It seems that eltingville artists can never catch a break
Well if it was just this I wouldn't have made a post (or at least not in English), so what I will talk about in this post is about traits of this user that this fandom often doesn't consider to be a real possibility.
This starts by looking at the confession they admitted to do
At first glance it doesn't seem to be anything wrong, but when you consider how this user views both Evan Dorkin and the message The Eltingville Club represents, it starts to change, because this user not only gets mad at the mere sight of someone calling Bill or Josh a bad person and states that the people that follows with the comic's message are "sheeps", but they also openly despises Evan Dorkin, insinuating, among various things, that he should be considered a lolcow (which means a person with online presence whose existence is pathetic and laughable) and a creative dead weight.
The origin of said hate is pretty much summarized in this comment which is part of a serious analysis they made about the Eltingville Club.
As you can see the reasons are very petty, being either completely false statements (Evan said multiple times that he actually likes to answer questions and fanart, I don't know what the "doing it for attention" even means lol), over exaggerations or just assumptions. The third paragraph becomes borderline hilarious when you take into account what they say just after:
As they not only state that Evan's failure was "deserved" but just for the sake of hating on him they are also celebrating the decision that killed the possibility of the franchise being the way they wanted it to be, as Evan stated that he had a good bunch of stories planned for them that would also flesh out the secondary characters that he liked (such as Jane and Willoughby).
And yes, Evan Dorkin says that you can freely criticize him, obviously, but that doesn't justify making your entire online presence about it and allow said hate to shape the way you interact with the media and fandom.
The irony of this situation, related to the very first image I showed you in this post, is that when a similar situation happened about a year ago in which someone was also blatantly criticizing how people drew josh, Evan stood up to support the artists and called out their wrong attitude, with this actual situation showcasing that the extreme of going against the message and the author just makes an example of why the message exists in the first place:
The point is that you shouldn't be naive about these kinds of people existing in the fandom just based on the nature of the franchise. It is not uncommon in the fandom to see people disgusted at how artists make ocs, people throwing tantrums at the slightest sight of someone stating that some attribute or action of the characters resembles those of a bad person, people shitting at how others perceive the characters (when they are not doing anything bad about them), people justifying the characters or justifying being like them, people hating on Evan Dorkin and the comic's message, with all of these getting decent support, but if someone dares to points out these, people treat them like a schizo and say that those things never happen, without even considering that those things can snowball and lead into hatred for either the franchise, the author or the fandom.
PD: You artists don't let messages like the first one I showcased affect you, you are still learning and adapting, be proud of your efforts and how far you have gone.
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