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        16 days ago

        I guess this person too got dragged into the PizzaCake “controversy” and decided to side with the butthurt misogynistic side who then went on to spread lies about the artist…

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            16 days ago

            PizzaCake, the artist behind this comic, made another comic a few years back, satirising a bunch of things men say to women to handwave away bad behaviour (think “not all men” kind of stuff). What she didn’t notice was that with her satirisation, she also dismissed genuine issues that society also tends to dismiss relating to mens mental health.

            The mods of r/comics went a bit overboard with the moderation (to be fair, an overwhelming amount of moderated comments have been just pure toxic masculinity, but a bunch of people who said that both toxic masculinity AND the intentional downplay of men’s issues are a problem, got caught in the crossfire).

            PizzaCake herself had some… less than savoury reactions, all in all it turned into a shitshow that the chuds blew out of proportion, the mods who stepped in were overbearing and obviously prejudiced, and the overall reactions just… weren’t nice. this should’ve been something that triggers respectful discussion, and both sides were unable to do exactly that.

            Later on, the manosphere launched what was essentially a mini gamergate against PizzaCake and bam, now we have a bunch of videos and Reddit posts calling her “pathetic” and other select names, while the people posting said content aren’t better by any measure…

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              16 days ago

              Thank you for actually giving me an explanation instead of just calling her comics unfunny lol

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                Yeah anyone saying her comics are unfunny is lying to themself or others.

                They’re not gut-busting, side-splitting, laugh out loud funny, but what comic is?

                They’re slightly amusing, and more relevant in this case, often politically topical. The latter gets a lot of people very angry.

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            16 days ago

            A woman made unfunny comics, was criticised for it, and turned to gender wars for defence. It worked.

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            16 days ago

            what happened?

            Nothing, the artist made the mistake of being female on the internet who can draw.

            Note: there are a LOT of incel-adjacent chuds on Lemmy too, they just mask as more progressive than the ones on reddit where the “controversy” started. Any time a gender issue pops up on Lemmy you see how bad it really is.

            Sheltered, insecure young white male gamers have ruined our world and spread an infectious pox upon our land.

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              16 days ago

              The arrogance of “I’m being downvoted because people who disagree with me are groyper chuds” is precisely why such sanctimonious virtue-signaling nonsense gets downvoted in the first place.

              I downvote Pizza Cake because it sucks. Sometimes you just have to stop looking for deeper meaning.

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                  15 days ago

                  It’s no better or worse than similar comics

                  Yes, that’s what I said. It sucks.

                  you just hate the creator

                  No, I hate the comic. Stop projecting your identity politics horseshit. It’s possible to just think something is unfunny cliched garbage.

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                    Okay so you just have no sense of humor, if you think most popular comics are humorless.

                    Given how froth at the mouth angry you seem to be about this, while your stated position is certainly possible for someone to have, it’s way more likely you’re simply lying.

                    Just look at how you’ve straw manned my position by bringing up identity politics. You’re either arguing in bad faith because you’re very angry or because you never had a good faith opinion about her comics in the first place.

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                  I hated this comic well before I knew anything about the creator. Care to explain how I still have a pile of shit after separating the art from the artist?

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                    I know it’s fun to use hyperbole on the internet when points are at stake, but in no universe is this a “pile of shit.”

                    It’s mediocre at worst, and you should check your feelings at the door.

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                  Eh, “suck” is very objective.

                  I personally find her art to be simplistic, and the messaging is very much “mainstream common sense”, with frequent additions of quite opinionated bits.

                  Again, I don’t mind it, but I can see why for someone who expects at least a level of debate instead of having opinions force fed to them, would find her comics to “suck”.

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                    15 days ago

                    So… every popular comic then?

                    Also how are you going into comics expecting a “debate?” It’s a one way visual medium. Do you expect to debate a movie when you watch one?

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          It’s actually not about her thing with men, it’s the low hanging fruit that the content is made from. Art and drawing on the back of cereal boxes have more depth.

          None of its interesting, none of its original, it’s stating the obvious in drawing format.