Please support the artists who were affected by this. Please spread the word and speak up against people who use artists like this. Hiveworks is an example in a sea of greedy people who want our work to inflate their ego.
Don't let them forget we can bite back, and without us, THEY are nothing.

Webcomics is a smaller fishbowl than people think, Homestuck's financial success was lightning in a bottle

Assuming tasks they don't have the horsepower to complete reliably

spending money they don't have, making crowdfunds the crux of income

trying to increase revenue generation from people they cannot motivate because, chiefly, they do not have the money to pay them

I did not have many professional experiences with Hiveworks, but this has all the strokes of a small, understaffed business not understanding just how small and understaffed they are