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Trying to piss off "the chuds" like 9 months after Oney and most people moved on from New Guy is peak left-wing meme skill.
Artcow Manic Pixie Nightmare Girls / Mallorie Jessica Udischas-Trojan / Jesse William Trojan / Jessica Udischas / SweetBeans99 - Total Bitch Who Supports Shoplifting and Looting; Creator of New Guy, the First Meme of the 2020's
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It took her ten months to finally cool down from her massive butthurt over being turned into a meme.
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In searching for a link to this to listen to, I bumped into an older medium article about Jess instead:
An LGBT Artist Under Siege From All Sides
SweetBeans99 Did Nothing Wrong — So Why All the Hate?
Laura Reyna
Jun 6 · 5 min read
One of Sweetbeans99’s original characters. A self-insert at the center of the new controversy.
Mallorie Jessica Udischas, a.k.a. SweetBeans99, is no stranger to targeted harassment campaigns by the alt-right and fake leftist bootlickers. As a prominent non-binary (she/her/they/them) gay artist, she’s had slings and arrows thrown her way before. Now as 2020 enters the second quarter it looks like she’s being hit again, this time even worse.
A selfie of Mallorie, from her Twitter.
The year of 2020 began with her being attacked for her New Guy comic, where she took joy in seeing anti-Semitic YouTuber PewDiePie robbed. His fans objected so they mobbed her. Now many of those same reprobates are clutching their pearls and accusing her of “supporting shoplifting.” In question is a new three-part comic she released starring one of her original characters getting art block, going to an art store based on major national chain Blick’s, stealing supplies, and returning home without consequence.
A lot of the reactions to her drawings have consisted of awful art replies. One promoted Hobby Lobby, the infamous anti-LGBT group that has funded ISIS. Another compares her to literal Nazi comic artist Stonetoss. There are even pornographic takes on the comic, where the main character — a stand-in for the artist — is explicitly raped in “revenge” for her actions. That’s made even worse by the common knowledge that Mallorie is both trans and a lesbian, making her being violated by male characters an explicit transphobic and homophobic attack, with corrective rape mixed in. I’ve chosen not to link to these to avoid giving the bigots who made them free publicity.
Most of this toxicity is similar to the reaction against New Guy, which also had response art themed around violence against women, rape threats against the artist, and overt white supremacist views. However, this time, the attacks have done far more damage. Mallorie’s Ko-Fi — a major source of funds since she’s become a full-time artist — has been mass flagged and shut down. Hopefully this is only temporary.
Most of the criticisms are aimed at how the comic appears to endorse shoplifting. This misses the comic’s resolution. At the end of the comic, the main character is left still unsure what to do. The theft and excursion did nothing to address the real issue: art block. (A feeling a writer can easily understand.) As Mallorie herself says, “She’s a character who wanted something, made a flawed choice, then didn’t get what she was looking for in the end. It’s not glorifying or condemning at all. It’s just showing a thing that happens.”
Separate from this is the necessary debate on the ethics of shoplifting. As one reader commented, “Stealing from big chains is praxis,” to which Mallorie agreed. People tried arguing that employees would be fired if people stole — but that doesn’t happen. As Mallorie said, “I’ve worked retail most of my life. Nobody gets fired because a rando stole merch.”
At stores like Dillard’s, Harbor Freight Tools, Fry’s, and other major chains, employees are specifically instructed not to confront shoplifters. Retail workers are fired for stopping theft, not for having it happen under their watch. It shows how none of the critics of Mallorie’s comic have themselves worked in retail. They attack her because they have no connection to the actual working class. It proves their inherent bad faith and makes a mockery of any attempts at “discourse” with them.
“Some of y’all should be ashamed of yourself.” — Mallorie Jessica Udischas
Mallorie’s comic avatar she uses on her Facebook page.
But as Mallorie herself has said, it’s not the alt-right going after her that has her the most saddened. It’s “the queer folks and cartoonists and so-called progressive who are pouring the gasoline here.” She summarizes what happened thusly: “Literal Nazis started a coordinated harassment campaign and many folks had to have a discourse tearing each other apart coming up with ‘valid criticism’ against me and my little comic like this kid [sp] of shit hasn’t led to the suicide of others in the past.”
Quinton Reviews, for example, started out supporting her and liked the comic. He then backtracked shortly after, bootlicking to the public when the heat got too much. Proof that his support for LGBT comic creators only goes as far as he doesn’t get any criticism for it. Alternate History Hub mocked Mallorie outright, writing, “‘I live in a comfortable bubble and got away with crimes in my suburban neighborhood. Haha aint [sp] that progressive and quirky.’” He also claimed — falsely — that “stealing stuff isnt [sp] some political action.”
SqrlyJack’s cryptofascist propaganda, tied into the the attacks on Mallorie.
One of the worst art responses — so offensive it’s worth replicating here to marvel at its horror — comes from cryptofascist SqrlyJack. Their piece is nominally intended to be a show of support for Sweetbeans99, but on closer inspection, this falls apart. They twist the original character of the comic into a twisted demonic parody, clearly mocking Sweetbeans99 in the process. They clad the main character proclaiming Mallorie’s innocence in a Nazi uniform.
In the image, you can see a clear alt-right meme: Xi Jinping portrayed as Winnie the Pooh. This meme originated in China from anti-Communists. In the west, it was popularized by the alt-right as a way to mock President Xi in support of Trump. Using Winnie the Pooh as a reference to Xi Jinping is a racist dog whistle.
SqrlyJack has prior involvement with QuQu on a podcast. QuQu is a well-known leader of the “alt-furry” movement. Those are furries who support fascism and endorse committing violence against citizen groups like ANTIFA, BAMN, and the DSA. SqrlyJack is clearly a cryptofascist — likely with ties to 4chan — creating propaganda that they claim supports communism but in fact is designed to subvert and mock it.
Mallorie’s current Twitter profile picture.
The good news is that despite the targeted harassment from the alt-right and people on the left revealing themselves as bootlickers, the comic itself has been a success for Mallorie. As of the time of this writing, it has over 15,000 likes, 2000 retweets, and around 3,700 comments. Any attempt the Nazis made to “ratio” her failed utterly, as the Internet overwhelmingly supported her comic and its message.
What can you do to help? Mallorie’s Patreon is still alive and well. You can sign up there to support her in these trying times. You can also follow her on Twitter and like her page on Facebook.
“Be crimes, do gay.”
Originally published at http://queeratxlaura.wordpress.com on June 7, 2020.
Oh, and the actual Pro Crastinators podcast for those with enough self-hate to listen:
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New Guy is a trans man, pro-union democratic socialist. He believes in treating everyone with respect and workers’ rights. Because he’s confident on himself, he doesn’t feel the need to wave his trans status as a weapon. Be a New Guy, not a Jess.
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Holy fuck, could that article be any more of a caricature? It reads like a satirical word cloud of some retarded Twitter account.
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It's really easy to get behind New Guy no matter who you are. I'm a fucking degenerate Socialist SJW piece of shit but Mallorie really just seems to want to be celebrated for her bad behavior, and uses whatever she thinks she can leverage against other people to ATTEMPT to make herself seem good.
Pewdiepie is a Nazi, that's bad, so it's okay when he gets robbed, she thinks. She doesn't understand that finding vicarious happiness at someone else's suffering makes you a bad person.
Hobby Lobby is a very bad company, no argument there, so robbing them is morally justified, she thinks. She doesn't understand that their crimes don't justify her crimes.
It also doesn't help that even after New Guy passes judgment on her actions, he still wants to be friends with her. She did NOT do a good job not making an unsympathetic strawman.
Pewdiepie is a Nazi, that's bad, so it's okay when he gets robbed, she thinks. She doesn't understand that finding vicarious happiness at someone else's suffering makes you a bad person.
Hobby Lobby is a very bad company, no argument there, so robbing them is morally justified, she thinks. She doesn't understand that their crimes don't justify her crimes.
It also doesn't help that even after New Guy passes judgment on her actions, he still wants to be friends with her. She did NOT do a good job not making an unsympathetic strawman.
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You are saying this in forums where we laugh at LOLCows.
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Yeah, but we acknowledge we're not good people.
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Didn't Stealy pinch stuff from a small independent shop?
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Yep! One that's already heavily discounted iirc. Shoplifting's a shitty thing to brag about already, but she didn't even do it against a big evil corporation.
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Referring to the shoplifting dog by her actual name makes this question funnier.
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So the main difference between you and her is that you're not a hypocrite about being a horrible person.
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This is Mallorie inside, I guess.
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It wasn't even Hobby Lobby though. She picked some indie company that probably has a hard time staying in competition with huge chains like Hobby Lobby. It's pure punching down.
Oh god this is a tf fetish isn't it?
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Late response, but maybe Penny is one of those tragically inbred dogs with the super squished-in faces. She could even pass as a cartoon rendition of a Pekingese:
Plus, brachycephalic dogs frequently suffer from respiratory conditions, so that would explain why Penny is at such high risk of kicking it if she comes down with the coof.
BIG DADDY
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I assumed it was supposed to be a Blick’s.
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That's an ANTIFA symbol. These are the people who explicitly call for violence against political dissident (Even pretty milquetoast dissent). They're awful people. Any attempt at "wholesomeness" is fake and meant as a kind of virtue signaling.
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While this is very true, Jess is a Bay Area tranny who thinks stealing is cute and hates people who are different. So Antifa New Guy is about as benign as it gets.
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Antifa New guy is not real New guy, it's his evil twin brother!