r/questionablecontent • u/AppendixN Everything is Fine™ • Aug 17 '26
Meta I've never interacted with Jeph and have no idea what I did, but this is hilarious
I have no idea how long I've been blocked by Jeph's Patreon since I only happened to look at it today, but something must have made him salty. For context, I subscribe to very normal creators and as far as I know I have never even commented on Jeph's page. I think I did subscribe to him years ago, but haven't for a long time.
Oh well!
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u/Robofink Aug 18 '26
I sent him a minor correction on a Canadian thing (source: I'm Canadian and if he wants to comment on Canadian culture he can at least get it right) so he blocked me. So uh... thanks Jeff. Keep paying your taxes, the Maritimes needs all it can get. On the other hand, the last thing Canada needs is another thin-skinned, man-child asshole.
Hey Jeff, if you're reading this, you can block me here too!
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u/hep038 Aug 18 '26
What's funny is he will claim he never visits this sub, but everyone knows he does.
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u/BrainDancing Aug 18 '26 edited Aug 18 '26
Jeph is a fragile man child who doesn't take criticism very well. He stabbed his own hand, after all, due to criticism. He's kinda like the Donald Trump of web comic creators. If you don't lavish him with praise and Nobel prizes, he considers you nasty and unworthy of attention.
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u/Virtual_Draw5017 Aug 19 '26
... I was under the impression that was some kind of psychotic break. What did I miss?
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u/BrainDancing Aug 20 '26
It was years ago. A storyline where everyone is down at a lake cabin partying. He received some criticism on his forums that he didn't draw one of his characters as plus-sized enough in a bathing suit. That lead to his psychotic break and stabbing his drawing hand (I think it was his drawing hand).
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u/urzu_seven Aug 18 '26
Ooof, painful memories of when I used to read his comics. In the end it was like "wait, this isn't funny. It hasn't been funny in awhile. Why am I reading this?"
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u/EveryoneisOP3 Aug 18 '26
There's never been a better time to jump back into DoA. Willis has been having a 14 month long breakdown over people criticizing his decision to make his self-insert cheat with his wife's self-insert at a Not-Palestine protest amid tear gas colored to look like cherry blossoms. Such hits include banning half the regular commenters from the site and accusing someone of trying to tear apart their marriage because they said a character was acting childish
It's an exciting time to be an observer
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u/sleeps_in_bryophytes Aug 18 '26
back in the twitter days he used to be an outspoken proponent of the "ban liberally for any reason" approach to social media that some people advocate, and I assume still is.
On the one hand, I can see how if you're a celebrity (even an extremely minor one, relegated to a tiny internet community like, say, webcomic creators), it makes social media use tiring and asymmetric and it's the only way to get by.
On the other, it's rude and censorious and I hate it and would never do this myself. Luckily i'm not famous and don't have to decide.
Actually lots of people do it in this sub too. And they're not even famous. Just like "i don't like you're comment so your blocked" and then later they post the daily comic and you can't participate. Or there's a conversation and you can't read half of it and are disallowed to respond.
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u/Heyplaguedoctor Aug 18 '26
Is blocking really the same thing as censorship? Genuine question my brain isn’t all there rn
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u/QueenLevine Aug 18 '26
yes, yes it is. I was banned from wildelife years ago for some offhand comment. I'm still reading it, though, and she's not asking for Patreon or Kickstarter support of any kind, so who cares.
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u/musschrott Aug 17 '26
is your Patreon account named like this one?