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I'll take my downvotes, but while I agree with the sentiment in this particular comic I have no fucking interest in seeing shitty pizzacake and her no-punchline comics or her army of sycophants here on Lemmy.
I will never understand why some of you insist on bringing the garbage we left Reddit to escape over here to Lemmy. Let pizzacake have her tiny window of microcelebrity on reddit and please spare the rest of us this bullshit.
Agreed. There's nothing wrong with this message, but Pizzacake as a creator sucks.
Low effort garbage made by someone who buys upvotes in an attempt to shill her NSFW patreon.
I agree with you. These comics are pretty low effort excuses to shill a NSFW patreon. In other words, ads.
It's best to leave these to reddit.
I appreciate that but I do want to be clear, I do not care if pizzacake has an onlyfans or uses her comics to advertise said onlyfans. I am sex positive, and aggressively pro-sex worker, so I will never disparage pizzacake or anyone else for their sexuality or participation in sex work of any kind.
This is not my objection to pizzacake and I strongly agree with those who rightly call out the criticism of her which boils down to judgement of her for her onlyfans. My issues is with the comic content she makes, how she conducts herself online, and mostly with her army of sycophants.
I personally wish pizzacake nothing but success in her onlyfans endeavors and she deserves to be as free from misogynistic comments wrongfully judging her for her sex work as anyone else.
Oh yeah I didn't mean to imply selling NSFW content is bad or a moral failing of some sort, because its not. Same way pushing boner pills on prime time cable isn't some sort of moral failing, I just don't care for it and have no desire to have that content pushed to me, so I avoid it.
My quibble with pizzacake is the low effort level of pushing these ads. If she was selling artisinal mittens and using low effort comics to push that I'd feel the same. It's just extra weird because the rabid fanbase will jump down your throat to the point that you have to post paragraphs denouncing misogynist intent just to point out that these comics are low effort ads.
EDIT: the r/comics drama and her general handling of criticisms also have influenced my opinion of pizzacake. But honestly, these comics lack any sort of punchline most of the time, and the "biting political takes" like this one are so BLAND and safe.
I understood your objection was with them as advertisements and wasn't trying to imply otherwise, I just wanted to clarify my own position due to the commonality of criticism of pizzacake for her sex work which, again, I adamantly object to.
"Why can't everyone else just hate the same things I hate!?"
Imagine being this worked up about a webcomic, shitty or otherwise.
Also "this worked up", lol.
Just curious, exactly how worked up do you think a person must be to undertake the Herculean effort of making a drive-by Lemmy comment?
Yes clearly this is consuming the whole of my being.
I mean, you replied twice to my comment, to let me know you weren't worked up, so....
Also stating
makes me think you're taking it pretty damn seriously lol
Yeah boredom on a slow day at work can't exist.
And my level of investment automatically invalidates any point I make right? Because that's how discussions work, discredit and invalidate the arguer rather than the argument.
Cool interaction.
These people want Lemmy to be Reddit and don't understand why that's a problem. You are quite literally pissing in the chud winds. I upvoted you, but I do think you're wasting your time outside of your initial comment.
So maybe consider channeling that boredom into something productive instead of tearing down something you don't like, that has zero tangible impact on your life.
Anyway, you're right this is not a great interaction, so take 'er easy.
You’re acting like their response was ever intended to be a thorough breakdown of your argument and why it’s wrong lol.
All they said was an exaggerated paraphrase of your comment for comedic effect and then wondered how you could get so worked up over this.
I totally understand this. Putting way more effort into a comment than I need to because of a slow day at work is exactly what I’m doing rn lol.
But that’s not what’s indicative of you getting worked up. It’s the defensiveness and comments that read as bitterly aggressive.
I’ll raise you one better and do a revision of your original comment.
Your sentiment isn't different just because you couch it in decorum. I've played that game long enough, I'm over it. You are very good at it though, kudos.
Yeah, passivity in the face of decline has always been the preferable option. Protecting our sacred decorum is so much more important than maintaining a critical eye and standards. Great take.
sorry you don't like her. i enjoy her work. it's not intrinsically tied to reddit.
I think you're asking for the moon here, pal.
You're not wrong. The fact that I'm fighting a knowing losing battle doesn't make it less meaningful in my eyes, however.
I can respect that. Go forth with my blessing, brave knight.
It might help if you included, like, any real information at all since this is so important and meaningful to you. Or just keep raging into the night like a lunatic lol.
"REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE"
We kimosabe? I left Reddit because because its rapidly becoming a rightwing hellhole and it's inevitable enshitification due to being centralized and privately owned. Go create your own circlejerk club lemmy instance that hates pizzacake. Or just filter it.
Or IDK, downvote and move on. Lambasting a comic book artist in the comments because you see them as undeserving of their success is aggressively elitist hipster douchebaggery.
You should be like me and make everyone hate you for reasons that matter (Telling them their politics and philosophy is shit and stupid) and not arbitrary culture in-group-out-group elitism.
Reddit is far from a right wing hell hole. I haven't logged on in over a year but jumping to the front page is 4/5 push back against the right with the other 1/5 just "am I over reacting" posts with a sprinkle of cats and everyday humor.
Maybe you're referring to ownership?