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https://grrrgraphics.wordpress.com/2015/10/28/new-cartoon-for-breitbart-tech-by-ben-garrison/
I had an online streaming YouTube video interview with Breitbart’s Milo Yiannopoulos, a popular and charismatic web personality. I’m not a public speaker, but I tried to very quickly explain my story as well as describe the deleterious results. The vicious trolling has had a negative impact on my career. Many people do not see it as a harmless prank when they use search engines. They believe everything Google tells them as the absolute truth.
To be sure, the doppelgänger meme used against me has been a non-stop source of hilarity for many, but to me it hasn’t been very funny. I’m now in a position where I must try to make a living from cartooning and my fine art. The latter is more difficult given I’m no longer represented by a gallery (due to the owner getting attacked by trolls), but I’m not giving up.
During the golden age of editorial cartooning, there were over 2,000 PAID cartoonists at newspapers across America. With the advent of TV and then the Internet, newspapers have waned and now there are around 40 paid cartoonists. Most of them are on the liberal side of the fence. They are Pulitzer Prize winners who endorse statism, more government and more taxes. People such as me are impugned as ‘stupid’ and ‘racist’ in their cartoons. Even though some of them are extremely well-drawn, the ideas conveyed in them can often be boiled down to what they are–crude cheap shots.
I had an online streaming YouTube video interview with Breitbart’s Milo Yiannopoulos, a popular and charismatic web personality. I’m not a public speaker, but I tried to very quickly explain my story as well as describe the deleterious results. The vicious trolling has had a negative impact on my career. Many people do not see it as a harmless prank when they use search engines. They believe everything Google tells them as the absolute truth.
To be sure, the doppelgänger meme used against me has been a non-stop source of hilarity for many, but to me it hasn’t been very funny. I’m now in a position where I must try to make a living from cartooning and my fine art. The latter is more difficult given I’m no longer represented by a gallery (due to the owner getting attacked by trolls), but I’m not giving up.
During the golden age of editorial cartooning, there were over 2,000 PAID cartoonists at newspapers across America. With the advent of TV and then the Internet, newspapers have waned and now there are around 40 paid cartoonists. Most of them are on the liberal side of the fence. They are Pulitzer Prize winners who endorse statism, more government and more taxes. People such as me are impugned as ‘stupid’ and ‘racist’ in their cartoons. Even though some of them are extremely well-drawn, the ideas conveyed in them can often be boiled down to what they are–crude cheap shots.
