Inactive Andrew Dobson / Tom Preston / CattyN - STOP DOING SEXIST CRAP

I'm going to say that a big part of the reason why there aren't lolcows 'like in the good ole days' is because the Internet and lolcow culture have grown so much. Most people with threads here have acknowledged the concept in some capacity so they self police. Only bonafide degenerates produce enough to be considered true lolcows. The self-righteous/sociopath a-log question. All these boxes are open and consequences will never be the same.
I think a bigger part of the problem is that as time goes on and the internet has expanded, it has become clear that lolcows aren't a unique phenomenon when it comes to internet users the way we used to view it. It is more a result of the internet itself. It reminds me of two twitter posts I have seen over the last couple of days.
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While there are people who are naturally severe eccentrics in life, I think a lot more of the population are NPCs who will become whatever society shaped and programmed them to be. Very few people are capable of avoiding the ills, pitfalls and programming forced on them by modern society. Society only follows those who lead it, if you have a healthy and stable pack doing it then you get far more stable human beings. Have a dysfunctional pack leading it and you get far more dysfunctional people following suit.

For the internet, I feel that it has become evident that a lot of normies can't navigate it properly and are cursed to fall down all the bad rabbit holes that cows have always been known to do. While a lot of older cows were natural eccentrics venturing out online, it turns out a lot of people can become eccentric when spending time online.

Being a cow isn't so much about whether or not you're an eccentric person who likes to be online as much as it is if you're a person who has the capability to avoid becoming one when you're online.
 
I think a bigger part of the problem is that as time goes on and the internet has expanded, it has become clear that lolcows aren't a unique phenomenon when it comes to internet users the way we used to view it. It is more a result of the internet itself. It reminds me of two twitter posts I have seen over the last couple of days.
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While there are people who are naturally severe eccentrics in life, I think a lot more of the population are NPCs who will become whatever society shaped and programmed them to be. Very few people are capable of avoiding the ills, pitfalls and programming forced on them by modern society. Society only follows those who lead it, if you have a healthy and stable pack doing it then you get far more stable human beings. Have a dysfunctional pack leading it and you get far more dysfunctional people following suit.

For the internet, I feel that it has become evident that a lot of normies can't navigate it properly and are cursed to fall down all the bad rabbit holes that cows have always been known to do. While a lot of older cows were natural eccentrics venturing out online, it turns out a lot of people can become eccentric when spending time online.

Being a cow isn't so much about whether or not you're an eccentric person who likes to be online as much as it is if you're a person who has the capability to avoid becoming one when you're online.
Just to be clear, you saw those two tweets and thought that they were extremely retarded, right?
 
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If you actually fall for this you're retarded. This doesn't look like how Dobson draws at all. Now it's possible he's degraded in his absence but there's things just fundamentally off.
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Take this random blue bear era comic for example. Notice how in each one Dobbear isn't drawn in a totally stiff straight pose and there's always a bit of intentional asymmetry to the drawing? Dobson might be a bad artist but he's classically trained and those are Preston Blair fundamentals he would've no doubt studied in his college years.
 
If you actually fall for this you're retarded. This doesn't look like how Dobson draws at all. Now it's possible he's degraded in his absence but there's things just fundamentally off.
Point taken, but: He had some talent but was also often lazy with his drawings, nothing is stopping him from devolving artistically. And this is one panel with his character.

I'm still on the fence if this is actually Dobson or not, but we may need more than just the stupid bear standing still.
 
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If you actually fall for this you're retarded. This doesn't look like how Dobson draws at all. Now it's possible he's degraded in his absence but there's things just fundamentally off.
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Take this random blue bear era comic for example. Notice how in each one Dobbear isn't drawn in a totally stiff straight pose and there's always a bit of intentional asymmetry to the drawing? Dobson might be a bad artist but he's classically trained and those are Preston Blair fundamentals he would've no doubt studied in his college years.
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Forearm twice the length of the upper arm, and the coffee cup looks like he just pasted it on the layer below.
...so something Dobson would absolutely do.

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Maybe I'm just crazy, but for a minute I saw this as a crossed out kiwi.
 
I know this is likely fake and gay.

But I want to believe. I want Blockor the Bluebearian back.

I agree, for one thing I don't think he'd draw his bear stand in as morbidly obese (Unless it's a silhouette of the character pointing his finger directly at the screen or something):
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But if it is Dobson some things never change:
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Going full retard: That siluette is him before a death star, not his fursona being fat.

He had been silent because he had been hired for Disney and now he has been laid off. Not as an artist, but he was a low level janitor or something.
 
Dobson is infamously bad at hands and arms but he's bad in a particular way. That arm doesn't look like a Dobson arm. The shading also feels like it's trying too hard to be "realistic" in its form with the attempt to define the bumps of the wrist bone. If you look at the old comic I posted all of his shading follow simple forms.
Agreed, 100%. This is a gayop. Every decent artist has a style or "tell" and, whatever we can say about Dobson, he had a style. I also agree with @Lupin The Turd about the rigidity. Dobson did follow certain cartoon and animation fundamentals drilled into people at art school. It's not the kind of stuff that artists just forget. For all his foibles, Dobson did understand how to be good - he was just too lazy to commit. He took shortcuts.
 
Blueskeeters and Twittards trying to not be themselves for one fucking day:
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No McDonald's Friday this week.
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Economic Boycott? Sounds retarded but whatever.

...unless it's Disneyslop, "Dobson" still can't help himself there.
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If this guy is a fake, he at least gets the hypocrisy down.

That being posted by Patton Oswalt makes it way funnier than any of his "I'm a fat nerd" jokes.

iirc she died from an overdose after swallowing a whole cocktail of drugs that may or may not have been supplied by him.
He wanted to replace her like his old Kenner Stars War dolls
 
I expected better of some of you. Missing Dobson or not, you should have been way more wary of his “sudden return” and immediately expected fake and gay.

I’m actually disappointed the fake-Dobson didn’t put more effort into copying Dobson style. I expect a more convincing but still obvious fake. Dude couldn’t even get the text right.
 
I expected better of some of you. Missing Dobson or not, you should have been way more wary of his “sudden return” and immediately expected fake and gay.

I’m actually disappointed the fake-Dobson didn’t put more effort into copying Dobson style. I expect a more convincing but still obvious fake. Dude couldn’t even get the text right.
You are right, but you shouldn't shame people for being optimistic.
 
If you actually fall for this you're retarded. This doesn't look like how Dobson draws at all. Now it's possible he's degraded in his absence but there's things just fundamentally off.
that does look like an older version of the Blue Bear - which wore glasses - but if it's someone trying to copy dobson's (old) style, yeah that would be a red flag for a faker.
 
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