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By my count, it’s been 14 days since I made the HobbyScuffles about Spider-Man: Lotus, so here goes!

If you haven’t heard of Spider-Man, this should get you up to speed.

Created in 1962, Spider-Man’s second only to Superman in defining what a superhero actually IS. He was the first teenage superhero, the first superhero to seriously struggle with issues like money and school and his personal life just as much as he struggled with villains, and for a while, he was the first superhero to age in (loosely) real-time; graduating high school, going onto college and then getting a job. He was a classical tragic hero, in the Greek sense of the word: his hubris was personally responsible for the tragedy that created him, and he spent the rest of his life trying to be a better person and atone for it. He struggled. He failed. He got back up again.

He’s the star of the 11th most profitable media franchise in the world. He did a rock album. He has entries on a whole lot of wikis, actually. He has a Macy’s parade float and you can use him as a bed. And by now, there’s a lot of different people with a lot of different ideas about who this character is, and how he should work, and most of them have social media.

One of the more prolific voices on ‘Spider-Man Twitter’ was a guy called Gavin Konop. A few years ago, he wrote an episode-by-episode outline of a ten-season Spider-Man show, which got published on his Instagram. He had a very specific idea about what Spider-Man should be and how he should be portrayed – the details of which’ll become clearer when we take a look at his movie – and he tended to be critical of anything that fell outside of that box. He slated the recent MCU films, Spider-Man’s appearance in the TV show What If, and even got into Twitter slapfights with actors from the Ultimate Spider-Man show (the details of which have sadly been lost to time/deleted when too many people jumped in on them).

The usual response to fans is like this is ‘well, if our stuff is so bad, why don’t you go and make your own?’ And to his credit, Gavin decided to put his money where his mouth was. He just also needed some other people’s money.

So on February 28, 2021, Gavin took to crowdfunding website IndieGogo to raise money for his own Spider-Man fan-film, which would be released for free on YouTube (with perks for backers). Lotus was deliberately designed to contrast and kick back against the more recent takes on the Spider-Man franchise, delivering a ‘purer’ take on the character:

• The Lotus suit was deliberately designed to evoke the classic comics design from Stan Lee and Steve Ditko, and Gavin promised the bulk of the material would be pulled from the tail-end of their classic Spider-Man run. The plot of the movie would draw heavily from two of the most beloved Spidey stories of all time: The Kid Who Collects Spider-Man (Spider-Man visits a young fan with cancer who’s followed his entire superhero career, no villains are punched, but tears are shed) and Spider-Man: Blue (Spider-Man mediates on his doomed love, Gwen Stacy, and if he’ll ever get over her)

• The MCU Spider-Man movies had been criticized for leaving out central members of Spider-Man’s supporting cast (Gwen Stacy, Harry Osborn) or changing them at all significantly (Flash Thompson, MJ). Meanwhile, Peter had a revolving door of mentors from the Avengers who threatened to undermine his credibility as a hero in his own right. Lotus promised no other heroes and that all the missing characters would be brought back

• The climax of the MCU’s Far From Home begins with Peter Parker using a nanotech 3D printer – a gift from a billionaire – to create a new suit while flying across Europe in a private jet. In Lotus, Peter had a homemade cloth suit (that gets badly battle-damaged during the Goblin fight), his wits and his webs. He was the ‘everyman hero’ who knew the people in his neighbourhood by name

• The MCU movies had stuck to a comedic and light-hearted tone, aiming for ‘slice-of-life high school drama with occasional superheroics’. Lotus, on the other hand, was summarized as ‘a psychological study of Peter Parker, as he’s confronted by the guilt of his past’. Both Peter and the movie were going to be moodier, grittier, and more melancholic: Gavin’s Peter was a man crushed by guilt and failure but crawling on

• Unlike any Spider-Man film before it, MCU or otherwise, Lotus didn’t have a villain. While the Green Goblin would appear in the movie and have a fight with Spider-Man, it’d all happen in flashbacks. The conflict was going to be whether Peter gave up being Spider-Man or carried on the mantle, and whether or not he could salvage his friendships with MJ, Flash and Harry

• Instead of having characters like Mary Jane and Ned Leeds played by people of colour, the entire cast was gonna be white wait what

Gavin wanted $5000, which would allow him to create ‘a simple drama based on Peter’s internal struggle’, though ‘limited by a smaller cast’. $15,000 would allow for CGI sequences and a larger supporting cast to ‘elevate the story to a new level’. $20,000 was the dream. Gavin wrote: ‘While it’s an ambitious goal, it would allow us to adapt all of our ideas, with a grand opening sequence, complex characters with their own struggles & flaws, and a satisfying conclusion that embraces the messages of Spider-Man.’

He got $112,000, plus 79 cents. The dream was real. It was enough to make the movie five times over.

Now it was time to get to work.

Most of the team working on the film (including Gavin and his Assistant Director, Younis) were pretty excellent at hyping up and driving discussion around other people’s superhero films: they were just as good at it when they came to their own. The team at the The_Amazing_SpiderLab came out with a costume that got everyone hyped. Soon enough, it had its own cosplayers. Then the CGI team put out a shot of it that was genuinely mistaken for a real costume. (Also, remember that leak from No Way Home last year where a Tobey Maguire figure was found in a toy department? All CGI. All the Lotus team). https://thedirect.com/article/spider-man-3-no-way-home-tobey-maguire-leak-toy-fake

Now, to be clear, was any of this legal? Nope. Sony still owns the rights to Spider-Man when it comes to live-action movies, and Disney owns the rights to everything else. At any moment, either party could have hit the cease-and-desist kill switch and nuked the entire site from orbit.

But in fact, the opposite happened. Jon Watts, the director of the Disney/MCU Spider-Man trilogy, DMed Gavin and gave the project his blessing. Andrew Garfield, Best Spider-Man, was told about the project and said it sounded awesome. What had started out as ‘just another fan-film’ was gaining real legitimacy.

The teaser came out, then the trailer came out. When the final trailer hit YouTube, it got 2 million views. In the teaser, Warden Wayne, playing the role of Peter Parker, walked along the streets of New York City and said…

“It was the greatest mistake of my life. Now everyone else is paying for it.”

…let’s hold that thought!

On June 18, 2022, Warden Wayne’s DMs got leaked, and as it turns out, he used to like the n-word a lot (including occasionally dropping the hard ‘r’). And the Racist Spider-Man jokes were too good to resist:

“Why are you looking at me like that?”

“Relax, Miles, it’s just a word!”

More jokes about Miles

Spider-Man Lotus but instead of the Marvel logo it has this

Someone changed the Letterboxd synopsis

The mf who poured his sweat and tears into directing the Spider-Man: Lotus Fan Film project watching his life’s work fall apart in the span of 6 hours

SPIDER-MAN LOTUS POST-CREDIT SCENE LEAKED

And so on and so on and so on.

Warden swiftly got back on the internet and typed up a statement: the gist of it was that he was sorry for what happened, he blamed his religious upbringing, the fact he was homeschooled in rural Arkansas, and his racist family and friends, he’d changed since then and he was sorry. Reactions were mixed. Some people said it was five years ago and people can change. Others argued he was just covering his ass because he got caught.

Gavin stepped up to the plate to back him up. He said that Warden had admitted all this to him before he was hired, and that Gavin had accepted his apology and truly believed he’d become a better person. A white director accepting apologies for using the n-word raised a few eyebrows, but if this had remained a one-off incident, and no-one else was exposed for being a massive edgy racist when they were a teenager, they might have got away home free.

That was Twitter user Berkenboom, exposing Gavin for use of racist, ableist and homophobic slurs a couple of hours later. Berkenboom’s account’s been deleted since, but the internet doesn’t forget.

Gavin came out and apologised again. More DMs were leaked: “I haven’t seen Aquaman because it was made by a dog eater.” Gavin announced he was heading off social media and taking a break.

By now, screenshots were popping up left right and centre: Gavin said that a lot of these were Photoshopped, but unhelpfully failed to point out which ones those were. A burner account jumped in and said Gavin had kept crapping on Jon Watts and his movies even after getting kudos from him. This DID turn out to be Photoshopped, but it’s worth including here, because it came with the line:

“Go fuck yourself, Gavin. Your Spider Sense couldn’t have predicted this, you son of a bitch.”

POW! WHAM!

Meanwhile, years of careful secrecy and preparation were going down in flames. Disgruntled backers and crew leaked everything. The first six minutes of the movie got recorded off a screen. Brokenbatterii on Twitter went ahead and leaked the whole script. As an encore, he decided to leak details about secret villains, set photos, and synopses for the NEXT two movies in the trilogy.

Green Goblin’s suit, and his fight with Spider-Man, had been hidden from public view for years. Then the fight got leaked. Without the special effects and backed by Star Wars prequel music, it looked, well, like a fan-film. Green Goblin’s actor, John Salandria, stopped by Twitter to let everyone know that actually, Warden using the n-word wasn’t so bad. By now a photo of his suit had leaked, and unfortunately, it kind of made him look like he was about to drop slurs on the voice chat.

More skeletons were dragged from the closet. The VFX team that had been responsible for so much of Lotus’ hype talked about their time working for Gavin: they “[did] not look back on Lotus as a fun experience”. A YouTube VFX artist was commissioned to provide CGI for the trailer: when it turned out to be ‘unusable’, the team had put in a 40-hour crunch session to fix it. Crunch is essentially mandatory overtime. Its use has been controversial enough in big-budget movies and games: crunch on a fan project is, frankly, insane. But they did it. Then the guy who’d made the botched footage was brought back and made their boss.

Meanwhile, Gavin was described as “not outwardly rude” (emphasis mine) but disconnected. He mis-credited members of the team on a few occasions, and had a habit of sending the VFX teams YouTube tutorials to show them how to animate better.

The team that had provided storyboards for the trailer and movie also got shafted, and by that I mean Gavin just didn’t pay them for a while.

By now, the drama was reaching critical mass, and those involved with Lotus were washing hands and cutting ties. Moriah Brooklyn, the actress for Mary Jane, had just enough time to get accused of being an abuser on-set by a burner account before she announced she was cutting ties. Younis, the Assistant Director and one of the project’s biggest cheerleaders on social media, stepped down and refused to talk about it any more. Gwen Stacy’s actress, Tuyen, was the first one to say things were “inexcusable” and hasn’t talked about the project since. Lotus had become toxic. Careers had been eviscerated live on social media, a $110,000 project had burned to the ground, and it was all because of a guy called Birkenboom.

I’m just gonna let Birkenboom speak for himself.

My name is Matt, I am 15. I met Gavin Konop early 2017. I was only 9 about to turn 10. I looked up to him more than anyone else, because I finally had found someone who loved comics like me. He was even going to help me make my own Spider-Man fan film. He was going to write and edit the whole project. I had other friends, but no-one who I felt understood me like Gavin. I wanted to be just like him.

Having him drop me made me extremely upset. I found those messages from the last couple of years and got upset. I’ve grown in the last couple years, having to watch him become very well known. I wanted to come out and expose him awhile ago for different reasons than I am now. I wanted to let everyone know that he doesn’t care about those who have been with him since the beginning. Every time his accounts would say something like that, it was him. I’m disappointed in him for not taking full responsibility and putting the blame on others.

It was revenge. Matt had plotting it since he was nine, for five years, and now he at last had revenge.

He said

Bro is literally Eddie Brock in Spider-Man 3 lol

Gavin Konop and Warden Wayne after getting their careers ruined by a 9-year-old

That’s dedication.

So, what happens now? Spider-Man: Lotus is still scheduled for release, at some point. If it DOESN’T release, expect a fresh burst of drama when all the crowd-funders realise they’re not getting a film, or their money back. Many have understandably given up on the project and creators for good, but then again, Gavin, Warden and the rest have a lot of time to change. The oldest person involved in the production of Lotus was 23, this year.

Maybe, with that in mind, a blockbuster dying because of Twitter DMs was inevitable. Maybe it’s a cautionary tale about what happens when fan-made passion projects hit big money, and mistreatment of staff and crunch time start to creep in. Maybe, as always around here, the message is about being careful what you post on the internet.

In the meantime, Zion Davis on IndieGogo is currently raising money for Spider-Man: Convergence: a team-up movie between Peter Parker and Miles Morales, and a reaction to what went wrong with Spider-Man: Lotus. The cycle begins anew.