That's not frustration with capitalism, that is frustration with self being inadequate to succeed. He recognizes his own flaws, not perceived flaws with the system.
They usually project onto socialists
If you're poor and mad at the system, you're just jealous. If you're rich and managed to get good at capitalism but still think the system is still unjust, you're a hypocrite. There's no winning with a cultist like him, they just want to defend capitalism
He has a few moments, but being a lolcow means that you could cure cancer and people would still find a reason to say you did something cringe
Not defending him but I never understood the obsession with him
I was, if 2012 counts. I still didn't get it. I don't care about Zelda lore or him not liking football, or being a cartoongay that hates anime. I will at least admit that him having the aspirations of being a good cartoonist and just never getting anywhere out of laziness is an interesting trainwreck, but not enough for me to call him chris chan. Just kinda funny and sad.
He was a self-important nobody who saw fit to use his soapbox for virtue signaling and complaining about the world not going his way for absolutely no reason.
He just had that lolcow energy of a born victim who is too lazy to amount to much and too plugged in to just shut up and do his thing.
The hatred against him was already there before he started doing political commentary
Making comics about your very disagreeable opinions usually does the trick. He was just that perfect mix of opinionated, oblivious and wrong.
It was just autism. His inability to function in an anime club because people want to watch contemporary stuff and didn't like what he considered classics shows an inability to adapt or just have fun outside his narrow comfort zone.
He was a self-important nobody who saw fit to use his soapbox for virtue signaling and complaining about the world not going his way for absolutely no reason.
He just had that lolcow energy of a born victim who is too lazy to amount to much and too plugged in to just shut up and do his thing.
Honestly at this point my theory is that the continued obsession with him is that he's the cow that got away.
If you look at a lot of other lolcows they either keep on keeping on until they just up and die, or burn out quick and people move on. Dobson was one of the A tier lolcows who kept on providing new shit to mock him for on a near daily basis for over a decade, and he constantly kept upping the ante. But at his height, he just vanished: stopped posting without a final burnout, no trace no grand finale. And that left a lot of trolls deeply unsatisfied, so now they feel compelled to keep poking the bear (pun intended) in the vain hope he comes back.
Honestly, it’s kind of admirable that he walked away.
I wasn't even aware that he left. The worst thing about lolcow culture is when they obsess over a guy who clearly just finally closed his eyes and went outside
>he belong to us
Stop with that self-aggrandizing larping bullshit, talking as if you were an anime villain or some shit. The majority of you picked on Dobson because Cinemaphile told you it was the fun and hype thing to do, it was fricking panurgism all this time.Deep inside,you're not really offended by Dobson worst takes or his more mediocre art, deep inside you dont give a shit about Dobson entire repertoire, you just wanted a squeeze toy that doesnt fight back too much.
All of you arent evil mastermind, plotting elaborate schemes to play with your prey,you're autists who keep screenshots of some looser who couldnt make a career in comics.
Dobson didn't become a lolcow just because he had weird opinions on video games, hated sports, drew inflation porn, and couldn't tell when to stop oversharing online. Countless people did some combination of those to far larger extremes and for far longer periods of time and still got completely ignored. He won the lolcow lottery because, before he was a lolcow, he was a success.
These metrics seem meaningless now, but they were reasonably impressive at the time. He was getting around 1,000,000 pageviews on DeviantArt per year. For an on-site comparison, that put him in leagues with Bleedman. For an off-site comparison, that meant his fanbase was 1/10 of Penny Arcade's. He had an almost perpetually full set of commission slots with a waitlist and was monetizing very well at a point where that was a lot harder to do than it is today. Any day he posted a new So.... You're A Cartoonist?, it was guaranteed to hit the front page of DeviantArt and bleed out into the rest of the Internet.
Everything else was inevitable from there. If you're blasting your opinions out of that big of a megaphone, people that aren't your fans are going to be forced to hear them, too, and they're going to save them to shitpost about later. Happens all the time, like with Bike Cuck, and an artist can even recover from it if they stay humble and ride it out. Bike cuck owned up to how silly his opinion was and people quit giving him as much of a hard time. Even Tim Buckley stopped getting hate once he finally buckled down and started working on his art again. Dobson never did that and never backed down from anything, right up until he backed down from everything. Inertia takes a long time to fall off.
Interesting, that put things into perspective. You know I kind of missed the whole Dobson thing never heard of him until he already was off the internet. I don't even know where to find the stuff he made outside of the comics people re post to poke fun at him. Anyone knows where I can read that webcomic I'm kind of curious?
If there's an image archive somewhere, I haven't come across it. He existed before the modern day practice of autistic haters cataloguing everything you make for the benefit of future generations, and by the time that became a thing, he'd been around for so long that no one thought he'd ever torpedo his own stuff. It looks like you can get decently far back through the Wayback Machine, at least, as long as you don't mind the load times and the spotty coverage, but I've only found back to 2011.
https://web.archive.org/web/20151208132733/http://www.syacartoonist.com/comic/9-11
We laugh at him, but he got out. You know his name but will probably never hear from him again. I think he was an obnoxious prick, but I genuinely hope he finds happiness
Rare chuckle from the Son of Dob.
If Dobson actually fricked off (as opposed to dying or getting jailed) then I'm proud of him.
Also knowing what he sounds like makes me interpret his comics differently. It takes a lot of the bite out of his bullshit
This has that same energy of the furry webcomic artist that got a divorce and on story erased the husband on her comic and spend a good chuck gaslighting her OC into hate him.
They have such a one-sided parasocial relationship with Dobson, it's disgusting. It's baffling for someone like me who somehow avoided stumbling into his art back in 2012. I think i saw a couple of his artwork on the main page but that wasnt my cup of tea. I repeat myself but i cant understate how creepy this obsession for him is.I see all those anons who seemingly painstalkingly archive everything he does like he was Chris Chan but the thing he's not Chris Chan. Andrew Dobson is fricking nothing. He didnt run someone over with a car or drink his booger juice or something. He.Just.Made.Milquetoast.Comics.
Also i dont know how to call this phenomenon but it's very clear reading all the Dobson threads that this guy could write a comic on how it's important to stay hydrated during a heat wave, everyone will jump on him and tell him he is wrong about everything. It's like that South Park episode when everyone is ganging up on Britney Spears and make up reasons to bash her on tv except it's over an amateur cartoonist
Let's be honest, that time doesn't exist
This in particular is more sad than funny
I don't get it.
It represents the socialist frustration with those succeeding under capitalism. Dobson is wealthy but not as wealthy as he wants and resents that.
That sounds like capitalist frustration. Max (hotdiggedydemon) is anti-socialist and has the same frustration.
>Max (hotdiggedydemon) is anti-socialist
Maybe Old Max. Not so sure about new Max
That's not frustration with capitalism, that is frustration with self being inadequate to succeed. He recognizes his own flaws, not perceived flaws with the system.
They usually project onto socialists
If you're poor and mad at the system, you're just jealous. If you're rich and managed to get good at capitalism but still think the system is still unjust, you're a hypocrite. There's no winning with a cultist like him, they just want to defend capitalism
Dobson was pretty much a LOLCOW artist from what I know.
As for the image, it shows frustration with the grind for art, and how Dobson himself can draw happy characters but not be happy at all.
He doesn't like how he made his creation happier than he is
Just say you think something sucks instead of pretending you don't get it.
It's self deprecating humor but you have to take it serious because he's a designated lolcow
He has a few moments, but being a lolcow means that you could cure cancer and people would still find a reason to say you did something cringe
Not defending him but I never understood the obsession with him
Had to be there
I was, if 2012 counts. I still didn't get it. I don't care about Zelda lore or him not liking football, or being a cartoongay that hates anime. I will at least admit that him having the aspirations of being a good cartoonist and just never getting anywhere out of laziness is an interesting trainwreck, but not enough for me to call him chris chan. Just kinda funny and sad.
The hatred against him was already there before he started doing political commentary
Making comics about your very disagreeable opinions usually does the trick. He was just that perfect mix of opinionated, oblivious and wrong.
I'm still not convinced he and movie bob aren't the same person. Because the thought of two people out their like that is distressing.
There are so many, many more fat, obnoxious losers who are into media and cannot deal with people disagreeing.
It was just autism. His inability to function in an anime club because people want to watch contemporary stuff and didn't like what he considered classics shows an inability to adapt or just have fun outside his narrow comfort zone.
He was a self-important nobody who saw fit to use his soapbox for virtue signaling and complaining about the world not going his way for absolutely no reason.
He just had that lolcow energy of a born victim who is too lazy to amount to much and too plugged in to just shut up and do his thing.
Honestly at this point my theory is that the continued obsession with him is that he's the cow that got away.
If you look at a lot of other lolcows they either keep on keeping on until they just up and die, or burn out quick and people move on. Dobson was one of the A tier lolcows who kept on providing new shit to mock him for on a near daily basis for over a decade, and he constantly kept upping the ante. But at his height, he just vanished: stopped posting without a final burnout, no trace no grand finale. And that left a lot of trolls deeply unsatisfied, so now they feel compelled to keep poking the bear (pun intended) in the vain hope he comes back.
Honestly, it’s kind of admirable that he walked away.
I wasn't even aware that he left. The worst thing about lolcow culture is when they obsess over a guy who clearly just finally closed his eyes and went outside
Wow that is funny. Vongratulations Dobson.
>Honestly at this point my theory is that the continued obsession with him is that he's the cow that got away.
He's been out to pasture too long but he beongs to us. They all do, forever and ever.
Touch grass
grass are dirty, yo.
>he belong to us
Stop with that self-aggrandizing larping bullshit, talking as if you were an anime villain or some shit. The majority of you picked on Dobson because Cinemaphile told you it was the fun and hype thing to do, it was fricking panurgism all this time.Deep inside,you're not really offended by Dobson worst takes or his more mediocre art, deep inside you dont give a shit about Dobson entire repertoire, you just wanted a squeeze toy that doesnt fight back too much.
All of you arent evil mastermind, plotting elaborate schemes to play with your prey,you're autists who keep screenshots of some looser who couldnt make a career in comics.
Dobson didn't become a lolcow just because he had weird opinions on video games, hated sports, drew inflation porn, and couldn't tell when to stop oversharing online. Countless people did some combination of those to far larger extremes and for far longer periods of time and still got completely ignored. He won the lolcow lottery because, before he was a lolcow, he was a success.
These metrics seem meaningless now, but they were reasonably impressive at the time. He was getting around 1,000,000 pageviews on DeviantArt per year. For an on-site comparison, that put him in leagues with Bleedman. For an off-site comparison, that meant his fanbase was 1/10 of Penny Arcade's. He had an almost perpetually full set of commission slots with a waitlist and was monetizing very well at a point where that was a lot harder to do than it is today. Any day he posted a new So.... You're A Cartoonist?, it was guaranteed to hit the front page of DeviantArt and bleed out into the rest of the Internet.
Everything else was inevitable from there. If you're blasting your opinions out of that big of a megaphone, people that aren't your fans are going to be forced to hear them, too, and they're going to save them to shitpost about later. Happens all the time, like with Bike Cuck, and an artist can even recover from it if they stay humble and ride it out. Bike cuck owned up to how silly his opinion was and people quit giving him as much of a hard time. Even Tim Buckley stopped getting hate once he finally buckled down and started working on his art again. Dobson never did that and never backed down from anything, right up until he backed down from everything. Inertia takes a long time to fall off.
>Bike Cuck owned up to how silly his opinion was
Sounds like a cuck move. I hate bowing down to internet strangers
> He had an almost perpetually full set of commission slots with a waitlist
Were boomers moronic? And they say AI is killing art.
Interesting, that put things into perspective. You know I kind of missed the whole Dobson thing never heard of him until he already was off the internet. I don't even know where to find the stuff he made outside of the comics people re post to poke fun at him. Anyone knows where I can read that webcomic I'm kind of curious?
If there's an image archive somewhere, I haven't come across it. He existed before the modern day practice of autistic haters cataloguing everything you make for the benefit of future generations, and by the time that became a thing, he'd been around for so long that no one thought he'd ever torpedo his own stuff. It looks like you can get decently far back through the Wayback Machine, at least, as long as you don't mind the load times and the spotty coverage, but I've only found back to 2011.
https://web.archive.org/web/20151208132733/http://www.syacartoonist.com/comic/9-11
of all bear designs to go with for his OC, why on God's green Earth did he decide to look like one of those Charmin ass wiping bears??
Post more dobson.
He's inspiring (you know in what way)
>20 years later
>we still talking about him
He was the best of us.
at this point, the autists and trolls that are obsessed with him are even more pathetic than he is...
Pic not related
We laugh at him, but he got out. You know his name but will probably never hear from him again. I think he was an obnoxious prick, but I genuinely hope he finds happiness
Ngl, I find myself giving characters a neutral to sad expression most of the time, hell I made a comic where the main character haven't once smiled
Rare chuckle from the Son of Dob.
If Dobson actually fricked off (as opposed to dying or getting jailed) then I'm proud of him.
Also knowing what he sounds like makes me interpret his comics differently. It takes a lot of the bite out of his bullshit
the closest i can describe to how i hear his voice when reading these comics is a slightly deeper jason alexander, but its not intentional
>miserable self-hating frick gets the urge to virtue signal in public every so often.
This has that same energy of the furry webcomic artist that got a divorce and on story erased the husband on her comic and spend a good chuck gaslighting her OC into hate him.
Susan Deer?
His diary stories were funny
>Oh no, a crab is gonna escape the bucket!
LMAO Anon, you live a sad life
They have such a one-sided parasocial relationship with Dobson, it's disgusting. It's baffling for someone like me who somehow avoided stumbling into his art back in 2012. I think i saw a couple of his artwork on the main page but that wasnt my cup of tea. I repeat myself but i cant understate how creepy this obsession for him is.I see all those anons who seemingly painstalkingly archive everything he does like he was Chris Chan but the thing he's not Chris Chan. Andrew Dobson is fricking nothing. He didnt run someone over with a car or drink his booger juice or something. He.Just.Made.Milquetoast.Comics.
Also i dont know how to call this phenomenon but it's very clear reading all the Dobson threads that this guy could write a comic on how it's important to stay hydrated during a heat wave, everyone will jump on him and tell him he is wrong about everything. It's like that South Park episode when everyone is ganging up on Britney Spears and make up reasons to bash her on tv except it's over an amateur cartoonist