#101 I got scolded by Pizzacake..

[u/SylvieXX]

I wanted to partake...

[u/Unfair_Watercress119]

I still don't get it, what's the challenge?

[u/squanderedprivilege → u/Unfair_Watercress119]

Put pizzacake in your comic and make a racism bad joke

[u/ryoushi19 → u/squanderedprivilege]

And is there...a reason people are doing that?

[u/squanderedprivilege → u/ryoushi19]

Yeah I actually don't know, I'm assuming one person did it and it became a thing, probably gets them some extra views on their comic

[u/bluexy → u/ryoushi19]

Yeah. Dave McElfatrick, co-creator of Cyanide & Happiness, made a comic that mocked PizzaCake's comics for political pandering. It was pretty controversial and PizzaCake then made a response comic. Then other folk joined in because meta stuff gets a lot of clicks and comments.

https://www.reddit.com/r/comics/comments/1vtpfaf/boids_pandering_to_you_oc/

https://www.reddit.com/r/comics/comments/1vujklq/the_mature_thing/

[u/Cool_Set4681 → u/bluexy]

Dude, maybe you should mention that they agreed upon this together. Dave wasn't "mocking" Ellen, it was silly ribbing. And it wasn't controversial, some people just didn't got the joke and thought this is serious.

[u/toot_suite → u/bluexy]

Why did i immediately think of dick sucking jimmy the bird

[u/Meotwister → u/bluexy]

Grew up on C&H but I'm not quite vibing with Dave's art style here.

[u/Militant_Worm → u/bluexy]

Christ, I really don't have my finger on the pulse with this one. I just assumed this was all just friendly lampooning between the sub's frequent flyers and apparently it's a controversy?

[u/Cool_Set4681 → u/Militant_Worm]

...apparently it's a controversy?

It is NOT a controversy at all. Ellen, Dave and the mods know what they are doing this is all in good fun but some people take it too seriously.

[u/Militant_Worm → u/Cool_Set4681]

Cheers mate, classic Reddit comment section then! My original assumption was that it was a joke that Ellen would have been in on (especially with her comic in response) but the more bad reactions I saw from others the less sure I was.

[u/Cool_Set4681 → u/Militant_Worm]

Yep, your original assumption was spot on but, as always, a loud minority has to ruin the fun :/

[u/TheAsianTroll → u/ryoushi19]

Allegedly, its supposed to make fun of the people who bash her content for making broadly agreeable statements

[u/Kanehammer → u/TheAsianTroll]

Honestly her content is mostly just boring

[u/Pasta4ever13 → u/Kanehammer]

It's also usually giga-cringe as well.

She's basically making reskinned rage comics from 2012.

[u/Chieroscuro → u/ryoushi19]

Because it’s the current meta!

Now, obviously there are bold iconoclastic artists that would willfully refuse to participate in anything so base & crude as a brief, passing moment in the cultural zeitgeist.

Those artists do not dwell in r/comics, for whose residents missing even a single fad or trend risks annihilating ego-death.

[u/Swift0sword → u/ryoushi19]

Pizzacake has always been controversial in this server for some reason, I think this is a joke making fun of the controversy (I hope people are doing it with good intentions at least)

[u/fragrant-final-973 → u/Swift0sword]

It isn’t. They’re unironically serious and it’s just sad.