That coincided with the capture of the entire digital comics market by a single company, #Amazon, who enshittified its #Comixology division, driving creators and publishers into #KindleDirectPublishing, a gig-work platform that replicates the company's notoriously exploitative labor practices for creative workers. Today, Comixology is a ghost-town, its former employees axed in a mass layoff earlier this year:
https://gizmodo.com/amazon-layoffs-comixology-1850007216
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When giant corporations effect these mergers, they do so with a kind of procedural kabuki, insisting that they are dotting every i and crossing every t, creating a new legal entity whose fictional backstory is a perfect, airtight bubble, a canon with not a single continuity bug. This performance of seriousness is belied by the behind-the-scenes chaos that these corporate shifts entail.
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Think of the way that the banks that bought and sold our mortgages in the run-up to the 2008 crisis eventually lost the deeds to our houses, and then just *pretended* they were legally entitled to collect money from us every month - and steal our houses if we refused to pay:
https://www.reuters.com/article/idINIndia-58325420110720
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