Living with Gamer Girl and Hipster Girl

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Rating Summary

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Background
Recently, meme spawn zones have undergone some change in their content. A couple of years ago, you would only find photo edits and recycled memes from around the net over and over again. Now, some "artists" have found these sites very handy for promoting themselves as "comic artists". Got to be frank, I don't know exactly how do they work, but if my theories are somewhat real, they are some sort of ass-pat machines for people who whishes not to be told they suck*.

So yeah, from time to time, you'll find a flashy cartoon at your Memecenter notification which you will click anyways. After all these years, your brains have been trained to simply click at two things: the promise of boobs; and whatever meme-related image you can find. This time, I thank Mark Zuckerberg for creating the option to "remove apps" in your accounts settings. Who knew, they guy's not a complete dick, afterall.

(*) As in "You need to improve your (insert technical subject); and work harder on (insert glaring flaws)

Downfall
The moment a colombian decided to try luck by not only drawing boobs for horny pop culture geeks, but also from thinking people won't notice he knows jack about the stuff he's trying to mock.

Story and Plot
The premise is that of three roommates (how original)having wacky shenanigans closely-tied to their entertainment and social tastes. In resume, yet another couch-gag comic about videogames, and whatever culture is pop at the moment.

Art review
Fapo's not entirely a moron when drawing. His only flaw is that for both genders, he only knows ONE BLOODY SINGLE body type, and ONE BLEEDING SINGLE face. No kidding. He rarely uses many characters at once, but whenever he does, they all look the same, or very similar to others he has done before.

Speaking of generic body types, why don't we talk about boobs? For some kid of reason, the guy ALWAYS feats his female cast in provocative poses, and kinky outfits. For some reason. Why would a woman play videogames in her undies? Ok, some do, but most female gamers I know usually play while dressed in their indoors clothes, which consist of shorts, shirts, pijamas, and not the kind of clothing you only expect to find in any porn movie; or at a strip club. I have to be frank, I'm not the only one who noticed. People at meme-hosting sites will make plenty of remarks and photo replies about boobs.

Here at the Bad Webcomics Wiki have reached the conclusion that "Gamer girl" is INDEED a GAMER GIRL *cough*attentionwhore*cough* rather than an actual GIRL GAMER *cough*geekwithavagina*cough*. That alone makes that character as unrealistic and unrelatable as possible. And kind of an offense to actual geeks with vaginas.

Though, this being a comic about comedy, one would say "fuck it! Fun's what matters". Then...

Writing review
...You realize most jokes are either outdated for real; or they have no bases to stand in. In Fapo's mind, somehow it's still 1996, and ALL gamers are vicious criminals from playing videogames. I mean it. I've to be honest, it's been years since videogames got the headlines for "being responsible for violence". And the few times it has happened in recent years, they are often a short quote, followed by another saying such claims have been found void. Well, that's one wound. We can also find proof that Fapo's not really acknowledged of the Gaming community. Apparently, it's edgy to mock on players for going back to an annoying dungeon just to check a room. Hasn't he heard that almost all gamers will not leave a dungeon for loot? Or that they simply go through it barely scratching the surface? Or that when a gamer leaves a dungeon it's very unlikely they go back unless for grinding?

And he, then, starts talking about hipsters. I'm being honest here, AFAIK, Hipsters are people who dresses funny, purchases weird, outdated stuff, and act all-high from the idea that they are not part of the "mainstream"...even though being part of a subculture which dress up all the same, and like the same stuff unanimously is the clear definition of "Mainstream". Period.

In Fapo's eyes, hipsters are parasitic, annoying, assholes who lacks respect for anyone but themselves. I don't really see something like mocking them for their tastes, or their views. It's more like he grabbed a bunch of subcultures and mixed them in a blender to get whatever the fuck that woman is.

Or they are just simply non-sensical. Like on one comic where the male main character wonders how it would have been to be Joseph during their scape from Roman soldiers, with his pregnant teenager wife about to give birth to the next big thing since mankind switched from hunter/gatherers to sedetarism. Again, such situation has PLENTY of stuff to make fun of, yet he forces the hipster into the scene to do "hipster" things because...fuck you, Imma draw da tities!!! The punchline feels out of context. If the comic had a tittle like "What if Joseph had married Hipster Girl", maybe the joke would have some sense. And maybe that's the think process behind it, however, since no remarks are made about so the joke is lost forever.

Then...we have his VERY IMPORTANT OPINIONSon politics. Ok, wasn't this comic about "games and hipsters"? Is he lacking so much knowledge about these two genres that he must resort to "controversy" to hit the page-a-week mark? Sometimes, his opinions feel more like the popular view of it, rather than his own unbiased take on the subject. You know, like politics cartoonist do quite often. But, anyways, he's mixing way too much subjects into a single comic.

Bad, Fapo, bad!

Author biography
So far, he claims to have worked on several publishing houses, as well as making newspaper comics. Also, he claims his designs has been used in websites and other businesses. If you don't know what that means, it means that he's sold them to companies (most likely small business)-you know, just like ANY other graphic designer in the planet DOES for a living.

However, what I find most important, is how is that he fails on what he claims to have expertise of. He's being a cartoonist for sometime already. Shouldn't that reflect on LHGGG? As a politics cartoonist, excepting the biased type, shouldn't he know MORE about what he is speaking of before he makes any jokes? Well, let's cut the fat off, he doesn't. Either colombian comics are utter garbage; or he is nothing but a big mouthed moron.

Conclusion
Well, what did you expect from something hosted at a meme-hosting site? The guy gives the impression of making those comics off a view outside of these communities. Like someone making comics using Fox News statements as if they were facts. Maybe he only knows about these topics because he did some designs for videogame and hobby stores (of the cheap kind), and thought to himself "Hey, this is easy! I learned a lot from watching these guys at the 30 minutes meeting. Let's make a comic about them!". Or maybe he's workinh using his friends as models. And he doesn't really pays much attention.

Whatever the case is, his comic reflects his ignorance about the topics he portrays. From ALL the source material he could make use for MANY good jokes, he picks NONE. And his lack of focus on a single subject only puts his shitty comic at the same level of Sore Thumbs. Hell, it almost feels like he's trying way too hard to copy it. Just take a look to his ONLY approach on the privacy controversy of the Xbox One. It's not like he's trying. The GODDAMNED skank is taking a shower with her courtains WIDE-FUCKING open. That's not subtlety. It's a whore asking to be filmed where the sun never shines. Wait, does that have ANYTHING to do with videogames!?

Well, there you have it, Fapo. You are simply a person who is not a competent comedian by wasting EVERY golden (i.e. EASY) oportunity to make good jokes.



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