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Webcomic Star KC Green on Why He Killed GUNSHOW, The Comic That Launched Him
A webcomic artist was able to turn his back on the site and title that made his name. In many ways, he credits new platforms, such as Patreon, for making the shift possible.
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Patreon Hacked: Some User Information Compromised
Patreon, the startup that facilitates ongoing payments to creative people and projects, had some user information hacked on September 28, according to a blog post from the company tonight.
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Tweets Suggest Patreon Hack May Be GamerGate Related
Tweets posted before Patreon announced its hack seem to credibly claim credit for the attack. A Twitter user claims to have raided the site on behalf of GamerGate.
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Patreon Data Dump: What the Public Can Now See
There's much more data in the Patreon data dump about users (and about the company) than anyone suspected when it was first announced. Basically, everything is in there.
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Blame GamerGate’s Bad Rep on Smears and Shoddy Journalism
At least to some extent, the “harassment mob” label was intended to neutralize GamerGate as a voice against progressivist extremism. As one pro-“social justice” blogger wrote with satisfaction,...
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Are Half of the Hacked Patreon Accounts Fake?
An anonymous source online sent an analysis of the Patreon data via the Tor network. Here's what we were told.
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The Webcomics Business Is Moving on From Webcomics
The webcomics business is changing. In order to understand how, we checked in with nine of the creators whose comics made it into an industry.
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Facebook Can’t Handle This ‘Transphobic’ Garlic Bread Meme
Is the controversy half baked, or the start of a kneaded conversation?
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The Feminist Duo Using Podcasts and Parody Accounts to Resist Trump
Sarah Lerner and Devon Handy host Hellbent, and they also run Twitter accounts for President Hillary Clinton and VP Tim Kaine.
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Sam Harris’ Strategy for Supporting His Work Is Smart (and It’s Working)
In an audacious move that defied conventional “keep it short” wisdom, Harris took the most uncomfortable task among content creators and proved that the era of click-bait is beginning to end.
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Minecraft Creator Tells Women on Twitter ‘Act Like a Cunt, Get Called a Cunt’
Markus "Notch" Persson called female developer Zoe Quinn a "cunt," which set off a days-long social media firestorm.
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Save the Laughs! McSweeney’s Internet Tendency Launches a Patreon Campaign
It's literary fundraising season, motherfuckers.
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"Fundamentally everyone is going to run into the Richard Spencer problem," said Mike Cernovich.
View ArticleCharles Koch Teams Up With George Soros, Patreon and Airbnb to Fight Online...
The After Charlottesville is sponsored by Comcast NBCUniversal, The Kresge Foundation and the Soros Fund Charitable Foundation.
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The Observer’s 2015 Tech Insurgents
Welcome to the Observer’s collection of tech’s most potent wild cards. These startups are coming into their respective spaces—social media, crowdfunding, fin-tech, home services—and finding success...
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