Why do i hate this art style? Not that it’s bad, although i think it kinda is, but it’s got a real negative association in my head. It’s like seeing a rockthrow comic and immediately getting icked out by the Nazi that made it.
Edit: wait, i think it’s because it reminds me of some gamergate comic
Yeah, even though pizzacake takes stances I generally agree with, her work has that “this comic only exists for me to express my social and political views in a way that amplifies my voice online” type of quality. This type of art usually is:
Flat or pillow shaded for simplicity, because the beauty of the image isn’t relevant to its purpose, and the artist needs to produce it quickly to respond to current events
Depicts characters, even protagonists, in a mockingly exaggerated way, because this is the main form of stylization the comic must support in order for the author to make fun of strawman versions of positions they don’t like (because anything beyond a strawman, regardless of position, does not fit in a digestible 4 panels)
Simple and repetitive poses with no dynamicism, often because the artist is not a very skillful artist, because they only developed the skill to make comics like this in the first place
Basically, it’s visually unpleasant because the only reason this has any visual component is to make it more eye-catching compared to just text. Unlike most art, it does not need to be visually appealing, and in fact even benefits from being visually unappealing, as an art style that pisses you off a little is more likely to make you feel a vague sense of there being a problem to resolve - which the comic tells you is the issue it presents. Even advertising has to be eye-catching first, but memorable and compelling after that, because you need to take it in very quickly. Whereas this has the expectation of reading built into it, which frees it from what little need to be pleasant it may have left. The visuals are nothing more than lubricant to help the text go down.
Honestly I have no intrinsic problem with people doing onlyfans. It can be gross or problematic depending on how dishonestly it’s approached, but I often feel like its pretty honest and harmless? I guess with her, it probably relies a lot on sad weird redditors who are in love with the simplified yet agreeable entity her comics portray her as. That’s a little bit in gross territory I guess, but I’d rather she made money with porn than with putting out this “slop”-tier circlejerky junk that reduces a complex world full of discussions worth having down to:
"Me and you (Smart and right and based)
People we dislike (dumb and wrong and cringe)"
In my opinion, her comics do a lot of harm to the state of political discourse here and even more so on Reddit. It would be so much better if she would make cleverer, or funnier, or at least more critically thought-through comics (but that wouldn’t be as popular). Barring that, it would be less harmful if she just did onlyfans. But also I just don’t see an issue with selling that kind of stuff anyways.
The characters look like they have bad breath and are from some nowhere town in the Midwest. Like there should be a morbidly obese character and they all should shop at the Walmart. That is my knee jerk reaction for some reason. It’s like American plain hamburger manga.
That being said I can’t hate on the content of this comic at all. Fuck AI, and I’m glad whoever made this actually made it.
Why do i hate this art style? Not that it’s bad, although i think it kinda is, but it’s got a real negative association in my head. It’s like seeing a rockthrow comic and immediately getting icked out by the Nazi that made it.
Edit: wait, i think it’s because it reminds me of some gamergate comic
Yeah, even though pizzacake takes stances I generally agree with, her work has that “this comic only exists for me to express my social and political views in a way that amplifies my voice online” type of quality. This type of art usually is:
Basically, it’s visually unpleasant because the only reason this has any visual component is to make it more eye-catching compared to just text. Unlike most art, it does not need to be visually appealing, and in fact even benefits from being visually unappealing, as an art style that pisses you off a little is more likely to make you feel a vague sense of there being a problem to resolve - which the comic tells you is the issue it presents. Even advertising has to be eye-catching first, but memorable and compelling after that, because you need to take it in very quickly. Whereas this has the expectation of reading built into it, which frees it from what little need to be pleasant it may have left. The visuals are nothing more than lubricant to help the text go down.
The art also serves to promote her onlyfans. Do you think her lighter brunette friend is on there too?
Honestly I have no intrinsic problem with people doing onlyfans. It can be gross or problematic depending on how dishonestly it’s approached, but I often feel like its pretty honest and harmless? I guess with her, it probably relies a lot on sad weird redditors who are in love with the simplified yet agreeable entity her comics portray her as. That’s a little bit in gross territory I guess, but I’d rather she made money with porn than with putting out this “slop”-tier circlejerky junk that reduces a complex world full of discussions worth having down to:
"Me and you (Smart and right and based)
People we dislike (dumb and wrong and cringe)"
In my opinion, her comics do a lot of harm to the state of political discourse here and even more so on Reddit. It would be so much better if she would make cleverer, or funnier, or at least more critically thought-through comics (but that wouldn’t be as popular). Barring that, it would be less harmful if she just did onlyfans. But also I just don’t see an issue with selling that kind of stuff anyways.
The characters look like they have bad breath and are from some nowhere town in the Midwest. Like there should be a morbidly obese character and they all should shop at the Walmart. That is my knee jerk reaction for some reason. It’s like American plain hamburger manga.
That being said I can’t hate on the content of this comic at all. Fuck AI, and I’m glad whoever made this actually made it.
Oddly specific criticism