If you don't know who Zoe Quinn is, well, congratulations. You have spared quite many brain cells and gray hairs. In short, Zoe Quinn is the other top professional victim who rose to fame by self-imposed victimhood on the wave of Gamergate. The other one being, of course, Anita Sarkeesian. (Their difference, however, is that Sarkeesian succeeded in making her professional victimhood a million-dollar business, while Zoe Quinn has fallen mostly into obscurity and has been less successful in monetizing her self-imposed victim status. Not for the lack of trying, mind you. She simply isn't as good at it as Sarkeesian is. Quinn is not a businesswoman.)
Marvel Comics has been for years the more famous of the two top western comics corporations who has openly and very egregiously embraced the social justice ideology (and whose sales have suffered quite a lot as a consequence, because of their obsession in inserting their real-life social justice politics into their comics, and changing established characters and storylines to follow suit.)
Now it appears that DC Comics, rather than take this opportunity to perhaps bring in the disillusioned Marvel fans into their franchise, have instead decided that they too want to join the social justice bandwagon. For reasons unknown to everybody. Rather than learn from the mistakes of their biggest competitor, they seem eager to do those same mistakes themselves. I suppose the urge to virtue-signal is way too strong.
Among many other things, one of the most prominent symptoms of this is that recently DC Comics announced that they will be hiring Zoe Quinn as a writer for a new upcoming comic book series.
This is quite clearly and obviously a form of social justice virtue-signaling in order to try to pander to the regressive leftist social justice crowd.
In order to see how justified the hiring of Zoe Quinn actually is, people have gone through the entire history of her social media activity in order to see how much interest and experience she has on comic books. Is she an avid fan? What comic books does she read? Has she ever made, or written, any comic books herself? Are comic books her hobby? Has she ever shown any enthusiasm, interest and understanding of comic books and the comic books industry? Does she have any sort of experience in comic books in particular, or writing stories in general?
Of course only going through someone's social media posts can give only a limited view of her life, but I think it can be argued that if someone is passionate and/or knowledgeable about a certain industry, like comic books, it would probably be reflected in their online activity.
As you might have already guessed, this research has brought up absolutely no history of interest or experience in comic books, and not much interest or experience in writing in general. From the years and years of social media posts, only a couple of posts refer to comic books in any way, shape or form, and even these are just talking about some fan-made comic book strips about some subject somewhere, as an off-hand remark.
The only writing work that Quinn is famous for is that absolutely horrible text-based game (that was part of the her involvement in the whole Gamergate debacle.) That's about it.
It's quite clear that Zoe Quinn has little to no writing experience, and probably next to zero writing experience for comic books in particular. Yet she was hired by DC Comics as a writer for an upcoming comic book series.
There are literally thousands and thousands of talented and experienced writers and artists out there who would kill to get the opportunity to be hired by a company like DC Comics. Yet they hire someone with basically zero experience and zero talent instead, solely because of her involvement in social justice politics.
Let's just hope that the free market does its job, people vote with their money, and the comic book series tanks hard. People want quality, not virtue-signaling.
Marvel Comics has been for years the more famous of the two top western comics corporations who has openly and very egregiously embraced the social justice ideology (and whose sales have suffered quite a lot as a consequence, because of their obsession in inserting their real-life social justice politics into their comics, and changing established characters and storylines to follow suit.)
Now it appears that DC Comics, rather than take this opportunity to perhaps bring in the disillusioned Marvel fans into their franchise, have instead decided that they too want to join the social justice bandwagon. For reasons unknown to everybody. Rather than learn from the mistakes of their biggest competitor, they seem eager to do those same mistakes themselves. I suppose the urge to virtue-signal is way too strong.
Among many other things, one of the most prominent symptoms of this is that recently DC Comics announced that they will be hiring Zoe Quinn as a writer for a new upcoming comic book series.
This is quite clearly and obviously a form of social justice virtue-signaling in order to try to pander to the regressive leftist social justice crowd.
In order to see how justified the hiring of Zoe Quinn actually is, people have gone through the entire history of her social media activity in order to see how much interest and experience she has on comic books. Is she an avid fan? What comic books does she read? Has she ever made, or written, any comic books herself? Are comic books her hobby? Has she ever shown any enthusiasm, interest and understanding of comic books and the comic books industry? Does she have any sort of experience in comic books in particular, or writing stories in general?
Of course only going through someone's social media posts can give only a limited view of her life, but I think it can be argued that if someone is passionate and/or knowledgeable about a certain industry, like comic books, it would probably be reflected in their online activity.
As you might have already guessed, this research has brought up absolutely no history of interest or experience in comic books, and not much interest or experience in writing in general. From the years and years of social media posts, only a couple of posts refer to comic books in any way, shape or form, and even these are just talking about some fan-made comic book strips about some subject somewhere, as an off-hand remark.
The only writing work that Quinn is famous for is that absolutely horrible text-based game (that was part of the her involvement in the whole Gamergate debacle.) That's about it.
It's quite clear that Zoe Quinn has little to no writing experience, and probably next to zero writing experience for comic books in particular. Yet she was hired by DC Comics as a writer for an upcoming comic book series.
There are literally thousands and thousands of talented and experienced writers and artists out there who would kill to get the opportunity to be hired by a company like DC Comics. Yet they hire someone with basically zero experience and zero talent instead, solely because of her involvement in social justice politics.
Let's just hope that the free market does its job, people vote with their money, and the comic book series tanks hard. People want quality, not virtue-signaling.
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