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Star Wars' Comic Writer Chuck Wendig Says Marvel Fired Him For Social Media Behavior
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The James Gunn thing got huge, and they still refused to backpedal.
The thing with this is that comics don't make a lot of money nowadays and Marvel is pissing off a huge portion of their revenue with this.
Yeah. I'm pretty sure it is. Just protect yourself when starting to work for a known quanitty.
This firing was from Marvel Comics -- likely one specific person based on what we are hearing.
The actress from Resistance would be fired by Lucasfilm or Disney if it became that large of a controversy -- which it didn't.
Previously, the employee of a company walked around yelling "I hate n***ers" they would be fired. I reckon the right wingers will seek revenge next. Lots of people going to be fired for suggesting we're nicer to each other.
James Gunn got fired for making jokes about pedophillia(with the problem IIRC being the people who made that stuff blow up) while Mark Paniccia is getting parts of parts of Marvel and Disney accused of being anti-LGBT.
Exactly. Theres been ALOT of instances over the last several years where working for any type of entertainment or business house that has shown you need to protect yourself from your past and stay away from any and all social media.
Especially in this political climate.
I don't think there are any. At least not off the top of my head.
If this was genuinely a choice made by one editor. That dude should be fired because he made a stupid fucking decision. Chuck's name is pretty huge. If they had a problem with his social media usage they could have talked to him about it first.
There was no problem from Lucasfilm with Chuck and his twitter during the Aftermath trilogy.
This doesn't seem like a decision from the top, seems like a Pro-Trump, pro-ComicsGate editor that was offended taking it out on Chuck. For all of their whining about special snowflakes the Right sure melts at real little shit.
This doesn't seem like a decision from the top, seems like a Pro-Trump, pro-ComicsGate editor that was offended taking it out on Chuck. For all of their whining about special snowflakes the Right sure melts at real little shit.
Well, to be fair, his writing is god awful, so he should have been fired for that a long time ago.
Yeah, it essentially becomes a double edged sword. If you stay on all your original social media accounts once you start getting more traction, you run the risk of someone seeing something you said days/months/years ago that they can read differently, and hurt your career with it. But, on the other hand, if you don't stay on social media communicating with the fans, supporters etc, you could hurt your own career. Bullshit.
Goes for pretty much any company now. Especially Disney maybe, but being semi high profile for just about any company + social media is a recipe for disaster.
That's my point. There are no pro-Trump writers. People out here screaming about Marvel silencing some dude because of his politics when the company's employees are probably 99% liberal/lefty. The way this dude acted on the internet was just bad for business.
Yet another reason why I will never have a public Twitter/Facebook/etc. account (or if I do it'll be tame as hell). Shut us just way too likely to blow up in your face and get you fired.
I'm glad he took a stand against shitbags, but companies will drop your ass the second they think you look bad to their customers.
I'm glad he took a stand against shitbags, but companies will drop your ass the second they think you look bad to their customers.
Oh, sorry. I thought you were implying there were.
It's true: the people at Marvel Comics are largely liberal and progressive. But that doesn't make this firing okay. No one actually cared how he tweeted except alt-right racists.
Anyone who calls liberals "Lefties" pretty much is showing who they really are. Big Trump fan?
Which is why my feeling is this decision came from higher up. If they were going to fire him, it would have to go up the chain first and I doubt it would have been approved that way. So it makes more sense to me it came from the other direction.
If the editor asked to swap out Chuck Wending I have my doubts the response would have been "yeah sure" that's not believable to me.
Fucking shame
Hmmmmm. Then get rid of that fucker that is the new editor of the special projects.
Hmmmmm. Then get rid of that fucker that is the new editor of the special projects.
Why would the editor have to go up the chain? He said it was his decision and I don't see any reason to believe he required buy-in from anyone outside Marvel.
lol why are you trying to bring TLJ into this when it is just some random tweet.
Of course not, but the Right clearly views it as one. You didn't answer my question.
Yeah, which technically means this actually has a chance for a backpedal unlike the Gunn decision.
in my adult life i've voted for Kerry, Obama, Obama, Clinton. does that answer your question you fucking baby?