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[Coach Kreeton Of All That]

I don't like ANN, so I felt the need to expedite this one.


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Zac Bertschy / Zachary T Bertschy / Actionzacku

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: November 1, 1979
✉: zbertschy@aol.com
: (714) 837-7881
: @actionzacku
❤: Jacob Chapman
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:
1116 N LOUISE ST APT 9
GLENDALE, CA 91207
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It must suck dealing with the IRS and being $20K in debt.

Lien – Case # 239431
Filing Date	5/13/2009
Report Date	12/19/2017
Filing Description	FX - Federal Tax Lien
Judgement Amount	$18,600
Debtor Address	2008 Deerpark DR, Fullerton, CA 92831

Lien – Case # 2009000510505
Filing Date	9/25/2009
Report Date	10/27/2009
Filing Type	ST
Judgement Amount	$4,190
Debtor Address	2008 Deerpark DR, Fullerton, CA 92831
Plaintiff Law Firm	STATE OF CALIFORNIA
Court	ORANGE COUNTY - RECORDER OF DEEDS
Court ID	CAORAC1

Lien – Case # 2009000239431
Filing Date	5/13/2009
Report Date	6/23/2009
Filing Type	FT
Judgement Amount	$18,600
Debtor Address	2008 Deerpark DR, Fullerton, CA 92831
Plaintiff Law Firm	INTERNAL REVENUE SERVICE
Court	ORANGE COUNTY - RECORDER OF DEEDS
Court ID	CAORAC1

Lien – Case # 510505
Filing Date	9/25/2009
Filing Type	J
Filing Description	SX - State Tax Lien
Judgement Amount	$4,190

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Shit taste.
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Self hating gayb0i.
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Literally spends most of his time arguing what a "fan" is.
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When the tool cites Mike Toole as a good writer.
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These people have no personality or redeeming qualities outside of being gay .
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Gay. Fandom. Gay. Fandom. NPC Repeat.
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They all used to ride Vic's dick when he was popular.
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His personal BLOG.

My Hero, Simba — Zac Bertschy

archived 26 May 2019 17:38:52 UTC

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Thanos, The Infinity Asshole — Zac Bertschy

archived 8 May 2018 04:15:10 UTC

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The Lonely Monster — Zac Bertschy

archived 19 Feb 2018 17:37:04 UTC

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My Hero, Luke Skywalker — Zac Bertschy

archived 30 Dec 2017 17:20:26 UTC

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Full Of Shit — Zac Bertschy

archived 21 Dec 2019 19:19:56 UTC

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The Corrupted Machine — Zac Bertschy

archived 21 Feb 2017 11:04:07 UTC

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The Black Mass — Zac Bertschy

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Of course, it wouldn't be an ANN article if they weren't gay and like huffing each other's farts every chance they get by citing their own sources.
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Seems to be notorious on the ANN write up.

Anime News Network - Rotten Websites Wiki

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Liars gotta stick together.

https://archive.md/Iq70j

Seems like we aren't the only ones who have been jerking off him.
ANN staff continues to be the amalgamation of human sewage.

Zac Bertschy - Encyclopedia Dramatica

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Zac Bertschy - Encyclopedia Dramatica

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About — Zac Bertschy

www.zacbertschy.com

About — Zac Bertschy

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I just realized something is wrong in this picture.

Something is missing from Zac's DXMN profile.

It's his Facebook archive right here.

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Here's a post he made publicly that he was trying to make sound wholesome if only he wasn't an asshole.

 

[Bender]

Condolences to his family and friends.

 

[Travoltron]

I like how Hope has completely taken ownership of him on Twitter. She's posting a lot about him despite them being exes.

But....I genuinely can't believe the mourners were friends with such a miserable person.

Everything these people say is just virtue signalling or attention seeking.
Zac had no friends, only allies.

 

[Rihanna Ikari]

Article: Memoriam for a man who's committed suicide
Ad at the bottom: Yo wanna see some vintage porn?

You'd think the Internet's #1 anime news source could afford better ad hosts than KissAnime-level clickbait.

 

[mariomario64]

 

[A_throwaway_name62919]

His family has my sympathy.

Something to the thing of "TB hurt a lot of people by supporting GamerGate, he wont be able to hurt anyone ever again now" or some similar shit.

Are you thinking of this? It's the only thing I could find that he said on the subject.

In any case, as for Zac himself, my sympathy is sadly limited knowing his treatment of others. So I'll just say it's a shame he either never got the help he needed, or it wasn't enough.

 

[feral cat #6385]

ZAC BERTSCHY IS DEAD?!

Did YOU make him dead?

Had to. In the list of questions we are supposed to ask if there is a bomb threat that is the first question.

I really want to feel bad for him and say something nice. But the more I read about him and what he has posted. I'm just not feeling it. I get the distinct impression Zach was a bad person. It's kinda weird he joined the 50% (the percent went up) and not Hope.

 

[Drowningman]

The more I discover about him,I'm very happy that faggot offed his ass.

 

[Garm]

Article: Memoriam for a man who's committed suicide
Ad at the bottom: Yo wanna see some vintage porn?

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You'd think the Internet's #1 anime news source could afford better ad hosts than KissAnime-level clickbait.

ANN. "We have class."

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Lol he gravedanced totalbiscuit?

Now I feel extra vindicated in immediately creating this low effort MSpaintjob when I read the news in order to farm kiwi poz-rates
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May we all find inspiration in your spite-posting.

 

[Pedro Sanchez]

I like how Hope has completely taken ownership of him on Twitter. She's posting a lot about him despite them being exes.

But....I genuinely can't believe the mourners were friends with such a miserable person.

Hope is just as bitter and vindictive as Zac was. Never said a thing about him after they broke up, but only now she comes out of the woodwork and mentions him.

 

[AnOminous]

Hope is just as bitter and vindictive as Zac was. Never said a thing about him after they broke up, but only now she comes out of the woodwork and mentions him.

Keeping it classy. With friends like this.

 

[Judge Holden]

May we all find inspiration in your spite-posting.

When dealing with specimens who cynically latch on to performative fanaticism in order to get clout, coochie, or coin, and use this as an excuse to be utterly and directly despicable to everyone they think they can get away with stamping down on, then I see zero issue with pissing on their proverbial or literal grave.

I had the same reaction when Jack Chick was dragged off black metal hell after a lifetime of spewing the most hateful and contradictory edgelord fundie shit he could think of in comics aimed at children and vulnerable tards to scare them into converting, and I will no doubt have some obscene crude MSpaint job of homoerotic interracial fornication the moment David Duke goes to the great fed klan rally in the sky.

If he had just regurgitated dumb woke shit without actively chosing to engage in "ANYONE WHO I DONT LIKE IS A SUBHUMAN NAZI AND MUST BE PUNISHED RIGHT NOWNOWNOW!" and "HAHAHA ICKY OUTGROUPER NAZI IS SUFFERING/DYING" style bullshit, then nobody would be particularly interested in kicking his corpse. He could have been as ultra autistic in having internet fights with his various enemies, he could take an entire train of fugly cletus looking troons up his ass. He could have been cucked by adolf hitler himself. And so long as he was not such a pointlessly hateful and demagogic dick about it to people, I would feel zero desire to engage in any tomfoolery regarding his an-hero.

 

[The Token Ethnic]

Hope is just as bitter and vindictive as Zac was. Never said a thing about him after they broke up, but only now she comes out of the woodwork and mentions him.

She was just going through two twitter pity parties, too. Talking about the wrath she incurred while reviewing 'The Legend of Korra' and manages to bring up Gatchaman Crowds, TGWTG and Gamergate. She then followed that up with a post about how isolation/quarantine is difficult, depression and something about a traumatic summer. The sad part is that she handled it better than the late Zac Bertschy.

 

[Geena Davis]

She was just going through two twitter pity parties, too. Talking about the wrath she incurred while reviewing 'The Legend of Korra' and manages to bring up Gatchaman Crowds, TGWTG and Gamergate. She then followed that up with a post about how isolation/quarantine is difficult, depression and something about a traumatic summer. The sad part is that she handled it better than the late Zac Bertschy.

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Oh boohoo. Cry me a fucking river. Where's the money to pay the damn townhouse?

She literally used her sex to get a job at a company, against other people who actually deserved it.

 

[demosthenes7531]

She was just going through two twitter pity parties, too. Talking about the wrath she incurred while reviewing 'The Legend of Korra' and manages to bring up Gatchaman Crowds, TGWTG and Gamergate. She then followed that up with a post about how isolation/quarantine is difficult, depression and something about a traumatic summer. The sad part is that she handled it better than the late Zac Bertschy.

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I dunno. Doesn't sound like she's handling it any better. The horror of former youtube stars realizing that their prospects of ever being able to support themselves with a real world job is pretty terrifying. I can see why Gatchaman Crowds' message that distancing yourself from internet drama is a good way to avoid it destroying your life would be so infuriating to someone for whom the internet is their entire existence. She understands she's worthless in the real world.

As for Zac's suicide... I am surprised, but not that surprised. I've talked with Justin in person a few times at convention, but I've never met Zac at any of those ANN panels. Someone desperate enough to marry Hope even after seeing how obviously insane she is definitely had some major emotional problems. I guess it wasn't just him play-acting the persona of the perpetually jaded, depressed writer (leaning over a typewriter with a cigarette hanging out of his mouth, etc.). He didn't seem to have a lot of friends or family outside of the ANN crowd and some twitter contacts. Maybe the quarantine tipped things over the edge, but honestly who did he even have in person contact with even before all that? Almost all the people I see giving condolences say they never met him in person. Twitter acquaintances are no substitue for real human contact. Almost everybody said "I didn't always agree with him." Even his best friend Justin started his eulogy with "he wasn't the easiest person to get along wih." Though it is pretty moving to hear Justin talk about how he basically could've ended up the same way. It'll be hard for him to get over survivor's guilt.

With the way the podcast had gotten especially terrible lately (since Hope left him and Lynzee became cohost), I suspected he was losing his sanity behind the scenes. I felt sorry for him as soon as I heard he and Hope had gotten married, since I knew some horrible tragedy like this was guaranteed to be the eventual result. That was what first brought me to kiwifarms. I couldn't look away, I had to know how those decisions would ruin both their lives. And now I can say (at least for Zac) I've finally seen it through to the bitter end. A lot of people putting the blame solely on Hope, but honestly Zac was responsible for his own choices that let to this.

But after reading that ANN article... What a sad an pathetic obituary. Honestly, Zac deserves better. He did his job well and was entertaining with occasionally interesting opinions (though less and less in recent years probably starting around when he got engaged to Hope). But man, that article. What awful trash. They're basically making it sound like a human's only value or legacy that they will be remembered for is how much they advanced SJW causes. Like that's something (or even the only thing) that actually matters in life. Even if I was an SJW advocate, if somebody wrote that kind of obituary for me, I'd be furious. I'm mean how could anybody really believe that nonsense is what gives meaning to A PERSON'S LIFE?

Since he is basically the man who made ANN what it currently is, it makes me wonder what differences we'll see now that he's gone. Too bad he'll never get to see that "last" Evangelion movie (who am I kidding, probably no one else will ever get to.

 

[Chickenfoot]

Only video online that even mentions his death and he's reading an article of theirs on anime news network. You know no one in the animeverse likes the guy when one Asian dude is reading the article without remorse.

 

[HighwayStar]

Only video online that even mentions his death and he's reading an article of theirs on anime news network. You know no one in the animeverse likes the guy when one Asian dude is reading the article without remorse.

This proves how full of shit ANN are when they claimed he was loved by “millions”. If he’s so loved by “millions” everywhere, why is the only video documenting his death is the one that doesn’t even have 50 views? You know someone who died and was actually loved by “millions” everywhere. Prince, and he was everywhere on social media. Compared to His Royal Badness, Zac was an atom of an atom.

I know this is hard for his family and they deserve my sympathies and condolences, but to try to portray Zac like he was the Roger Ebert of anime critics, a beloved figure in anime and a humanitarian who stood up for the LGBT community is stupid and delusional. You know who stood up for the LGBT and is loved by millions of anime fans? Vic, the same guy whose life Zac tried to ruin. So I don’t buy into this garbage that he was beloved in the anime community, and neither do a lot of people apparently.

 

[Xenomorphs Are Cute]

Only video online that even mentions his death and he's reading an article of theirs on anime news network. You know no one in the animeverse likes the guy when one Asian dude is reading the article without remorse.

I love how someone just straight up asks "why this video exists?"

 

[Rihanna Ikari]

Kurt appears to be some guy trying to read ANN articles on YouTube for views like those channels that are just bots reading news articles. Doubt he even knows who the hell Zac is.

He also has videos where he eats shirtless for some reason.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t8-Pb0cQR6o

 

[Pedro Sanchez]

Kurt appears to be some guy trying to read ANN articles on YouTube for views like those channels that are just bots reading news articles. Doubt he even knows who the hell Zac is.

He also has videos where he eats shirtless for some reason.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t8-Pb0cQR6o

See, people don't give guys like Hero Hei and Yellow Flash enough credit

This proves how full of shit ANN are when they claimed he was loved by “millions”. If he’s so loved by “millions” everywhere, why is the only video documenting his death is the one that doesn’t even have 50 views? You know someone who died and was actually loved by “millions” everywhere. Prince, and he was everywhere on social media. Compared to His Royal Badness, Zac was an atom of an atom.

I know this is hard for his family and they deserve my sympathies and condolences, but to try to portray Zac like he was the Roger Ebert of anime critics, a beloved figure in anime and a humanitarian who stood up for the LGBT community is stupid and delusional. You know who stood up for the LGBT and is loved by millions of anime fans? Vic, the same guy whose life Zac tried to ruin. So I don’t buy into this garbage that he was beloved in the anime community, and neither do a lot of people apparently.

By 'millions' they mean their small, insular, selective clique that numbers in the hundreds consisting of fringe people that mostly hang out on Twitter. To them, they represent the 'true' 'critical' anime fandom and there was a silent majority yearning for bitter commentary on anime. The topic about Zac's death is the most active I've ever seen the ANN forum in the past 7 years, and most people posting in it flat out admit they haven't visited ANN in over a decade He, and by extension, Hope, were from the pre-mainstream anime days. Hope especially was from the YouTube star era when YouTube wasn't profitable, which is what led to sites like TGWTG and Blip being profitable back then. But then YouTube did get popular and profitable come the 2010s, but by then she was washed up and stuck writing for ANN after her departure from TGWTG. Zac was from the Anime Turnpike days. Having a podcast or blog made you somewhat famous. Zac mentioned in the last year "I have to do YouTube now" referring to the Top 5 lists videos ANN has been making for a few months now, which only get like a few hundred views. He realized ANN is outdated and irrelevent and despite all his hate and eshewing of YouTube he's done over the years, trying to discredit and hate on YouTubers, he realized he was ultimately forced to bend the knee and join in himself. Hope also tried to go back into YouTubing, but she's complely irrelevent and only got a few thousand views which is why she had to get a day job. These are two bitter, miserable people who realize the anime community had left them behind ages ago.

Millions? No, that's for people like Gigguk, Lost Pause, Akidearest, The Anime Man, Nux Taku, and all the modern anime YouTubers. I'll even throw Mother's Cuckshed in there. You can call them cringy, and I certainly don't care for half of them myself, but they're positive and like to have fun (maybe not Geoff). In fact, I wouldn't be surprised if it upset Zac and Hope to see people like Lost Pause and Nux Taku being showed with praise by millions of viewers. They both grew up in an era where liking anime got you made fun of. Hell, I did too. I kept my otakuism a secret in high school because nobody knew what it was outside maybe a few guys who liked DBZ. And here are guys like Noble and Nux openly talking about sucking anime girl toes and being praised for their open pervertness and embracing of anime fanservice and ecchi elements.

I'm not surprised Zac committed suicide. He constantly eschewed YouTube like the aging boomer he was and haing to ultimately having to make content for it probably broke him as well as things like Orange Man, Vic Man, and other things (he was especially broken by Rise of Skywalker). And as morbid as it is, I wonder how long until Hope an heroes as well given that breakdown she tweeted a week or so ago.