>>9648045Quite a bit of that. They also tend to act like toy collecting and photography is like "thug culture" and a lot of their early personalities tried to emulate gangsta rappas in the way they spoke and presented themselves.
There was also some issue back in the mid 2010s where they got really particular about who was allowed to post using their instagram hashtag and basically tried to coopt or bully a lot of independent hobbyists out of their "turf".
It doesn't help that the founder Boog tried to swindle people by selling raffles for various action figures illegally and pushing his "official merchandise" like action figure stands that were little more than flexible metal rods for $20 a piece.
You can visit his official website and under the about section, he basically claims to be the pioneer of toy photography in comic form as an art form, even though you could argue the anons on 2chan were doing it in 4koma format way before he even appeared on the scene.
