Canzine

[frandroid]

So it seems that Hal Niedzviecki has decided to react to people pulling out of Canzine due to his genocide-denial comments by... Not only cancelling Canzine, which was expected, but also shutting Broken Pencil down entirely?? Holy macaroni.

UTA: The announcement that BP is shutting down is, unsurprisingly, not on the BP site but in an Instagram post.

Have I mentioned that the instagrammafication of social media is driving me BONKERS?? I had to find a reference to this post on Reddit. Facebook OCRs every photo posted to its site (to scan for hate speech, etc) so it could easily include OCR'd text in some meta or alt tags to make posts searchable, but no. Don't make anything on Instagram findable on a search engine, even its own.

Comments

[sabotabby]

I haven't read it in years but Christ, what an asshole.

Any way everyone else can just restart it? Or does he have a copyright?

[frandroid]

He litterally owns it. Someone would have to buy it from him.

Personally I'm more saddened by the loss of Canzine, for obvious reasons. I'm not going to host a large zine fair, but I'll probably curate a smaller zine salon series. The Toronto Zine Library is having a zine swap/zine making event this Saturday so they're stepping up in their own way (on top of hosting Paper Jam in the spring, off course)

[dewline]

Damn.

[arlie]

> Don't make anything on Instagram findable on a search engine, even its own.

It's doubtless more profitable to give you whatever they've been paid to give you, or whatever they believe will make you most upset.