We saw gamergate come and go, we tried coming up with our own goofy embarrassingly sincere ideas for "gamergate but for comics" (NSFW 8chan board archive: https://archive.fo/AJHND) which went nowhere, and then later the supposed rise of comicsgate. Very quickly, comicsgate revealed itself to us as a dishonest bad faith movement, but that also the fandom itself, of American capeshit, were innately dishonest and bad faith people. That is a whole other topic, yet also oddly related.
These days, a lot of us from Shittywebcomics have gone on to make our own comics. Because we were honest about comicsgate from the beginning, we ended up with a lot of "refugees," jilted comicsgaters who still had no right breathing the same air as us, but also some actual honest and good faith creators, hobby guys, casual observers, all various sorts. This also included the guys who made Kamen America (big ups to Tim and Mark for always being cool to us) and eventually even guys like Doug TenNapel who ended up catching on to us eventually. Some of the information I have about comicsgate came from them, but about 95% of it came simply from being there and seeing it for myself.
Most of it was stuff I had casually observed as well. After years of people in comicsgate saying "it's nawt truuuuuuuuu" even in the face of them contradicting themselves and bragging about how it was true and that we "couldn't do anything about it," eventually I had to either start keeping archives of this stuff, or keep the stuff that a lot of former comicsgate fans/refugees/etc had been sending me this whole time.
