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Not trying to reopen a can of worms but care to fill me in on what happened?
PizzaCake, the artist behind this comic, made another comic a few years back, satirising a bunch of things men say to women to handwave away bad behaviour (think "not all men" kind of stuff). What she didn't notice was that with her satirisation, she also dismissed genuine issues that society also tends to dismiss relating to mens mental health.
The mods of r/comics went a bit overboard with the moderation (to be fair, an overwhelming amount of moderated comments have been just pure toxic masculinity, but a bunch of people who said that both toxic masculinity AND the intentional downplay of men's issues are a problem, got caught in the crossfire).
PizzaCake herself had some... less than savoury reactions, all in all it turned into a shitshow that the chuds blew out of proportion, the mods who stepped in were overbearing and obviously prejudiced, and the overall reactions just... weren't nice. this should've been something that triggers respectful discussion, and both sides were unable to do exactly that.
Later on, the manosphere launched what was essentially a mini gamergate against PizzaCake and bam, now we have a bunch of videos and Reddit posts calling her "pathetic" and other select names, while the people posting said content aren't better by any measure...
Thank you for actually giving me an explanation instead of just calling her comics unfunny lol
A woman made unfunny comics, was criticised for it, and turned to gender wars for defence. It worked.
Nothing, the artist made the mistake of being female on the internet who can draw.
Note: there are a LOT of incel-adjacent chuds on Lemmy too, they just mask as more progressive than the ones on reddit where the "controversy" started. Any time a gender issue pops up on Lemmy you see how bad it really is.
Sheltered, insecure young white male gamers have ruined our world and spread an infectious pox upon our land.
The arrogance of "I'm being downvoted because people who disagree with me are groyper chuds" is precisely why such sanctimonious virtue-signaling nonsense gets downvoted in the first place.
I downvote Pizza Cake because it sucks. Sometimes you just have to stop looking for deeper meaning.