What's with so many webcomics now just being about the author's depression or lack of motivation?

What's with so many webcomics now just being about the author's depression or lack of motivation?

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It's R E L A T A B L E

It's a cry for help before their eventual, inevitable suicide.

These. Plus, they're easy as fuck to make.

Serms like it's mostly just this guy.

>Aw shucks...

feels good to vent

The Sexy Losers guy eventually turned into this guy's prototype.

The guy who did Homestuck also spiraled down, if the grapevine proves correct.

lack of any other real life experiences to write about

>all his comics get thousands of notes on tumbumblr
if it works do it again i suppose

Because adulting is hard and depression is highly romanticized by first world teens.
It sells like water on the desert.

Self-deprecation became mainstream lately over the years, that's been the new hotness for a while.

because nobody cares about my fan fics.

pic related
I did this today.
should I make more tomorrow?

Fucking capitalism, not even once.

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An artist putting out work about how they don't get work done is a paradox

Relatability sells

What?

Fuck outta here commie bastard.

Actually, though, why do filthy communists have to make everything about politics?

I'm going to be honest. It's not that great. The action doesn't seem to have any flow, and the word bubbles are all over the place and don't seem to be connected. Not to mention the arts not mind-blowing.

But
Fuck yes you should make more tomorrow.
Make more tomorrow, and make more the day after that.
Make more every day until your artistic idols are your colleagues.

It's a silly comic about people's habit of just eating when they're bored.

this is a good post

Because literally everything in life is about politics, as much as the Sup Forums mods may hate to admit it.

>A literal lifetime of media to consume
>People somehow still get bored

Fuck this guy, I don't care that he tries to cash in on the "relatable" comic trend, no, this guy is straight up fucking lazy, basically a hipster Buckley that works at BuzzFeed. Look at some of his comics on Google, the majority of them reuse the same drawings over and over again, he just changes the color of the backgrounds

But modern media is shit.

I started growing some tomatoes next to my window today. Please tell me how that's political.

I actually feel like we're in a really good time to be a fan of television. There's a lot of quality Sup Forums related content out there, but fuck even Sup Forums is popping off. There's just so many good shows

the real question is, is there any porn of this?

This is fucking awful

It's not, but that's nice to hear, and I hope your tomato plants do well.

Consuming media randomly and out of context doesn't do much for me. Over the years burnout has come more and more quickly. I long for the days when being able to download two or three cartoons or anime was something to look forward to.

You fucking pinko, you're denying the farm industry its share of the market.

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We need a googly eyes edit.

QUICKLY YOU FOOLS!

appreciate the criticism and support my man, sincerely.

From an economics point of view you're pretty much correct, actually.

It's not the same as it was in the nineties. Which I know sounds like nostalgia calling, but really we haven't seen anything like the Cartoon Cartoon block or the original Adult Swim lineup in decades.

Standards have dropped. What's considered "quality" now wouldn't have merited a second glance in the early 2000s.

>before their eventual, inevitable suicide
how do we accelerate this
what were the magic words for JewWario, we need them

Nah, there were plenty of mediocre cartoons in the 90s and early 2000s. We just avoided watching them, so we don't remember much of them.

ez 2 rite

Half ass attempt

>but fuck even Sup Forums is popping off.

They've been having an atomic meltdown over Bill Nye the last few days.

There was a lot more content in general back then, though. The quantity obscured the really shitty stuff. Now there's so little new media in general, and the average has taken a nosedive to boot.

I mean, Sup Forums related content. There's a lot of good live action shows being released left and right

Because mental illness is fashionable, but only so long as you talk about your 'crippling depression' or your 'social anxiety'.

Also making fun of how hard exercise is and how little rewards it seems to have to eating like a fucking pig are quite popular as well.

Let's not talk about things like the runner's high which is legitimately better than sex, the fact that real people with anxiety have to learn to not let it control them, or the fact that real depression isn't something that would let you draw a webcomic on a regular basis.

Easy to make plus now that the internet exists, artists can share their crippling depression with each other and get validation with likes and comments
Not that I speak from experience I do

BILL NYE THE DON'T ASSUME MY GENDER SHITLORD

BILL BILL BILL BILL

Runner's high is better than sex? Shit, so you're saying that going running every day to get in shape so I can bang random sluts is pointless because running itself is superior to sluts?

What if I go for a jog with a cutie, then I fuck her afterwards? What would that be like, fucking while high from running?

Sarah you were a lot more fuckable without the pixie haircut. Pixie hair looks like dyke hair.

why what's going on with bill?

>atomic meltdown over Bill Nye
Do I want to know what happened around him this time? Been getting more disillusioned with childhood heroes by the year...

There's also the schadenfreude element. People who aren't suffering on a daily basis take comfort in the knowledge that they aren't the character in that comic. Life may get me down, but at least I can go to the store and only modestly worry if the cashier is judging me.

It's low-effort and hits on the "I'M SO MESSED UP GUYS LMAO" fad

Must be getting political. Sooner or later if you're on the attack, you attack someone who doesn't deserve it or say something that wasn't helpful to have said.

There's only one way to find out.

GO user.

DO WHAT I CANNOT BECAUSE MY NIGHT WORK AND MY LAZINESS HAVE RUINED MY SOCIAL LIFE!

i like it

keep coloring that way

middle body pic seems too wobbly, avoid that, make strokes that are just a tad bit firmer as you did in majority of the panel

Dude, just look up Bill Nye.

He's got a show on Comedy Central so it's gotta be funny and apolitical

>not liking short hair on women

There's too short

And there's also "the barber got drunk and passed out midway through shaving your head"

It's because, physiologicslly, your brain perceives time much faster as an adult than when you're a kid still developing your brain. And it's only going to get worse and worse from here on out. You'll have time to go through the entirety of star trek, all of the series, and not feel a god damn thing because it passed by so fast. Eventually it'll seep out into your real life where one day you're an adult, and the next you're elderly and you legitimately don't know where the time went.

Oh wait, it's Netflix. Weird. Why did I think Comedy Central? Not being cheeky here either

thank you very much. I'll probably work more on this tomorrow, I'm using these little fan fics of mine to work on all the things I'd like to do on my OC.

I made a wolverine comic as well, pic related is page one. i can dig up the imgur if you like or unload here. you can also decline politely or not lol.

I kind of want to make a blog comic about telling your inner demons to fuck off and give advice on how to exercise and how to make yourself more socially capable and how to improve yourself without being preachy about it.

At the same time I suspect that a comic like that might actually legitimately make people mad one way or another.

Because its easy. Instead of actually putting effort into the creation of a world, characters, and ongoing story, its simpler to just look at a thing that happened last week and go "let's make that funny" because chances are that the same thing happened to someone else. You don't have to make a character or even really make a design because the character is you. You don't have to make a story because life made the story for you. All you have to do is spin in it a slightly sarcastic and/or over the top way and boom, done. Its the easiest way of doing comics so of course its the most prolific form of webcomics, which are typically created by complete beginners at worst and industry amateurs at the best.

That and its trendy to be a depressed and unmotivated artist now.

Also don't fall under the trap of listening to a small group of fanboys who say everything you do is perfect or else your art will stagnate horribly.

do you know how many movies and books and songs are about the artist's depression?

here's a hint: IT'S A FUCKING LOT

Your art has improved. That is good.

feel free to unload it or link to imgur, whatever i mean, i guess it is the thread about it. i like the movement and the figure but you need to provide much more detailed sense of place with these shots, it seems cramped.

>tfw old people exist in liminal time

It could work, but most of the time they don't want a solution, or if they did want one, people are different and there's no one perfect solution. They just want something to relate to them and their situation.

For trolling purposes it could be funny, but I can't see how it would be too interesting other than that. Just guides to adulting or something? Not meaning to doubt you, senpai, but you'd have to be pretty clever and witty to make that come off as something other than dead boring or preachy.

You know what the solution to this shit is? You gotta get addicted to drugs, but then only do them once a month. Then the other 29 days inch by agonizingly slowly as you wait out the time before the next big hit.

No that's the jewish comedian with the new show called Problematic who's on comedy central.

only certain women can pull it off

i think you might be onto something!

Does he claim to be a white man?

thank you, been working on it. not improving enough I feel.

that's going to be a problem with these lol. That's something I'll make sure to keep in mind going forward though, thank you!

found the link, I don't want to shit up the thread so here's the rest.

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Aint even fucking with ya I've been abusing prescription meds since I was 16.

the authors are too depressed and unmotivated to make something more original

That's almost as good as Marvel's official art. It just needs thinner lines so you can fit in more detail.

You are not stupid.

I want to fuck that autist

I guess maybe the art could be a selling point, like instead of some doodley cute comic it's this extreme masculine thing with rocky vibes of self improvement and hard work.

Make the comic less about being relatable in mediocrity as much as a punk rock ish feeling of anger and energy. Make it about identifying the self destructive stuff people do and make some commentary on how our society and peers prey on those weaknesses while having an avatar that works up from being a hyper omega to a hyper Chad or something.

Make things obfuscated by society into more pragmatic goals, make emotions not into something thst dominates you, but something you can understand and Influence biologically. Give people hard facts , share why old traditional wisdom actually is practical.

Basically make it one giant motivational speech.

Question is what to avoid to not make it an annoying preach fest

Normies can relate to it.

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i dunno, that why i haven't done a webcomic

Few more years I'll be able to draw Hellcat!

It's called humblebragging; you bitch about how awful your life is publicly for social capital

We live in a social media hell where anyone who would brag about their privileges (monetary or social, whether or not the person earned them or not) would get torn in half because they didn't remember how there are starving children in Africa

So you brag about how shit your life is for sympathy

This comic is true. Like a good quarter of autistic girls are fucking hot. That peanut butter girl for example.

Its a fucking trend right now, these people dont know what depression is and they never will
>DUDE IM SO DEPRESSED RIGHT NOW LOL KMS DESU SENPAI
ugh.

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I don't get it

True, but we have to start blaming "This Generation" because blaming others is a fun as hell past time and we have to blame them for something.

But yeah, this shit's been going on for centuries, blaming the younger generation for actions that's been going on for decades.

You make this thread like every week.

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Because this generation has it worse off economically than the previous ones.