Posted on Monday, 10 February 2014

shittywebcomics: So, funny story, I just got blocked from commenting on Shortpacked. I wrote my very first comment on his comic “Comprised Manhood” under the alias “SingSong”. I sadly made the mistake of posting criticism. A fatal error. I noticed the very poor connection between the set up and punch line, the unrealistic flow of the conversation that brought up transgenders out of nowhere, and of course, that classic problem of not having a funny punch line, but a revenge fantasy at the end that I called childish. For my efforts David Willis himself commented on my comment, I was both impressed and delighted. He even called me charmed, which seemed like a pleasant beginning to a reply to me. Strangely enough, “charmed” is apparently a code phrase for “naive idiot that knows nothing about life and hardships”. A rookie mistake on my part, I can only assume. Afterwards he reassured me that what happened in the comic was based on real life events, and that was enough to justify the poor conversation flow. And of course it also made the joke funny. Because real and true things are always funny, just look at math problems. After this he chided me for saying that transgendered people never get insulted. I was shocked, I was appalled. How could I? Had I entered some sort of Jekyll and Hyde state where a dark and unknown part of me had been spouting slurs and lies without my knowledge? I heard that can happen to the best of us. So I rechecked my comment and saw that I had made no such claims. With a reassured heart I decided that the first thing I would do in my reply was to make clear that it was just a misunderstanding. Surely David Willis had misread some part of my comment. He would not willfully misinterpreted my words to paint me in a bad light, would he? No he wouldn’t. That would be silly and dishonest. He ended with telling me to get off his website. Well, I thought to myself, I’ll just make myself more clear in the reply and explain him why his comic just wasn’t funny. I poured my heart, sweat, blood and tears into that reply for about twenty minutes. As gleeful and blissfully unaware as Lennie Small thinking about the rabbits I got ready to post my reply.     I was blocked from commenting. No warning, no bail, just a straight up ban. For my very first comment. I never felt prouder in my life.

shittywebcomics:

So, funny story, I just got blocked from commenting on Shortpacked.

I wrote my very first comment on his comic “Comprised Manhood” under the alias “SingSong”. I sadly made the mistake of posting criticism. A fatal error.

I noticed the very poor connection between the set up and punch line, the unrealistic flow of the conversation that brought up transgenders out of nowhere, and of course, that classic problem of not having a funny punch line, but a revenge fantasy at the end that I called childish.

For my efforts David Willis himself commented on my comment, I was both impressed and delighted. He even called me charmed, which seemed like a pleasant beginning to a reply to me. Strangely enough, “charmed” is apparently a code phrase for “naive idiot that knows nothing about life and hardships”. A rookie mistake on my part, I can only assume.

Afterwards he reassured me that what happened in the comic was based on real life events, and that was enough to justify the poor conversation flow. And of course it also made the joke funny. Because real and true things are always funny, just look at math problems.

After this he chided me for saying that transgendered people never get insulted. I was shocked, I was appalled. How could I? Had I entered some sort of Jekyll and Hyde state where a dark and unknown part of me had been spouting slurs and lies without my knowledge? I heard that can happen to the best of us. So I rechecked my comment and saw that I had made no such claims.

With a reassured heart I decided that the first thing I would do in my reply was to make clear that it was just a misunderstanding. Surely David Willis had misread some part of my comment. He would not willfully misinterpreted my words to paint me in a bad light, would he? No he wouldn’t. That would be silly and dishonest.

He ended with telling me to get off his website. Well, I thought to myself, I’ll just make myself more clear in the reply and explain him why his comic just wasn’t funny. I poured my heart, sweat, blood and tears into that reply for about twenty minutes. As gleeful and blissfully unaware as Lennie Small thinking about the rabbits I got ready to post my reply.    

I was blocked from commenting. No warning, no bail, just a straight up ban. For my very first comment.

I never felt prouder in my life.

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