After its creator made racist remarks, many US newspapers, including the Washington Post, stopped running the long-running Dilbert comic strip.
White man Scott Adams claimed in a video on YouTube that black Americans were members of a "hate group" and urged white people to "get the hell away" from them.
Later, Mr. Adams, 65, admitted that his career was ruined.
Most of his income, he claimed, would be gone by the following week.
Dilbert, which features a grumpy office worker and a talking dog who together criticize the fads of corporate culture, has long been a mainstay of the funny pages of American newspapers.
The Los Angeles Times and the USA Today network, which owns dozens of newspapers, are two media outlets that have stopped publishing the Dilbert comic strip.
According to The Washington Post, Mr. Adams' comments encouraged segregation.
In a poll, respondents were asked whether they agreed or disagreed with the statement: "It's OK to be white. " .
The term is thought to have first appeared in a trolling campaign in 2017 and has since been used by white nationalists.
53 percent of respondents who identified as black agreed with the statement, compared to 26 percent who disagreed and other respondents who were unsure.
Mr. Adams referred to those who held opposing views as a "hate group.".
The best advice I could give white people, he said, "given the way things are going right now, is to get the hell away from black people... because there is no fixing this.".
Black cartoonist and Pulitzer Prize winner Darrin Bell called Mr. Adams a disgrace.
Mr. Adams is the author and illustrator of the 1989 comic book Dilbert.
