#Daddy Warbucks

[leesgirl]

annie (1999)

#annie #daddy warbucks #annie musical #annie 1999 #annie broadway #disney #alicia morton #victor garber #broadway #musical #musicals

[grits-galraisedinthesouth]

DJT aka Daddy Warbucks surprised by Carolina.

#Trump family #free Trump #Daddy Warbucks #Annie #grandpa warbucks #grandaddy warbucks #Carolina #Trump 2024 #It's good to be Trump #Trump Secret Service enjoys the greens ⛳

[jowritesfanfiction]

debatably cursed au

Okay okay okay. AU idea: bttf and annie (yes, the musical). Allow me to elaborate (sorry if it’s really incoherent, I’m quite sick-brained atm)

Marty is an orphan staying at Mr. Strickland’s Orphan House (basically Strickland is Miss. Hannigan)

He goes back in time to see his parents and meets Doc (Doc would be like Daddy Warbucks or whatever his name is)

and Marty screws with time continuum and his existence and Doc helps out (normal movie)

But when Marty goes back to his current timeline, Doc ends up adopting him because of how much they’ve gotten to know each other.

Bonus:

Marty meets Einstein the same way Annie meets Sandy. Do with this idea what you will. i dont even know how this idea came to me but it did

#cursed aus #im sorry #not sorry #it makes me giggle #bttf #bttf fic #marty mcfly #doc brown #emmett brown #Strickland bttf #for now this is immensely entertaining to me #but i bet it will sound stupid in like two days #annie #annie the musical #annie bway #miss hannigan #daddy warbucks

[fieriframes]

[I got it this time, Daddy Warbucks, I said.]

#s03e09 the memphis barbecue tour #guy fieri #guyfieri #diners drive-ins and dives #daddy warbucks

[cryptocollectibles]

Annie #2 (November 1982) by Marvel Comics

Written by Tom DeFalco, drawn art by Win Mortimer and Vince Colletta.

#Annie #1982 #Marvel Comics #Daddy Warbucks #Oliver Warbucks #Etsy #Vintage Comics #Comic Books #Comics #Win Mortimer #Vince Colletta #Adaptation #Movies #Movie #Movie Adaptation

[driveintheaterofthemind]

Original Art - Little Orphan Annie Daily Comic Strips (Apr22th1987/Feb19th1988)

Art by Leonard Starr

Tribune Media

#Comics #Comic Strips #Little Orphan Annie #Leonard Starr #Daddy Warbucks #Tribune Media #Radio #OTR #Old Time Radio #Film #Vintage #Art #Original Art #1987 #1988 #1980s #80s

[picturebookshelf]

Annie: An Old-Fashioned Story (1980)

Story: Thomas Meehan -- Art: Julia Noonan

#annie #little orphan annie #thomas meehan #julia noonan #chapter books #novels #children's novels #children's books #kid books #kidlit #1980s #80s #oliver warbucks #daddy warbucks

[world-of-advice]

#lol #little orphan annie #fun fact: the song “it's a hard knock life” comes from the broadway musical adaptation of this strip #which. in turn. became several movie adaptations #and yeah the comic is fucking bizarre #words #reviews #comic strips #ayn rand #daddy warbucks #newspaper strip #1930s

[genericpuff]

on the closure of MochaJump, and why we're our own worst enemies in this industry.

"MochaJump? What was that?" is probably your first question, and I'm gonna simply respond with, "Exactly."

MochaJump was a small startup platform made by /u/nunojay2 and a second site engineer (whose name I am not informed of) on reddit. It wasn't anything extraordinary, just a startup site that aimed to offer a more viable alternative to Webtoons and Tapas, with a focus on offering equal visibility to creators, focused recommendation algorithms, loosened restrictions on NSFW content, and bigger cuts for creators on their generated revenue.

Of course, such promises are a tall order, but the creator did their best to host regular discussions with creators in art and webtoon communities to get feedback on what creators really wanted out of their platforms, and they researched what they would need to make in order to keep the site afloat (it came out pretty low at $2 per user per month). Hopes were high and the site launched with a small but eager userbase.

It stayed small. The site shut down in November 2022, just 6 months after launching in May 2022.

Now, I'm not gonna sit here on some soapbox and blame anyone for the site closing down. I unfortunately didn't get much chance to use the site myself so there's surely more I could have done on my own part to help it gain traction. But this is a regular occurrence for start-ups like this, especially in an industry that's as notoriously unprofitable as webcomics. We've seen titans such as SmackJeeves and Inkblazers fall, and MochaJump was merely an infant by comparison.

But it makes me think of how we view and treat these startups as a whole. How we as readers and creators alike have become so trained to exclusively use corporate platforms like Webtoons and Tapas on the promise of "bigger gains". Unlike these bigger companies, platforms like MochaJump depend on building a strong userbase as quickly as possible, and need to find ways to generate revenue to keep things running, otherwise it's only a matter of time before they close down. They don't have a massive conglomerate like Naver or Kakao to pad their pockets through their failures. They don't have the money or reach to inject themselves into society through bus terminal ads and convention sponsorships. They don't have the investors to sink money into their platform until it becomes profitable in return.

So we don't use them. Readers don't use them because we don't see the point in using a platform that has no content... and thus creators don't use them because we don't see the point in publishing our content on a platform with no userbase. Creators seek a place that's "tight knit" and "easy to get seen", but will only post to places that come pre-loaded with massive audiences; because it's not enough anymore to have a couple hundred followers, we're in 2023 now, in the year of consumer bloat, where we expect to now pull in thousands if not millions to be considered a "success". And readers seek a place that offers high-quality high-amount content at the tip of their fingertips, but don't want to pay for the access to these works, and in the case of apps like WT, have given up in trying to support these creators through the platforms themselves because they know that those artists they want to support will likely never see a dime.

The fact of this problem is simple, yet many people seem to ignore it - we cannot expect to have a platform that is tight knit, profitable, and sustainable. These places do not exist, not so long as we continue to raise the bar on what makes a "successful" subscriber count, not so long as we continue to patronize platforms that exploit their artists and writers, and not so long as we keep chasing the dragon of "what these websites used to be". These platforms never used to 'be' anything, they merely existed in one point of time that is now long gone, when owning a smartphone was a luxury and not a need, when online video content wasn't being tethered together by ads, and when the Internet wasn't owned and entirely managed by the same three corporations, the likes of which we haven't seen since cable TV.

Platforms like Tapas and Webtoons are - besides unsustainable - unable to exist and profit in the way they do without undercutting someone along the way. Whether it's underpaying their creators, undercutting their communities, or underexposing the works that have been buried, someone will get the shit hand in the deal and that someone is usually ALWAYS someone who will rarely ever stand to gain anything in the long run from using these platforms despite their issues. The 1% got theirs, and the 10% are barely getting by, while the remaining 89% are pushing onwards, because they have faith in the systemic online enshittification that demands conformity to a single formula for "success".

We are our own worst enemies in this industry. Webcomics are one of the few online mediums that still truly belong to the people - anyone can make them, anyone can find joy in them, but we're letting platforms like Webtoons and Tapas and all the other massive corporate apps rob us of that joy and accessibility in the pursuit of "success" and profiting. Webtoons was never the sole way to profit off this medium and yet I still see people every day who underestimate the existence of legitimate publishing houses and self-publishing, who think that publishing on Webtoons and landing an Originals deal is the only way to find success in this industry. This is meant to be the era of creators, of self-starting and self-actualization, and yet we're still handing all of that control over to corporations that only seek to exploit our art, bodies, and labor, while convincing ourselves that this will somehow all be worth it. We stick with Webtoons, despite the numerous controversies it's been involved in and the lack of support it's given even its own hired creators. We stick with Tapas, despite the undercutting of its most core components such as its community and the outlier genres it used to be known for hosting. We find new ways to justify using platforms that are steadily going downhill - Patreon, Twitter/X, Youtube, Instagram, Facebook - because we've been convinced that these are the routes to success, so if we acknowledge their failures, then "success" can no longer exist.

Because we need to pay rent. Because we need to eat. Because we need to survive. Because it's a lot more complicated than just "stepping away". Because the startups just don't have any of the surface level potential for us to immediately identify and get on board with, so we don't give them a chance.

I realize this post got very existential and depressing. I've been creating comics for well over a decade now, largely unnoticed, and I've fallen victim to these same limiting mindsets that we have to stick to one way, one "formula" for success - a formula that changes with the wind and only works for those who get in on the ground floor. It's been slowly killing me from the very beginning, robbing me of my joy to create, of my reason to even do this in the first place - to tell and share stories with others, to express myself creatively, to live my life surrounded by art and stories and creations made by and for others. It's made me tired and miserable, and I can tell it's done the same to those who have shared that boat with me.

But there's one silver lining I can always be sure of, and it's one I was reminded of after realizing I was still in the MochaJump Discord, with one announcement post that I hadn't yet read.

Webcomics are one of the few online mediums that still truly belong to the people. Corporations are trying their hardest to take that power away. Let's not continue to let them.

If you want to help sustain, patronize, and contribute to the growth of sites that are still being operated by small teams (or even one man armies), please, consider checking out the following websites, some of which serve as platforms or publishers, others which operate as link directories for independent sites run by creators.

ComicFury GlobalComix TopWebcomics The Webcomic List The Webcomic Library Hiveworks SpiderForest SmackJeeves Archive Inkblot.art And whoever wants to use the GitHub source code used for MochaJump (RIP)

Let's do our part to decentralize webcomics again. We may not be able to leave the platforms that weakly sustain us, but we can still support those that strengthen and support us.

#also bonus: if you're willing to pay like $10/year for the domain name you can get free hosting on comicfury #essay post #decentralize the internet #decentralize webcomics #fuck webtoons #support small platforms #don't be a coward #use the sites that only net you 20 readers #it costs you literally nothing but a little extra time #i guarantee most of these sites come with more features and more supportive userbases than webtoons #webtoons doesn't even have a fucking TAGGING SYSTEM #why did we allow ourselves to be convinced that webtoons is setting some industry standard ?? they're PISS #WT is literally persephone #riding off daddy warbucks' money while being a big stinking failure of an entity who no one likes but still calls a hero #no wonder WT loves LO so much it's literally an autobiography at this point

[minionwater]

I hope he gets to kill that guy

#his whole character concept is so funny. what if sweeney todd was sally bowles’ father n he wanted to murder daddy warbucks #yeah sure. ok #sanders art tag #schmicago #dooley blight #woah. that is not in the tag suggestion yet. am I the first guy to dooleypost. awesome

[henrysglock]

papa warbucks is real 2 me. in my soul.

#no not daddy warbucks. PAPA warbucks.

[betty-bourgeoisie]

Wait, Hetalia Little Orphan Annie AU but Arthur is Miss Hannigan

#And Alfred is Annie and George Washington is Daddy Warbucks #that's right I'm dragging you all to Hetalia musical AU hell with me #hws england #aph england

[fieriframes]

[I got it this time, Daddy Warbucks, I said.]

#s03e09 the memphis barbecue tour #guy fieri #guyfieri #diners drive-ins and dives #daddy warbucks

[news4dzhozhar]

#yemen #houthis #red sea #the US is complicit in genocide #Biden is Daddy Warbucks #iran #turkey #china #russia #israel is an apartheid state #israel is a terrorist state #israel is committing genocide #state sponsored terrorism #israel is not the victim #this was never about hamas #israeli war crimes #the US is complicit in war crimes #double standards #american imperialism #colonization #apartheid #ethnic cleansing #collective punishment #spread awareness #save palestine #free palestine 🇵🇸 #stand up for humanity #stand with palestine #illegal occupation #genocide

[spider-man-2o99]

oh. hm. it was  alittle extremely fucked up and evil to put the mcu inside miguel my friend miguels mouth At All but something something the law of equivalent exchange and no good can be put into this world without an equal act of evil being enacted or whatever ,

#talking tag #he would kill that little white boy. #spider-man 2099 is Staunchly anti-capitalist he would smell the war profiteer daddy warbucks odor on that twerp from a mile away

[herooak]

is anyone else real sus of may hailes or is it just me?

#i need to discuss #i just dont trust her #dungeons and daddies #dndads #dndaddies #dndads s2 #like im sorry but theres something funky #why is she the only person working there and doesnt know what anything does #why is she always just... there #and the mayor stuff with the warbucks today ??? #idk idk my dude