Eric July's Isom #1 (the first book in the Rippaverse) has just past the THREE MILLION MARK!
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>3 mill for something that looked like it came from DeviantArt.
This medium is dead.
Don't slam DeviantArt, it has some good art on there.
Literal pro artists poached from DC. Seethe lefty.
looking at that art i can see why they are not at dc anymore
That's a DC pro artist work? This whole time I thought it was some third-worlder who probably charges like 50 per page. It looks EXACTLY like the type of art you'd get for that price.
>looking at that art i can see why they are not at dc anymore
One still currently does penciling and inking for DC pretty regularly.
Dc and marvel are full of queers trannies and groomers but this shit is poop juice.
Man this isn't even especially bad looking honestly. I don't care about it but it's not like heinous. What is terrible are the homosexuals like this who are making it some culture war shit. That's literally the biggest thing this whole comic has going for it. It's getting people mad and or support it not for anything other than a culture war shit. I would love for it to actually be good cuz God knows there is a great deal of overt woke bullshit in modern comics, but I wouldn't want it if it meant that yo always have to be around homosexuals like this going on about lefties and other culture war buzzwords.
The audacity of you people!
>It will never reach 100k
>It will never reach a million
>How can it be non woke if the main character is black
>The art is shit anyway
>The story look garbage
>He's just a puppet for the right
Go on seeth more,more for me lefties.
I would rather get a laloverse than another homieverse.
DeviantArt is decent if you know what you're looking for. Even Tumblr.
You kidding? This is great, we get to laugh at people who spent money on it once they find out it's bad.
True
These look basically the same quality
As opposed to you homos who routinely spend money on terrible product every week?
Sound alike sour grapes to me
This
“Rippaverse”? More like “it’s the worst”
I know that cal arts cartoons had damaged the brain of Cinemaphile but you can't be that far gone
DeviantArt is actually better than both Tumblr and Twitter at this point by the simple fact they don't have as much autism as these two
most Deviantart users are not nazis
>"Invest in the brand"
>Only takes donations.
Do motherfrickers really?
I was tired of this desperate shilling the second it started and it shows no signs of letting up
Yes. I get it. He is winning. I particularly hate the thing that happens when one expresses how exasperated they are with these kinds of posts.
They call you a lefty or a "seethe-and-cope" type of individual. It is very, very annoying. I am aware that that is the case in many places but it happens too often. Too often.
It is on-topic for the board but still, very exasperating. Mayhaps if it gets released and some would exclaim that this isn't worth 35 bucks maybe it'll end. Then again, 35 bucks is a small price to pay to own the lefties. To make them "seethe-and-cope".
Fricking culture warriors.
Nobody is making you click these threads, you seething lefty
See my point? I don't even have to click on it to notice it, culture warrior. I just wish that such posts would be kept to a minimum.
But that would require Reddit levels of moderation and I am not for that so all I have is to bellyache.
still trying to shill your garbage on here eric
>The Overnight millionaire is spending all day on Cinemaphile trying to convince the single digits of people who are neutral to buy his book
>still pretending this isn't an obvious money laundering scheme, even though the butthole in charge is running the "crowdfunding" site
noooooooo you cant bring any of that up if you do you hate black people
>NOOOO, YOU HAVE TO USE THE CORPORATE-RUN CHANNELS SO WE CAN CANCEL YOU FOR YOUR BIGOTRY
>NOOOO, YOU CAN'T HAVE ACCOUNTABILITY FOR THIS TOTALLY LEGITIMATE ENTERPRISE!!! IF YOU POINT OUT THAT THIS IS SHADY AS FRICK, THAT MAKES YOU A RACIST SOMEHOW!
ftfy
why should i just believe what this dude is saying about his comic making 3 million he and all his grifters can just be making shit up at this point
>why should i just believe what this dude is saying about his comic making 3 million he and all his grifters can just be making shit up at this point
Supposing it's true...why would it matter?
the dude keeps bragging to how much money he is making its the only thing he talks about have not seen 1 panel of the comic so far
preview pages on the rippaverse page you disingenuous homosexual
So what is about?
looks like english isn't your first language but I'm sure even you can read the treatment on the site.
Yea but what is the comic about?>
There was this superhero and he retired and now he's back.
That's it. That's what it's about. Now buy it or you're a marxist.
Haha, no!
You are either moronic or baiting frick off out of here.
Grab the pages and post them here, then tell me what the comic is about.
Make me b***h
It's about the grift.
Call me when even a single issue of this dropped and got ripped for Official Win-O-Clock
no digital version, only good old physical copies will be available
>If this means that a series is on its 100th issue or volume,
Oh no! That means we'll never be able to take a peak.
says comic is non political dude has a cross on his costume
Killing heretics isn't political.
>"You say your book has no politics yet your comic has a conflict. Curious..."
>You say you're not political and yet you're literally not sucking wiener right now, isnt that a bit hypocritical?
um rippa bros what's this?
>We are BREAKING the Duopoly
>Has never read a single non-big two in their lives
When you hire DC artists and tell them your goal is to rehash the old days then it stands to reason they're gonna give you a rehashed design.
The lack of originality is the point. This is supposed to be like the good old days, when sure comics sucked, but they weren't woke!
Unless this homie can actually keep a regular release schedule all this is is grifting
with his current business model does not look like they will be monthly comics.
> If Retcons are to exist, t
Ah. It’s starting. The backtracking
They also talk about reboots.
>Ah. It’s starting. The backtracking
He literally came out the gate with this Code of Ethics, you secondary antishill. https://rippaverse.com/about/
No need to be so insecure about it. Just say firmly: "i will no have retcons, nor reebots,nor multiverse"
At the end of the day his idea was having total control over his fictional universe,so he should show more confidence on the future of his own comics
>No need to be so insecure about it. Just say firmly: "i will no have retcons, nor reebots,nor multiverse"
He's gotta make that sound more impressive than it is though, as it's his only selling point outside of pissing off the woke.
On the one hand, these are great ideals for running a shared cape universe that sets him apart from Marvel and DC.
On the other hand, everything about his first book sounds generic as all hell.
>antishill
Oh hey, so you're admitting that people are shilling on here?
>Oh hey, so you're admitting that people are shilling on here?
Yes there is clear shilling here. This thread is shilling. The constant "concern trolling" is shilling. Anons doing this are pathetic as hell. The comic isn't even out to criticise yet, so what's the point of the moronation?
Isom #1: $35 for 96 pages.
Dark Nights: Death Metal: $16.50 for 232 pages.
Less than half the price for less than half the pages.
Weren't these books already payed off?
And let me guess, Isom #2 will be $35 too.
>And let me guess, Isom #2 will be $35 too.
Yup, with 5 variant covers, because so many simps needed all 3 Isom covers so it's easy money.
>Dark Nights: Death Metal
And what story that was how can we forget this magnificent story and wonderful illustrations
>And what story that was how can we forget this magnificent story and wonderful illustrations
NTA but as of this moment it wins simply by default. Rippaverse's quality is still in question.
Looks cool
Hes printing them in America, and on good quality paper (or so he says). Eric also doesn't have pre-established relationships with massive printing companies like the big boys do. Not to mention he's also paying his artists better than the big two. All that considered 35 isn't too bad
>he's also paying his artists better than the big two
How much is he paying them and how much does a big 2 artist usually get paid?
It's kind of important to note that all of his goals don't really matter unless this actually makes it to that hundredth issue and even then all he's accomplished is doing what every halfway decent manga has done for longer than most of us have been alive.
Hmmmm. Appreciate the Rippaverse but I'm just starting to see that it's note of pissing of the lefties than actually getting a good story. Time will tell and since this is quite big, I am most certain it would be on the piracy sites.
I do not doubt that this would go larger but for the love of Christ, the people who keeps tooting this has got to stop. Yes, we get it. He is winning, has that got to be reminded every now and again?
Anyway, I really, really love the promise of continuity. I always wondered how that would look. Since Isom is a retiree returning, I hope we get to see a story where he's there as a newbie or in his prime as a main or a side. This is quite impressive. Now I regret not buying it. Not that I can anyway. Living halfway across the world and can barely afford anything.
So yeah, storytime on Cinemaphile and maybe it gets pirated.
Good for him, but im honestly getting tired of this homosexual hopping on youtube everyday and acting like this isnt a indie startup.
Who is "us"?
>constantly shit talks his viewers as being idiots if they dont agree with him
>"guys we're in this together"
I would be more on board if dude didnt come off as a tyrant CEO.
>Who is "us"?
He, him, and himself.
The RippaChads.
Why does his second video proving that the warehouses exist is him filming himself with his phone? Why does he still make reactionary videos if he want to be a full time comic writer? Why don't he talk more about the content of his creations?
Those are seething lefty questions just fyi.
I'm actually trans btw. I hope that don't matter.
Just don't have a mental breakdown and post your gross breasts like the last one did.
>Wah wah wah, *concern trolling*
Stfu homosexual
To make more people do the same thing and go against you shit woke establishment at Marvel and DC. Big 2 will stop existing within 10 years
>*Talks about content*
>WAAAH, LOGISTICAL CONCERN TROLLING
>*talks about logistics*
>WHY ARENT YOU FOCUSING ON YOUR CONTENT
Of course drinkers connected the anti-sjw front has to strong and offer fresh blow jobs to their fellow members of mediocrity.
I hate how much ecelebs do this "we" shit.
the only people allowed to use "we" are the Queen and schizophrenics all others can blow me
uncle tom coward
Don’t read it but congrats!
So this is a money laundering scheme right? Or are liberals just that stupid
>no Crisis on Infinite Multiverse Timeline Universe #C-69 Jumping Secret Wars Crossover Omnibus bullshit
Good sign honestly, that shit has always kept me from getting more invested in cape comics
That’s easy for him to say when he doesn’t have a massive multiverse to manage. His first issue isn’t even out.
People who unironically believe this have only ever been exposed to capeshit
manga:
>you have to watch the 1998 adaptation and then read the manga until chapter 98 (its when the hiatus started) then read the SBS and watch the four OVAs from 2003 and 2005, then there is the spin off written by the author but ilustrated by Tumoko Tazeko
Comic:
>Post-crisis bro, the omnibus is on sale right now.
there is almost no manga series where you have to watch anything anime related to it, what are you talking about?
>>you have to watch
Lol, posts like this remind me that a lot of Cinemaphile is made up of 45 year old boomers that don't actually read any manga.
>Tumoko Tazeko
>SBS
What in the frick is that
It's Eichiro Oda's question and answer column that he does for One Piece's collected volumes. While there's sometimes interesting setting information in there, there's never been anything vital for understanding that particular story. It's also specific to a single manga. It's like saying to understand Superman, you have to read Alan Moore's comments on Green Lantern.
Cringe. But I like how you make fun of Togashi. Frick entitled freeloader.
You are lying about the manga part but the comic one is right.
I mean in comics you can read whatever since they change the canon so often
There is almost no comic who requires that since they reboot the official canon every 5-6 years.
Hell, Batman is not even a good example either because you can literally just start from New 52 and it gives you no problem with understanding the comic.
In other words, the stories literally do not matter.
ready to flex my Ripp
No /co, nooooo - paying $35 for a comic book is a sustainable business model you see! It's fun watching these morons get fleeced, but it sucks when it's creators you enjoy charging $25 for 48 pages. bruh... This shit is simply too moronic and has to stop. I guess the next stop after the 90's speculator boom was turning comic books into multilevel marketing scams.
Rippa said on a critical drinker stream yesterday that Yaira merch is outselling isom which he didn't expect but implied that because ppl are showing demand for her that he is gonna increase her role.
>Rippa said on a critical drinker stream yesterday that Yaira merch is outselling isom which he didn't expect but implied that because ppl are showing demand for her that he is gonna increase her role.
>catering to simps
This could go very bad very fast if he listens to fan feedback this closely.
>Yaira merch is outselling isom which he didn't expect
She's a pretty freckled blondie, I don't dislike isom but it ain't odd for fem characters to be more popular.
>Puts more effort into the female character's design
>She's more popular than the generic looking buff black dude with a buzz cut
Gee i wonder why
Is she selling more because ppl are actually more interested in her as a character or is just coomers&simps doing what they do?
>Is she selling more because ppl are actually more interested in her as a character
Character? What's that? This is clearly simpdom.
>appeal to the kinds of people who complain about "politics in comics"
>surprised they prefer a white woman over a black man
Her design is amazing, why couldn't the black guy with autism have that level of care in his
Is the comic actually good?
Because it just looks like capeshit but with a generic looking black dude and a blonde white woman
>I respect your decision, but you're pretty moronic to buy something and not know if its good or not.
I'm not buying a mystery box here. I know what the art looks like, I know what the creator has said his objectives are for not just this series but the whole "Rippaverse", a general idea of what the story is, at least for the first issue, and I know its the first print run for issue 1 of a new comic brand and universe. That's a lot to know about the product already, especially the last thing I mentioned which is a bigger deal for a collector (which I am). I have enough indicators that point to something I want to check out for myself. Not only that, but I don't mind supporting the underdog in this scenario, at least for the first issue. Clearly, the guy is at 3 mil now. Does he need my singular purchase? No. But I still want the issue for the reasons I pointed out.
Also, using your logic, you could never buy anything without testing it out/reading/viewing for yourself first. Want to go to a movie? Stupid unless you already saw it and know you think its good. Want to buy a book? Stupid unless you read it before. Want to buy a game? You better have played it all through and make sure its up to your standards.
Clearly, there are trailers, reviews, word of mouth, etc that give you an idea of what you're getting and you probably base your decision off of that. Its similar here. Its not so black and white. Like I said previously, could it be shit? Yes. Am I willing to go off of what I know and buy it now? Also yes.
Learn a European language outside english, like French Dutch or German or the best Spanish, read good shit from European market.
blacks would buy anything as long it's from a black guy
>I'm suppose to belive that the guy whose entire career is based off talking about politics and even making political music is somehow going to make a non-political comic
AAAAAAAAAAA THE CHUDS ARE SUPPORTING SOMETHING FOR ONCE INSTEAD OF WHINING ABOUT MARVEL AND DC.
THIS. WASNT. SUPPOSED. TO. HAPPEN.
take your meds
>people buying comics from the guy that almost shat his pants crying over people preferring to eat Mexican cheetos over American ones
Link me to a video about that.
I've been away from this board for a week and Cinemaphile is still REEEEEEing about this?
dey still copin'
>DA GRIFT, DA GRIIIIIFTTTTT
What is it about successful artists working to make their own stuff that makes shills and black pillers seethe so openly. Like, they think that their autistic tirades are going to demoralize us, when all they do is demonstrate just how based this project is.
b***h please. Image , Dark Horse etc have existed for years. Who the frick do you think you're fooling other than yourself, Mark?
>Successful
>Book isn't even out yet
Money aside, I'll call it a success once I get to read and make sure is actually good and not another cash grab.
You trannies know damn well you're gonna say the book is bad regardless. You've already been planning to move that goal post the moment the sales took off. It's your last play. Everybody knows you're desperate and full of envy.
Has Eric ever done any comic before? No. Then how am I suppose to know if he is a good writer? And paying $35 to someone who has never done comics before but only do politic videos and rap music isn't exactly something a person with a brain would do.
>Has Eric ever done any comic before?
It seems this shit isn't about comics. It's about outrage tithing. The reality is if these grifters were serious about making comics, they could have shut the frick up, and made a comic to submit to one of the numerous existing publishing houses in the Previews catalogue and had wide distribution and less odious pricing. The American comic book industry is just fricking shameful. We haven't seen a concerted effort by talent to foster their own characters and stories in earnest since the 90's when the Image Seven lit a fire under the ass of talent.
It's still a solid model. Go build a name for yourself at Marvel / DC, and then spin that off into your own success. There will be excuses left and right, but at the end of the day the greatest barrier to entry for making a comic in America is shutting the frick up and making the damned thing. This is why you see mediocre talent getting work. They hit deadlines. It ain't about quality, but quality doesn't hurt.
>The reality is if these grifters were serious about making comics, they could have shut the frick up, and made a comic to submit to one of the numerous existing publishing houses in the Previews catalogue and had wide distribution and less odious pricing.
Some of the worst bait I've ever seen on this site.
>It's still a solid model. Go build a name for yourself at Marvel / DC, and then spin that off into your own success. There will be excuses left and right, but at the end of the day the greatest barrier to entry for making a comic in America is shutting the frick up and making the damned thing. This is why you see mediocre talent getting work. They hit deadlines. It ain't about quality, but quality doesn't hurt.
DC comics laid off 40% of it's staff last year.
Is it really laying off when most of the creative talent in capeshit is freelancers?
It’s just one delusional anon who is pretending he’s part of the Rippaverse team and keeps using the word grifter in every thread.
Oh neat over 35k units sold
>PayPal has stolen your money
Rippabros, we need to give him money to stop paypal from canceling him.
Only a week in and we've already reached the cult-like paranoia stage? This is progressing nicely!
Uhh, they're just telling him not to use PayPal in the future and other people still ordering to use the direct payment option. What are you reading into this?
why didn't he provide proof of not getting his money? homie just want more money, a good excuse to not sell over sea and don't want paypal to get a cut.
Anyways I respect his outrage farming and the money he made. He can retire after this.
He, did provide proof. And PayPal will probably pay him. He'll probably partner with PayPal in the future still, if his company manages to survive.
Why do you morons say this shit when you haven't even looked into the situation? He showed it on video and showed the resolution panel.
Here's one for you:
You have a micro penis. I know it's true. Prove you don't!
So he won't use Gofundme or Kickstarter because they're *checks notes* full of radical leftists who hate everyone not aligned with them, but he's okay with using Youtube, Twitch and Paypal because [scene missing]. So when it comes to protecting his money, he does all he can, but everyone else can eat shit. That sound about right?
Ironically, his use of PayPal and the hassle he's had to deal with kind of justifies not using GFM or Kickstarter, both of which are known to remove fundraisers or campaigns for arbitrary reasons.
>*checks notes*
He funded it himself so he'd have complete control of it. Why is that bad?
literal sites for gargling soi
>*checks notes*
Please , bubble cyanide through your next cup of tea, sweetie.
that fricker is ugly as hell
He has more money than you, he's more successful than you, he's more happier than you, his dick is bigger than yours, and his wife is hotter than any woman you have ever been with which I'm assuming is zero. Face it, you hate your life, that's why you're here seething.
ok eric you have some money you are still ugly as frick
prog leftie moment right here
They just want to hold it for 30 days to get an interest bump before releasing the funds then collecting their fees after
The problem is that they won't unlock it until fulfillment. Even though it's perfectly clear on the website it's a pre-order that ships in August. If he hadn't already printed the books on his money this would've completely fricked him. Moral of the story is that PayPal is trash.
Second moral of the story is this:
>If he hadn't already printed the books on his money this would've completely fricked him.
He already had the product so Paypal trying to frick him won't affect fans that ordered. In the end it will probably just cause a delay on the release of funds until people spam Paypal so hard with proofs and receipts that their servers lock up.
>The problem is that they won't unlock it until fulfillment.
You mean you need to be given the product you paid for before the seller can spend your money? The marxists have struck again!
For two weeks now that this isn't a crowdfundnig campaign, it's a direct to consumer sales transaction. If that's true then there's even less reason to b***h because he should just mail out what he promised. Most campaigns need money to print the books and that's why they don't do this suspicious as frick "lemme hold your money and I'll give it to you in a month even though the comics are totally done and in a warehouse right now" shit. If he already has the product then you should be getting it asap rather than being forced to wait a month for no reason.
>If he already has the product then you should be getting it asap rather than being forced to wait a month for no reason.
Good to hear you're against all pre-orders, including video games.
>Good to hear you're against all pre-orders, including video games.
1. Ever since I pre-ordered Mass Effect 3, I am.
2. You can cancel pre-orders. These paypal transactions, I'm not entirely sure you CAN cancel them without triggering even more fraud protection.
Their system wasn't made for pre-orders. Maybe he should've gone with one that was instead of writing them all off as being for commies?
3. Pre orders make sense for when a product isn't done yet. The comics exist, remember? They're supposedly done? You guys have been saying so this whole time. You should be able to just get them now. Or was that a lie?
>1. Ever since I pre-ordered Mass Effect 3, I am.
At least you're being consistent with it.
>22. You can cancel pre-orders. These paypal transactions, I'm not entirely sure you CAN cancel them without triggering even more fraud protection.
Their system wasn't made for pre-orders. Maybe he should've gone with one that was instead of writing them all off as being for commies?
Thankfully Paypal isn't the only payment option, and was only added because it was requested by international customers as their preferred method. You don't have to use Paypal to pre-order it.
>3. Pre orders make sense for when a product isn't done yet. The comics exist, remember? They're supposedly done? You guys have been saying so this whole time. You should be able to just get them now. Or was that a lie?
You think game pre-orders don't sit in shipping for weeks being labeled, packed, sealed and prepped for shipping to their distributors?
>You think game pre-orders don't sit in shipping for weeks being labeled, packed, sealed and prepped for shipping to their distributors?
I think that the way it works is that your money goes into a holding account and you can cancel it at any time. If for example I go to fricking gamestop and say I'm there to pick up my preorder there's no specific copy that says "anon's copy" so much as there's a pile of their stock they've set aside and then I get one from that stock.
Whereas here, in this case, Rippa has a bunch of transactions saying Person A needs to get Product A and since he has thousands of them for a few million dollars they're probably trying to make sure he can actually fulfill that.
Because, and this is the important part, PRE ORDERS ARE AN INHERENTLY SCUMMY PRACTICE AND HAVE A HIGH POTENTIAL FOR FRAUD
They're based on a promise rather than anything concrete.
They don't suddenly become good just because the guy doing them is making sjws mad.
Example, I have a friend that pre-ordered Final Fantasy 7 Remake. Except then the pandemic hit so all the gamestops closed, The store he pre ordered from never came back, and since apparently they're tied to stores that meant he would've been fricked outta luck had he not had a rewards card that showed the transactions took place and could be transferred to another ocation.
>PRE ORDERS ARE AN INHERENTLY SCUMMY PRACTICE AND HAVE A HIGH POTENTIAL FOR FRAUD
I agree mostly, but I care very little for that opinion when Sony does get funds released to them because Paypal believes they don't "need" it to ship the product anyway. I guess this hold only applies to new creators and businesses, just more corporate pandering from Paypal imo.
You're right but think about it this way.
Sony can't just withdraw all its funds and disappear into the night whereas a single guy that probably didn't have 3 million dollars in his account a month ago CAN do that.
Oh a Mass Effect player, you should be able to answer these simple questions then.
What was your
Origin, Reputation, Class, and ending?
Spacer/War Hero on first playthrough. Colonist/Ruthless on my super racist against batarians save.
Paragon (but I used the Lorik Qui'in glitch to gain max renegade)
Soldier because I'm a basic b***h and always killed Ashley. Although for multiplayer in 3 I preferred infiltrator, at least until the gacha let me get that broken Geth Juggernaut build everyone uses.
Destroy ending because that was the entire fricking point of the trilogy frick whatever Casey Hudson was going for. (Although we all know Citadel is the real ending)
And although you didn't ask, Romance Tali because she's best girl and quite frankly I hate how the franchise shoves Liara down your throat. I don't care what anyone says she straight up rapes you in 3 and that's not okay.
>Destroy
Stand very fricking still
Anon I think that the fact that they insisted on killing Edi and the Geth was a justification they rote in because otherwise literally everyone pick destroy.
Having said that, Synthesis and Control are fricking...I mean come the frick on. They were literally the bad guy's blatantly unworkable plans in 1 and 2 respectively..Now in literally the last 90 seconds of the game I'm supposed to believe those were viable options all along just because a hologram says so? It's just bad writing.
There's a reason Indoctrination Theory holds up so well.
Synthesis = Saren
Control = TIM
Destroy was the only real option. Also I was a huge fan of the indoctrination theory and that very last segment of the game representing Shepherd's last resistance against indoctrination after spending 3 games around Reapers.
NTA but I am. Why wouldn't you be? Especially for digital media like video games where availability isn't an issue. Even video game publishers know it's a scam, that's why they add bonuses to pre-orders, because objectively the customer gets literally no benefit from having paid for a product they can't use.
>NTA but I am. Why wouldn't you be?
Good, generally I am to. Especially in terms of videogames. Other than that I've only backed some DND books. I'm just not inclined to b***h about a small creator doing pre-orders while like you said, video game publishers knowingly scam people on pre-orders and get away with it. Start locking up the funds of videogame publishers that do pre-orders then I might be on your side, until then I'm against unequal discipline that only favors corpos.
"Backing" is different, it implies a product can't get made without the upfront money. And no, just because a faceless corpo does something scummy because that's what corpos do, doesn't mean I can't have issues when a real person who supposedly has morals does it.
>"Backing" is different, it implies a product can't get made without the upfront money.
That doesn't apply here though because Rippa and his defense force have been insisting the product is already made.
Yeah I know, don't jump in the middle of a reply chain anon.
Sorry. It just bears repeating as much as possible because frankly these are incredibly stupid people that are dedicated to seeing themselves as aggrieved and oppressed.
As the anon that's opposed to pre-orders in all forms I can say that there is ONE instance in which I can see justifying them and it's for getting a physical copy of a digital product.
Like how there are a bunch of digital games that get pulled from the market place because of licensing reasons.
I can see doing whatever it takes to get a physical copy so that you're not screwed when that happens but even then I'd want some kind of assurance that the game data was on the disc instead of them mailing you a cd with a download key on it.
But for a comic book? That's already printed? Frick you. Grab one and go to UPS
Even then you shouldn't need to pre-order to get your hands on a physical copy, that's only a thing because of artificial scarcity.
>For two weeks now that this isn't a crowdfundnig campaign, it's a direct to consumer sales transaction preorder
The product actually releases next month. Having said that, the whole scheme is that you pay upfront. It's more of a pre-purchase to guarantee a copy, rather than a preorder. Having said that, how would someone use PayPal if they were crowdfunding something with this policy. There's no way that a company like Sony has to wait until the game ships before PayPal gives them access to the funds, yet they have a preorder service on the PlayStation Store. This seems more like PayPal attempting to undermine him via their privilege as a processor rather than standard procedure.
>There's no way that a company like Sony has to wait until the game ships before PayPal gives them access to the funds
Why not?
>Why not?
There's no way for me to say for sure without posting the contract. However, I know for a fact that PayPal treats certain organisations differently because of the way transactions work on different stores. If I use PayPal to use Uber where I live, Uber somehow is able to charge whatever card I have on file at will. I'm not asked to go to the PayPal processing screen and select what card or direct debit transaction I want to use like other processors that use PayPal have to do. I think it's the same way with the PlayStation Store, I don't remember as I don't shop there often these days.
These days I just go through my debit card as my bank has pretty good online protections, even though it's not as secure as a credit card.
So you have no clue yet you've repeated several times matter of factly that it was unfair treatment so we should totally be mad that July isn't getting money before delivering his product. Large companies aren't starved for cash, they can afford to wait for the delivery to cash in.
> Large companies aren't starved for cash, they can afford to wait for the delivery to cash in.
More importantly large companies can't just vanish overnight.
So many corpo bootlickers itt.
Is he wrong?
It's almost like you need to build a line of credit before you can use credit anon. Funny how capitalism sucks all of a sudden isn't it?
Yes
They are
Most corporations operate solely on OTHER people's money, debt, and IOUs.
Many banks don't even have any money.Tgey are just cashless debt stations.
And yes. Large corporations do dissapear overnight.
Too big too fail is a lie told to keep corrupt monopolies in power.
>So you have no clue yet you've repeated several times matter of factly that it was unfair treatment so we should totally be mad that July isn't getting money before delivering his product.
I'm not the same anon as the one that started the thread. I've only spoken about this three times, including this post.
>Large companies aren't starved for cash, they can afford to wait for the delivery to cash in.
You are asserting that PayPal functions the same way with all of their payment partners, which is a positive claim. They definitely don't on the basis that they've blacklisted people in the past for reasons that have nothing to do with payment processing, but censorship. I don't believe your defence of this global corporation is legitimate according to the facts we have.
>You are asserting that PayPal functions the same way with all of their payment partners
Actually, I did no such thing, I asked you to prove your assertion that PayPal usually doesn't withhold pre-order payments until delivery.
Why even do pre-orders if he's not using the money to print it? Couldn't he just have sold it once printed?
>on hold
So what exactly is the problem? That's what happens when you receive payment but haven't shipped your items yet. It's their buyer protection.
>makes website so big companies cant take money
>trust transaction for big company
>PayPal’s preselling requirements.
>If you’d like to presell items in an online store, keep in mind you’ll need to guarantee delivery within 20 days from the date of purchase and also let your customers know they’re buying a presale item.
So did he read the terms of service or not?
Reading TOSes is for leftists
Doesn't really matter. Most likely Rippaverse will get the money when the product is delivered. Everyone will stop using PayPal. Only loser here is PayPal and their silly arbitrarily applied policy.
>and their silly arbitrarily applied policy.
>You need to actually ship items before you can spend the money you got for them.
You're right that's so fricking unfair. What an injustice that there's rules preventing people from taking your money and running. I bet the israelites did this.
>You're right that's so fricking unfair.
What the frick are you talking about? There is no injustice I think PayPal is dumb. The other processors he's using don't do this.
>The other processors he's using don't do this.
Nothing more based than removing protections against fraud, right fellow lobertarian?
>"Holding your money hostage is just fraud prevention, and not us benefiting from interest or capital for investments, trust me bro"
have a nice day corpotroony
At its most basic capitalism is you make something, you give it to someone, and they give you money. If you haven't given them anything why should you get your money? Isn't that just gibs?
>PayPal should be able to decide what happens to my money as a middleman
Which is exactly why they'll be getting axed as a processor going forward.
So it's totally not a scam or a grift, but also it's should be expected that people hand this man money without getting anything in return?
>What is a preorder?
Something where your money is held in escrow until your goods are delivered, and you are able to retrieve it if you change your mind.
Otherwise the "preorders cancelled" meme wouldn't exist.
No most campaigns need the money to print the books. He only got around this because he printed them on his own dime. PayPal was trying to frick him.
Anita Sarkeesian has never made the content she promised.
And I don't think anyone here would deny she's a grifter and a scam-artist.
Just saying maybe PayPal chooses to enforce policy on a "if i like you or don't" basis.
She's Armenian, they're basically turbo-jews, I'm sure she just used the classic "a donation isn't technically a sale" loophole that everyone with a patreon uses. Because you know, some people read the terms of service.
>turbo israelites
Ah yes, good ol' fashioned /misc/tard antisemitism
I'm not antisemitic, that was sort of a reference to an Orwell quote, I just think israelites tend to be good at navigating the business world, same for Armenians.
Oh yeah, it's my favourite Orwell quote: "Seriously, frick those guys, turbo-jews, the lot of them, always harshing my buzz."
Classic.
I'm referring to this quote which is much more antisemitic than what I said.
That IS basically a quote from Orwell.
>I just think israelites tend to be good at navigating the business world, same for Armenians.
Seems like a very outdated stereotype. Everyone can be good a navigating the buissness world given the right circumstances.
>Seems like a very outdated stereotype.
It isn't.
>Everyone can be good a navigating the buissness world given the right circumstances.
Nobody's saying otherwise.
>We want you invested in this brand and everything that comes from it
And we want you to frick off with your e-celeb shilling, but it looks like neither of us is going to get what we want today, will we.
God rippa is so based. I love how leftists seethe at a non political comic btfo of thier progranda comics.
>a non political comic btfo of thier progranda comics
One guy posting waifu art btfo of multiple of your threads and had you crying to the jannies for protection so you can just sit your b***h ass down.
Seethe.
Let's fix that then.
Don't! You'll scare them!
That's the plan.
At least keep it Cinemaphile-related, Jesus
OK
come on
Anyone else get some Titanic fears here? All the hype around it before its come out gives me that "too big to fail" feeling.
It's literally just coasting on reactionary shapirotards throwing money at le epic antiwoke grifter #246
Would be surprised if this oreo could even write whole sentences
Yeah, but the Titanic was an actual physical object that people could see and touch. This is all just so much pie in the sky. Eric's promised he has everything printed and ready, and sure, he's maybe got a fraction of what he needs, but there's gonna be a lot of people pissed that they're not receiving their rewards ASAP. That vid of him showing off his inventory is going to come back to haunt him in the worst possible way, and when people start asking for refunds (something that could be arranged easily enough if he'd used an established platform like GFM or KS), it's gonna be a clusterfrick.
The only thing those two platforms have established is that they're radical leftist scams.
>Retcons are to exist, they will only be used in the classic sense of introducing new information
Can this and "canon and continuity" coexist?
>35$ for 50 pages
You homie serious? You can spend 3 bucks and get unlimited manga on Jump. Comics is dying and this farce won't save it
It's 96 pages actually.
Not that that's all that much better, but the point remains.
>but is not made by chinese,is not cheap shit
Talking like fricking Todd howard trying to sell you that plastic bottle
Does rippa still work for ~~*blazetv*~~ he has always been controlled opposition working for the israelites. I guess campaign is his reward for being a good shabbas goy. I wonder how much of it is their laundered money
>muh jooooos
Frick off to /misc/ please
have a nice day Black person
>it's about sending a message to Marvel and DC
>it's about supporting indies
I know a guy that's got an indiegogo for a comic he's doing about hyper curvy special ops squad killing zombies and if I were to drop a link you'd all just report it for shilling so miss me with that shit
Frick You
but not issues
Can someone tell me which books of Rippaverse can I read online and where? I'm poor af but I'm interested in what could rile up fox news and their ilks. Google won't tell me shit presumably because it's supporting woke.
this is the first book, practically everything about it was under lock and key until the fundraiser started.
Come back here next month.
Its not relesed yet. But it look like theres gonna be Blade character, some big titty Jane Grey but blonde and one Viking and another black guy with a gun
Paying for a mediocre overpriced dying medium to own the libs
>Actually believing he made 3 million
The grifter is just making up numbers lmfao. Even established comics don't make those numbers.
He hasn't gotten to shill this comic on any of the boomer news networks. There's no way a significant amount of conservatives bought his comics to own the libs considering most conservatives have no idea this exists.
These are impossible numbers and he probably hasn't even made half of that. You're intended to feel like you're part of a movement by buying these; and by pumping the numbers his movement becomes more momentous and legitmate.
And dont tell me that Cinemaphile charged these numbers lmfao we all know everyone pirates everything here
>He hasn't gotten to shill this comic on any of the boomer news networks. There's no way a significant amount of conservatives bought his comics to own the libs considering most conservatives have no idea this exists.
How many times do you need to get BTFO'd before you admit that you don't know what you're talking about? https://youtu.be/FcGboG5gWGY
>94,000 views
This is as relevant as when fox news records some guy standing next to a gas pump looking at the currency... or some random kid donating their birthday gifts to charity
he got as much penetration as any brief one minute clip fox news airs does. irrelavant literal who that I gurantee you no one knows outside of these cliques
>he got as much penetration as any brief one minute clip fox news airs does. irrelavant literal who that I gurantee you no one knows outside of these cliques
He has a point homosexual. What major news outlet is hosting Rippa? A minute interview on Fox of all fricking things is like a clip of you on TMZ, hell I wouldnt of even known he was on the news if he didnt push his own clout.
>He has a point homosexual.
No he doesn't. There are only 35,517 orders on his website as of this post, and the majority of them will be whales that have a lot of money to burn. Suggesting that the numbers are fudged requires evidence, and not being on a news outlet is anything but.
Even on that front, he was on a Fox News segment which was broadcasted during the morning. Said segment has had between 1.3-1.5m viewers on each Thursday the past two weeks (excluding the Thursday just gone) and that's the day that this segment aired. To pretend that over a million viewers isn't a significant amount is a braindead take.
Source: https://tv.kwayisi.org/networks/fox-news/shows/fox-friends/
homie it was on TV. He also got an article from Fox and NY Post.
yanno for something thats supposed to be so big and popular and "a real competitor to the big 2" ive legit never seen anything about this outside of Cinemaphile. strange if you ask me ......
That's because literally no one knows about this shit save for the doomvengers pushing it and Eric's frothing guard dog fans. People not shit talking you is good, but no one talking about you at all isnt.
>Generic fit black guy with a tight costume
>Generic green supes that looks like they came out of an Invincible knock off comic
>Wonder Woman / Queen Maeve knock off
>Generic pimp looking black guy
I really fatigue to see the appeal of this. The numbers look sussy as well
Anon.
You're litterally b***hing about American capes.
Okay I'm out of the loop here but since this comic making good sales why is it being sperged at right now? What did he do?
he made a book and paid for it himself
That's why everyone seething at him?
If so that's utterly pathetic..
This is hilarious. They're so desperate for it to be a scam that they're trying to get Paypal to de-platform Eric. Thankfully only a small part of transactions, mostly international, used paypal. The more they swing on the man only shows how much fear they really have.
So PayPal is really expecting every single customer to take a picture of the product and shipping info and send it to Paypal or they'll just withhold everyone's money? Didn't they say some shit about supporting black businesses a year ago?
Amazon did similar to sabotage Indie writers a while back at the behest of big publishing.
Canceling orders that must clearly be accidents.
They really go for every dirty trick in the book, huh?
>So PayPal is really expecting every single customer to take a picture of the product and shipping info and send it to Paypal or they'll just withhold everyone's money?
Uh..no. You're misreading that. It says the seller has to contact them. In other words, July has to provide proof of delivery of goods. You, OR he, can do it.
I'll admit I don't know a lot about libertarians but I'm surprised that receipts are something they're opposed to.
>I'll admit I don't know a lot about libertarians but I'm surprised that receipts are something they're opposed to.
It's not about the receipts, don't be obtuse. It's about the hoops they're making him jump through when you can go on Steam, Sony's website, etc and pre-order a game right now through Paypal. But hold up here, this guy isn't one of the approved corporations, better shake down the black guy and make sure he's not doing anything illegal. Lmfao.
>But hold up here, this guy isn't one of the approved corporations, better shake down the black guy and make sure he's not doing anything illegal.
So you're saying systemic racism is real after all? Because you realize that's what this is an example of, right?
Did I say it wasn't? Of course it's real, but it's not coming from the people that believe in merit over race.
>So you're saying systemic racism is real after all?
He's making an argument that you would make if the black man was one of your political allies. See how that works homosexual?
Rippa was once an Obama Supporter and he also says he's Anti-Capitalist. I don't really think he has his political understanding straight like a true Conservative should. I think he's more of a Liberal douchebag and a false right-winger.
>and he also says he's Anti-Capitalist
Really, the guy who streams on Twitch and got pseudo-famous from Youtube is ancap. And he doesn't see any kind of conflict there.
At this point, I don't think he believes in anything except Owning Tha Leebs and Frick You, Got Mine
"Ancap" means "anarcho-capitalist" anon. And honestly it makes perfect sense to use as big a platform as possible to shill your political views.
It's also hypocritical as frick, peak 'do as I say, not as I do'.
Why haven't you choked yourself to death on Rippa's wiener yet?
>Why haven't you choked yourself to death on Rippa's wiener yet?
It's fricking amazing isn't it? Here a third party is going "we're not going to let this guy walk away with his customers money and not send them a product" and they're such simps for the guy that they're actually getting mad about it..
>Here a third party is going "we're not going to let this guy walk away with his customers money and not send them a product"
Did the customers ask PayPal to do this for them? The fact that they're complaining about this suggests otherwise.
Also, the majority of people using PayPal for this are Rippa fans who give him superchats on YouTube streams. They definitely like the idea of him getting their money.
>Did the customers ask PayPal to do this for them?
Yes, in the sense that they accepted the Terms of Service that outlines the buyer/seller protection system without actually bothering to read any of it.
>It's also hypocritical as frick, peak 'do as I say, not as I do'.
Not really, no.
>It's also hypocritical as frick, peak 'do as I say, not as I do'.
For an ancap?
Not really.
Do you not know what an ancap is?
Do you?
I'll take that to mean that no, you don't know what an ancap is, and are probably confusing it for an ancom.
Here's a hint, ancaps don't really give two fricks about the existence of big business and will gladly benefit from it, they want a stateless society with rules enforced by private individuals and institutions, based on the NAP.
He's an AnCap or MinCap. He shows up up on Tom Woods and other libertarian podcasts. That's the only reason I know who this dude is. Didn't know he was doing comics now.
>not like the other girls: the comic publisher
Those are some nice sentiments but making promises about very long term continuity before having actually published anything strikes me as putting the cart before the horse. It's not like the big 2 started off with multiverse shit and retcons, that's a product of how long they've been going on and how many stories have been told. Once every character has lived through a hundred issues and you still manage to keep your continuity straight, that's good, but nobody's going to be impressed with 12 issues having proper continuity.
Exactly what I'm thinking, Batman and Superman have been around since the 1930's, these characters would not hold up unless they got their origins retold and updated. It's all fiction anyways, it's not real history, comics are about entertainment and escaping reality and traveling thru time.
I mean sure, but I also agree that a lot of it is creatively bankrupt brand-based pandering. I don't think it's fun when every character's supporting cast ends up super-powered because hey, if Spider-Man sells more Spidermen will sell more better.
Question, teacher
How do we know these numbers are real? This isn't Kickstarter, Patreon, Indiegogo, or even Fig.io. How do we know Rippaverse actually made 3 gorillion dollars and it's not just 10 super donors or Rippa himself just typing the number himself?
>How do we know Rippaverse actually made 3 gorillion dollars and it's not just 10 super donors or Rippa himself just typing the number himself?
Well considering the fact that Paypal is currently withholding well over a million dollars of it (which makes sense since a smaller portion of customers paid through paypal) and Eric has posted receipts of it, kind of seems to imply that yes, the profits are real despite how badly you want them not to be.
where the frick did I imply that I didn't want this to be real? We've seen Kickstarters before getting gassed up to high hell in their first and last days by Mega Donors. Sorry that I'm skeptical that this random guy is getting 3 million dollars while EVS barely cracks 1.5 million and other "Big name indie projects" can barely scratch together a McDonald's salary
People have been calling this a scam on some level since the very start. This is a literally who who's managed to raise three mil. Like you say, I've seen better, more coordinated projects barely crack 10k, but this guy rockets past all of them? No fricking way this isn't suspicious as hell. But everyone's more focussed on Babby's First Culchur Wore rather than anything, so as long as it's /Our Guy/ doing it, the folks who should be asking questions are giving it a pass.
According to the amount of purchases the average spent 90$ in his store. Not even cyberfrog had that many supporters at the peak of the culture war.
Agree. I can absolutely believe lot of people flocking around Eric personality and the whole antiSJW "trigger the libs" stick, what I don't believe its this whole generic looking superhero story making this much cash in a short period of time and it isn't even out yet
Because it's not making that money. Eric's personality and schtick is. Problem is, payment processors would consider that a donation not a sale. He should've gone through ko-fi instead.
The fact that the current controversy is that they've triggered paypal's fraud detection may actually be evidence in their favor that a huge amount of money has changed hands.
Except now they're all attacking Paypal for saying that people should get what they buy.
Why does an independent black man make Cinemaphile seethe so much?
>Hey it's kinda suspicious that a guy we've never head of has been handed two million dollars in the course of ten days. Can you prove you're actually sending people a product? We're not going to finalize this transaction so that it's easier to refund them and you don't go into the red if you can't.
>I'M BEING OPPRESSED BY THE MAN. SEE? THEY'RE TRYING TO SHUT US DOWN!
Do libertarians really?
Just another example of "do it through our approved methods or we'll shut you down". This is a big part of what suffocating new business ventures and turning us into a Corporacracy.
>Just another example of "do it through our approved methods or we'll shut you down".
Nobody forced him to use Paypal.
And most didn't purchase through Paypal either, so he still has 2/3s of his profit or so that's not locked up. The paypal stuff was added at the request of international customers, so in the end his funds will get released and all Paypal did was give themselves some bad press.
>Fraud protection is bad press.
I guess when you want to defend frauds it would be.
Nah, withholding a black businesses owner's funds on the assumption that he's a criminal is extremely racist. If it was some west coast white ran company there wouldn't be a hold, now would there?
A company? Or a single person?
He's running a business anon. He pays employees. If your first thought about a black man running his own business is that he's a criminal then you might just be racist.
Keep playing the race card like an sjw that's helping your case.
He must not be a good business man if he can't click the button that says "this item doesn't need shipping".
homie.
Someone in the murrican comic industry made a few calls.
This isn't an accident .
This isn't paypal protecting anyone.
This is behind the scenes obvious to anyone frickery going on.
I don't know who you're trying to fool but it's not a policy devised specifically for him.
That's great anon but you're not actually arguing against what was said.
>Hey it's kinda suspicious that a guy we've never head of
Stopped reading here. Eric said that PayPal were familiar with his account in the video, they just froze funds because they "saw a lot of money coming in very quickly" and assumed foul play. At least get your facts right before shitposting.
>"saw a lot of money coming in very quickly" and assumed foul play.
same essential thing and also lol for trusting a word out of Eric's mouth. Because clearly he's 100% honest all the time right?
I'd wager he's been more honest than the haters have been.
>same essential thing and also lol for trusting a word out of Eric's mouth. Because clearly he's 100% honest all the time right?
>trust me bro, Eric's a liar
Citation needed. Rippa has been on YouTube for over 15 years, and the only time people have bad mouthed him in bulk was after he announced a comic book that he himself funded and completed, and even then it was only after it started to break records. At the moment, he has more credibility than a random anon seething on the internet for no reason.
>Cinemaphile literally arguing against preorders as a transaction and siding with paypal just to own the anti-wokes
Rippaverse discussions literally bring out the worst of Cinemaphile. Literally every thread this community reaches a new low that I didn't think was possible. Holy shit.
What do you expect? The shills are all tourists, either from Rippa's street team or /misc/.
Alex Jones has entered the chat, and we all fricking wish he hadn't.
This place has gone to shit. More trannies on here than the lgbt board. These homies are praying on Eric's downfall, they are that miserable.
I like that you failed to even make an argument for pre-orders being a good thing, like paying for a product in advance for no reason is a no-brainer positive thing and it's weird to criticize it.
It's funny how these things always attract obvious Cinemaphileermin.
>Are you against video game preorders, yes or no.
Yes.
You already asked this question and I already said yes.
And even if I wasn't against video game pre orders I wouldn't pre order a game from a developer that never made a game before and has no publisher or distribution model backing them and was just some guy. That seems like a great way to get scammed.
If you don't like a payment processors terms you don't have to use them.
And he didn't use the same business practices they used. Everyone else was using stuff like kickstarter or indiegogo, which will ALSO hold the money until you can prove that you can deliver on the promised goods.
Ironically had he just went with kickstarter there likely would have been less enforcement via funding holds. I know there's at least one I backed that I'm never gonna see anything from and the guy spent all that money by now.
But hey continue to blame the israelites because you can't read a terms of service agreement. That's how ~~*~~*~~*~~*~~*~~*(they*~~*~~*~~*~~*~~*~~ get you, right?
>Everyone else was using stuff like kickstarter or indiegogo
That's for crowdfunding a product that hasn't yet been produced. It's not for pre-orders of already produced product.
Again though, what's the point of a pre-order for this?
citation for every claim you made about paypal's preorder practices right now or I'm calling you a lying israelite.
Paypal doesn't *have* pre order practices. That's the problem. When you sell an item they want you to include proof of shipping/fufillment before they clear the funds. Eric isn't doing that, which is causing millions of dollars in transactions he got in under a week to be flagged, and that triggered fraud protection.
>When you sell an item they want you to include proof of shipping/fufillment before they clear the funds.
Where is the citation troony. Link me to something saying palpay universally does this to all sellers, including big corporations when they do pre-orders for product a month away from release. If you can't cite a source i'm calling you a israelite, period.
>Eric isn't doing that, which is causing millions of dollars in transactions he got in under a week to be flagged, and that triggered fraud protection.
What form of proof do they need, because what you're saying isn't reasonable for a pre-order transaction to be verifiable. He obviously can't show proof he shipped the product yet because...IT'S A FRICKING PREORDER. If they want evidence the books are being printed and the merch exist he has no problem complying. israeli games are being played right now and i'm tired of the bullshit excuses you're giving me because you dislike Eric's politics.
NTA
>muh games, muh games
Go back to Cinemaphile if you can't even be bothered to care about comics.
Also I'm pretty sure all this could be avoided if he just sold vouchers to exchange for his comic instead, or if simply didn't run a poorly thought-out and frankly unnecessary pre-order campaign.
>What form of proof do they need,
Your boi rippa should've checked to see how they handle preorders. I didn't even have to sign up for an account this is basic shit on their front page.
Oh and also thirty seconds of searching
https://stonemaiergames.com/the-danger-of-accepting-pre-orders-via-paypal/
shows that your guy isn't even special. This is a known thing that can happen and he just got caught with his pants down.
Bottom line is you guys are crying about nothing. If the rippaverse isn't a grift, like you swear it isn't, then once July ships out the comics the hold on will be lifted and he'll get his money. He doesn't need the money to print the comics; you and he said they were already printed. He's got enough money outside of paypal transactions to ship, so that's not a problem either. Best case scenario, you're complaining over nothing. At worst you're complaining that someone is HELPING TO INSURE THAT THIS ISN'T A BIG SCAM, which I would have thought you'd want but I guess crying about DA JOOS is way more important.
>shows that your guy isn't even special. This is a known thing that can happen and he just got caught with his pants down.
Firstly, stop defending PayPal's shitty practices. Your link does not defend PayPal's actions in any way as being justifiable, it just outlines how they use the guidelines they claim to have, then cherrypick its enforcement. I'd actually be more likely to support your condemnation of not following PayPal's guidelines if there weren't numerous occasions of them not following their own rules. Even in the instance with Rippaverse, PayPal didn't follow their own guidelines, as they aren't holding the funds because of their pre-order guidelines (which he states in the video).
Either they remove this asinine rule or they actually enforce it with every organisation they partner with. The fact that their operators can cherrypick enforcement leads me to believe that it is not a rule designed to be enforced, but is an excuse to hamstring certain producers for different reasons.
>which he states
and into the trash it goes
Why the frick would I believe a guy whose entire gimmick is crying that he's being oppressed?
>It's being enforced arbitrarily
Prove it using something other than "daddy eric told me"
>And we're back here, still with no named instances of them not enforcing this "pre-order policy" after 300 posts.
Did you not even read the link that anon
posted as evidence? pic related
My entire post was aided in fact by that article and comment. PayPal seem to cherrypick enforcement.
That article lists 2 instances of them enforcing that policy, and the comment you screencapped specifically says it's an exception and they released only small parts of it so they could afford shipping (something Eric has no problem affording). Maybe if Eric was in the same situation and negotiated a partial release so he could actually ship the product he sold they would have, but here they have no reason to make an exception to their policy.
>PayPal seem to cherrypick enforcement.
Prove it's cherrypicking.
Different anon, but I've worked for multiple banks in the past. Banks will put a hold on your account for multiple reasons, often just as a security check, but also if they suspect fraudulent activity, even for something as small as pennies if they think it'll lead to larger sums being taken in future.
Paypal does the same. My gf opened an Etsy store during the pandemic. Her first few sales totalled less than a hundred bucks, but they put a hold on her account for a month, again, purely for security checks - she'd made four or five sales in a week, and they wanted to make sure everything was on the up and up.
Now, if a hundred bucks causes Paypal to stop and go 'hold on a sec, we just wanna check and see if everything's okay', just imagine what $1.5 million's gonna do. That's a fricking Chinese cavalcade of red flags, and it'd be more worrying if they just let that slide! There's a lot of dipshits saying this is some kind of targeted harassment or a conspiracy, DC and Marvel pulling the strings. I say you guys are fricking morons who need to look into financial operations, beyond assuming DA J00Z run everything.
That's my point. A sudden influx of a million dollars with a guy that's not making that kind of money on the regular is always going to trigger a fraud investigation. These homosexuals are whining that Sony, a BILLION dollar corporation, isn't getting the same treatment, when basic fricking logic would say "no shit they aren't. it's not out of the ordinary if they make a million dollars in a week"
Exactly. If you know anything about banking or financial institutions, you know that any kind of hold is business as usual. I've had my bank put a stop on my account because I bought something from a 24-hour store at 3am coming back from a friend's house, because it was considered 'unusual activity'. Sure, it's a tremendous pain in the ass, but I get why it's there.
Now consider Rippa: I'll be extremely generous and say that his various activities net him a couple of grand a month. We'll say 5k, purely for the sake of argument (I don't know how much he makes, nor do I remotely care, so don't bother correcting me). However much goes through his accounts, you can bet your last fricking dollar that it's nowhere close to 1.5 MILLION dollars. I don't care how popular he is, how successful he is, unless he's doing some EXTREMELY shady shit on the side, he's not multi-million dollar successful. For a bank or financial institution like Paypal (who, in most countries, are subject to the same rules as banks) that's going to raise every red flag they have. That's massive fraud numbers, money laundering numbers, organised crime numbers, and they take that shit extremely seriously, and if any of you had that kind of windfall, the banks would be taking an extremely fricking close look at you too. At the end of the day, Rippa is Just Some Guy and most Just Some Guys don't get a million dropped into their accounts, utterly out of nowhere, as far as the bank is concerned. So yeah, they're absolutely right to scrutinise this as closely as they want, and if he has nothing to hide, if everything comes from legitimate sources, he should have no problems letting them. That's literally how every legitimate financial service works. Seriously, you can ask any bank for their fraud charter/prevention details and they'll send it to you.
Its sad that such a simple concept is lost on some many morons, this shit is like if Rippa robbed a bank and deposited the money. Any money service in the world would instantly look into a guy who was making $20 an hour on monday to 3 mil by Friday and question him. But Rippa is so concerned with sticking it to the "haters" that basic company running is lost on him. The shills can dick suck all they want, but anyone would common sense would see this is a red flag from someone whose just started.
>this shit is like if Rippa robbed a bank and deposited the money.
Why? Because he's black?
You know what? Yes. Because he's black. look up a guy name d Sauntore Thomas if you want a laugh.
Financial institutions have always discriminated against black people. Redlining is the biggest reason ghettos exist. We tried telling you this for decades and all you did was cry about us being woke. Well congrats. Now the shoe is on the foot and you don't like it? You wish things were different? Well guess what that means.
YOU'RE WOKE TOO.
Someone screencap these two posts for the inevitable next thread whenever someone starts saying there's a financial conspiracy against Rippa or whatever fricking nonsense they're gonna spew, there's a lot of good information in here.
>could you release part of the money you're holding before I ship the product?
>why
>I need it to afford shipping so I can fulfill my end of the contract
>could you release all the money you're holding before I ship the product?
>why
>WTF I'M BEING OPPRESSED, TIME TO UNLEASH A SHITPOSTING CAMPAIGN ON TWITTER
Yeah that's not arbitrary.
And we're back here, still with no named instances of them not enforcing this "pre-order policy" after 300 posts.
I'm thinking the reason you can't prove that the holds on preorders aren't a universal thing is because the only time you hear about them it's from b***hy no names that were liable to cut and run.
Of course a big corporation isn't going to get on the internet and cry about a funding hold; not because they don't get the holds applied, but because they do so much constant trading that holds don't matter to them in the grand scheme of things.
Well that and companies have lawyers who read TOS so they can't really act guffawed when they're applied.
>If the rippaverse isn't a grift, like you swear it isn't, then once July ships out the comics the hold on will be lifted and he'll get his money.
I already said this will happen, but Paypal is still generating a lot of bad press from this action. Have fun checking their Twitter accounts, both the regular and the AskPaypal account.
Yes, you've proven that rippaverse's fans are rabid reactionary morons that are incapable of reading. Good job.
Anon, PayPal has a borderline monopoly on online transactions, I don't think a bit of twitter drama brought about by a small youtuber whose whole shtick is screaming at companies on the internet is going to affect their bottom line much.
>by a small youtuber whose whole shtick is screaming at companies on the internet
That's not his shtick. Eric is all about doing things yourself and parallel economies. You envious trannies love spreading endless misinformation about this guy. Why does seeing the success of others make you so hateful?
>parallel economics
>still uses paypal
I give it six months before he starts selling you guys NFTs. A year, tops.
PayPal has agents who hardshill their product.
And I guess Papa Eric fell for the shills?
He's been doing youtube videos b***hing about SJWs for years and he's been an independent comics writer for a month, so I'm pretty sure you're the one who has it backwards.
Look at this shit
https://youtube.com/c/youngrippa59
Scroll past the few recent videos about the rippaverse and look, look and dare to tell me that his shtick is parallel economies.
Their business survives off of good will and ease of use.
There are many companies out there that would easily slot themselves in as a competitor.
Shit funding this guy and others they've fricked over then suing paypal in a public trial raking them over the coals in court would be brilliant marketing.
>Shit funding this guy and others they've fricked over then suing paypal in a public trial raking them over the coals in court would be brilliant marketing.
Jesus it hasn't even been 2 weeks and we're already at the Meyer stage where you guys are getting hype to fund the guy's law suits?
>suing PayPal for enforcing a completely reasonable policy that you signed on
Yeah I'm sure that would work out great.
>Anon, PayPal has a borderline monopoly on online transactions
Skrill, Stripe, Square, which specialises in small businesses, fricking Shopify, there's plenty of alternatives he could've used if he'd wanted. If he was 'taking a stand' against KS or GFM, as fricktards in these threads have claimed, he could've easily stood against Paypal as well, but nooooooo, he wants to make sure he gets his money the easiest way possible and everyone else can eat shit.
If you're claiming either or the two(or both):
>1) Paypal does not allow pre-orders
>2) A seller can't withdraw payments from a presale regardless of documentation of product.(Ex: sony pre-order games)
Than you need to cite a source of that stance, the picrel does not satisfy that demand(I didn't read none of your homosexual wall of text) because it's says nothing about presell items, it's purely talking about goods already available for purchase.
>it's purely talking about goods already available for purchase.
Which these comics are.
That's kind of the problem. Rippa and his fans keep going
>IT'S NOT A SCAM THE COMICS ARE ALREADY DONE AND READY TO BE SHIPPED
but are also going
>IT'S JUST PREORDERS YOU GOTTA WAIT
The two statements are contradictory. Why are they preorders? The comics are done and waiting to be shipped. Ship them.
So are you going to cite a source that address my post/ clarifies paypal specific stance on pre-orders or you going to continue to israelite babble?
Already did, you chose not to read it.
Whole lot of not reading going on from rippa fans.
If you're claiming either or the two(or both):
>1) Paypal does not allow pre-orders
>2) A seller can't withdraw payments from a presale regardless of documentation of product.(Ex: sony pre-order games)
Than you need to cite a source of that stance, if not, you're israelite babbling.
>>2) A seller can't withdraw payments from a presale regardless of documentation of product.(Ex: sony pre-order games)
Sony having the ability to withdraw preorder money is YOUR claim. Your UNPROVEN claim at that. They probably have a hold too and just aren't flying off the handle crying about zionist oppression like a bunch of b***hy homosexuals since they know they'll get their money once they ship.
Anon, you can't pull the source bullshit when you've repeatedly failed to substantiate your own claim that this policy is selectively applied.
Just as well the comic's not coming out, then!
DOHOHOHOHOHOHOHOHOHOHOHOHO
this feels like a shill thread, and I mean this in the literal sense
I'm just gonna wait till the comic comes out to make an opinion. All this shit doesn't really matter.
Hail FNT
>Unironic shilling for PayPal
Where?
Let's clear this up for the smooth brained tards shitting over this shill thread:
>Eric July makes a post about PayPal transactions under the guise of "transparancy"
>He states that PayPal are holding customers payments hostage and he's currently in arbitration
>He claims that this dispute with PayPal will not impact his ability to ship people's purchases in late-August early September
>He requests that customers ask PayPal to release the withheld funds, but don't raise a dispute
>He states, and I quote, "I want to see how much power we have"
So you're all arguing over a complete nothingburger. This situation doesn't impact the book or his customers, and PayPal will probably release the funds. The only entity negatively impacted by this atm seems to be PayPal's PR.
Also the phrase "I want to see how much power we have", if that's not a big yikesaroo to anyone, I dunno what is. I'm not saying he's directly implying his fans should start trouble, but we know crowd dynamics, and a lot of them are going to take it that way.
>Also the phrase "I want to see how much power we have", if that's not a big yikesaroo to anyone, I dunno what is. I'm not saying he's directly implying his fans should start trouble, but we know crowd dynamics, and a lot of them are going to take it that way.
For people who rail against "cancel culture", they sure do love to dogpile on anyone they deem "fair game"
Screaming discrimination and oppression because you got treated like everyone else is also pretty textbook SJW behavior.
>N-N-NO U!!!!
Let me guess, me pointing out you have no argument makes me trans, or racist, or a racist trans
Oh, or mald, or an NPC or a israelite. Can't forget those three classics.
Cool strawman anon, but if you act like a moron people are going to call you moronic no matter how much you've shitposted about how much you hate morons. Also I do have an argument: he's acting oppressed because of being treated like everyone else.
Also I think you might have misunderstood me, I'm saying Eric is acting like a SJW. I hope that's what happened because your reply made little sense.
Someone in one of the earlier threads was like 'you never see anyone on the right calling for boycotts of products!' I was like, Nike and Kaepernick, Carhartt, any company that pulled their advertising from Tucky Carlson, five seconds in Google will bring up dozens of examples, so sit down and shut the frick up.
But, of course, It's Okay When We Do It, so who fricking cares.
The left is much more consistent about it's tribalism than the right, unfortunately. The entire economic power base of the left basically consists of people who never want to be within 1000 feet of a drag queen willingly giving their life savings to leftist causes in exchange for movies and snacks.
>The entire economic power base of the left basically consists of people who never want to be within 1000 feet of a drag queen willingly giving their life savings to leftist causes in exchange for movies and snacks
Centrist liberals aren't leftists tho
Left right Centrism, and the left right spectrum period, is a concept devised by the left to keep the boiling frogs from jumping. Oh, relax, I'm a centrist, I don't want your culture and life destroyed all at once, just a piece at a time over the course of a hundred years!
The only meaningful political spectrum is up and down, not right and left. Many legitimate variations of political ideas exist on the scale of Liberty-to-Civic Duty, but all left is "I want you in gulag NOW" or "I want you in gulag after i've whittled away your ability to kill me when I try"
>"Oh, relax, I'm a centrist!"
>tips fedora and start browsing r/EnlightedCentrism
>"Lefties want you in the gulag!!11!!"
>PayPal will probably release the funds
I don't see why they would before he ships, especially if he publicly says it's about a stupid power play.
There's going to be a "fire" at the warehouse causing all the orders to he destroyed so he can take the money and run isn't there. This PayPal shit just keeps making it sound more and more like a scam.
>what do you mean I need to actually send out a product to receive money!
I heard of this Rippaverse from Nerdrotic, it was banded with Shadversity book and Critical Drinker original work, and Ben Shappiro's movie company. What's this all about? I looked into rippaverse and didn't understood which are the comics and what they are about. I got that its supposed to be what Image comics should be...maybe? As far as I got Its a coallition to beat Marvel/Disney/Hollywood. I don't understand...aren't like people on the conservative spectrum the money holders in the US? How can they be on the losing side?
Honestly this project doesn't seem so different from the various NFT grift/scams that promise long term affidability but in the end they are basically low effort cashgrab or end up being vaporwave
Main difference is that this comic was promised by next month. If it gets delayed and continues to get delayed indefinitely then its officially vaporware but it's still baffling that this project raised so much with so little info on the actual product. It really is the comic equivalent of fully backing a game that only has concept art
Calling it now, this is the bob's game of Cinemaphile.
Overpromise, underdeliver, classic crowdfunding trainwreck. And people are starting to see that, despite Eric's simping street team and their attempts to scream everyone into submission.
Bob's autistic project moment is too special to happen again in a single lifetime. The main difference being that rippa already made bank from this project while bob refuses to let anyone see his "masterpiece" that he even refunded all his backers because no one was worthy enough to witness his game in all its glory...Rippa also has to much good will to lose if he doesnt release this comic that's promised to come out in less than a month. Most realistic scenario is that he's such an autist/demanding perfectionist that anything past the first issue will be vaporware
>I don't understand...aren't like people on the conservative spectrum the money holders in the US? How can they be on the losing side?
When it comes to the "right" and "left", both sides have their "elites and peasants". Everyone liked to play the victim and claim to be the most marginalized. But when it comes to nerd media, there tends to be a bigger disparity in the left's favor, hence the response of nerd rage content makers who exist to mean about how bad and political geek media is.
>a bunch of nerdrage youtubers got inspired by rippa to make fraud kickstarters projects and are making profit ripping off dumb comicgators
What's your excuse for not joining this opportunity for free money?
what is your excuse for not doing it?
Similar to
, I'm not a douche but I'd like to see more of these project pop up just so comicgaters can keep burning their money
I'm not a douchebag.
Sure you are, you're just not a particularly entrepreneurial douchebag.
Paypal stole one million and three hundred thousand of his dollars.
Im not gonna say its a scam. However, i will say its poorly managed, and everyone will notice that when the day of delivery arrives
Honest question. Who is working with him in the delivery department? Or he is going to send all the comics alone?
>Every single book you buy will always matter. If Retcons are to exist, they will only be used in the classic sense of introducing new information. We want every book that you buy to always matter. Those stories HAPPENED. There will be no lazy time travel to change histories or events. There will be no cheap multiverses that have altered versions of the same character.
>Because we value canon and continuity, it’s important that you’re able to follow the timeline as these characters grow. This will especially be helpful for those of you that become customers years after our founding. With that being said, we promise to try to keep reboots to a minimum. If this means that a series is on its 100th issue or volume, so be it. But this isn’t a reason to feel overwhelmed. Not only will there be plenty of opportunities to purchase anthologies that combine key stories, there will also be an available OFFICIAL chronological timeline that is constantly updated by our company. Not every story will be told in chronological order, so we’ll always make it as easy as possible to keep up as the universe grows.
lmao Cinemaphile seething
>So in other words, no reboots(via multiverse/time travel) just one continuity
Congrats on bragging about doing something manga has been doing since the very beginning. Another reason to laugh at comic industry. It's easy to brag about only having a single continuity when you're just starting out and arent some DC/Marvel slave forced to maintain some 80+ year old property.
>rippa guy acussing paypal of being leftist
Ultra KEK
>Corporation
>Leftist
Pick one. Though first, you have to agree on what 'leftist' means in these circumstances, so... good luck with that.
It means "anything I dislike or that criticizes me in any way"
entire issue going to be generic as frick where character just punch their problems away