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Look at Deaks group rules... this must be the most boring FB group on the planet. Also helps explain why SS pulled their support of this board, They can clearly find Groups/Admins willing to sanitize all of their ********. Im relieved this board never went through with all of this nonsense

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The Following Posts / Comments Will Be Deleted
● No Bullying
● No Drama or Arguing
● No Negativity
● No Nude 1/6 Body Part Photos
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● No Selling
● No Buying
● No Trading
● No Advertising
● No Affiliate Links
● No Outside Links To 3rd Party Sellers in New Posts or Comments, This Includes TNS Group, Onesixthkit, KG Hobby ETC.
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● No Political Posts (Including Figures of Politicians)
● No Religous Posts
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● No Figures Are Delayed Posts
● No New Posts With Any Sideshow Links (Screen Shots Are Welcomed)
● No Customer Service Issues - Paypal Issue? Contact Paypal - Sideshow Issue? Contact Sideshow.
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● No Discussions or Photos of Any ReCasted Figures or Bootleg Figures.
● Original Third Party Figure Photos Are Allowed - Mentioning Where You Purchased Them is Forbidden.
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● No Behind the Scenes Photos or Footage or Spoilers for Newly Released or Soon to Be Released Films. You May Disregard This Rule After 60 Days of a Films Release.
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● No Public Disputes - One Sixth Society is not a forum for you to settle a business or transaction disagreement nor is it a place to shame a member you have a dispute with.
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● No Links To Other Groups
● No Links To Instagram / Youtube Channels / Websites / Podcasts
► YouTube Videos Are However Welcomed
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● No Company Bashing
● No Figure Bashing
● No Artist Bashing
► Descriptive Criticism is Welcomed
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● No Disrespectful Comments About Our Admins
● No Disrespectful Private Messages To Our Admins
● All Member / Admin Interaction Will Happen Privately Via PM
Seriously, why even have a forum if you are going to censor anything but praise?
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Seriously, why even have a forum if you are going to censor anything but praise?
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He literally swoops in and deletes anything he disagrees with, even if it's a civil conversation. He just posted a "rebuttal" to these accusations, and immediately turned off commenting on the post. He won't post anywhere he cannot control the narrative by deleting negative comments. It's laughable.

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Deak is a massive self-serving celebrity-worshiping d-bag and a terrible reviewer. The funny thing is he constantly breaks all his own Facebook Group rules self-promoting himself while censoring and banning anyone that dares disagree with him or points out his hypocrisy. All he wants is free **** and to meet celebrities. So glad his fragile ego isn't active here.
 
Susan will be missed, was a good face for SS.

Agreed. I can't really understand why they would prefer Deak. He can't drive all that much traffic....he doesn't have a huge follower count by any measure. You could throw a rock and hit other channels/influencers with more views.
 
It will be nice getting less notifications knowing I will no longer watch Sideshow Live. :yess:
 
Agreed. I can't really understand why they would prefer Deak. He can't drive all that much traffic....he doesn't have a huge follower count by any measure. You could throw a rock and hit other channels/influencers with more views.

Just from a marketing standpoint, it makes no sense. Based on the one review I've seen, he's not charismatic and brings nothing to the table that other reviewers don't do better.

Being female -- still under-represented in this niche, Susan is relatable to women, while ranging from novel to flat-out attractive to male audiences. She's also a familiar face which helps build trust and brand consistency.

The only thing I can think of (outside of weird drama) is that she cost more money than SSC was ready to pay.

There is a certain kind of thinking wherein someone perceived as doing a job 70% as well for 60% of the money gets the position when it's not deemed operationally critical.
 
Yet another reason I now support only BBTS, AlterEgo and Secret Compass.
 
I'm not ready to put all the blame on Deak just yet, given that he sounds completely uninterested in being the new Sideshow rep (and there are a thousand people who would be better suited to the job), but regardless it definitely sucks the way Susan was unceremoniously dumped like this, after all she's done for them.

I wonder if they wanted to go with someone like that How To Be A Poser guy instead, since he made a lot of appearances and is pretty good in front of a camera...
 
It's a shame Sideshow let an "influencer" cow them into firing someone who was loyal, and the public face of their brand. Boo to that. Deak's unboxings are terrible and he has the on-camera presence of toast.

If that’s what happened, I’m baffled. It would be interesting to hear Sideshow’s side of the story. But, of course, they won’t say a word.
 
Yet another reason I now support only BBTS, AlterEgo and Secret Compass.

Doing that will give Sideshow less money but they're still getting money since they distribute HT to all of them. Gotta go eBay or a HK site like KG Hobby to cut SS out totally.

I haven't had any interactions with deak but just heard stories. One was where he PMed a guy to remove the sad/crying reaction to a SS post. Like he's seriously worried about that. He posted a message on the FB group denying everything but of course turned comments off. There's a live video of Susan's fiance going on now at OSR and Susan is in the comments but still didn't see any specifics.
 
I wonder if they wanted to go with someone like that How To Be A Poser guy instead, since he made a lot of appearances and is pretty good in front of a camera...

That guy already did work for them and no longer does, except for the aforementioned videos. He used to do their photography.

That guy is Terry, this guy.
 
The Jon Deak story as presented by One Sixth Republic:



One Sixth Republic

Admin · 11 February


Back in 2017, a few of the OSR admins posted publicly regarding Jon Deak, One Sixth Society (OSS), and their team of admins. We generally do not like to discuss them, but recent promotion of Jon Deak and OSS by Sideshow Collectibles has raised questions from OSR members. This post is intended to share the history for those that may not be aware, and to have the information openly available to all OSR members. This may be boring old news to long-time OSR members, but hopefully this helps to explain why many in the OSR admin team look upon everything associated with OSS with a degree of anger and contempt.

As many long-time OSR members know, the OSR admin team and the whole collector community here share the love we have for the 1/6th scale hobby. But as always with a large community, drama and conflict can and will arise. This is especially true when someone forces themselves, their over-sized ego, their self-entitled personality, and their sociopathic personal agenda to bully or threaten others in the community. Normally this can be handled quietly with little fanfare. But sometimes the issue is forced, through no fault of your own, to become larger than anyone with a sane mind would normally expect.

This has never been more apparent than with Jon Deak and One Sixth Society. We at OSR try to keep things quiet, but with all that as happened and all the questions, feel it is time to publicly disclose the history so that people can see the true Jon Deak and make their own judgements.

If you are unaware, Jon and his OSS admin team have not been welcome in OSR for quite a while. This was due firstly to abusive messages from Jon to OSR admins. These were then followed by unfounded and absolutely false claims against OSR by Jon. Lastly, he put forth threats of ridiculous legal action and a list of demands.

Jon has an apparent vision of how OSS will become the preeminent source of 1/6th scale news and reviews. There is more than enough room in the community for many good groups and forums to discuss the hobby. But Jon believes OSS can become some sort of utopia where there is no negativity in the collecting community. But this only happens by abiding and being governed by his authoritarian rules.

As part of his grand plan, he sought to form what he called a "One Sixth Alliance" with larger groups and forums such as OSR to gather a larger audience for his own platform. His rules at first seemed just and worthy of a vision in the community. But in reality the rules are in place simply so that he has authoritarian control of its members and maximise exposure to his platforms.

It all began when he requested to become an OSR admin, but we at OSR did not agree with his vision and his agenda. This did not sit well with Jon, and he then claimed abuse, defamation, and harassment against OSR and its admin team. Of course this was unfounded and untrue. It can be safely said that no such abuse, defamation, nor harassment was ever directed at Jon or OSS on our part. To the contrary, we have more than enough evidence showing clear abuse by Jon towards OSR and its admin team.

Let us make it clear now that anyone with a direct affiliation with Jon and One Sixth Society will not be welcome in OSR. That does not include membership in his group - OSR members are free to be members of any other group they like. But anyone that is affiliated in any way to promote or share information from Jon and/or One Sixth Society (eg. website article links, Youtube video links and shout-outs, custom work promotion etc) will not be welcome in OSR.

Furthermore, we do not allow any promotion from members of products associated with OSS and its admin team. Some of the OSS admin team produce custom items, and we're aware that OSR members buy these products. That is your right, and we don't have an issue with that. But there must not be any posts in OSR that contain these items or promotes them in any way.

That may seem petty, but the battle lines were drawn when Jon threatened OSR, its founder and his family, and OSR admins. His words turned out to be an empty threat, but if they were ever to come to pass, the OSR team will rigorously fight against him and any allegations.

Some past examples of the abuse he’s given himself, and his list of ridiculous demands will be disclosed below to show the true extent of his agenda. The examples range from initial passive aggressive statements, then all out abuse, then threats of lawyers and legal action. His attempt to blackmail us with a list of demands bordered on comedy.

But we were not laughing. We found out that he sought information regarding OSR assets and entities that normally one would not need to seek in an attempt to potentially sabotage or shutdown the website. His demands to OSR were his attempt to take control and dicate us and the community. We needed to protect OSR, and responded against his demands in kind.

This post hopefully makes the situation and history clear to the whole OSR community.



  • One Sixth Republic Some examples of Jon's posts will give context as to why we rejected his request to be admin, and show his true nature.
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  • One Sixth Republic Example of his previous bullying to other OSR members.



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