so apparently dave hopkins has a 400+ page hate tumblr

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i am quite late to the party

Everyone is by now familiar with Hopkins, his awful writing, and his lack of drawing skills. The vast majority of the minor squabbles he's gotten tangled in over the past decade have been utterly forgettable. He's creepy, his comic is creepy, people love him anyway. Par for the course, right? There's no point in raining on that particular parade unless something really bad is happening, is there?

Well, starting in late 2010 someone started a tumblr archive containing the worst of Hopkins's artistic excesses (i.e. all of them and then some), along with all of the re-edits that have been posted to the various chanboards.

Everything goes as normal until March of this year. That is when they find (or decide to reveal) the most explosive dirt. Turns out that Hopkins has had a downright abusive and dangerous relationship with his wife, and it's been toxic since long before they were even married. She called Loveline for some manner of advice back in 2001, and seemingly only now have they managed to dig up the actual audio of the call and make a transcript. As you can guess, the long-term results of the call were not exactly constructive.

I'm not sure why this info is suddenly public (or rather, why all the dots have suddenly been connected) after ten years*. For all we know, two and two were likely put together pretty much the second the show was aired, with all the commentary on the subject memory-holed completely - only to be rediscovered a decade later. It doesn't really matter.

Whoever is behind this blog believes that they have managed to redirect their atrocity tourism operation into a noble but naive attempt at intervention that is almost certainly doomed to failure. I guess I can identify with that. But I hope for their sake that they're sharp enough to realize that the furries will give no fuck in the end. The fact that they're shocked that there are otherwise ok-seeming people tolerating Hopkins's shit kind of shows how green they are when it comes to the field of furries behaving badly.

(*at this rate i look forward to 2028, when someone integrates a 300-datapoint cyberneurojournal about adam wan)

[ProvincialTwit]

"Who cares?" - Robotnik, 1993

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I think we have to start using the word "quirk" to refer to rapists.

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Someone going by the name of "Trev" posted this, on lulz.net, claiming that it was all a joke:

This whole thing was a gag perpetrated by David and Katie Hopkins. They were regular listeners of "Loveline", and would call in with some contrived question for Dr. Drew and co. and made it on the air several times.

Since they live on the West coast, and the show is (or was) broadcast live out there, they would let friends in the eastern U.S. know if they got on the show and they could listen when it repeated back east. During the "rape" call, apparently Dave was having a very hard time sitting next to Katie (who was playing completely straight) and not laughing out loud.

Once, a question they called in with dealt with how they would handle a hostage situation with a female caller being held at gunpoint by her ex-BF, who was insisting that the show hosts (Dr, Drew, Adam Carrolla, and guest Aisha Tyler) tell her she had to get back together with him. They said that they'd actually had some calls like that and explained how they dealt with them. David and Katie took that information and turned it into the story arc "Mahalo"

link: http://www.pholph.com/strip.php?id=5&sid=890

They ended up corresponding with them and sending them some artwork as a gift.

http://lulz.net/furi/res/2071361.html

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Someone going by the name of "Trev" posted this, on lulz.net, claiming that it was all a joke:

This whole thing was a gag perpetrated by David and Katie Hopkins. They were regular listeners of "Loveline", and would call in with some contrived question for Dr. Drew and co. and made it on the air several times.

Since they live on the West coast, and the show is (or was) broadcast live out there, they would let friends in the eastern U.S. know if they got on the show and they could listen when it repeated back east. During the "rape" call, apparently Dave was having a very hard time sitting next to Katie (who was playing completely straight) and not laughing out loud.

Once, a question they called in with dealt with how they would handle a hostage situation with a female caller being held at gunpoint by her ex-BF, who was insisting that the show hosts (Dr, Drew, Adam Carrolla, and guest Aisha Tyler) tell her she had to get back together with him. They said that they'd actually had some calls like that and explained how they dealt with them. David and Katie took that information and turned it into the story arc "Mahalo"

link: http://www.pholph.com/strip.php?id=5&sid=890

They ended up corresponding with them and sending them some artwork as a gift.

http://lulz.net/furi/res/2071361.html

That's got to be the most bullshit explanation I've ever heard.  That explanation is so bullshit that now I'm beginning to think Hopkins is actually a real life rapist.

[Fantastigasm]

Also, even if this is a joke, calling in and pretending to be a potential rape victim... that's kinda dubious, too.