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"Awesome" Fan Art |OT2| James can see everything
- Thread starter Lionel Mandrake
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Watch Da Birdie
I buy cakes for myself on my birthday it's not weird lots of people do it I bet
You know that infamous fan-art of the dude drawing a picture for Princess Peach with the "it's a map of your eyes!" line?
Anyone have a real-life pic of that guy, because I saw someone the other day carrying around a Princess Peach doll and wearing an awkward Pikachu shirt, and I'm convinced it was him.\
Anyone have a real-life pic of that guy, because I saw someone the other day carrying around a Princess Peach doll and wearing an awkward Pikachu shirt, and I'm convinced it was him.\
The Awesomest
Member
So this is now a general thread for human degeneracy brought about by the internet, including, but not limited to, "awesome" fan art, right? Because if it is,
We should really let the pics that make you laugh thread know.
At any rate, that guy's got some "awesome" fan art there on his wall.
We should really let the pics that make you laugh thread know.
At any rate, that guy's got some "awesome" fan art there on his wall.
Slamtastic
Member
i hate everything and want to die
The Awesomest
Member
Note the Barney drawing there
I have discussed several times with Ronito doing an "Awesome Cosplay" thread in which we all laugh at tragically overweight Yunas or something, but I've never done it because I feel like it crosses a line from laughing at their terrible drawings to laughing at them, and I don't know that I have it in me to make a thread dedicated to laughing at people doing something (relatively harmless) that they love.
Um, yeah, that'll get you banned pretty quickly... It crosses a line, honestly. It's one thing to make fun of the weird, depraved shit people come up with, and another to post pictures of people and laugh at their physical appearance.
The "Awesome" fan art thread flirts with "mean-spirited" often, but because there's rarely a face or even a name behind the madness, and we often mock the subject matter (which is bizarre) rather than the artistic skill, I don't think it's particularly nasty.
/shrug.
Oh look, it's Richard Kuta. There's a lot of pictures (and even video) of him in diapers. He's even got an Encyclopedia Dramatica article showing that and so much more (mostly related to Sonic the Hedgehog).
He's also infamous for his video reaction to the Sonic 4 teaser trailer where there was a second of footage and following it with a long rant about Sega ruining the franchise... in tears. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-DMtSDDF2Do Thankfully, no diapers.
Well there you have it, then. No mocking the nightmare pony costumes.
Well, no, I think if they're as bizarre as that full-on outfit that looks like something from Silent Hill, that's fine.
I also think guys I just think a full cosplay mockery thread is going to draw a lot of heat, even the Cosplay thread we have now (which has been suspiciously quiet, I wonder if it was locked) has gone off the rails a few times with people ripping on less-than-perfect cosplay. I think it's probably part of GAF having a very militant anti-misogyny bent and cosplay tends to bring out a lot of "Look at the fat/ugly/whatever woman trying to get nerd attention" and it's just... a mess...
Grown men dressed as ponies / wearing diapers / animal tails / etc. is okay, I guess. They should know better. Maybe ask a mod.
The Awesomest
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I feel like the truly "awesome" fan art like all the sonic pony diaper inflation stuff, and other things posted in this thread like comments on Deviantart, Pamperchu and that guy above are essentially one in the same, or at least come from the same source. They're phenomena that we never imagined could exist, behaviors we never thought people could have, trends we never could have predicted, and we are fascinated by them. I never got the feeling, in this thread, at least, that we were mocking them or belittling them, but instead standing with our mouths wide open upon seeing at what the internet has produced, in shock and curiosity.
An "Awesome" Cosplay thread, though, I feel like that'd be different thing. If we're just posting dumpy people in bad costumes to laugh at, there's no longer any shock and curiosity, just some losers with poor social skills to laugh at, and we see those all the time.
That guy above, with the diapers and ponies, isn't cosplay, but is a real, tangible part of trends we've seen throughout the thread. We've seen drawings with similar themes, but to see a real person act it out adds to the shock and curiosity we've already been experiencing throughout the thread, and that's what keeps us coming back here.
An "Awesome" Cosplay thread, though, I feel like that'd be different thing. If we're just posting dumpy people in bad costumes to laugh at, there's no longer any shock and curiosity, just some losers with poor social skills to laugh at, and we see those all the time.
That guy above, with the diapers and ponies, isn't cosplay, but is a real, tangible part of trends we've seen throughout the thread. We've seen drawings with similar themes, but to see a real person act it out adds to the shock and curiosity we've already been experiencing throughout the thread, and that's what keeps us coming back here.
To be fair, I originally conceived of the idea as a thread for actually awesome cosplay, then I realized it would go off the rails toward "awesome" and thought maybe I should embrace it. Then I realized that even THAT would go off the rails, and it was just too meanspirited a thing to endorse.
We have a Cosplay Thread already though. Granted, most of the older pages are non-loading images and it is nothing but images followed by half a page of people oggling/describing various attributes of the cosplayer, but still...
Pop-O-Matic
Banned
What about something like this?
If that's a girl, then it's too mean spirited. Otherwise, fire at will.
There are soooooo many euphemisms for plot in this case.
Phonomezer
Banned
Oh God why.
Horse Detective
Why the long case?
That just ain't right
dragonlife
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What if only the front part has genitalia?
The Technomancer
card-carrying scientician
....okeeday then
Pop-O-Matic
Banned
Anal.
Then she wouldn't need two pairs of shorts with a fly.
So now we're posting mature content?
how is underwear Bubsy any worse than that Dr. Venture pic right above?
unless you mean MS Paint bikini Powerpuffs, if thats just too much for you to handle i will remove it!
IrrelevantNotch
Banned
Yea... I don't get it
I SAID I WAS WRONG ABOUT THE CENTAURS, OKAY.
Has anyone ever technically been 'right' about centaurs?
I don't know, I just feel that if an artist labels their own work as mature or explicit, that I should respect that. Maybe it's just me.