Plus, Justin Roilland also does this:bastardofmelbourne said:
Yeah, about this! There's been a real recurring flood of spam recently. Was thinking about creating a topic on that, because dammit, sometimes you need to click through 10 pages of that crap to see normal topics.CaitSeith said:
I would hardly be surprised if a bunch of middle-aged show writers have no exposure to the depths of internet fanfiction.EternallyBored said:
It definitely speaks to a certain level of disconnect from, dare I say reality, if this thing was intended as a little staff in-joke that made its way into the show proper. Not to suggest the people involved are stark-raving loony of course, but rather that even a cheekily worded yet relatively innocent private joke can sound *so* much worse when aired for all to see. Especially in the internet age where A) people will gleefully attempt to destroy each other for shits and giggles, B) anything posted online will stay there for all eternity, and C) anything can be taken out of context to look horrendous! One hopes this doesn't blow up and get poor Mr Goldman a "reputation"!EternallyBored said:
They're bloody everywhere! For the past two weeks, at least on my end, I was actually tempted to make a thread to ***** about it, but I figured they'd just disappear after a while....CaitSeith said:
Nah, even with the defense of the artist it's still funny, Thanks for sharing it with us.Igor-Rowan said:
If this were the 90's I would totally agree with you, but even middle aged people have practically grown up with the internet at this point, not that I expect everyone to be super savvy, but between pretty much every artist having their own Twitter and Tumblr, to the rise of fan conventions, I would expect even people in their 40's to at least be aware that some of this stuff exists.shrekfan246 said:
Eh, there are still people my age (25) and younger who can barely work their way around an internet browser. It's becoming less common, sure, but it's still surprisingly common nonetheless.EternallyBored said:
I'm not denying the possibility, for the record, just stating that it's certainly not outside the realm of possibility. Hell, I personally only have a passing knowledge of shitty internet fanfics mostly because of cultural osmosis; the only one I've actually been directly exposed to is "My Immortal", and I didn't even actually read that one, just listened to someone else do a dramatic reading of it. Much like things such as Rule 34 (since you bring up lesbian Steven Universe stuff), it's not actually that difficult to avoid certain things on the internet. Moreover, even if you have knowledge that something exists, that hardly means you've actually seen it.
My biggest concern is people harassing the guy. I don't watch the show at all because frankly it looks terrible, but this nerdy looking guy doesn't deserve the deluge of crap I feel is coming his way, given where this "investigation" began.Igor-Rowan said:
I didn't say it did. The testimonial by someone else who worked on the show does, however. 4chan, festering breeding ground for unrepentant assholes that it is, only cares about humiliating someone over a misunderstanding.Leg End said:
I'm merely going by what I'm seeing. If it was once or twice, sure. But it's every episode where he is attached to the writing. If he wasn't writing, I could probably take it as a joke among the staff.Kolby Jack said:
Except that's a lie, and why the fuck are you people forcing me to google this awful show and defend someone that honestly isn't that good of a writer. The stupid character shows up in two of three episodes where Goldman is not credited, in season 2, in season one this is also not exactly some revelation as he seems to be on the writing credit for almost every single episode in the season so the guy wrote or co wrote almost every episode in the season including the bulk that don't feature this character at all.Leg End said:
They got the credits straight from the wiki in the image. Also I'm voting the former. But I guess the only surefire way is to watch the episodes and look for the credited writers. If it was vandalism, at least they didn't add parenthesis.EternallyBored said:
What is the point of getting the credits from the wiki if they can easily alter it before making their little collage, I got my info from the wiki too as well as the PPG wiki and that seems to contradict their image, your point is also still factually wrong as the man has written every single PPG episode bar 2 in season 2 one of which even Wikipedia doesn't include him as a writer and featureS the OC in question, conveniently left out of the 4chan image of course.Leg End said:
