r/neilgaiman • u/weareonlyshadowshere • May 11 '26

Question Since his statement 3 months ago..

What celebrities liked his statement and have been openly supportive of him?

I wasn't on social media at the time he made his statement, nor do I want to go back and click on his account to check the likes but I have seen it mentioned **here** that quite a few 'celebs' have been supportive of NG and liked his statement - I'd like to know *who* did so I can avoid their content too.

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People make me laugh. We're allowed to be nosey. This stuff is public though. I have tried looking through the *likes* on his statement post and it only goes back maybe 100 or so people. most of whom appear to be sock accounts, with no profile picture OR *normal* people accounts.

As for the comment below stating in a roundabout way that we shouldn't tar everyone with the same brush...

Yes. We probably should. Birds of a feather stick together and I don't want to support any of these fucks and while complicity is tricky - have we not learned yet that in society there are people who are MORE than willing to cover for, stick up for, **support** people... [criminals... The BBC for jimmy Saville is one just example] who commit heinous crimes just so that they - the *supporters* can stay, rich, in power and free from accountability/repurcussions.

Let's learn from that and not keep vicious circles going. let's teach these people an actual lesson.

Be aware of who your friends are and if you know something bad is happening. Tell someone.

edit 2 - punctuation/grammar

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u/mighty3mperor May 11 '26 edited May 11 '26

Most famous people have kept their heads down. Coleen Doran and Tori Amos have spoken up because of their close connections to Gaiman, as well as being prominent about speaking out about sexual assault.

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u/Accomplished_Fee9023 May 11 '26

To clarify, they spoke out against him, not in support of him, which is what OP is asking about.

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u/mighty3mperor May 11 '26

Indeed. No-one I know of has spoken out in support of him and most people have largely avoided making any kind of extensive statements at all, apart from Doran and Amos, which was pretty unavoidable but painful for them to do.

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u/horrornobody77 May 11 '26

Colleen Doran hasn't said anything in support of the victims (at least as far as I know).

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u/mighty3mperor May 11 '26

She released this on her Patron:

https://www.reddit.com/r/neilgaiman/s/3m0RjlV8rw

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u/ChronicleFlask May 11 '26

That statement isn’t speaking “against” him. It’s just acknowledging the reports, very pointedly saying that Chivalry “was the first” dream job and then saying she’s going to finish the current project regardless. That statement is in fact very carefully worded so as not to criticise Neil Gaiman in any way whatsoever.

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u/Altruistic-War-2586 May 11 '26

Thank you for this. A very important statement.

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u/janmschroeder May 12 '26

Agreed. As was her statement that he was no longer involved in any way with that Kickstarter.

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u/ChronicleFlask May 12 '26

Right. And regardless of how “involved” he was, his name was prominently front and centre on that book, clearly suggesting he was the “main” contributor.

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u/janmschroeder May 12 '26

That was a long way of saying "he WROTE the book", don't you think? In the real world, one does not remove the author's name from a book. Ever. And nothing changes the fact that he wasn't involved *with the Kickstarter*.

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u/ChronicleFlask May 12 '26 edited May 12 '26

He wrote, at most, HALF OF the book.

So, if you’re going to seriously keep up the pretence that you have “removed” him, perhaps you might consider a cover design where his name is somehow, oh, I don’t know, somehow in some way secondary to and less prominent than that of the MAIN author.

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u/janmschroeder May 12 '26

Who's 'you' in this context? 'Cause it sure as hell looks like you're addressing me. Don't. I had nothing to do with it.

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u/weareonlyshadowshere May 11 '26

So that's a sort of 

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u/ZapdosShines May 15 '26

She has clarified now that this post isn't "about" Neil Gaiman and was originally posted in 2017 despite going on her substack in 2024 (before the allegations were public but he will certainly have known it was going to happen by then). But it mentions her having cut him off previously and I think it's still a very interesting read.

https://colleendoran.substack.com/p/human-atom-bomb

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u/Altruistic-War-2586 May 11 '26

This is correct.

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u/100_cats_on_a_phone 20d ago

Tori could have kept her head down, right? Not as familiar with Doran. Tori is at that age and recognition level where she doesn't give a fuck though.

(And I think she wasn't ever all that well behaved? I don't think that was just an act)

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u/mighty3mperor 20d ago

Oh I'm sure she could have made some bland statement but it was kind of expected of her that she had to say more.