I...WHAT!?

[trinityvixen]

There can be no question but this goes so far over the line as to be...

I mean, LOOK AT THIS.

That's so wrong. On every level. And this is supposed to be funny!? How fucking tasteless can you get?

This makes me want to delete every fucking VG Cats icon I have. I am seriously revolted.

ETA: NOT SURPRISINGLY, ALL THE PEOPLE COMMENTING ON HIS FORUM FOR THE COMIC THINK IT IS SOOOOOOO FUNNY. THESE PEOPLE ARE DISGUSTING.

Comments

[chuckro.livejournal.com]

Because "Hope you get crib death!" isn't horrible and triggering?

(Also, I totally forgot the latest Super Effective, which shows a character effectively encouraging a child's eating disorder.)

My point is more that VGCats is offensive, and always has been offensive, and has several times crossed the line into things that I'm sure made someone have the reaction that you had here.

The latest comic was weak--I can see where he was going, with the "I'll go back and time and make sure you never existed" thing; but lacking a particularly coherant punchline, he took refuge in audacity. It's weak, but it's not worth breaking out the picket signs. I'd be more concerned if it didn't immediately follow a comic about writer's block--he's obviously low on ideas and not producing his best work.

Which, again, doesn't mean you don't have the right to be offended. You can be offended by anything you want. But you should be aware of why this is something that matters but everything else is apparently okay.

[viridian.livejournal.com]

Because I am the resident internet bitch, I have to say that "triggering" is the worst excuse ever for someone to say that X thing is offensive. Everyone has "triggers", but so, so many people pull it out as a trump card and it always makes me want to offend them more when they do it.

I'm not saying I don't have any, I'm just saying that I recognize that they're entirely my problem and no one ought to actually cater to them.

[chuckro.livejournal.com]

The typical use of "triggering" online sets my teeth on edge, but I was using it here to make a point about the general versus specific offensiveness of VGCats.

Would I have been better spelling out the sociopolitical issues with implying that crib death is an active choice on the part of a caretaker?

[viridian.livejournal.com]

No, I'm just saying "triggering" is a stupid word and shouldn't be brought into serious arguments if you don't want to be dismissed out of hand.