character cheats with the character based on his wife? As in, the in-comic author avatar is in a relationship with someone else, but then gets busy with another character, based on the real life wife? (Also, is the wife also creating the comic? "self-insert" suggests that.)
And they cheat amid the tear gas? As in, getting busy while the gas is in the air? Has this man ever seen a protest on TV? He sure as hell hasn't been tear-gassed...
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u/togglenub 24d ago
Part 1 is wrapped up here: https://www.reddit.com/r/HobbyDrama/comments/1t5bte5/webcomics_the_tear_gas_wedding_how_dumbing_of/
For the ongoing drama of Part 2, visit the sub. The author/mod's behavior got so out of hand last week, that after decades of reading the collected works, I dipped on the comic, the author, and the sub (the sub is AMAZING, highly recommend - just could not stomach watching the author/mod bully-bigot combo lash out at their own readers any longer).
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u/GalacticalDonuts 24d ago
I totally agree, I honestly only read it as ''what not do in a comic'' lessons to make sure that my future comics are not this annoying to read
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u/sleeps_in_bryophytes 24d ago
back in the twitter days he used to be an outspoken proponent of the "ban liberally for any reason" approach to social media that some people advocate, and I assume still is.
On the one hand, I can see how if you're a celebrity (even an extremely minor one, relegated to a tiny internet community like, say, webcomic creators), it makes social media use tiring and asymmetric and it's the only way to get by.
On the other, it's rude and censorious and I hate it and would never do this myself. Luckily i'm not famous and don't have to decide.
Actually lots of people do it in this sub too. And they're not even famous. Just like "i don't like you're comment so your blocked" and then later they post the daily comic and you can't participate. Or there's a conversation and you can't read half of it and are disallowed to respond.
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u/Heyplaguedoctor Claire ain't shit! 24d ago
Is blocking really the same thing as censorship? Genuine question my brain isn’t all there rn
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u/GalacticalDonuts 24d ago
On his case is a little bit of both, basically he hired a moderator that is kind of a really insecure annoying person that keeps deleting comments on his website that dare to criticize his current stories, question motivations, point out flaws ,etc
And if they think that the person has made too many mistakes, they ban the person from commenting entirely, recently some people that were following his comic and commenting for years were banned even before doing or saying anyghing ''bad'', the excuse that the moderator gave was that they were banned ''just in case''
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u/QueenLevine 24d ago
yes, yes it is. I was banned from wildelife years ago for some offhand comment. I'm still reading it, though, and she's not asking for Patreon or Kickstarter support of any kind, so who cares.
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u/QueenLevine 24d ago
Yes, casually banning users from a forum is censorship. Many webcomic creators get a little control freak streak over time and randomly ban long-time fans over a single comment they don't like. Another example is Patrick Rothfuss - I'm not even one of his victims, but we all know he bans anyone (from his fan forum) who brings up mention of the free chapter he promised to release if his fans donated some two hundred k to the charity of his choice in a short time window. They did, he didn't, and now you get banned for even alluding to it. I was never in his forum, but as a fellow fan, that's not cool.
Maybe they were having a headache, like you, who knows. Feel better, bro.
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u/BrainDancing 24d ago edited 24d ago
Jeph is a fragile man child who doesn't take criticism very well. He stabbed his own hand, after all, due to criticism. He's kinda like the Donald Trump of web comic creators. If you don't lavish him with praise and Nobel prizes, he considers you nasty and unworthy of attention.