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I've been considering one on SNP as a whole, but she really doesn't have enough content outside her comics to warrant it. A lot of it would be going "look at how incredibly stupid and dangerous her writing is" over and over again without much focus on the author herself because she mostly sticks to Comicfury and the Nuzlocke Forums (both places that would do much better off with threads of their own instead of as containment for SNP).
If she does something particularly outrageous (say, acts on that constant underage flirting she's putting in Pipe Up!) then I won't hesitate, but for now this thread is probably a better place to put it.
I somewhat agree on the other points you made, however I can't say that the story being told backwards would make this comic any better lol. It's been such a disastrous and insane introduction that no twist could fix it, and even "taking this seriously" as you recommend would be done far too late for it to matter. It's very clear that the author genuinely sympathizes with these people to the point of worship and I have a hard time believing she has the balls to scare away her small audience of vulnerable kids to tell them that this is actually very dangerous and a serious mental disorder by the end of it.
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As for the usual Comicfury insanity, I've got a fucking hefty example today. Unfortunately, I cannot go through all of it myself because it's currently sitting at over 1.1k panels, and even 10 panels of this comic is too much for me to take.
"what happens next will shock you" is what happens when you give a deranged true crime fangirl a comic and tell her that she's free to say literally anything within it.
The entire cast is some flavor of gay, troon, or gay troon with zero exceptions save for the villains (of course) + the murder victims the plot is partially about, and it has the worst art style I have seen in some time. (The text looks like this on every single page. Sorry about your retinas.)
The comic almost entirely consists of shot-reverse shot-shot of people crying and moaning about how the main character, an accomplice to a murder, is completely innocent and doesn't deserve the terrible life she's been given (one with loving parents and a stable friend group, only slightly tarnished by the fact that she helped murder two people and is rightfully getting backlash for it) while smoking out of bongs, posting on tumblr, and crying about the Kiwifarms.
For an idea of how most of this comic goes, here's an early scene from the first chapter addressing the murder:
Take away the Zoom framing, add more shitty coloring, clog up about half the panel with nonstop WORDS and you have most of this comic in a nutshell.
It thinks it's very smart and artsy for intercutting tumblr posts with Zoom interviews with actual real-life talking and making its characters smoke, cuss, and cut themselves a lot. It tries to set up this quirky cast of loveable people but forgets not to make them all total dicks, then ignores all these problems to make them go smoke pot some more and ruminate on how murder isn't so bad if you were "tricked", actually. It is nothing but tell, with all the "show" being meaningless and useless to the plot, and the first 100 or so panels are just talking about what happened in insufferable tumblrspeak and crying about how the main character gets annoying DMs sometimes. The character is supposed to be sympathized-with through MLP episodes and SanRio vent art.
What makes me the most concerned is that the main character seems to be an author self-insert.
"Maximumgraves" (Twitter, tumblr, Bluesky, Instagram, Twitch; all archived) is a transmasculine 23 year old true crime fan who was homeschooled as a kid, is a fan of My Little Pony and collects the figures to put on her dresser, and generally does every single thing Milo does down to the impotent whining and smoking pot. She's even dodged the question of whether the comic was based off a real crime case before, even hinting at personal involvement in it, which is the most concerning part by far.
Someone like this self-inserting into a comic and being painfully unoriginal in writing their characters or plot isn't the concern here, it's the fact that the author is not immediately denying her own possible involvement in a crime. The fact that she did not immediately go "no, this comic was not inspired by any kind of real murder" is concerning, even if there's a decent chance she's just faking this for attention. I really hope she is, because I can easily see someone this insane committing a crime and then making a comic whining about how murderers are treated to siphon sympathy out of clueless teenagers.
(comments from underneath a panel in which the main character's dad expresses sorrow for the state of his womanchild)
I'm scratching the tip of the iceberg here, seriously, and can't bring myself to look through more of this shit because it disgusts me on a deep level and the art makes my eyes burn. I'll just throw up a few choice panels below and call it a day from here on out because this comic is too bad for me to tolerate.
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