No, that analogy does not make sense. They weren't competent at their own marketing, so their own efforts weren't successful or a respected part of the industry

No, that analogy does not make sense. They weren't competent at their own marketing, so their own efforts weren't successful or a respected part of the industry zeitgeist. It'd be more like getting upset that one of the sound engineers that worked on the Rebecca Black's "Friday" was getting famous amongst sound engineers for talks on sound engineering. I didn't ask them to make me a part of their marketing. I just wanted to continue doing the talks I was already doing (mostly just local enthusiast groups), completely devoid of any of their involvement. Hell, we had even discussed these talks during my interview and they had said they wanted to encourage me to do more. They wanted me to get approval for all talks of any kind and once I got in they would not give approval for any. Besides, even if I were at all competing with their marketing image, it still wouldn't have made sense. At least not business sense. Being petty doesn't make money.