I should just tell you to re-read the article, but...
Heather “milkshake girl” Antos’ colorful backstory at Marvel, and later at Valiant, is notorious in the comic industry. A conversation about office rumor-spreading and bullying is never complete without someone bringing up a juicy Antos anecdote. Everyone has one.
That states that her backstabbing office-gossip antics are well known to anyone who has worked with Heather Antos. If that were untrue, I'd expect one or multiple posts online to say she was misrepresented. I don't get the impression anyone will come to her defense.
January 8, 2020, Alex de Campi, who I would discover is one of the most active Whisper Network members, openly admits there is a Network. I have no idea if this was a slip or a brazen attempt to show off her power and influence, but this appeared.
She goes on to detail how Decampi openly boasts of not only the "Whisper Network's" power, but her own power to destroy and defame people to deny them work.
Then on June 16th, 2020. Another key member of the same group, Stephanie Cooke (someone whom de Campi often praises, converses with, and trades Retweets with) makes mention of the same group, again, without naming it directly.
Cooke references, “driving shitty people out of the industry”, which is what the Facebook group had been working on in private for years. This was the most direct admission of the group’s mission statement I had ever seen in public.
What is there to not understand here? Cooke openly talks about destroying people, driving them out of the industry.
Then she names about 20 specific Whisper Network member names and how they operate: One slanders someone with a false rumor, and others in the Whisper Network pile on and give it weight, to the point that it denies a targeted male creator work, or even gets a publisher to cease publication on a book already contracted and about to be released.
She also says this is the opening salvo, and says she will release much more about others listed in future columns in the series, from their own screen-saved self-incriminating posts.
