While I'm all for throwing shade against the All-New, All-Woke DC and Marvel lines, and I do like Ethan, he's going out into conspiracy theory territory here.

As for why Van Sciver believes these characters and many more have been changed, the Cyberfrog creator stated, “My suspicion is the reason why all of this happening. The reason why this is a thing that is being accepted and promoted by Marvel and DC is that there is probably a government diversity program that is actually financially rewarding them with your tax dollars.”

That's a huge "CITATION NEEDED" right there. Don't get me wrong, I fully believe that the higher-ups at Marvel and DC are pushing their own wokeness and diversity agenda, but in the grand scheme of things it's less likely that it's a case of government involvement and more likely that it's a case of general rot from the inside. Both are owned by megacorps. Both are less likely to have oversight from their parent companies, because they have their own management structure in place. And both have long since been overrun by the illiberal liberals that want to be the new thought police, controlling the information that gets fed to you and trying to force their propaganda down your throat, all while getting pissy and throwing their toys out of the crib if you even try to point out that they're not living in reality.

If he can get the proof he says he's going to go digging for, I'll wholeheartedly pivot on my opinion, but until then he needs to dial his rhetoric back so the people he's going to be looking for dirt on don't get a chance to hide it.