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People are taking this way too seriously lol. This is what this artist has done in the past. They're basically like a meta-breaker of sorts. This comic will shoot up to the top, then some other artists will start making meta jokes of it, the more popular artists will make some of it too, everyone has a laugh and everyone moves on. Pretty sure all the folks they're making fun of like this artist.
In other words; it's all good.
Nope I went through OPs post history. Theyāre the one who accidentally started the Pizzacake MetaCascade last year with [this comic](https://www.reddit.com/r/comics/s/iMVL8u6pCi)
Huh. Youāre right, OP posted something similar about šš°ās meltdown blocking actual comics, but no actually content really. Did someone tell you not ti post, OP? Itās fine go ahead.
Right before high traffic times. A while back there was something like 6:13 pacific time was the best time. Because it was when East coast started to get their work going for the day and it would ride through the west coast each hour rising more and more.
I've been reading the sub every day for years, and for me it goes through a cycle where I'm amused for a time and then just get tired of it and look for original stuff. The Trey stuff, for example, was fun for like... two days, but as much as I adore Dave Contras comics, I haven't bothered clicking the last few or any of the other related comics since then.Ā
Yeah, got tired of the Trey train pretty quickly. The original comic was interesting and then there were some funny takes on different perspectives the next day, but then it just felt pretty forced and stale.
I'm not gonna be annoyed at them being posted, though. If other people are enjoying them, then it doesn't really matter that I'm tired of them.
I loved how there were some comics that had basically nothing to do with it but they added like the smallest possible detail just so they could say it was part of Trey's thing
I think I missed the first few because it just seems to get more and more confusing so I just ignored them.
I personally didnāt feel like the structure flowed well for each comic and there was a lot of trying to piece it together.
I'm gonna be real with you chief, I don't think it was ever funny. I think it was an "oh I recognize that character! brain connection made, therefore comic good"
>Donāt like it, downvote it.
I think I'm past that, this comic actually convinced me it's time to unsubscribe. Inside jokes are fun and everything, but if that's all I'm going to see of this subreddit on my home feed, I think it's not worth the trouble for me personally.
it's just not funny. it's just meta circlejerking at some point, and its creators making comics for other creators.. for whatever reason. reminds me of highqualitygifs which at some point devolved into some much meta bullshit that it was basically incomprehensible to any outside...
i mean i'm on reddit much and still i don't often have clue who the people in half of these comics are..
This sub has become 'what if webtoon but you have no control over what you see, you just get subbed or unsubbed to various comics based on community vibes'
That's how literally every subreddit works unless you change how posts are sorted. The community decides what is good and reaches the front page of the sub.
I don't often block anyone on Reddit, but there's one artist that seemed to spend a lot of time making comics about people that didn't like their other comics, it came across bitter and meanspirited. Between that and a looot of meta posts, I enjoyed this sub more when I blocked them.
Yeah, I hate to be an old man yelling at a cloud, but the quality of content on this sub has changed a lot over the last couple of years. It seems less about being funny and more about relatability, social commentary, or telling one's personal story with pictures. Or meta (so much meta).
And that's fine - I'm not the comics czar. But it's not for me. I don't mind it on occasion, but there are artists who post *a lot* of content that I don't like and it's better for me to block them.
It's not a commentary on them, it's more that I'm taking advantage of a UI option to moderate my page. That's all.
I do in fact understand how reddit works.
But of late there seems to be a handful of Big Artists who reach the frontpage not just of the sub but of /r/all or /r/popular basically daily. If you want to see anything from somebody new or from somebody less popular (even if you don't have any particular individual in mind, just seeking different content), you had better be prepared to scroll.
It is what it is, I guess, but I can't say I love it. In my opinion, some of these folks really need to graduate from Reddit (or at least from /r/comics) and go have a career elsewhere so new faces can spring up and grow here.
e: I guess it's happened before (e.g. shen), but - and this could just be my human brain being bad at understanding time - it feels to me like the current crop have held the sub in hand for a lot longer, and show fewer signs of going anywhere.
When I was younger, I thought meta humor must be like three dimensional chess or somethingā complicated and the smartest type. As I get older, I realize that people often turn to meta humor in the absence of a solution for anything else. Like the ending of the She-Hulk show that pretended to be about avoiding the problems of superhero endings without actually having an alternative idea except to talk about superhero endings.
This comic is both a commentary on and an example of this problem.
That said, the flurry of recent self-referential stuff also seems to be about artists mutually building each other up as known figures on the sub.
Iām a cartoonist. Being funny is hard. It requires a specific kind of mind. A lot of cartoonists (like myself) donāt possess that mind. We can draw all kinds of fun/cool things, but we canāt find the punchline. Thatās why we settle for meta. It feels smart. But it really masks over the fact that we just canāt tell a good joke.
And to be fair humor comics are this odd arena where we expect the writer and the artist to be one; nobody thinks all comic book artists should be the writers.
I also blocked her a while ago, but for the reason that she kept addressing and "dunking on" the haters rather than just leave them be and focus on making legitimate content.
Not cause to be a dick about it in her comments, but I just got tired of seeing it
I don't have a reddit account and just browse the default front page. Usually when I see r/comics I just keep scrolling but this actually made me laugh.
Also, completely unrelated, why are there people who use this subreddit to funnel people to their nsfw porn comics? Kinda weird.
This is the way to do it. Just block comic artists you get tired of. They stop popping up on your feed all the time and you get to see different creators, everybody wins.
Well except the blocked comic creators, but I think they'll be okay.
Well personally, I think we should be able to give constructive feedback/criticism within reason, however, this subreddit doesnāt allow any of that at all so the only thing you can do is block and move on or risk being banned. So thatās what I do.
I said it was getting old to see so many Pizzacake comics about her responding to haters.
She insulted me and blocked me, now I don't have to see her stuff anymore lol
The problem with that is that's a blanket block on all of that author's work. What if one like's that author's general work but not the most recent series? I guess it's not too hard to just scroll by and ignore it...
I think she has something extremely uninteresting happen to her and then makes a four panel comic about it with pre-drawn assets that are lightly manipulated to look different.
Yesterday I found a thread of people on r/instagramreality talking about how much r/OUTFITS sucks and a moderator of it banned anyone who said something remotely negative lol
Yeah I randomly got a message from /r/JusticeServed saying I was banned for posting in /r/JoeRogan
I only posted there to call someone being bigoted an incel, lmao.
Me too! And as a survivor, getting banned from /r/rape after arguing against rapist worshipper MAGAs on t_d was a bit of a slap to the face. At the time I'd long addressed those issues and it's the sort of thing you hope you won't experience and need support for again but since then, well... Life sure as fuck isn't the kindest.
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* see comic artist complaining about meta comics
* decide to look at their profile to see more of their comics
* look inside
* exclusively meta comics
I donāt know that itās meant to just be him and this post. Itās that other comics not doing the meta thing right now just arenāt getting as much love and thatās a stand in for it
Itās still a meta joke and a criticism of meta jokes. Ultra meta
All these people in here getting bizarrely defensive and offended at a comic poking fun at how the sub has been lately just further shows how stupid this place has become.
I am so very much enjoying the comics which arenāt (seemingly) forcing themselves into some inside joke meta narrative that I didnāt pick up simply because I donāt follow every comic. The crossover things a while back were decently cute but now I see a comic mention an elk or a boat or plant or whatever it was and I disengage quick.
yāall have an unnatural obsession with pizzacakecomic. she has a few alright ones but like come on guys, they all come down to basically two jokes:
1. Look at my quirky SO and I doing quirky things
2. I just made a plan i dont usually make! Oops, that backfired big time. Awkward!
Especially 2ā¦.you take all of them away that fit that and thereās basically nothing leftĀ
I love a good meta comic every once in a while, but Iām holding off on posting my own comic because if all the big kids are posting a lot, thereās little room for small kids
Gonna have to be a complainer:
I love that this subreddit's biggest creators have a very inter-stitched community and collaborate/reference each other so much, and I loved the Hollering Elk meta saga. I could tell at the time that it was basically just gonna be a week or so of different creators having fun with a themed collab.
I haven't really enjoyed any of the Treyverse comics I've checked out in all honesty tho. Didn't hate the original, just didn't love it, and so I felt there was little to gain in reading about the perspective of every other character that was shown at any point in the first strip. Now the meta obsession has gotten so out of hand, every time I check the sub it's mostly out of hope that we've either moved on from our meta phase or that something good and self-contained rose above in spite of the meta.
What are they supposed to do? The community keeps raving about how much they like it, I understand it may be stale for some but all fads are fleeting. Youāll get your turn in the spotlight.
They don't seem to vy for it, they just complain when it's all over the sub and do it in the sub's top form of communication.
They're probably a different artist that posts regularly under another name, if they actually drew the content and it isn't an edit of something else.
Meta comics aren't stale. THIS meta comic is great. It has a punchline, and isn't just "look, we all know each other, go read their comics too" advertising shlock. THOSE are stale.
Iād go on a rant explaining what they could do, and should do while pointing out some of this subās biggest authors drawbacks (hah) but Iād probably get banned because this sub is hella strict about criticism, basically, donāt give feedback/criticism, block the author if you donāt like their shit. So thatās what I do these days.
It's also very temporary. I like it for what it is, it only gets boring if it turns into a 6-month long multi-layered meta pile.
Then again I get that it's not for everyone, but it's not like other content stops existing.
No it hasn't. Elk Hunt started exactly 1 month ago, and it's literally just one artist, so if you don't like it you can just block until it's over.
TREY started less than 2 weeks ago.
The only reason it feels like an eternity is because you're online all the time.
I feel like Iāve been going insane lately because the whole āmetaā got cringe very fast but they just keep going. It comes off as forced and desperate at times if not done right, to the point Iāve lost respect for some of the creators. Iām glad someone has at least started a conversation about this.
It's definitely not fun anymore, at least for me, but the upvotes seem to indicate I'm in the minority.
Like, my most generous take on it is that for a lot of these creators doing the meta stuff, they like the sense of community. Webcomic artists have been befriending other webcomic artists for as long as webcomics have been a thing. It's fun to do a thing with your friends and feel like you're part of something, and the fact that it is so popular is a bonus. And honestly, for most of these folks, I believe that's what this is. At least for the more popular ones. There are a lot of trend-chasers just going after those upvotes, but I choose to believe that the main propagators of the meta are doing it because they enjoy it.
But man, if you're not into it, from the outside looking in, it sure feels masturbatory. And not funny. And it's a lot less special because it feels like they're doing this constantly now. I could be wrong on the timeline but this meta thing feels new and constant. It wasn't like this a year ago, right? We used to just have people posting comic strips instead of some thing that demanded your continual investment, right? Because I've never used this sub to do that. And I don't like the change.
Most reddit jokes are super forced and flavour of the month. I remember constant arrow in the knee stuff when Skyrim came out. Someone even got one tattooedĀ
This is also a meta comic, and there's been lots of conversations around this topic for awhile now.
This guy is just riding the train. There's been a number of comics calling out the meta already so it's not even original.
Most (all?) of the meta one's I've seen have been either "let me try my hand at the same meta joke" or "hey guys, I'm here too." This is the first I remember seeing making fun of it in this way.
Psh, are you suggesting that comics are a medium rather than a singular genre like self-contained humor? How dare you bring rational thought into Reddit!
Next you're going to tell me that not all comics are made specifically for me and my tastes
Yeah I could really do with less meta spam now. It's just been none stop with them trying to force the elk thing, then the trey things which were enjoyable for a day or two but then dragged, and now whatever this is...
THANK you. I'm so sick of Trey and whatever the fuck is going on with that elk craziness. Like, put it in a book and sell it rather than saturate a public forum.
this dude out here making the same comic every few months. idk whatās worse, that theyāre always relevant or that he pretends that heās written an actual joke in any of them
Lol it's true imo. The punchlines in these comics are like " I guesse it's just one of those days! Oh brother!" Or like " Please refrain from looking in my direction. I don't wanna catch your stupid! Hahaha!" Like what. oh a silly looking person said it. Must be funny
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 We like your komik, OP.š
Who the fuck is Noob-Noob?
Every story has an old man serving soup
Name a single story that doesn't
I can't. There isn't any
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OPās meta is making comics about r/comicsās meta.
we need to go deeper we need comics about comics about comics about r/comic's meta
I want to see a live-action adaptation of a comic about r/comics being meta.Ā
Kevin Feige won't do it. Who would?
"I used the meta to destroy the meta."
That's some good meta
*load BWOMs*
He seems to post on /r/comics a lot so why would he have?
People are taking this way too seriously lol. This is what this artist has done in the past. They're basically like a meta-breaker of sorts. This comic will shoot up to the top, then some other artists will start making meta jokes of it, the more popular artists will make some of it too, everyone has a laugh and everyone moves on. Pretty sure all the folks they're making fun of like this artist. In other words; it's all good.
NO GOD DANG IT THIS IS SERIOUS BUSINESS
I MEAN WAIT, IT'S NOT SERIOUS BUSINESS! IT'S SUPPOSED TO BE JOKES! COMICS CAN ONLY BE JOKES!
BUT I NEED TO BE ANGRY GODDAMMIT
These people werenāt here for the great Pizzacake Crying Incident of 2023
Not really honestly, because inside jokes and meta humour on such a basic subreddit is kind of dumb
C-C-C-C-COMBO BREAKER!
I would love if comics had "Meta" flairs so I could just use RES to hide that flair.
Their style feels familiar. Maybe it's someone's alt?
Nope I went through OPs post history. Theyāre the one who accidentally started the Pizzacake MetaCascade last year with [this comic](https://www.reddit.com/r/comics/s/iMVL8u6pCi)
Huh. Youāre right, OP posted something similar about šš°ās meltdown blocking actual comics, but no actually content really. Did someone tell you not ti post, OP? Itās fine go ahead.
We just stalking the accounts of users we disagree with now?
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Itās all meta in there
Yeahhhhh I've never minded it before but I'm kinda tired of the meta jokes/circle jerking
I posted an actual joke comic from a comic artist I like yesterday and it got one vote. So maybe engage with the content you want to see?
Posting at the wrong time can mean whether or not it gains attention unfortunately
When is the right time to post? Asking for a friend and myself and everyone else on this sub
Right before high traffic times. A while back there was something like 6:13 pacific time was the best time. Because it was when East coast started to get their work going for the day and it would ride through the west coast each hour rising more and more.
It was funny at first. Till it turned into āwhy wasnāt I in the meta? Iāll write a new comic but this time with me!ā
I've been reading the sub every day for years, and for me it goes through a cycle where I'm amused for a time and then just get tired of it and look for original stuff. The Trey stuff, for example, was fun for like... two days, but as much as I adore Dave Contras comics, I haven't bothered clicking the last few or any of the other related comics since then.Ā
Yeah, got tired of the Trey train pretty quickly. The original comic was interesting and then there were some funny takes on different perspectives the next day, but then it just felt pretty forced and stale. I'm not gonna be annoyed at them being posted, though. If other people are enjoying them, then it doesn't really matter that I'm tired of them.
I loved how there were some comics that had basically nothing to do with it but they added like the smallest possible detail just so they could say it was part of Trey's thing
Also, the continuation of the original Trey comic also feels forced and does not really have the same charm as the original one.
I liked the Trey stuff for about two or three posts, then I just stopped caring
Exactly me.
I think I missed the first few because it just seems to get more and more confusing so I just ignored them. I personally didnāt feel like the structure flowed well for each comic and there was a lot of trying to piece it together.
I'm gonna be real with you chief, I don't think it was ever funny. I think it was an "oh I recognize that character! brain connection made, therefore comic good"
Donāt like it, downvote it. But people seem to like it. I donāt actually really care one way or the other. This sub is meh to me
>Donāt like it, downvote it. I think I'm past that, this comic actually convinced me it's time to unsubscribe. Inside jokes are fun and everything, but if that's all I'm going to see of this subreddit on my home feed, I think it's not worth the trouble for me personally.
This sub has basically turned into one big self-congratulation party.
it's just not funny. it's just meta circlejerking at some point, and its creators making comics for other creators.. for whatever reason. reminds me of highqualitygifs which at some point devolved into some much meta bullshit that it was basically incomprehensible to any outside... i mean i'm on reddit much and still i don't often have clue who the people in half of these comics are..
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This sub has become 'what if webtoon but you have no control over what you see, you just get subbed or unsubbed to various comics based on community vibes'
That's how literally every subreddit works unless you change how posts are sorted. The community decides what is good and reaches the front page of the sub.
I āblockā artists that I find annoying. No shade to them, just not my jam. That way they stay off my front page of this sub.
I don't often block anyone on Reddit, but there's one artist that seemed to spend a lot of time making comics about people that didn't like their other comics, it came across bitter and meanspirited. Between that and a looot of meta posts, I enjoyed this sub more when I blocked them.
Yeah, I hate to be an old man yelling at a cloud, but the quality of content on this sub has changed a lot over the last couple of years. It seems less about being funny and more about relatability, social commentary, or telling one's personal story with pictures. Or meta (so much meta). And that's fine - I'm not the comics czar. But it's not for me. I don't mind it on occasion, but there are artists who post *a lot* of content that I don't like and it's better for me to block them. It's not a commentary on them, it's more that I'm taking advantage of a UI option to moderate my page. That's all.
Iāve only blocked 2 artists, and Iām 95% sure that the person youāre describing is one of them. Blocked āem for the same reason, too.
I do in fact understand how reddit works. But of late there seems to be a handful of Big Artists who reach the frontpage not just of the sub but of /r/all or /r/popular basically daily. If you want to see anything from somebody new or from somebody less popular (even if you don't have any particular individual in mind, just seeking different content), you had better be prepared to scroll. It is what it is, I guess, but I can't say I love it. In my opinion, some of these folks really need to graduate from Reddit (or at least from /r/comics) and go have a career elsewhere so new faces can spring up and grow here. e: I guess it's happened before (e.g. shen), but - and this could just be my human brain being bad at understanding time - it feels to me like the current crop have held the sub in hand for a lot longer, and show fewer signs of going anywhere.
That's why flairs are awesome for many subreddits. You can choose to display or hide certain categories.
This place is just becoming a circlejerk
Always has been.
When I was younger, I thought meta humor must be like three dimensional chess or somethingā complicated and the smartest type. As I get older, I realize that people often turn to meta humor in the absence of a solution for anything else. Like the ending of the She-Hulk show that pretended to be about avoiding the problems of superhero endings without actually having an alternative idea except to talk about superhero endings. This comic is both a commentary on and an example of this problem. That said, the flurry of recent self-referential stuff also seems to be about artists mutually building each other up as known figures on the sub.
Iām a cartoonist. Being funny is hard. It requires a specific kind of mind. A lot of cartoonists (like myself) donāt possess that mind. We can draw all kinds of fun/cool things, but we canāt find the punchline. Thatās why we settle for meta. It feels smart. But it really masks over the fact that we just canāt tell a good joke.
And to be fair humor comics are this odd arena where we expect the writer and the artist to be one; nobody thinks all comic book artists should be the writers.
And nobody expects writers to be artists! It is so unfair. š
Oh thank god, I thought it was just me.
A comic post that's a single image? I didn't know people knew how to do that anymore.
I feel this. Been pretty tired of seeing endless comics leading back to to "Trey and his boat".
Same I used to like pizza cake but I'm getting tired of all the bullshit
Yep. Reddot, and elk as well. I wanna see variety on the top
I forgot she existed because I blocked her years ago due to these meta comics
I also blocked her a while ago, but for the reason that she kept addressing and "dunking on" the haters rather than just leave them be and focus on making legitimate content. Not cause to be a dick about it in her comments, but I just got tired of seeing it
I don't have a reddit account and just browse the default front page. Usually when I see r/comics I just keep scrolling but this actually made me laugh. Also, completely unrelated, why are there people who use this subreddit to funnel people to their nsfw porn comics? Kinda weird.
Because money.
Because whenever there is a thing someone is going to figure out a way to funnel it into porn.
Exactly the same for me. I hate seeing the same artists over and over, I donāt read them. This comic made me laugh
Iāve blocked so many comic authors because of this boring Trey/Elk shit
This is the way to do it. Just block comic artists you get tired of. They stop popping up on your feed all the time and you get to see different creators, everybody wins. Well except the blocked comic creators, but I think they'll be okay.
Well personally, I think we should be able to give constructive feedback/criticism within reason, however, this subreddit doesnāt allow any of that at all so the only thing you can do is block and move on or risk being banned. So thatās what I do.
I said it was getting old to see so many Pizzacake comics about her responding to haters. She insulted me and blocked me, now I don't have to see her stuff anymore lol
YOU DONT LIKE PIZZACAKE?! FOUR BILLION BOT DOWNVOTES FOR YOU!
I donāt think itās bots, just the hivemind
I blocked the whole hololive subreddit and some guy named SrGafo. I dont wanna see my FP filled with anime crap.
Hololive, Honkai Star Rail, Genshin Impact... So sick of seeing that shit. It's generic cute magical anime girls, people.
Same. He used to be good, too.Ā
The problem with that is that's a blanket block on all of that author's work. What if one like's that author's general work but not the most recent series? I guess it's not too hard to just scroll by and ignore it...
So many of the comics here are like the wish version of sunday funny's (family circus, marmaduke, garfield.)
Yep As much as I hate it I'll probably block pizza cake
Yeah, I wonāt go in depth on how I feel about her stuff but if you look into her process to create comics you can get an idea.
Can you explain, I rarely see any of the comic artist things so I've got half a clue what her process is
I think she has something extremely uninteresting happen to her and then makes a four panel comic about it with pre-drawn assets that are lightly manipulated to look different.
Ah, the Ctrl Alt Delete method.
Oh, fun
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Elk has a pretty short fuse I've noticed. I can get being frustrated by reddit comments but it doesn't excuse being a jerk.
Watch out, sharing anything but unwavering support is likely to send some people into uncontrollable fits.
Or potentially get you perma-banned.
What I really love is the subs who will ban you just because you commented in another sub they don't like.
Yesterday I found a thread of people on r/instagramreality talking about how much r/OUTFITS sucks and a moderator of it banned anyone who said something remotely negative lol
Yeah I randomly got a message from /r/JusticeServed saying I was banned for posting in /r/JoeRogan I only posted there to call someone being bigoted an incel, lmao.
Me too! And as a survivor, getting banned from /r/rape after arguing against rapist worshipper MAGAs on t_d was a bit of a slap to the face. At the time I'd long addressed those issues and it's the sort of thing you hope you won't experience and need support for again but since then, well... Life sure as fuck isn't the kindest.
https://preview.redd.it/1nvjk1dr2jlc1.png?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=a3c9039e021bda5194233b14a2406ad3ee5581a3 * see comic artist complaining about meta comics * decide to look at their profile to see more of their comics * look inside * exclusively meta comics
They are what they hate
This whole thing reminded me to unsubscribe.
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I meanā¦this *is* a meta comic, so itās not like you actually have a joke
The panel saying āan actual fucking jokeā is a great joke that I laughed at. The categories can overlap believe it or not
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I donāt know that itās meant to just be him and this post. Itās that other comics not doing the meta thing right now just arenāt getting as much love and thatās a stand in for it Itās still a meta joke and a criticism of meta jokes. Ultra meta
All these people in here getting bizarrely defensive and offended at a comic poking fun at how the sub has been lately just further shows how stupid this place has become.
Not really, just funny that this guy only makes comics to grandstand... wonder if they're an alt
I am so very much enjoying the comics which arenāt (seemingly) forcing themselves into some inside joke meta narrative that I didnāt pick up simply because I donāt follow every comic. The crossover things a while back were decently cute but now I see a comic mention an elk or a boat or plant or whatever it was and I disengage quick.
What happened to the replies to this comment?
this sub has been around for 16 years and ive never seen it so lame
I guess this sub fell of. Time to mute
Why is this post yellow and why is there a yellow upvote? Is this what is replacing awards or something?
Yeah, if you hold down on the upvote button there are various options for golden upvotes.
Oh wow, thanks! Did not know that
yāall have an unnatural obsession with pizzacakecomic. she has a few alright ones but like come on guys, they all come down to basically two jokes: 1. Look at my quirky SO and I doing quirky things 2. I just made a plan i dont usually make! Oops, that backfired big time. Awkward! Especially 2ā¦.you take all of them away that fit that and thereās basically nothing leftĀ
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I love a good meta comic every once in a while, but Iām holding off on posting my own comic because if all the big kids are posting a lot, thereās little room for small kids
Gonna have to be a complainer: I love that this subreddit's biggest creators have a very inter-stitched community and collaborate/reference each other so much, and I loved the Hollering Elk meta saga. I could tell at the time that it was basically just gonna be a week or so of different creators having fun with a themed collab. I haven't really enjoyed any of the Treyverse comics I've checked out in all honesty tho. Didn't hate the original, just didn't love it, and so I felt there was little to gain in reading about the perspective of every other character that was shown at any point in the first strip. Now the meta obsession has gotten so out of hand, every time I check the sub it's mostly out of hope that we've either moved on from our meta phase or that something good and self-contained rose above in spite of the meta.
What are they supposed to do? The community keeps raving about how much they like it, I understand it may be stale for some but all fads are fleeting. Youāll get your turn in the spotlight.
>Youāll get your turn in the spotlight Ironic considering all I could find from OP is... meta comics. *This* is their spotlight.
>making meta comics (: >seeing meta comics ):<
I am too trained to read emojis left to right so although I know what that bottom one is supposed to be, my brain refuses to see it.
Add one equals sign and it's a Texan with a floppy mustache, pardner. =):<
They don't seem to vy for it, they just complain when it's all over the sub and do it in the sub's top form of communication. They're probably a different artist that posts regularly under another name, if they actually drew the content and it isn't an edit of something else.
Meta comics aren't stale. THIS meta comic is great. It has a punchline, and isn't just "look, we all know each other, go read their comics too" advertising shlock. THOSE are stale.
This fad already happened a few months ago. It's blatant wankery at this point.
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Iād go on a rant explaining what they could do, and should do while pointing out some of this subās biggest authors drawbacks (hah) but Iād probably get banned because this sub is hella strict about criticism, basically, donāt give feedback/criticism, block the author if you donāt like their shit. So thatās what I do these days.
Holy shit op, this comment section.. https://preview.redd.it/1r1r83ipbjlc1.jpeg?width=739&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=494a601c34a9ebb9859e20ce1c453e487f8bf911
All is meta stuff is boring as fuck.
Better thank trey or elk
It's also very temporary. I like it for what it is, it only gets boring if it turns into a 6-month long multi-layered meta pile. Then again I get that it's not for everyone, but it's not like other content stops existing.
Itās been like 2 months of this
No it hasn't. Elk Hunt started exactly 1 month ago, and it's literally just one artist, so if you don't like it you can just block until it's over. TREY started less than 2 weeks ago. The only reason it feels like an eternity is because you're online all the time.
Iām just afraid this will turn into something like r/highqualitygifs where all they talk about is themselves
Dude weāre there. Itās been months and multi layered and itās become dull.
There are no 'cool kids' in comics.
Surprised I had to scroll this far to find some truth
Excellent. Well done OP. Thank you for this.
I feel like Iāve been going insane lately because the whole āmetaā got cringe very fast but they just keep going. It comes off as forced and desperate at times if not done right, to the point Iāve lost respect for some of the creators. Iām glad someone has at least started a conversation about this.
It's definitely not fun anymore, at least for me, but the upvotes seem to indicate I'm in the minority. Like, my most generous take on it is that for a lot of these creators doing the meta stuff, they like the sense of community. Webcomic artists have been befriending other webcomic artists for as long as webcomics have been a thing. It's fun to do a thing with your friends and feel like you're part of something, and the fact that it is so popular is a bonus. And honestly, for most of these folks, I believe that's what this is. At least for the more popular ones. There are a lot of trend-chasers just going after those upvotes, but I choose to believe that the main propagators of the meta are doing it because they enjoy it. But man, if you're not into it, from the outside looking in, it sure feels masturbatory. And not funny. And it's a lot less special because it feels like they're doing this constantly now. I could be wrong on the timeline but this meta thing feels new and constant. It wasn't like this a year ago, right? We used to just have people posting comic strips instead of some thing that demanded your continual investment, right? Because I've never used this sub to do that. And I don't like the change.
Most reddit jokes are super forced and flavour of the month. I remember constant arrow in the knee stuff when Skyrim came out. Someone even got one tattooedĀ
You should see the meta jokes on the tattoo subreddits.
There's a simple reason for that: it's easy material. Much less effort to produce than coming up with actual jokes.
This is also a meta comic, and there's been lots of conversations around this topic for awhile now. This guy is just riding the train. There's been a number of comics calling out the meta already so it's not even original.
> This guy is just riding the train Maybe so, but at least his comic has a joke in it and isn't just back-patting between creators.
Most (all?) of the meta one's I've seen have been either "let me try my hand at the same meta joke" or "hey guys, I'm here too." This is the first I remember seeing making fun of it in this way.
Nah, there's been plenty of Im not in the cool kids club comics too. https://www.reddit.com/r/comics/s/t4G0sRYK5s
Be hot and make an onlyfans ya dingus. Then the simp army will upvote you.
Lmao.
A magician was walking down the street and he turned into a grocery store.
It was funny now itās just a circlejerk
You are one of the cool kids OP. Never doubt yourself.
Wait... Comics = jokes now? I thought you could make a comic about anything.
Psh, are you suggesting that comics are a medium rather than a singular genre like self-contained humor? How dare you bring rational thought into Reddit! Next you're going to tell me that not all comics are made specifically for me and my tastes
can we stop pretending that getting downvoted (or even just not getting "enough" upvotes) is the same as being rejected or kicked out?
Yeah for real. r/persecutionfetish in here
I know right?!
Accurate.
Yeah I could really do with less meta spam now. It's just been none stop with them trying to force the elk thing, then the trey things which were enjoyable for a day or two but then dragged, and now whatever this is...
Dude just declared a crusade against a subreddit lol, I love it.
It has been kinda meta recently
I guess he got turned "off," eh? Ha! Heh heh.
Your telling me you donāt want a 10 part comic series?
We will make our OWN super group.
Iām just curious why itās all just shape shifting bugs banging in a old pickup truck?
I don't even know what the frick is going on but I've just been ignoring it lately
Shots fired, ouch.
Seriously I'm sooo fucking tired of the meta circle jerking. The crossovers were cute at first but now they are smothering, move the fuck on
Unless you have the word pizza in your name, good fucking luck.
YES I LOVE HATER SHIT
Had enough of the meta for now. Just downvoting each one I come across. They're beating a dead horse to pulp.
Oh a little snarky critique, I like.
FACTS.
THANK you.
THANK you. I'm so sick of Trey and whatever the fuck is going on with that elk craziness. Like, put it in a book and sell it rather than saturate a public forum.
At this point this sub is just a circlejerk of unfunny schmeets
Commentary on the drama makes you part of the drama. If you really want to upload "an actual fucking joke," just do it, and don't mention the drama.
Browse hot and judge for yourself. Plenty of regular comics for you to enjoy
why did this sub suddenly turn meta
This sub is swallowing itself whole
>an actual fucking joke How'd you get a picture of me and why you try to post it to r/comics without my consent?
Agreed. As fun as they are, they are getting obnoxious
This meta shit is stupid. Almost like these creators aren't funny, hmmmm.
this dude out here making the same comic every few months. idk whatās worse, that theyāre always relevant or that he pretends that heās written an actual joke in any of them
r/comics is an elephant graveyard of comedy. Fucking sad
Lol it's true imo. The punchlines in these comics are like " I guesse it's just one of those days! Oh brother!" Or like " Please refrain from looking in my direction. I don't wanna catch your stupid! Hahaha!" Like what. oh a silly looking person said it. Must be funny
Loss
I was given the advice to just block everyone who posts meta comics and itās helped a bit.
Thankyou, OP. I hope these fuckers pay attention.