Great these terrible comics have made their way here, too
I would pay at least a bit to never have to see these again. I’m not even some crazy hater, I just find them super low effort and the loyalty they have to be very very strange.
Same. I’ll admit a few overall have made me nose laugh but most are just “yep, that’s a joke/statement I see online 20 times a week put to picture”. It’s not that I inherently dislike them, but they’re not my cup of tea and I preferred when I could just not see them.
They do suck and a lot of people agree, but oh no don’t ever try to go against the popular opinion… Geez
How dare you trashtalk pizzamommy😡
I don’t know anything about this Pizzacake person, but I don’t think this specific comic is any worse than the average newspaper gag strip, except they wouldn’t tackle a subject like this. It didn’t make me laugh, but I also wouldn’t call it awful. I’d definitely read this over literally any Dilbert strip ever.
I blocked pizzacake on Reddit because the comics are terrible and now I have to look at them here.
I feel like if you’re on a comic strip community you should expect to see various comic strips even from artists you don’t like, no? Just block the community or filter the word from titles
It displays it on all and I don’t mind seeing comics just not this creator because of how toxic she is.
I don’t know anything about this artist, could you tell what toxic stuff she’s done?
She is well known on Reddit for her and her fans to call people sexist just because they don’t like her comics.
[citation needed]
Here is just a couple of examples. I don’t like going to Reddit anymore so if you want more citations, you can search Reddit yourself.
All these don’t specifically show her calling anyone sexist, you can see her overall demeanor.
Ok, that IS obnoxious
Pizzacake is also known for buying upvotes to promote her unfunny comics. This one in particular is wholesome, but most of them are garbage.
I got instantly permabanned from r/comics just for saying it felt fishy how quick they gained upvotes. Which it was
no but i want to be madddd
how dare you enjoy and spread this thing that i dont follow >:((((((
entire day. ruined. i downvoted your comment to let you know how much i dont care.
Man I hate “bad take roleplay” comments.
“How dare you [insert opposing reasonable take]”.
They’re so low effort and Reddit.
I always wanted a nice snappy title for this kind of weird trash, bad take roleplay is pretty good
Curse seasonal colour analysis and all of its surprising accuracy! I don’t want to be a bright spring, I want to be goth!
You live your best life in that blue dress kid and don’t let anyone tell you otherwise.
Maybe you can be a navy blue goth? It could work!
Pretty much my strategy so far
are you a white-and-gold goth or a blue-and-black goth …
Uhhh what is going on in the comments? Who is Pizzacakecomic? And why almost everyone here hate them?
Pizzacake is a popular comic artist over on Reddit. She gained popularity mostly because she is extremely active in the comments of all of her posts. She is constantly chatting and attempting to make friends.
As for why she is disliked, there’s a few reasons.
The one she sites the most is sexism though there isn’t actually a lot of evidence of this outside of her own testimony.
Another is that she won’t stop talking about how people who don’t like her are sexist. She’s made multiple comics about how her critics don’t read her comics and just dislike them due to woman.
Her jokes also tend to be the easiest possible punchline for every joke. this has a kinda weird double effect because it means that her comics are extremely applicable to most people because they are generic enough that you can fit most of them into most situations. On the flip side, if you don’t like one the comics… You probably won’t like any of them… They’re all similar enough to be mostly indistinguishable other than the topic itself. along that same train of thought, if you like one… You’ll probably like them all.
As for my own opinion, I don’t really care one way or the other. She’s fine. I’ve heard accusations of her paying for likes on Reddit for promoting her own comics and so on but honestly I haven’t seen any proof myself so I can’t confirm or deny any of those.
The one she sites the most is sexism though there isn’t actually a lot of evidence of this outside of her own testimony.
Sexism is so rampant on Reddit that saying “I’m a woman” and getting bombarded by creeps and freaks is trivial. Less a commentary on her, specifically, and more on the degenerate nature of the community.
She’s made multiple comics about how her critics don’t read her comics and just dislike them due to woman.
She’s producing liberal political comics, and she’s a woman, so the chuds will be out in full force screaming at her.
At a certain point, though, its just…
She’s fine.
She’s very clearly low effort. The art is flat, the comedy is mid, the political edginess is ten years out of date.
I wonder if Netflix will be signing her any time soon.
The art being flat as a way of saying it’s low effort is an argument I genuinely don’t understand. Comics are all low effort art wise… That’s part of the whole thing.
Comics historically have been the lowest quality you can get away with since they have to be put out every day for the newspaper. I know XKCD does more than 1 thing but the art style is literally stick figures and they’re one of the most popular web comics.
You may not like the art but I would call it a mediocre art style more than a low effort one.
Everything else I fully agree with. She gets the (unfortunately) normal amount of hate a woman gets online for being a woman. Which is why I made sure to do italics for it when I said lot. She tends to get significantly more support than hate in pretty much everything she does either way.
Comics are all low effort art wise…
I strongly disagree. Plenty of comics have some very high quality and detailed art. Other comics really evolve over time, from the more basic sketches to these fully realized complex images, as the artists themselves improve. Still others are sloppy-but-ambitious, with these poorly conceived but legitimately daring efforts at capturing visuals.
I know XKCD does more than 1 thing but the art style is literally stick figures and they’re one of the most popular web comics.
XKCD is a great example of raw ambition in art. They routinely do shit with flash or with clever perspective tricks or panel gags that leverage a relatively simple style into something more. Case in point:
Perspective, emotion, action, comedy, a very well-established cast of characters from simplistic visuals. All from stick-figures. There was some real thought put into this.
Oh I’m definitely not saying anything negative about XKCD. I LOVE those comics. My point is simply that even stick figures can make good comics.
It’s fine if you don’t like the art as art tends to be subjective. I just don’t think her art is any lower than any other average web/newspaper comic.
She loves antagonizing those who don’t like her comics and often doubles down for extra Reddit upvotes.
From my casual observations, she seems like a messed up person who could use a lot of self care. But to be fair, I don’t think anyone taking nude photos on only fans is in a good mental state.
Mum is right about the colour, but we need more long dresses in the world, we really do.
Man, I wish Pizzacake would join Lemmy.
Why? That’s her comic right there? What does that achieve other than bringing her ‘other’ business here?
If she joined Lemmy then I could block her account and I wouldn’t have to see her comics (as I did on Reddit). As it stands I don’t really want to block OPs account since they post and comment lots of different stuff. It’s nice to be able to block a specific creator from their own account rather than play whack-a-mole with freebooters.
And before people start saying I’m misogynist or something, I’m not. There are plenty of women webcomic artists I like. Extraordinary Comics and War and Peas just to name a couple. I just find pizzacake to be incredibly boring, low hanging fruit and barely even funny at all. Not trying to hurt feelings, I just don’t like her stuff and prefer to block it from my feed.
And before people start saying I’m misogynist or something, I’m not.
I doesn’t work that way bro. You clearly know something about yourself but you’re trying to get one step ahead of it.
People that aren’t misogynistic don’t have to defend against it beforehand.
I’m pre-empting because I know both she and fans of hers have concocted this meme that anyone who doesn’t like her comics is sexist.
Like I said, it doesn’t work that way. You are being extremely misogynistic if you have to declare that you’re not before anyone even makes a reply.
I’m not racist but
Why are you randomly bringing up not being a racist? Only a racist would say that!
-your logic
Seriously. Her and Hollering Elk were some mainstays on the old place.
Yep. I’m a patron of Elk and it’s always disheartening to see them ask everyone to boost it on reddit. I understand it’s their best platform, but it’d be nice for other platforms to also be utilized. I mostly just don’t see Pizzacake anymore unless I open instagram.
I def wish more artists(like Pizzacake) would join. I check r/comics often on Libreddit and its nice to see them interact and a good way to find new underrated creators.
I guess I’m fine with pizzacake’s awful zero-punchline comics being here on Lemmy, I just hope her stupid cult doesn’t follow and this community doesn’t turn into some pizzacake safe fan space where you literally aren’t allowed to say anything that isn’t directly kissing her ass, like /r/comics.
Ok
It would get boring if we get comments like this (i.e. that say nothing about the particular comic posted) underneath every comic though :/
