Clownfish TV Podcasts

When people don't care about comic books, they don't care about news about comic books. Comic book industry news media is all but dead. Newsarama is being shut down completely, and most other sites that covered comics have branched out into other pop culture. What's left of comic journalism has mostly migrated to podcasts and YouTube. Again, this isn't a good sign about the state of the American comic book industry.

Xbox hardware sales dropped another 33% this quarter, and the Microslop brand seems to be sliding into into irrelevance. Price hikes, no exclusives, and Phil Spencer out the door replaced with a former AI lead. Despite this, the media thinks they can somehow raise the Titantic. Good luck with that. In other Microsoft gaming news, Windows 11 is looking to trim the fat to compete with SteamOS. Also... good luck with that.

He-Man creator Roger Sweet dead at 91 -- the Mattel toy designer who bulked up a Big Jim figure into the musclebound barbarian that launched the entire Masters of the Universe empire back in 1982 just passed peacefully at a care facility after a long battle with dementia. Yeah the guy who got a bonus check and zero royalties while his creation printed billions for the company had fans scrambling a GoFundMe to cover his final months.

This AI-generated MAGA influencer scam is next-level clown world -- some 22-year-old Indian med student straight-up built "Emily Hart," a blonde Jennifer Lawrence-lookalike nurse who ice-fished, shot guns, chugged Coors Light, and spammed posts that racked up millions of views and thousands of simping followers for easy thousands a month. Yeah the guy admitted the MAGA crowd was a "cheat code" because they showered cash while his test liberal version flopped instantly since Democrats spotted the AI slop right away -- accounts got banned for fraud after Wired dropped the bomb but the internet's still roasting everyone who fell for the robot grift.

A store in Japan is making anyone who wants to buy Pokémon cards take a quiz to make sure they're real Pokémon fans and not just scalpers. Can you imagine if they did something like this in the United States?! Then we talk about how Nintendo took down a 100K YouTube channel called PokéNational Geographic.