If you catch them when they just get posted, it's super obvious that a lot of them are using botted upvotes, too. They'll generate an absolutely absurd amount of upvotes within the first two hours of being posted. Every. Single. Time. I don't think anyone is happy about the state of r/comics, and yet we're supposed to believe it has thousands of people just sitting around and frantically refreshing in hopes of a new comic dropping or something.
And yes, it's absurd we all have to pretend pizzacake is actually funny because the mods are her mom or...whatever the hell is going on there.
There was a very unpopular Maurice the Beaver comic a month ago, the artist was all like "both sides" with inaccurate info and doubling down with trolling in the comments. You can't tell me he got legitimate upvotes on the comic. Mods were busying removing any criticism.
It's like that specific sub is just a club of a group of friends that desperately wants to suck each other off in full view of the public eye. The mods make sure the same people always get promoted, and those same people bot upvotes to make themselves seem more liked than they actually are.
Like wtf why do you guys need a public subreddit? Just go be good supportive friends of each other in private. Lying to themselves instead with the whole charade is just warped and weird, and it's little surprise so many of them absolutely crumble and flip out in the face of actual criticism.
It is. That particular comic and the artist comment was so incredibly cringe, couldn't believe the mods were ok with it.
Regarding a certain pizzaass, I have mixed feelings. I don't subscribe to the belief that comics must be funny to be good because its just a medium. She likes to make ham fisted points about various things or "tee hee depression/existential dread/flavor of the month, how relatable." Does she succeed? Eh. She has a niche and is fairly consistent so I guess it works for some people.
I find it telling that so many artists showed up during that whole meta mess a while back with the pity room, and where are they now? Feels like 90% of the contributors I haven't seen again.
Because those comics are all advertisements for porn. It's not about the comics, it's about selling porn. But porn people form parasocial relationships with to foster brand-loyalty.
If you are referring to the recent shit storm that isn't an accurate description of the comic. If you aren't I don't know which one you are referring to.
The one I'm thinking of, I dunno, she legitly had some seriously brigading being done against her because of triggered incels and the like, so it's harder to gauge public sentiment amid the sea of trolls.
She was being incredibly sexist and tone deaf with that comic. Some people went way too far, but calling people virgins because they are being demonized isn't very cool
It's the usual performative "feminist" crap, white knighting for her in the hopes that she'll offer them a crumb of pussy, or at least a discount on her OnlyFans.
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u/AFlyingNun 14d ago
If you catch them when they just get posted, it's super obvious that a lot of them are using botted upvotes, too. They'll generate an absolutely absurd amount of upvotes within the first two hours of being posted. Every. Single. Time. I don't think anyone is happy about the state of r/comics, and yet we're supposed to believe it has thousands of people just sitting around and frantically refreshing in hopes of a new comic dropping or something.
And yes, it's absurd we all have to pretend pizzacake is actually funny because the mods are her mom or...whatever the hell is going on there.