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When you phrase your opinion as "I don't like this so you shouldn't get to enjoy it or see it" that's a problem. In fact I think that's THE problem that's being called out here. Do you go into a restaurant and specifically call the cook out of the kitchen so you can announce to everyone that you think the food is bad? Because that's what it seems like.
They are talking about "I don't like this artist, but to each their own" comments. They aren't even talking about valid criticism of the author (I see some actual valid criticism here that I'm fine with).
I am not even a pizza cake fan.
I don't follow this artist so maybe people complaining about "undue hate" toward her is right. There's a lot of toxicity out there toward women and misogyny needs to be stomped out.
Having said that, I made my comment because the OP of this thread didn't even tell anyone to stop enjoying her comics or invalidate her points. It wasn't hateful or anything. The response to OP itself felt oppressive as if to say anything negative one has to say about strong women falls under misogyny or that it's invalid.
I dunno, maybe I'm overthinking it. I just felt uncomfortable with the comment I responded to because I really don't like her art style either and I don't wanna see it on my feed. It made me feel I'm being accused of misogyny for having—or god forbid, sharing—such an opinion.
Solutions have been floated in the comics community that would allow us to "tag" content by placing the author of the comic in the title so that people could filter out content they don't want by using the filters Lemmy does have.
I understand why it wasn't adopted but it would solve this problem as well as the problem of indexing and prevent reposts of the same content.
Either way, people are allowed to like things. They're allowed to dislike things. But messing it up for everyone over the trivial and subjective idea that someone doesn't like something that doesn't hurt anyone is I think what a lot of the comments are calling out.
There are actualities where artists are doing real harm and those have valid criticism (looking at you JKR). But the dislike this artist often seems to get can be equated to the hate that Nickelback get. Like. I'm not presenting them as the best band to ever have lived. Not by a longshot. But they aren't like... Terrible? And music taste is subjective so what are people dunking on them hardcore for?
That is to say it seems like hating pizza cake is trending and that's why so many people have to tell you ~they're vegan~ they hate her art.
Sorry to the vegans for the joke. Y'all are alright. I just don't share your distaste for meat and milk.