>>104073696As another poster said, Ryall and the other head guys basically decided to turn the Hasbro licenses into SJW vehicles to shit on white men and call conservatives or anyone not left of Stalin Nazis. They even fucking broke Larry fucking Hama for fuck's sake, turning him into anti-life spewing drone by threatening to cut off his only remaining gig he has left as a writer!
But the turning point was them fucking with GI Joe. Hasbro FORCED IDW to take over the comic rights to GI Joe as far as it being "all or nothing" deal. IDW never liked GI Joe and basically gave it to SJW asshat Aubrey Sitterson to write and from day one, he made it clear he wanted to purge GI Joe of it's existing fanbase and turn it into an "Only SJWs allowed" franchise and constantly shitted on fans, even gay fans who called out the piss poor quality of a Pride Month themed variant cover.
But most of all, Sitterson had friends in the comic press and he used Bleeding Cool, the Mary Sue, and other websites to blood libel GI Joe fandom. Calling them bigots, nazis, and racists. This pissed off all of the major GI Joe fan sites, at being slandered like this culminating in Sitterson's comments about the September 11th attacks. This was the final straw and the various websites outright stated that IDW and the Joe comics (even Hama's) was dead to them until Sitterson was fired.
And unlike TF fandom, GI Joe and it's major fansides DO have connections at Hasbro and Hasbro realized just how far down the bullshit hole IDW had fallen. And how their top guy, Chris Ryall, was willing to violate the terms of the licensing deal with Hasbro to not only keep Aubrey writing GI Joe even after he was forced off the book (Ryall intended Sitterson to keep writing under a pen name), but that he was continuing to allow Sitterson to cry "GI Joe fans are Nazis!" to the corrupt comic news sites, even after Hasbro explicitly told Ryall "Sitterson is forbidden to do interviews, PERIOD".
