SHAME IS A PRAWN STAR

Please spread this journal entry around so that everyone can laugh at it. This entire situation is absurd.

I am reading some things on deviantart, both in journal entries and responses to articles, that accuses me and several other people of personal attacks on one or more people involved in Operation Rutheless.

Let me be as clear as I possibly can. I am not attacking anyone. There is no one in the HA fan community that I have a personal problem with. I am critisizing a movement that I think has serious flaws. There is a HUGE difference. If you, the person reading this, or anyone else, are taking my criticism of operation ruthless personally, then you don’t understand what we have been trying to point out. 

If Operation Ruthless cannot accept criticism of its core values and beliefs, then I am sorry but it is a worthless endeavor because it will never grow and prosper, and is therefore not worth the time. 

1> OR plows ahead with the belief that every HA fan wants the same thing. Any vocal detractors are Negative Joes and are ostracised until they shut up about it. Listen to them and adjust your movement accordingly. You might actually convince us.

2> Any attack on OR is percieved as personal. (read above). Stop taking it so personally.

3> It is getting very annoying to see every single update in the HA fan community be about Operation Ruthless, and not a very cool fanfic/fanart project. TONE IT DOWN.

4> Any attempts to criticize THE MOVEMENT are met with the counter claim that we didn’t do our research. We DID do our research, stop hiding behind that claim.

5> Hierarchy sucks. I get enough hierarchy at work. It sickens me. Break Operation Ruthless up into more manageable projects and go for a total committee style structure. It was a creative committee of people, not George Lucas, who made the first Star Wars trilogy so memorable. George Lucas held total creative control over the second trilogy, and oh how we despise it.

6> Craig Bartlett is not god. I dare you to look up Gene Roddenberry’s stance against Star Trek VI, and Deep Space Nine, both turned out to be very successful entries in the Star Trek Franchise. Naoko Takeuchi mismanaged Sailor Moon to the point where no one cares about it anymore other than the hardcore fans, and you can’t even get it legally in the states anymore. Sega never really acknowledged the existence of Sonic SatAM. Craig nullified is contract with Nick and Nick nullified their contract with Craig. It ended sour, both are at fault. Get over it.

7> Viacom more than likely has no interest in a Hey Arnold movie, given the lackluster response to the first movie. At this point, convincing viacom to do so is like moving a mountain. Operation Ruthless could get small concessions and build up, but any attempt to suggest this is ignored. This is not negativity. You are dealing with a multimillion dollar business. You have to speak their language. Letters and videos will not work. 

8> Multiple instances of sustained trending annoys people. Plan a single trend and put something behind it like a group chat or a news article. 

That is all, I am not saying anything more about it. 

Here for your reading pleasure is an essay in 2003 about the five geek social fallacies:

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#1: Ostracizers Are Evil
#2: Friends Accept Me As I Am
#3: Friendship Before All
#4: Friendship Is Transitive
#5: Friends Do Everything Together