Smiling Friends is a toxic show with a toxic message. Now I’m sure we all know this since everyone on Cinemaphile agrees. But the shit smiling friends promotes has literally destroyed people’s mental health with its ableist messaging. It’s up to Cinemaphile as a board to start a petition to Adult Swim to cancel this toxic show for good. And since everyone on Cinemaphile agrees and is on board, it shouldn’t be hard.
Masterbation is good for your mental health, nihilism is good for your mental health. As you can see, Smiling Friends caused a man to have an actual mental breakdown and Cinemaphile had to comfort him.
This is sad
This is sadistic
This is wrong
You cannot make someone be happy. This show promotes toxic positivity, and then precedes to mock better shows that HELP those of us with mental issues (Rick and Morty, Bojack Horseman, Loki, and other shows that are about mental illness and the hopeless void of nihilism)
We must ban together, even if we have to protest, as a board that agrees with one statement, outside of the Adult Swim building.
Do it
Do it for this anon.
Smiling Friends is a disease.
Smiling Friends HURT AN INNOCENT MAN
https://desuarchive.org/co/thread/142620335/#q142620963
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Not a bot. This thread pissed me off when I saw how Zach’s hatred for the mentally ill was effecting mentally Ill people.
Thanks.
I remember when someone told me something along the lines of "I'm sorry that Zach's opinions made you feel that way", and it felt like the most manipulative thing I've been told thus far.
I’m so sorry.
Agreed. We need to start a petition.
>I’m so sorry.
No worries, I too come from a conservative, midwestern background. Zach isn't the only one.
what agenda are this bots following?
Every human has their own agenda.
Bump, agreed. I was in this thread and I’m bipolar myself….this show is disgustingly ableist and Zach is a piece of shit.
I've had a weird feeling since the inception of its pilot that it had a much more insidious goal in mind, but most people tend not to pick up on subtext.
It’s not subtext, it’s doublespeak or something approximating it. The point is to get his point to everyone who can actually pick up on it without providing any evidence that it was intentional, and it worked. He still denies it, but it worked.
>denial
Gee, that seems like a common tactic only the slimiest of slimy people use.
It’s toxic, it’s narcissistic, it’s disgusting. I would love to punch Zach for what he did to this man, myself, and so many others. It makes me want to break down.
>It makes me want to break down.
In my case, it inspires me to flip Hack Zadel's concept on its own head. (Hopefully by becoming the lead character animator on Alan, nyehehehehe...)
On an unrelated side-note, I'm super fricking pissed that they made the only redeemable character anti-homeless.
I’m so glad everyone on Cinemaphile agrees
>It makes me want to break down.
Do it then
>I would love to punch Zach
1. That's violent and unnecessary
2. That's ableist to people without fists or arms.
3. There's nothing toxic about a show revolving around people who want to make others smile.
Smiling Friends is a very poignant commentary on the social climate of the world and addresses many important aspects of modern ideology such as racism, freedom vs security, smegma and privacy.
Sounds like there's a couple people out there that need a smile
The real I Hate Smiling Friends guy stopped posting two years ago. This board is so stupid.
Come on, OP. If you wanna troller, you gotta have some tact.
I’m not reading your gay comming out speech OP, just say you’re gay and suck a dick it’s not a big deal.
What a couple of b***hes
Being mentally ill and triggered doesn’t make you a b***h. Most people on Cinemaphile are on board so leave.
Who are these "most people", are they in the room with us right now?
I was one of those zoomers who got radicalized on Moral Orel, so I got to watch nihilistic toons before they were considered mainstream.
Because you have taste and understand nuance. Smiling Friends is shit
Moral Orel is pro Christianity, but against forced societal indoctrination of outdated and misguided tradition.
Oh right, so it only believes in "good faith" actors? What a croc of corporate shit.
Infograph guy here again to say that I’m embarrassed you homies actually believe this
This is Cinemaphile, where we're extremely inconsistent in our beliefs.
Hey, I’m the guy who started the neopuritan meme, and I wanna say: Please don’t start a petition or try to get SF taken off the air. I don’t respect Zach, but I don’t believe in destroying entertainment media because it’s ignorant of my problems. Zach doesn’t need to wind up broke because of his fratboy douche stuff. I never took it beyond simple mockery for a reason. Petitions don’t work anyway. Just let it die.
No. Zach is hurting people. Just read this thread! We can’t allow it anymore, he caused so much damage to the mental illness and homeless community. Look at all the people he hurt in this thread. We hate Zach, we want the worst to happen to him.
While it's great to be empathetic and fight for a tolerant cause, we also shouldn't give in to tribewar mentality either. It's best that we don't push things further than they have to be pushed.
In other words, twittard mentality was what brought us here in the first place. We can't be united if we're divided, then we're only divided.
i want him to hurt you more, i want him to make you walk off a peir and do a 360 no scope into some rocks, i want him to get out his cat-o-ninetails and whip you, I want him to place you upon the cross, I want him to shove marie antuonette out of the way and put you under the guilotine, I want him to introduce six gorillian giga homies to replace your insides with a wiener sock. I want him to force you to back flip off a chair into a noose, I want him to make you delete your reddit account and join that moron that set himself on fire.
No offense, but you sound like a parasocial parasite.
saw 0 percent of the show and probably 5 random out of context video clips. I will now ad thirty six dicks in your rectum
That's a w for me, I'm a tremendous gay.
I refuse to believe that we can't make the clozapine that op desperately and clearly needs cheap enough for OP to have a prescription available to them at an accessible price.
clozapine? i take trintellix, and it's AMAZING!
Glad it's helping you, but OP clearly needs an antipsychotic, not an atypical antidepressant.
Either or. Maybe both.
>OP clearly needs an antipsychotic
Either that, or they could be in too deep. It's a perspective worth looking into, regardless of your thoughts on SF.
Please don't feed into OP's delusions.
Which is a worse delusion: neopuritan delusion, or moralgay delusion?
>Either that, or they could be in too deep.
Into what, exactly?
I dunno, into every single thing Mike and Zach have ever said? Autists do crazy things, y'know.
It ain't just autism in this case. I think a big chunk of it is unironically schizophrenia or schizo affective disorder. But I'm not a doctor so what do I know.
Perhaps neopuritan-kun is the actual autist, since they managed to whip up an entire infographic.
There is clearly a fixation amongst schizophrenics and bipolars with this show, whether it be the history of the content creators, or the content itself. To be honest, Zach attracts these kinds of people just because of his history with Chris O'Neil and Newgrounds.
>Newgrounds
Thanks, Tom Fap.
I wonder why jerking off psychiatrist propaganda might make people who have had to deal with the American shrink carnival angry
Frick that shit, ASAN clearly knows more about mental health.
I was literally in the process of posting something similar to that. It seems odd doesn't it? Though a simpler explanation might be that in general there's been a rise in people with mental illness in the general population. I shouldn't talk shit being bipolar but it certainly seems on the rise.
I think it's also because more-and-more people are starting to become aware of their own mental health, yet outsiders who don't know any better like to act like they're in the right.
Maybe, but the fixation on Smiling Friends is still peculiar to me. It really seems like just a silly dumb cartoon. Fun but largely innocuous unto itself.
Isolation and lockdowns certainly can exacerbate these kinds of illnesses. Whether they were pre existing or not is another convention that I can only hazard to guess. Speculation that probably would be fairly fruitless.
>Fun but largely innocuous unto itself.
Seems like the current season's creative direction, which should be nice to see.
Never thought I'd find something so absolutely absurd and mindless be considered a breath of fresh air. But here we are.
When we live in a literal dark age of animation, what else can we look up to? (Outside of maybe Masameer and Lackadaisy.)
Dark age may be a little hyperbolic even if it's not horribly inaccurate. Though I can certainly see how you or anyone else would feel that way.
I'm actually not familiar with Masameer I'm afraid though if you'll pardon the segue.
Masameer sadly isn't known all that well outside of Saudi Arabia, but it's a great satire that's well worth watching. (If you want more "action-oriented" Masameer, then go watch County.)
Might look into it a bit, but sadly lately I've found myself lacking just a bit in free time or motivation with the free time I've got.
It originated as a webtoon on YouTube, so it's not a particularly hard series to find. (Though, you'll have to forgive the inaccurate subs.)
>Isolation and lockdowns certainly can exacerbate these kinds of illnesses.
It can also exacerbate domestic violence by people who have mental illnesses that are left unchecked, hmmmmm...
Covid and its consequences were a disaster for the American population
Quarantine meant more people online, more people online meant the spread of more ideas. At this point in time you can pretty much "give" yourself schizophrenia. Look at /x/ with tulpas, sure some of them were insane already but you can convince yourself of anything if you try hard enough.
On the other hand, it opened the floodgates for a nu-civil rights movement. (One that was long overdue, unfortunately.)
Technically BLM has existed long before 2020, but I'm glad people are finally starting to wake up.
Schizophrenia doesn’t exist. Like, yeah, the term ‘schizophrenia’ is definitely tapping into a real phenomenon, because there are actual things people with it experience that can be relayed and connected without external coaching (schizophrenic brains give this feeling of being trapped in your own head and cut off access to certain psychosomatic skills like thought or speech when they’re stressed), but everything else is just pure pathologized shrink frick nonsense. Most people who have this stuff will tell you that the negative symptoms are a side effect of having to deal with common people and the general cruelty and bullshit of society, and that they’re completely functional in a vacuum. Look into that one bunny artist with borderline if you want to know more.
So the main takeaway here is that you truly control what's going on in your own head? That shit took me 20 years to figure out, and I'm LITERALLY 20.
>Most people who have this stuff will tell you that the negative symptoms are a side effect of having to deal with common people and the general cruelty and bullshit of society, and that they’re completely functional in a vacuum
Well that is kind of the point anon, if it allowed one to function in society it wouldn't be called a mental illness.
almost like society is the variable that causes the problems or something
I would argue it's the thing causing you to not be able to interact with society.
Being sheltered does numbers on your mental health, which is why I encourage everyone (regardless of cultural background) to stay informed.
I’ve been both sheltered and socialized. They both suck. Most people suck and it’s going to be very hard for you to find comfort in this world if you’re intelligent and eccentric.
>intelligent and eccentric.
I taught myself english using a leapster, yet I was still called moronic my whole life.
Come to think of it, everyone tends to use me for my computer skills since I was literally raised off technology. (Something that generations before gen z take for granted.)
Because society is narcissistic and doesn’t actually understand what intelligence or stupidity actually mean.
If I had to phrase it a certain way, I'd say it boils down to narcissism, nepotism, and willful ignorance.
Geodon is more like it
Now I feel bad, because I was the one who uploaded that video of Alan that recently blew up.
Just remember, fellas, mental illnesses don’t real
Exactly, Drawn Together taught me that Alzheimer's was fake.
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>59 replies
>__ posters
Interesting.
Believe it or not, only a moderate amount of people ITT are samegayging.
I want an episode based on you so fricking bad
Zach lurks on here, so that episode is obviously in the works.
I'm not opposed to a legitimate critique thread, but this is sadly not the way to go about it.
I might as well come forth with my main gripe with Smiling Friends, and it's that it doesn't have any zoomer writers.
The bimbly schwimbly-type humor was funny when Rick and Morty first did it, but it got stale reaaaaaaaaaaaaaal quickly.
For a show that tries its hardest to appeal to zoomers, there aren't that many zoomers involved creatively.
Fricking hell, Glitch does a better job at appealing to zoomers, and they only make moronic shit 90% of the time.
Glitch Productions/Bento Box Australia collaboration when?
>NOOOO, DON'T GIVE GLITCH AN OPPORTUNITY TO WORK WITH VIVZIEgay!!!
It's already too late, Gooseworx drank the Vivzie Kool Aid.
No wonder The "Amazing" Digital Circus is digital cancer.
No anon, TADC is worse than cancer. It is literal AIDS incarnate meant to appeal to gen alpha (beta).
What other show am I supposed to watch from Glitch, the one that appeals to Creepypastagays and Waifugays?
No, the one that's SUPER META, YO.
||Millennials are devoid of original thought.||
I want all schizophrenics like the ones in this thread to take their meds and/or kill themselves
You first, shrinkfricker.
Shrinks are Self-inserts by default.
>putting words in my mouth
shotgun in mouth
It takes less muscles to smile than to frown.
Not true, it actually takes MORE work to smile. If you FORCE yourself to frown, only then does it use more muscles.
Op is gay who cares, so how long do think the shows success will last and when do you think it will come crashing down?
>Op is gay
So too is a vast majority of SF's fandom, for better or worse.
I thought Zach was against sodomy
Who cares what Zach thinks? On the internet, fandoms have overwhelming amounts of power.
>I thought Zach was against sodomy
What made you think that?
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Lol, imagine playing as the literal baby team.
Collecting seashells, THE HORROR!
I would rather have mission-based levels than gay-ass fishing minigames.
>"I'm not into [anal sex]"
Oh, that's all? I thought he wanted to ban it when you said "against"
Fellow alphabetgay here, and we too respect people's genital preferences.
Everyone in this thread should smile more
That's a dangerous oversimplification, anon.
Besides, I thought the show was otherwise enjoyable when it wasn't being millennial-tier garbage.
If Season 2 won't be the best season, you know its third one will be once they get enough zoomers on board.
Have you seen all the Gwimbly fanart? It's obvious that it's all stealth artist recruitment.
Studio Yotta, HIRE ME!!!
If we don't stop Smiling Friends now, it will come to your house and KILL YOUR PARENTS!!!
I'll admit, that made me laugh. However, it's still important to look into subtext. (Regardless of whether or not you like someone.)
the only subtext I care about is when my best friend and the love of my life texts me
Heh, I think that's adorable. (In a lighthearted sort of way.)
>However, it's still important to look into subtext
It does have subtext but it's usually observations about how psychotic people like OP and twitter crybullies can be. The halloween episode for instance, at the end the partygoers let out their most violent, disgusting, animalistic parts of themselves and felt justified ripping apart the demon quite literally because they mistakenly thought the demon was being racist because of how he looked.
Yes it's still a demon, but they were ignorant to the truth and were seeking a valid reason to react violently.
To be completely honest the jokes about autism in OneyPlays and SleepyCabin make me weary of the people working on this show. I still like Smiling Friends but those jokes coming from people who presumably aren't autistic makes me weary. I've met people like that in the Newgrounds community and some of them really are just hateful people and have this trollish behavior to them. I can see some of it in the SleepyCabin people like Cory making a 15 minute animation on some Newgrounds VA he didn't like for basically not being funny. I know that was like 15 years ago but when you actually know people who repeatedly harass other Newgrounds users for the same petty reasons it makes the community a worse place. Spending time around people like that made me hate myself and paranoid about slipping up and becoming a target, especially seeing how much autistic people have been targeted on the internet. I really don't like the idea of them namedropping Chris Chan in the commentary or getting them as a VA. I know people will call me a tard or dismiss me on here but there has to be other people like me that feel this way.
tldr; they've become the very thing they despise: mr. frog
if you feel like you need to be coddled or protected from "bad" people (those who do not share your values and expect you to be a stronger person), you probably shouldn't be out in public.
On the other hand, what if the critique you're given is objectively shit? There are lots of morons on NG.
>There are lots of morons on NG.
sure, are you going to generalize based on that then? Sounds almost like racism.
Racist towards nepotists? Well shit, I guess I'm racist now.
ZACH HADEL IS A Black person
No, he's a (W)igger. (An uneducated white man.)
Being weary of people who make fun of others for aspects of their identity they can't change isn't wanting to be coddled. I guess you've never faced discrimination for your identity so you think everyone else is pretending to be offended when in reality you're just blind. You can still be funny without making others feel bad and Smiling Friends proves it because it doesn't reflect the behavior I described.
You're not alone in the slightest, as many people share your same sentiment.
Not him, but I'm mexican and you are a whiny gay,
Moral grandstanding whilst proclaiming you're a minority is textbook tokenism.
And you are still a whiny gay
Depends on your perspective.
>but those jokes coming from people who presumably aren't autistic
Ain't no way half of them aren't autistic. Corey lives it
Sorta? They're autism-adjacent, if anything.
Define autism
Anyone who stims and hyperfixates.
Autism doesn’t exist.
It most certainly does, it's just a rebrand of "intellectual."
I hope puritangay smiles one day.
I LOVE CHILDREN!
You're sadly mistaken if you think this is a dicky thread. May I suggest your local Chip Shilla thread?
Happy April Fools?
April fools was last monday, you should've been there during the [as] stream.
Can someone explain what the point of this thread is, is it really people are pissed of because of one guy in the previous therad was upset about how gwimbly was treated in the first episode becasue he himself is bipolar and feels attacked by how gwibly was represented
Lemme summarize this thread in greentext.
>OP has some unresolved, mental hangups
>Some agree with OP's critique
>Others think it's a load of bull
>A few don't care in all honesty
GUYS THE SCHIZO IS BACK
If you type enough words, everyone on this site will deem you a schizo.
PUSSY
"Thin-skinned" would be a more appropriate term, but even that undermines OP's legitimate grievances.
Its a reference to that scene he posted from the season 2 trailer you fricking mong.
Welp, I'm officially moronic.
Garbage bait thread
I wish for once someone would try with the smiling friends bait, it has potential if someone would just get creative and dive deep into it, but this is lame
I do agree that the show is dogshit but your bait is awful OP.