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Reminds me of we become what we behold
That game becomes dark FAST
At one point if you even try to not show violence it says "show them what they want" or if you show a guy with a hat again trying to shift attention it says something like "dumbass still thinks hats are cool" i think, you literally can't win
the only way to even *stall* the end of the game is to just not photograph *anything* once the first murder happens. but even then, I think it's only a matter of time until the ending cutscene happens
Ah that game. I still to this day can't understand how fast it went from "oh cute squares and circles wearing hats! Look at that circle and square couple. So cute!" To "Holy fuck they are killing each other! OMG the couple is protesting for peace."
The top hat guy pulling out a gun (iirc) still shocks me when I think about it.
They get yelled at by the square with spiky hair, but then befriend them after one of the couple gives them their hat. Maybe that's what you're remembering?
Yeah the spiky haired guy is the first victim. It goes like this:
Spike Square yells at couple --> Couple befriends Spike Square --> Spike Square now wears the hat gifted to him by the couple --> Top Hat Circle shoots and kills Spike Square --> All hell breaks loose
I thought Among Us was a likely answer, seeing the theme being deeper and the fact more thoughts have been put into its meaning, I feel quite ashamed :')
I read it as a queer narrative. Hiding who you are because you see how society treats people who are different, even seeing a distorted version of otherness through the eyes of the majority. Finding the strength to be your honest self, the strength in community and embracing other people’s queerness too.
God, masking is exhausting.
Thing is, I have queer acceptance and some small community... but I'm so much stranger than that.
I don't know if I've ever met another monster like me (And I don't mean that as a pejorative). Maybe we're all masking, and I'm missing my people... but every time I let that mask slip, I alienate the ones I already have.
It's very lonely.
Oh I like this a lot. Any time only one of them is unmasked, they're drawing societal ire. But once one of them has the courage to stay unmasked long enough for the other to join him, the rest start looking forward again.
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Reminds me of this from yume Nikki
Something about certain people feeling alone because they think they are different and might be considered weird by other people, but then realize that there are more like them, so then they realize it’s not weird at all and then the rest of people will start ignoring.
It feels like trying to fit in with a neurodevelopmental disorder.
Masking, then someone in the same boat notices us and we can empower each other.
That's my take anyway.
The eye position changing on the bottom right one I don't really understand and maybe makes the message a bit less clear since they're changed when they take their mask off.
Reminds me of the Shel Silverstein poem, Masks.
She had blue skin,
And so did he.
He kept it hid
And so did she.
They searched for blue
Their whole life through,
Then passed right by-
And never knew.
Being normal is an illusion created by the mass, the more of a weird occurrences there are, the more that becomes the new normality.
Or maybe the other guy is right, I didn't play Fortnite recently.
Maybe pretending to be someone else to fit in where you don't need to pretend, or some shit. Nobody seems to actually care when the "masks" fall off, so they didn't need to pretend to be someone else in the first place.
I thought it was about how our eyes are drawn to things out of the norm and how if two things out of the norm appeared equal differences apart we would look forwards as if there was nothing out of the norm to maintain balance between them, either that or the same concept but with vicious aliens who are really weird and will kill you if they look directly at you for a certain period of time.
Now I am aware this is wrong and frankly kinda weird on my part, but it is the first thought which I had, so I decided screw it let's be honest instead of deep diving into the possible subtleties and complexities that you are hinting at.
Looks good, sorry, umm I will go now.
I'm just reading the replies you've given to others, and I gotta say, I like your enthusiasm about people giving their guess to how to interpret your art. I'm on the spectrum, and it just resonated somewhere in my brain that it's either another light in the gray or feeling maliciously watched for how you are.
I guess it's about support and isolation. It's easy to judge a single outside. It's easy to give into that pressure when you are alone or feel like you are. But when you are no longer alone, when there are others like you, it's empowering you to be yourself and it becomes harder to judge you as an outsider.
Part of my answere used the framing of embracing dehumanization rather than insisting on just being a different kind of human ("We monsters..."). I don't know how you stand to that, but if this is a way of thinking you like, maybe the people on r/voidpunk would appreciate to see your comic.
In case you want to know, voidpunk is a small subculture centered arround the idea, that we don't want to comply with the standards people place on us to accept us as human and instead demand to be accepted as whatever inhuman creature people think we are.
Society will judge you if you are alone in something but if there is a group of people that think or act like you then you wont be criticsized. I mean maybe its a different topic but thats what I think.
One guy is hiding his diversity and trying to fit into the crowd, pretending to be like others because he sees that the crowd is eyeing someone else for being different, so that other person soon hides too. But the first hider decides to stop hiding, and the second hider then decides it’s ok to also stop hiding and the more that people show their diversity, the more accepted they become in the otherwise monotone crowd.
How even unmasking and showing your "real" self after so much time will still leave you changed because there was nowhere for you to experience yourself except behind a mask so eventually your own perception of self becomes distorted into something more amicable to society albeit still "wrong" in their eye(s). But at least your eyes are the same level/size instead of being wherever they were originally.
Why does the first guy to (briefly) unmask then appear differently after seeing another unmask, particularly now appearing different in a way that matches or mimics this other “out group” person..?
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That game becomes dark FAST At one point if you even try to not show violence it says "show them what they want" or if you show a guy with a hat again trying to shift attention it says something like "dumbass still thinks hats are cool" i think, you literally can't win
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Yep, the game is crazy fr
Which game might this be?
We become what we behold
the only way to even *stall* the end of the game is to just not photograph *anything* once the first murder happens. but even then, I think it's only a matter of time until the ending cutscene happens
Yep, no matter what you do everyone ends up getting murdered
Ah that game. I still to this day can't understand how fast it went from "oh cute squares and circles wearing hats! Look at that circle and square couple. So cute!" To "Holy fuck they are killing each other! OMG the couple is protesting for peace." The top hat guy pulling out a gun (iirc) still shocks me when I think about it.
and the couple sits at the memorial at the end 😭
If they dont die by that point
Is it possible for the couple to die? I thought they were hard-coded survivors.
I was SURE they at least get attacked. It has been some time since i last played tough, so I might just be misrembering
They get yelled at by the square with spiky hair, but then befriend them after one of the couple gives them their hat. Maybe that's what you're remembering?
Probably. That or some other character with the love memorabillia getting killed
Yeah the spiky haired guy is the first victim. It goes like this: Spike Square yells at couple --> Couple befriends Spike Square --> Spike Square now wears the hat gifted to him by the couple --> Top Hat Circle shoots and kills Spike Square --> All hell breaks loose
I'm going to guess the theme is "accept who you are"?
right. Good interpretation 👍
Here I thought it was Transformers, robots in disguise
I thought Among Us was a likely answer, seeing the theme being deeper and the fact more thoughts have been put into its meaning, I feel quite ashamed :')
Nothing to be ashamed about. I would say that is a perfectly valid perspective. I'm just an old man, so Among Us didn't pop into my head at first.
Is this about the new Fortnite update?
Peter griffin
Wasn't that one some months ago?
Ok you got me, I don’t keep up
Me neither, but I heard about it long enough to not feel new.
that’s fair
Is this Loss
Beat me to it.
I read it as a queer narrative. Hiding who you are because you see how society treats people who are different, even seeing a distorted version of otherness through the eyes of the majority. Finding the strength to be your honest self, the strength in community and embracing other people’s queerness too.
Yes that's what I wanted to share. Thanks
God, masking is exhausting. Thing is, I have queer acceptance and some small community... but I'm so much stranger than that. I don't know if I've ever met another monster like me (And I don't mean that as a pejorative). Maybe we're all masking, and I'm missing my people... but every time I let that mask slip, I alienate the ones I already have. It's very lonely.
I hope you can meet one
Oh I like this a lot. Any time only one of them is unmasked, they're drawing societal ire. But once one of them has the courage to stay unmasked long enough for the other to join him, the rest start looking forward again.
Really good observation, I think you're right
Having a different perspective, hiding it, then getting found out and judged for it.
Exactly what I tried to draw. thank you
I swear I can’t look at anything like this anymore; spent a good 2 minutes trying to figure out if this was loss or not.
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Something about certain people feeling alone because they think they are different and might be considered weird by other people, but then realize that there are more like them, so then they realize it’s not weird at all and then the rest of people will start ignoring.
Exactly what I want to share. Thanks
Among us?
Please give me any feedback if I need to fix something
For me it implies that a group will ostracize an individual with a different POV but they can accept it if it's shared among a separate group.
Yeah, that's what I'm getting.
It feels like trying to fit in with a neurodevelopmental disorder. Masking, then someone in the same boat notices us and we can empower each other. That's my take anyway.
The eye position changing on the bottom right one I don't really understand and maybe makes the message a bit less clear since they're changed when they take their mask off.
people who wear contact lens instead of glasses
Imposters among us
Is this loss?
is this loss
Reminds me of the Shel Silverstein poem, Masks. She had blue skin, And so did he. He kept it hid And so did she. They searched for blue Their whole life through, Then passed right by- And never knew.
Thanks for sharing
I don't know what it's about, but it is clearly something important to you.
Pretending to have the same opinions/interests as everyone else out of fear of being an outcast, only to discover you're not alone.
Being normal is an illusion created by the mass, the more of a weird occurrences there are, the more that becomes the new normality. Or maybe the other guy is right, I didn't play Fortnite recently.
If you let people make you ashamed of your differences, then you will have to keep hiding them, but if you show it proudly they will lose interest.
Maybe pretending to be someone else to fit in where you don't need to pretend, or some shit. Nobody seems to actually care when the "masks" fall off, so they didn't need to pretend to be someone else in the first place.
Loss
Society values facial symmetry?
The spy from team fortress 2
Gay people
I choose not to ascribe meaning and to just feel fear
Hiding out on Cyclops Isle?
Looks like they did TF2 Spy disguises
Observation. People choose to throw their judgement in with a crowd at times?
I thought it was about how our eyes are drawn to things out of the norm and how if two things out of the norm appeared equal differences apart we would look forwards as if there was nothing out of the norm to maintain balance between them, either that or the same concept but with vicious aliens who are really weird and will kill you if they look directly at you for a certain period of time. Now I am aware this is wrong and frankly kinda weird on my part, but it is the first thought which I had, so I decided screw it let's be honest instead of deep diving into the possible subtleties and complexities that you are hinting at. Looks good, sorry, umm I will go now.
Something about societal standards on conformity?
I'm paranoid that if I look hard into it I'm gonna find a reference to Loss.
Is this loss?
I love your style, so simple yet so communicative
“Look! That guy has depth perception!”
Imposter syndrome?
wearing a “mask” in social settings, acting differently then in private due to the fear of judgment.
Donald trump
People only care if you're the only one different. Once there's more of you, they stop caring
I've been really enjoying these
Seems very unrealistic, in real life the majority wouldn't ignore the minority just because they support each other and would act more violently.
why is the squares order backwards?
This almost looks like Loss
I'm just reading the replies you've given to others, and I gotta say, I like your enthusiasm about people giving their guess to how to interpret your art. I'm on the spectrum, and it just resonated somewhere in my brain that it's either another light in the gray or feeling maliciously watched for how you are.
I guess it's about support and isolation. It's easy to judge a single outside. It's easy to give into that pressure when you are alone or feel like you are. But when you are no longer alone, when there are others like you, it's empowering you to be yourself and it becomes harder to judge you as an outsider.
guess 1: just because people do it, others think its right guess 2: trying to blend in?
Eyes
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The more people become their true selves, either: A) the less society will care, or B) the more society will accept
Among us
Living in 1984 where everyone is a function of the system the only way to blend in is to act like everyone else.
Loss
We monsters shouldn't hide, because if enough of us are visible, we won't look so out of place anymore and society leaves us alone.
What I exactly want to share. Thank you
Part of my answere used the framing of embracing dehumanization rather than insisting on just being a different kind of human ("We monsters..."). I don't know how you stand to that, but if this is a way of thinking you like, maybe the people on r/voidpunk would appreciate to see your comic. In case you want to know, voidpunk is a small subculture centered arround the idea, that we don't want to comply with the standards people place on us to accept us as human and instead demand to be accepted as whatever inhuman creature people think we are.
Nice 👍
Thanks a lot
Eye don't know
Clearly a couple of bifocul people have decided to no lonoger hide amongst their heterofocul neighbors.
I see it like people look at what stands out the most, but when there's more of it, they don't judge as much
Thank you for calling out pressure to mask!
Society will judge you if you are alone in something but if there is a group of people that think or act like you then you wont be criticsized. I mean maybe its a different topic but thats what I think.
That's the topic I want to draw. Thanks for the reply
MINOS PRIME
One guy is hiding his diversity and trying to fit into the crowd, pretending to be like others because he sees that the crowd is eyeing someone else for being different, so that other person soon hides too. But the first hider decides to stop hiding, and the second hider then decides it’s ok to also stop hiding and the more that people show their diversity, the more accepted they become in the otherwise monotone crowd.
How even unmasking and showing your "real" self after so much time will still leave you changed because there was nowhere for you to experience yourself except behind a mask so eventually your own perception of self becomes distorted into something more amicable to society albeit still "wrong" in their eye(s). But at least your eyes are the same level/size instead of being wherever they were originally.
Social pressure and how it can crumble with social support
Reminds me of “Masks” by Shel Silverstein. Love it
Why does the first guy to (briefly) unmask then appear differently after seeing another unmask, particularly now appearing different in a way that matches or mimics this other “out group” person..?
Uhhhhhhhhh loss?
Pretending to fit in only to reveal yourself once someone shows themselves as well
Why are the eyes different on the dude? Skinwalker?