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there's a purity culture of hating PizzaCake it seems like. rather than just not liking PizzaCake, some people have to prove they hate PizzaCake. what's the goal of proving you hate PizzaCake? to feel included and socially accepted. the funny thing is i've only ever seen this culture of proving you hate something arise around women, girls, and things women and girls like. i'm about to age myself a little bit but here's a list of things that have gotten these purity hate cultures around them since i've been able to notice:
and for all those people, and things, the purity culture around hating them just keeps them in the zeitgeist, an effect that has only been intensified by engagement driven algorithms. when you make it a point to say you hate something, you are platforming that thing and the things you say you don't like about it.
personally, i like Pizza Cake on the whole. i think she has some insights. i don't find anything amazing or detestible about the art style. it's just… a newspaper cartoonist's style. it's unique enough to be evidently hers while being clean enough to appear alongside other comics with a similar blend of insight, comedy, and personal testimony. it also helps her have a consistent style across the run of her comic. i see a lot of people complaining that the art hasn't shown signs of practice or improvement, but that's… exactly the aim of this style of cartooning. to be extremely consistent and repeatable in order to meet deadlines and to allow resharing long after the original was shared in the event it becomes relevant again.
i guess my point is… if you, the reader, hate PizzaCake, that's fine. i won't convince you to not. but you won't convince me to hate it either. so just move along. proving you hate something only makes that thing more visible to others. do what i do when i hate stuff: don't talk about it or think about it. if you come across it you can say "oh, here's another thing that's doing something similar i just like a little more better"
not everything has to be vitriol all the time
Yeah, that's toxic masculinity incel culture for you.
WOMEN BAD, WAIT WHY NO ONE SEX ME, WAAAAAAA
for sure. i wasn't gonna touch on that since there was already so much to say but for most of us on this platform, misogyny is the hegemony that's so built up that it's become invisible to us
Did all of the above silence bone hurting juice with legal threats against totally legal parody?
Carly Rae Jepsen is awesome. I dislike all her other music, but Call Me Maybe is great. Violins in pop was an awesome trend and one day the world will come to its senses and do it again for a few short years.
She falls in the 'you know what good for you' category for me
Okay, but basically all of those up until "women's marches" are objectively shit. PizzaCake is fine, got more laughs from me than Grafo, back in my reddit era.
Akshually only my opinion is objective.
Yeah, very fair, I should try sleeping at some point
things can only be objectively shit if they're actively harmful. of what i listed i can really only say with my whole chest that Twilight, Katy Perry post come up (hence why i specified her come up), and Hillary Clinton are actively harmful in some way. AOC also gets an asterisk because my perspective is that all politicians are to not be trusted, but AOC is one of like 3 politicians i can think of who are putting in work to reduce the amount of harm politicians do.
i'm going to particularly push you on indie folk. what's so objectionable about rural people expressing their emotions, providing alternative programming to the actively harmful radio country? this seems less like it's "objectively shit" and more "a piece of pop culture ephemera in which you were not directly centered"
My eyes skimmed over indie folk, I actually love that. But the rest are straight trash. Also, I've been awake for too many hours and probably nothing I post right now should be considered a reasonable take lol
hey do you mind if i steal that for my biography. if not just my one here, like my real one too
Sure?
I'm guessing AOC, Bernie, Zohran?
Well remember to add Greta Thunberg to the list, she's a great politician. Politics isn't just electoralism, there are direct action politicians.
I would have picked Katie Porter.
pizzacake is one of those comics where i realized that i'm just outside of its target demo and that would have felt like an uncomfortable realization if i hadn't already bought my midlife crisis bicycle. it's good for what it is, but i just don't resonate with it. her art has definitely improved since she started and she seems to enjoy it so that's cool.