Andy Shandy said:
And Tim Buckley is, by most accounts, quite the arsehole.
I feel like he's literally no worse than any other normal person you meet in real life. We hold content-producers on the internet to such weirdly high standards, so that anyone who has even the normal amount of vanity and fallibility is really hated upon. I really don't understand it
I mean particularly with Buckley the stuff people accuse him of is a)A
made-up accusation of paedophillia by the normal type of internet chat drama stirrer
b)Then freaking out and cracking down on his comics forum when it suddenly fills up with people who want to call him a paedophile (and also at the time it was run by absolutely corrupt mods who banned people on a whim and he purged the forums of those people at the same time)
One of the things people
multiple people accuse him of, was that someone told him that it was 'webcomic appreciation day' he wrote a blog-post about how he's so lucky to have the job he has and that the day was silly because the readers were important. Sure it's a little self-important and overreaching, but he's trying to say thank you to his readers, that's not a bad thing.
Or people lashed out at him for trying to copy Penny Arcade by
founding a charity. Oh no, how evil of him to try and get in on the be-nice-to-people action.
He just feels like a normal 20+ish year old with a nice life and a social elevation that's a bit out of his depth but he tries to get to grips with even if he does fumble all the time. With all the little prides and insecurities any other person on the internet has.
Considering the actual levels of dickishness amongst so many actors and filmmakers and celebrities it's just a bit petty to go after Buckley as though people were disappointed he didn't turn out to be Martin Luther King.
Heck at least he hasn't screwed up a situation so badly over multiple years that people who defend him on twitter with the name 'Team Rape'. The Penny Arcade people are really nice people who've done more amazing things than Buckley will do (thanks to Robert Khoo) but they've also screwed up worse. Buckley wasn't the guy who was offering the chance to be his unpaid intern if you paid him several thousand dollars. Nor was he the guy making job postings where he said 'We won't pay you well, and you'll do 4 times the amount of work expected of you, but at least you'll get to be in close proximity to us right?'
Some parts of the Penny Arcade empire are dodgy as fuck. Do you think Robert Khoo, Jerry and Mike also don't get paid anything for the work they do? Khoo underpays the people working for them because he knows that if he sells the Penny Arcade dream then he and the other two get to pocket the cash.
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Now I've had this conversation before, and we're both denizens of the internet right, so I highly doubt that I've been persuasive enough to change your opinion. But how about we do it like this, if you show me one thing that Tim Buckley did (actually did, not made-up internet drama BS) that is more arseholeish than the sort of thing the average guy you meet going down to the shops did (or the average citizen of the internet), then I will concede you were right and I won't ever make this argument again.
EDIT: They gave me a capture error for refusing to say that Paid Company had the best internet TV
