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Lizz Hickey (who is currently developing a show for Cartoon Network) has since tried to remove evidence that this happened to avoid accountability for using her influence to make aggressively classist and ableist gestures in the alt comics & art community.
If you need me to explain why this is wrong:
This is an effort to target and humiliate artists who cannot afford to make art in their free time as a hobby. Lizz Hickey is trying to push forward the idea that the art community around her should be exclusively made up of people who are financially secure enough to not need money.
Lizz Hickey is expressing an explicit desire to exist within an community exclusively of middle and upper class people, a community that places inherent value on being wealthy enough to survive without asking to be paid for content. She seeks to chastise those whose ability to subsist and sustain themselves is different from her own. She wants to discourage struggling artists from advocating for themselves and she wants her peers and the organizations that support her to echo her sentiments and share these ideas with her.
This is a direct effort to devalue, shame and remove low income artists from the circles that she participates in.