Do you have any idea how much she cares about you? [ā¦] I shouldnāt tell you this, but when you were on The Ring, she called you on the radio every day for six years. You didnāt know that, did you?Ā
it's kind of sad that we don't really do custom ringtones anymore. most people just stick with the default list that comes with your phone, if they change it at all. if they're even aware they can change it at all. like yeah, people letting their phones ring in public is obnoxious, but wouldn't it be a little less obnoxious if it was something funny? or personal? people used to change the text tone of every contact so every time they got a text they knew who it was just from the sound. isn't that sweet? isn't that nice? don't you miss it? don't you want to scream when you hear that stupid apple pa-Ting!??? we could have a chorus of awoogas and clips of people's favorite songs and recordings saying '(blank) IS CALLING, WARNING, (blank) IS CALLING' and all things considered i would prefer that over pa-Ting!, pa-Ting!, pa-Ting!, whistle whistle, pa-Ting!
anyway im going to change my ringtone to the oldschool skype call sound and nobody will ever hear it because my phone is always on silent but i'll know. i'll know
Tl;dr how you can personally make Neil Gaiman lose money (and not be a jerk to others.)
I see a lot of folks upset that NG will financially benefit from residuals and other compensation surrounding his involvement in the adaptation of Sandman and Good Omens (and he will.) But the answer isnāt ārage at the fans who are so emotionally attached to their blorbos because they grieve differently, and then somehow NG will be financially punished.ā Thatās lower-class/middle-class thinking. NG is too rich and financially diversified to really be hurt by little boycott or a couple of show cancellations (though said cancellations can cause life-changing poverty to the little guys who signed contracts and turned down other opportunities before all of this came out. Boy does NG love women in poverty š¤®)
So if you want to substantially reduce the wealth of someone at NGās financial levelāyou need to do it with professional services fees.
Details below the cut:
The firm that NG has apparently engaged for online reputation management (ORM), called edendale, was once paid for their professional testimony in an unrelated slander lawsuit, which was delivered in the form of a report (2) outlining the strategy ORM firms use and (2) just how ludicrously expensive those professional services cost. (Credit to horrornobody77 for digging up the report.) Weāre talking hundred of thousands of dollars for a small potatoes case, where NGās could easily get into the millions for ORM and associated legal fees.
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Itās not that long of a read, but to summarize the key action items you can take:
š -ORMs wait for the discourse to die down, because active discourse is much more expensive to counter. Wanna cost NG money? Talk about the accusations over time. Set a quarterly calendar event in your phone to remind yourself to post (and otherwise engage on other peopleās posts) about the Vulture article. This needs to happens for years, so that NG has to pay for more comprehensive ORM and for longer.
ā -Make discourse that is Google-friendly. Use the words edendale will find concerning (theyāre already running fluff pieces with the terms Neil Gaiman Uncovered to try and bury the similarly named subreddit.) If you just post a link without much comment, itās not gonna be prioritized by search engines. Similarly, if you make a low effort post and then no one else engages with itāitās not going to make it to the top ten search results. Engage with each other, for heavenās sake!
š¦¾-Donāt let the fluff sit unaddressed. If you see random bot posts sharing NG quotes captioning random fantasy art (possibly AI or misattributed /stolen) with the comments turned on? Respond! Make it hard for the bots to understand your comment but easy for humans. āNice quote! Mega bummer about what NG did, I used to really like him,ā is hard for a bot to auto-delete. āFuck NG,ā is practically doing the botās autodelete command for it.
āļø -If/when you post fan works for properties strongly related to Neil Gaiman, leave a lil callout in the authorās notes. Nothing that will get you sued, just a few words like: āI would definitely personally choose to not ever meet Neil Gaiman at a comic con.ā Maybe throw in a link to your fav tumblr summary.
Anyway, to the person being paid hundreds or thousands of dollars per hour by Neil Gaiman for professional servicesāyouāre welcome for the extra billable hours š
Also Edendale sounds like a law firm in a Good Omens legal AU fic, and I canāt believe itās real.
I've reblogged this like 20 times but knowing he's suing one of his victims has made me come back to do it some more because fuck him. How very fucking dare he.
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