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[–] skisnow@lemmy.ca 3 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

I don’t know if she's done anything per se, but the reason I find her obnoxious is that most of her cartoons are of the format seen here, i.e. a strip in which she has an argument with someone and wins. Often the argument will be a fairly unsophisticated easy target, but will check the performative boxes required to get those shares and upvotes.

Also - as seen again in this very strip - there’s often a persecution/victim complex subtext at play, that never fails to get all the parasocial white knights riled up (edit: and it still seems to work over here too depressingly)

If Kelly from The Onion ever got rebooted as a social media liberal, it’d probably look a lot like her.

[–] ameancow@lemmy.world 6 points 2 days ago (1 children)

So she didn't actually do anything bad, you just don't like her style. I'm not sure exactly how being a successful but mid cartoonist makes you a "shit person" but I guess that's where we are in society.

[–] skisnow@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

I didn’t say she didn’t do anything bad, I said I don’t know what she did. Others have in the meantime filled you in, but you’re tripping over yourself trying to get indignant over the answers to a question that you yourself framed in a loaded fashion.

I don’t think your dismissive characterisation of my position is particularly accurate either, which suggests your original question may not have been entirely in good faith…

[–] ameancow@lemmy.world 5 points 2 days ago

My question was "what did she do that makes her a bad person" and you replied to my question with some vibe stuff, which I summarized, and now you're butthurt? It's okay to not like her comics, and that's all I've read that she's done bad.

I don't get the big deal, I am not hiding that. Does that make my question in bad faith? Or does that make the way I summarized it hurt your feelings? I do not care, I just get really weirded out seeing internet hate campaigns against people who are fine and haven't hurt anyone.