Out of curiosity, I decided to see what VGCats has been up to since we all more or less abandoned it around 2011. Here's the latest comic (that I could see; the actual latest one won't show, for some reason):
If I'm being honest, this isn't bad. It's not especially good - it's a basic "reality is different from fiction joke", and the video game punchline doesn't make too much sense when applied to a non-video game property like Spider-Man - but if not for the light hint of 2000s sarcasm, this could easily pass for something I'd see on Twitter.
But that's not the reason why I'm even discussing this site. No, that honor belongs to the site itself:
How depressing. I'm tempted to characterize it as a sort of bleak admission on Scott's part - "I can't afford anything beyond the most basic of presentations, and you and I both know you're not interested in that anyway. In fact, the only reason you're reading this is to dunk on it on Twitter, so why even put up the pretense that we're anything but a content slurry?" - except thumbing through the Wayback Machine, it looks a lot more like a slow and depressing decline in maintenance and possibly interest. This barren display first appeared in May 2020 (it was supposed to be temporary, the remnants of the news feed inform me), he hadn't made a new VGCats comic since at least 2021, and the new feed disappeared entirely in 2022 after a straight year without updates.
For those who aren't familiar with VGCats, by the way, here's what it looked like in its heyday:
Further, I want to emphasize that while VGCats was successful enough for Square-Enix to decide, "What the hell? Why not let them promote Final Fantasy XI for us?", this format of regularly posting updates on your creative projects or broadcasting whatever observations you had on events within contemporary fandom to whatever Internet fiefdom you managed to cultivate was the norm.
For every horrible nerd subculture ill that gaming webcomics represented, I'm left with the distinct impression that trends like the consolidation of the Internet into a small number of megaplatforms and the increased commercialization said consolidation has allowed have been utterly antithetical to whatever good might have allowed those ills to exist in the first place. There's no more room for personal expression or for well defined circles. Everything eventually decomposes into either consumption or desperate hustle.
I know for certain this view is overly nostalgic. That's what typing everything off the top of your head gets you.
Addendum: I saw this on Twitter...
...and it was then I realized, no, you probably aren't going to see VGCats anywhere on Twitter, albeit not for the reasons you think. As a product of 2000s gamer subculture, VGCats' success rested on how well it let the reader identify with and participate in that common subculture. It emphasized the norms and views and in-jokes that tended to define gamerdom. In the 2010s, however, subculture no longer exists, and the function of media has shifted toward presenting itself as a template for self-expression. Such media must now be fluid, broad, generic, able to be used in any number of contexts the original creator may not be able to anticipate. VGCats, mired as it is in the specific context of gamerdom, cannot easily recuperate itself into this new format.