#scalpers

Mother's Basement, aka Jeff Thew, just made a great video on Logan Paul's entire "speculation" scheme, which is now starting to target manga.

Jeff points out how ridiculous manga as a speculation scheme is. Most manga is cheap and printed on even cheaper paper; popular manga basically never goes out of print; manga is never "perfectly" printed because of the inherent nature of book printing; manga that DOES go out of print is highly prized because you can read it, so if you wrap it in plastic and put it in a case it basically becomes an expensive but useless doorstopper, etc.

They literally followed him to his residence and even kept following him after he told them to stop and that they were being creepy.

I don’t think he overreacted. I think he handled it well.

I hate that he has to deal with this. And I can only imagine how much his life has completely changed in the past year.

Please, before you say he overreacted, ask yourself how you would have acted in the same situation where you are being followed and harassed by people you know have a hidden agenda. They aren’t there because they are fans. They are there cause they want something to sell. And even if they were fans, it would still be creepy that they followed and harassed him.

He made a firm boundary and they ignored it.

Fuck scalpers.