Why do people suddenly have a problem with this sort of thing? Art has always used exaggerations and tropes to convey things to the viewer more effectively than being realistic would. Lasers don’t actually make solid beams of light in the air, evil people don’t generally have red eyes or maniacal laughs, and female skeletons don’t really have eyelashes and bows. Hell, most women don’t even wear bows anymore.

Is it valid science if you re-test the one that had the link to see if it was a fluke?

We need to make it illegal to force people to use a chatbot. It’s just a way to create the most frustrating experience possible without even having to pay an Indian call center. It’s the new version of being put on hold for an hour and then getting transferred and put on hold for another hour, someone you can barely understand picking up the phone, and then hanging up on you after you explain what you want and making you call again.

What were the multiple awful visits for?

I don’t see how it could be scumbag. Fear of sharks != fear of people in very obvious and unrealistic shark costumes. People who are afraid of ghosts don’t have panic attacks from seeing people in ghost costumes on Halloween.

This comment deserves its own meme.

Not banned. I think it’s great that when you copy posts from .ml, you mention the author now.

Serial killers have to serve time added up from each individual murder. Corporate scumbags stealing from millions of people should be sentenced to prison for millions of years.

Why did you self censor by saying “dot”?

You can get better at understanding accents by listening to them more, so yeah, that’s probably why.

I’m a native speaker and have absolutely no issue whatsoever with Australian and British accents, but people with a heavy Indian accent still sound like they’re not speaking English to me.

And even if, for example, the Federation had such privacy laws, it should be pretty much impossible to hide on a Cardassian ship because you know they’re all about that surveillance state.

Can you clarify? Are you calling CGP a grifter, or did he just make a wrong prediction?

click on a post about a PCC comic

Because they’re not all bad comics and I thought this one was kinda funny, so I wanted to read the comments.

read through the comments and pick the one comment that was rage bait to respond to

You mean the really highly downvoted person saying they downvoted the post? I didn’t reply to them. I replied to the person asking a simple question.

provide a low effort “explanation” about why anyone should hate PCC with examples of the artist “retaliating” against her outspoken critics

What, did you expect me to write an essay on the subject?

not only that, you continue to return again and again to defend your position on an artist you claim you don’t care about

I wouldn’t be on forums like this at all if I wasn’t bored. Are you frustrated that by continuing to reply, I’ve prevented you from getting the last word in?

give me a third option here, I’m not seeing a lot of other ways to view you right now.

I’m someone that used to like Pizzacake’s comics and gradually went from excited when I recognized the art style in my feed to annoyed that it was probably going to be another comic without a real punchline, eventually just blocking her account entirely to stop it from showing up.

What exactly are you hoping to achieve here? I know why I’m here (boredom), but what are you trying to get me to say that would satisfy you? From my perspective, you seem to be attempting to manufacture bigotry where there is none so you can feel righteous indignation and have an enemy to tear down.

I haven’t spoken about PCC in, possibly, multiple years. I only posted because I was answering someone’s question.

did you guys ever stop to think that maybe, just maybe, the reason why she makes fun of you is because you keep coming back with more hate?

Well, she’s not making fun of me because I don’t leave those kinds of comments on her posts, but yeah, this is literally what I just said she was doing. It’s called rage-baiting and it’s going really well for her because the popularity she gains from it translates to Patreon memberships.

you see pizzacake and you just get filled with so much raw emotion you can’t control yourself and lash out like a child only to be driven to attack…a comic artist…

If by raw emotion you mean mild disappointment at the lack of a punchline, sure.

Just spitballing here, but it seems like you’re trying to turn me into something I’m not so that you have a target to spew hatred on. I’m not one of those people raging in the comments about “trans bad, me angry!11!” that I’m sure you love to hurl insults at on Reddit. I’m just someone that doesn’t like comics that I don’t find humorous.

This comment has most of what I would say to reply to you, so I’m linking it. Could you point out exactly what I’ve said so far that led you to believe that I’m biased against PCC because she’s an artist or a woman?

Yep, if they’re funny to you, then good for you. I’m not trying to claim that she’s objectively bad or anything like that. I’m just explaining why a lot of people don’t like her.

She used to be pretty funny years ago, before she started focusing on hating her haters instead of making actual funny stuff. She started doing things like making a comic she knew would piss off some bigots in the comments, then making another comic (or a few) making fun of the people that hated on her to farm karma from the people who saw the original comic. Some people like that. It’s just a bit too toxic for me. I blocked her account a long time ago, so idk what she’s making these days.

Some people don’t like her because she makes a lot of comics that are like, “Haha, I have portrayed myself as the chad and you as the wojak, therefore I am superior!” Without having any actual comedic value. Example 1, Example 2 (both are reddit links, you have been warned).

She also threatened r/bonehurtingjuice with legal action to make them ban remixes of her comics, something not even Stonetoss (the Nazi comic everyone hates) has done.

So the enshittification begins… I can’t think of a single valid reason for wanting only account-havers to view your post.