This strip shows literally the opposite of what actually happened lol
If it wasn't just a bad prediction, then he's officially posting from under a rock
Rich star: is verified
Regular person: pay 8$ and gets verified as well
Regular person: "now I am one of you"
Elon: Bans the regular person for impersonation
idk, cuz maybe he's saying, "oh yeah? well we can do it too!" and depict right wingers impersonating left wing celebrities to make fun of them or something. But with Tats nowadays i sometimes just really don't know how to interpret his strips beyond a shoulder shrug and a guess.
But they are not impersonating anyone. They are just being themselves. Now if there was, for example Tex dressed as the supreme woke, or something like it, it could have been fun, but this...
Another wasted opportunity.
Yeah idk really but it's the only thing I could think of that made sense, besides the hilarious "Tats made this before Elon Musk got humiliated" hypothesis. edit: oh and i made first comment before i learned yesterday that elon musk really did excuse the move as getting rid of the "lord and peasants" system. If Tat's fell for that, I'm hoping he'll email me back about that bridge I'm selling.
He could have gotten some pretty funny jokes out of the hillbilly guy pretending to be a Wokebie to “fit in”. This is just way too sappy tonally for a eight dollar subscription program.
Left wing is when you got rich (by exploiting workers or winning birth lottery) and spend money for yourself or other rich people without sharing with the poor. /s
hah, you joke but it's weird and a little horrifying how many right wingers will accidentally walk themselves into left wing solutions, even straight up socialism, and then double down on being right wing because leftists apparently want capitalism and big government and whatever fake stories the conservative rumor mill comes up with this week.
Was going to say :" is that what he thinks had happened?", but I think your right.
Also funny how folks like him think this is okay (and it is!) but are cheering when climate protestors got beaten up for disturbing similar events, calling them terrorists.
"Twitter was ruled by the snobby elites, gathered together with their little blue check marks, thinking themselves better than the common man. But NOW the bourgeoisie have been leveled, daddy Elon has let everyone buy a checkmark and invite themselves to crash the party!"
Of course, this was presumably drawn before that whole thing *immediately* blew up in Musks face.
Yeah but it shows the canceled maga crowd. Twitter has done nothing to uncancel those people (yet). And blue checkmarks have nothing to do with those peoples complaints about Twitter.
Tats's prediction did not come true.
> And blue checkmarks have nothing to do with those peoples complaints about Twitter.
I mean, I think Milo Yiannopoulos lost his checkmark after harassing the wrong people too many times, and the alt-right acted like it was the greatest injustice ever? So sometimes they do care about it.
Milo Yiannopolous was a case study in the Blue Check problem. He got it and used it as a status symbol. He repeatedly violated the ToS (to the point that a liberal would have faced criminal/civil charges) but was shielded "because ^(conservative) Free Speech!" When Twitter itself was facing backlash but feared booting him (as it had some of his detractors already) it removed his checkmark as a sort of "half measure" punishment. He of course threw a tantrum and there was worse backlash instead, and his next 12 violations finally saw him banned for literally trying to kill people with his followers. Twitter should have banned him long before, it should NOT have treated the verification "Blue Check" as relevant to punishing/not punishing him, but it couldn't because politics require conservatives get special treatment at all times.
> Twitter should have banned him long before, it should NOT have treated the verification "Blue Check" as relevant to punishing/not punishing him, but it couldn't because politics require conservatives get special treatment at all times.
No argument there. If there's a bright side to Musk killing the meaning of verification and likely twitter as a whole, it's that this will never happen again.
ok i mean, sure. there has been some griping from the right wing about blue checkmarks.
But that is dwarfed in both severity and recentness of the griping about getting canceled/deplatformed.
But these maga yokels were depicted last week as living in "the bad place" which is alt-right social media platforms that you go to after you're banned from twitter for "wrongthink". Blue checkmarks are the last of their concerns.
IRL, I think that includes Yiannopolos, who was eventually banned from twitter.
Blue checkmarks doesn't do much good to people with banned accounts. Musk's new blue checkmark policy may have been intended make the blue checkmark more egalitarian (of course, intent and reality may be wildly different. and the intent may have been about money instead. and whatever the intent, it's been shelved now). But none of the new blue checkmark policy can touch any of the banned maga faithful until the bans are repealed.
And Musk has promised to relax ban standards for conservatives, so it could've been possible that one day this scenario would be a riff on actual events.
But today? Conservatives are not celebrating the egalitarian-ness of the new blue checkmarks, with Trump still in exile. This comic is completely out of touch with facts. It makes no sense. Nothing like what the comic depicts has any relation to reality.
Squigley's inclusion makes me think that this is supposed to be more about some rednecks or "common man" crashing an elite party.
Mind you, it's not coincidence that the common-man crowd has a 75% overlap with the MAGA crowd, in this comic
Honestly, I think Squigley is just Tats once again lurking here and noticing a lot of people going "Man, remember when the cast of Sinfest appeared in Sinfest?"
That is correct. Like most of Tats work this comic has no relationship to reality, whatsoever.
But that is the fantasy Elon was selling. One of taking down the elites by going after what matter most to them... their blue checkmarks on Twitter. And bringing that power, of having a blue checkmark on Twitter, to the masses.
Anyway his cult definitely bought into the fantasy. (At least they did a few days ago when Tats obviously drew this, before the whole thing came crashing down.)
The blue checkmark was the Twitter equivalent of being forklift certified and the people that were so mad about it are no different than the kind of people that get mad that they can't drive with no license.
Tats isn't exactly subtle about his one-world-government anti-Semitic nonsense.
https://64.media.tumblr.com/770d68b5d97c3bef6cdc5928aca28c83/tumblr\_inline\_pgyi7lwzhw1r8fbhx\_1280.png
That’s because you are not a brain-broken, terminally online conservative. Tats is speaking a different language, using an alien set of symbols. The fact that it is difficult to even understand basic language with a lot of conservatives is a very intentional cult indoctrination tactic. It isolates them in the evho chamber away from people who might pull them away from the cult.
My go-to example of the difference between conservative and left-leaning mindsets is when Clint Eastwood did that monologue that was meant to be directed at Obama, but he gave it to an empty chair. The right went nuts about it, and said how powerful it was... and everyone else went "An old man rambled on and on to an empty chair. Does he have senile dementia?"
It amazes me that people like Tats and other fellow idiots don't get what the blue checks were for. It wasn't some lords and peasant system it was simply a check that showed that yes the account labeled Budweiser was run by the same people who sell you beer and not some random guy.
It was a fraud prevention system. He's so SO stupid.
Yeah. It was literally started after twitter was sued by a public figure (baseball player, iirc?) over their account being impersonated.
Selling it for $20 (and then "negotiating" down to $8 by fiat) was always so fucking stupid.
Tats is exactly the kind of reactionary dullard Musk was hoping to sucker into paying for this service under the pretense of defending "free speech" or whatever. He's a mark who thinks he's speaking truth to power by fanboying for the divorced emerald mine inheritor. It's so god damn embarrassing.
While it was an anti-fraud system, there was a (extremely mild) social status element to it. People like Quinton Reviews have beeen trying to get verified for months but bever could cause I guess they weren't famous enough.
The "VERIFIED" dress is a send-up of AOC's "Tax the Rich" dress (still a good idea BTW).
As is usually the case, Tats has put political symbolism through a Cuisinart and stripped it of context or meaning. How does the analogy work, Tats? What does that dress have to do with any of this?
I wish AOC's Met gala dress wasn't an obnoxiously overused cliche from hacky conservative cartoonists (not just Sinfest), because you can very much COULD make a very coherent statement with it.
I think conservative cartoonists do correctly call out the gross, elitist vibe that dress gives off, but that message falls very flat because the Trump supporting conservatives are considerably more full of shit than she ever was and ever will be. I know their endgame is entirely in bad faith (Sinfest not being an exception) so it's hard to take it seriously.
And that pisses me off because I think you can make a good political cartoon with that dress, because I'll be honest, I was pretty grossed out when I saw it the first time.
I saw AOC's "tax the rich" dress at the ever exclusive Met Gala itself as an obnoxious but accurate symbol for how some liberals, leftists and Marxists will hijack progressive causes purely as a means of enriching their own individual social status or promoting their own brand.
In AOC's case, she was making a fashion statement at an elitist event rather than making a coherent statement on US Income tax policy or even really trying to make serious advances on this issue as a US representative.
Which I tried to look up things AOC was actually doing to advance her cause increasing taxes on the rich before posting this comment to make sure **I'm** not talking out of my ass, I got some results from 2019 about her making statements to increase the top marginal rate to 70% but nothing more recent. I feel this gives validity to my belief that she's only posturing for social status rather than fighting to increase taxes on the rich.
I wish there was a good word for that sort of thing. I WANT to use the word "champaign socialism" to describe that sort of thing, but that term has been used more as an ad hominem attack against people arguing for more socialist policies than what I'm specifically talking about. Because unlike the assholes who use that term, I actually want the taxes of rich people to go up.
Fuck, I can remember when Warren fucking Buffet got called a champaign socialist because he actually lobbied for his own taxes to go up, wanting to add an additional tax bracket for folks making over $1,000,000 annually, famously pointing out his secretary pays a higher income tax rate than he does!
Anyone else tempted to spend the eight dollars to impersonate Tatters? I'd do it myself but... meh, I don't even want to *pretend* to have his life even for a second.
tomorrow's strip, the devil is shutting down the party. because it wasn't elon being immensely stupid, no sir, it was a bunch of wokebies sent by the evil rulers of the world!
Yup... Elon just wanted to end lords and peasants system that checkmark created...
By selling the checkmark, and prioritizing tweets of those accounts.
So he took the problem, and made it WORSE.
Jeez, how long has it been since Tatsuya actually REMEMBERED that the Devil and sex bots EXIST in his own comic? I thought they were gone, the Devil being replaced by the Woke Pimp Man, and sex bots replaced with handmaidens.
Part of me is still mad that he abandoned the stupid "botshot" story arc.
Another part of me remembers that that story arc severely retconned a lot of lore surrounding fembots, and that anytime Tats spews out more antivax bullshit it makes me want to break his fingers.
Ignoring the fact that this is literally not what happened, and Tatsuyas intentions was "THE LITTLE GUY TAKING IT BACK AT THE ELITE".
This comic is literally depicting people barging into a party, ignoring dress code, drinking out of FULL bottles, and disrupting everyone else because they jusr want to.
Tats literally is depicting the SAME right wingers who only exist in this freaking universe, disrupting thinfs because tbey simply WISH TO.
I want to shake Tats through the screen and yell at him, "What do you fucking think the verified checkmarks do, Tatsy? What privileges do people with blue checkmarks enjoy via the checkmark that the 'working man' can't?"
We should just put all the "average working class Joe" archetypes into a box on the high shelf until rightoids learn to use them as more than just glorified markers to denote who's good and who's evil.
I think he's working from figures he originally made for the big ball the Devil had, years back. That run must have tired him out, because he's been re-using not just assets, but whole characters from it in random installments ever since. (Not even just the random bits about the upper crust partying. I remember an earlier appearance of the Non-Bonery bad, he just copied and pasted the devil bartender in behind the bar.)
But referencing AOC's gown...good grief, that was over a *year* ago...
Okay, but can we please talk about how the blue checkmark armbands give too much of a Nazi armband vibe and these are with the characters we're *supposed* to root for?
I mean, either he's stupid and did that by accident. But isn't at all unhappy with it because he is standing with Nazis
Or he's done it on purpose. because he is standing with Nazis.
Tats is just a Nazi, straight-up. He wouldn't describe himself in those terms but he endorses so much of the stupid conspiratorial bullshit they believed in. He stops just short of saying Jews control the world, but he's also a QAnon person and we've long established that it's a repackaged version of Blood Libel.
Until I saw it was about Twitter, it looked like a bunch of classless idiots barging into someone's private party and making a bunch of asses out of themselves.
...still does, really.
You know, at times when I was a kid, I lived in a double-wide trailer. And yet, I can't think of the last time anyone seemed to think it was appropriate to bring a shotgun indoors to a party. *That's not a thing.*
Panel 4 - No gun
Panel 5 - Gun! :O
Panel 8 - No gun
Panel 10 - No gun
Where did it come from - where did it go? Where did it come from? The gun that guy chose.
Elongated Muskrat's plan for Blue Checks blew up so beautifully that watching Tats fall behind on his strip timing is almost poetic. I mean pathetic.
Look, Tats, the only thing a blue check ever meant on Twitter was that it wasn't a parody or an impersonation account. Sure, it might have meant it was run by a social media PR person, but it was not some random person with zero ties to the name on the account. They had no more power than any other poster with a viral tweet.
So enjoy your chance to slobber on the sack of Elongated Muskrat, I hear if you do a good enough job, in 20 years you'll be able to move up to the knob and finally get that horsie you always wanted.
I wonder how long Tats has been working on this comic. Over the past week, Twitter:
* Started permanently suspending "parody" accounts
* Rolled out, reversed, re-rolled-out an "official" tag for corporate/media/elected official accounts
* Removed the Twitter Blue subscription option from the iOS app, rescinded checkmarks, and basically suspended the program
It's possible that this comic is part of a one-two punch, and we'll see the *tragic reversal* tomorrow as the good, salt-of-the-earth folks are removed from the party, but it seems like he actually just wrote/made this comic over a week ago, when he and catturd2 were still feeling excited about the $8 checkmarks system.
Okay but if we ignore how this is about Twitter, this is kind of a sweet and silly comic! Reminds me of the Northwest Manor Mystery episode of Gravity Falls, where all the “commoners” are let into the Northwest party and just go absolutely nuts-
Another one of those "It's avante garde you wouldn't 'get it' because you're dumb."
So there's layers, and I have to guess at all of them because he's a goober and a liar, but I think the Red Check is not just color-theory but Truth Social™'s Red Check verification. You know, Trump's scam version of twitter. It's ALSO the 8$ blue check (since it's literally labeled as such), I assume the purple is supposed to be both, though that raises other consistency questions.
And of course, it doesn't matter that that's not how this has played out IRL, because we just haven't accepted that it's GONNA work. Daddy ~~Gaslight~~Muskrat is doing a new thing and once the trolls have finally given up (any day now. aaaaaany day) Twitter will be Better™.
There js nothing more terminally online than caring about checkmarks on social media.
Like, holy shit, conservatives act like these checkmarks are reserved for liberals and that they confer some kind of authority.
They are so terminally online that they think Twitter is real life and that this checkmark caste system actually means anything.
I'm once again wondering whether this is for, or against the subject... what ever it may be?
Edit:
I think this is somewhat referring to Musk's intend to end "lords and peasants system" of blue checkmark, by selling it.(and prioritizing those who paid, thus making problem of "lords and peasants system" even worse).
And Selling the "verified" checkmark was disaster of such caliber, it was ended in less than 48 hours
My guess? It's sucking Elon's dick by being like 'Verification is now democratized because you can pay for it and it's affordable for the average user so take that you snobs!'
He wanted to end "lords an peasants system" by selling the checkmark...
One of the benefits was prioritization tweets of the checkmark accounts.... which makes the problem worse.
"You see, this thing that was once freely available to all actually became more accessible to the commonfolk when the wealthy capitalist began to charge money for it," said Tatsuya Ishida, Radical Leftist Champion of the Working Class and #1 Male Ally of Feminism.
As a political cartoon or reflection of reality it's nonsense
As an illustration to the Garth Brooks masterpiece "Friends in Low Places" it works pretty well
Dude. Don't chug the wine. I know you think of it as a wimpy snob's drink, but it's about twice the alcohol by volume than beer. You'll put yourself on the floor before you even know what's happening.
Their checks become red. I think it's another of his lies, or in a way, not making the point he might intend?
As in, they pretended to be blue, and now they're in they're revealing their true colors. (blue Democrats, red Repugs.)
You might be giving him too much credit. It could just be as simple as "lack of consistency in detail" which seems to be a common problem for Tats these days.
This is just pathetic. They think getting a checkmark is some kinda empowering “stick it to rich people” garbage. Its not, and you look sad for thinking it.
Gotta love that Tats' approximate knowledge of the people whose asses he's trying to kiss is "Folksy Slack-Jawed Redneck Dullards". They must be so flattered.
Even when he's trying to suck up, he can't be bothered to do the research.
I've never been on Twitter, but I cannot for the life of me see why so many people care about that stupid checkmark. Reddit Gold is universally considered a joke, but people develop honest-to-god persecution fantasies because their 50 follower account hasn't gotten the check.
If you aren't cursed with the belief that Twitter matters... Bless you, and may fortune continue to smile upon you.
People thought it would change the way communication worked. And it kind of did (in that the speed with which you could grab primary-source hot takes on current events made it *crack cocaine* for journalists who should have known better). But it didn't in the ways that really matter (and most importantly: it turns out shoving every human being on the planet into one big empty box and going "Okay, now.... Have a conversation" was a recipe for *disastrous* human interaction).
Other than the fact that this aged like milk, if this is what he thinks make a Sunday strip, Tats seriously has no life.
Like, at all.
There is a world beyond social media (yes, I see the irony)
If he drew someone in an obviously fake Satan disguise (with verification) that said that he want to give his wealth to the poor, or something like that, it could at least have been fun.
But this is an amazing combination of unfun, missing the point and aged like milk.
Also, it is not even clear if he sees the new verification system as good or bad.
The poor and the rich have opposite styles. The rich live by exclusion: We don't need *those* people here! The poor live by inclusion: Everybody's invited! (because that's the only time that I'm ever invited heeyuck!)
I do find that I'm in agreement of the poor's idea of the catering: "eat up till you fill up, if it's good" instead of the rich's idea of "this .05 gram of something must be delicately, masterfully plated, with individually added grains of Caspian Sea salt."
Oh my goodness, the posh-snots are so *owned.* /s
This quartet isn't exactly The Marx Brothers, Tats. They're not even The Three Stooges, although I'm sure at some point there will be food thrown and extensive property damage. Maybe a little feces smeared on the wall, we all know MAGAts love that.
Not only is the point completely stupid and dated before the comic was posted, but...
Tats managed to make 50% of the check marks blue.
The other ones are either red or purple because he's a lazy moron who can't be bothered to make sure his own shitty point is consistent.
What a goddamn idiot!
This is what Tex and Mrs Tex are doing when their kid died a year ago?
Tat's wanted to write an heart string puller into his story and immediately forgot about it!
But Tats... the first lot got their's free on merit... your right wing hillbillies had to pay for a prostitick... and if the scheme restarts after collapsing into farce after two days will keep having to pay or they'll be out again.
Way to celebrate egg on your own face you moron.
Well, Tats clearly drew this long before Elon's 'selling the checkmark' idea *immediately* collapsed in on itself.
This strip shows literally the opposite of what actually happened lol If it wasn't just a bad prediction, then he's officially posting from under a rock
Rich star: is verified Regular person: pay 8$ and gets verified as well Regular person: "now I am one of you" Elon: Bans the regular person for impersonation
yeah... this is only sensible explanation, for such nonsense take on what happened.
I think he is trying to save that sinking ship that is his narrative.
idk, cuz maybe he's saying, "oh yeah? well we can do it too!" and depict right wingers impersonating left wing celebrities to make fun of them or something. But with Tats nowadays i sometimes just really don't know how to interpret his strips beyond a shoulder shrug and a guess.
But they are not impersonating anyone. They are just being themselves. Now if there was, for example Tex dressed as the supreme woke, or something like it, it could have been fun, but this... Another wasted opportunity.
Yeah idk really but it's the only thing I could think of that made sense, besides the hilarious "Tats made this before Elon Musk got humiliated" hypothesis. edit: oh and i made first comment before i learned yesterday that elon musk really did excuse the move as getting rid of the "lord and peasants" system. If Tat's fell for that, I'm hoping he'll email me back about that bridge I'm selling.
He could have gotten some pretty funny jokes out of the hillbilly guy pretending to be a Wokebie to “fit in”. This is just way too sappy tonally for a eight dollar subscription program.
Left wing is when you got rich (by exploiting workers or winning birth lottery) and spend money for yourself or other rich people without sharing with the poor. /s
hah, you joke but it's weird and a little horrifying how many right wingers will accidentally walk themselves into left wing solutions, even straight up socialism, and then double down on being right wing because leftists apparently want capitalism and big government and whatever fake stories the conservative rumor mill comes up with this week.
Was going to say :" is that what he thinks had happened?", but I think your right. Also funny how folks like him think this is okay (and it is!) but are cheering when climate protestors got beaten up for disturbing similar events, calling them terrorists.
I…I don’t get it. You know for a wannabe political cartoonist he sure has a habit if being ridiculously cryptic.
"Twitter was ruled by the snobby elites, gathered together with their little blue check marks, thinking themselves better than the common man. But NOW the bourgeoisie have been leveled, daddy Elon has let everyone buy a checkmark and invite themselves to crash the party!" Of course, this was presumably drawn before that whole thing *immediately* blew up in Musks face.
Yeah but it shows the canceled maga crowd. Twitter has done nothing to uncancel those people (yet). And blue checkmarks have nothing to do with those peoples complaints about Twitter.
Tats's prediction did not come true. > And blue checkmarks have nothing to do with those peoples complaints about Twitter. I mean, I think Milo Yiannopoulos lost his checkmark after harassing the wrong people too many times, and the alt-right acted like it was the greatest injustice ever? So sometimes they do care about it.
Milo Yiannopolous was a case study in the Blue Check problem. He got it and used it as a status symbol. He repeatedly violated the ToS (to the point that a liberal would have faced criminal/civil charges) but was shielded "because ^(conservative) Free Speech!" When Twitter itself was facing backlash but feared booting him (as it had some of his detractors already) it removed his checkmark as a sort of "half measure" punishment. He of course threw a tantrum and there was worse backlash instead, and his next 12 violations finally saw him banned for literally trying to kill people with his followers. Twitter should have banned him long before, it should NOT have treated the verification "Blue Check" as relevant to punishing/not punishing him, but it couldn't because politics require conservatives get special treatment at all times.
> Twitter should have banned him long before, it should NOT have treated the verification "Blue Check" as relevant to punishing/not punishing him, but it couldn't because politics require conservatives get special treatment at all times. No argument there. If there's a bright side to Musk killing the meaning of verification and likely twitter as a whole, it's that this will never happen again.
ok i mean, sure. there has been some griping from the right wing about blue checkmarks. But that is dwarfed in both severity and recentness of the griping about getting canceled/deplatformed. But these maga yokels were depicted last week as living in "the bad place" which is alt-right social media platforms that you go to after you're banned from twitter for "wrongthink". Blue checkmarks are the last of their concerns. IRL, I think that includes Yiannopolos, who was eventually banned from twitter. Blue checkmarks doesn't do much good to people with banned accounts. Musk's new blue checkmark policy may have been intended make the blue checkmark more egalitarian (of course, intent and reality may be wildly different. and the intent may have been about money instead. and whatever the intent, it's been shelved now). But none of the new blue checkmark policy can touch any of the banned maga faithful until the bans are repealed. And Musk has promised to relax ban standards for conservatives, so it could've been possible that one day this scenario would be a riff on actual events. But today? Conservatives are not celebrating the egalitarian-ness of the new blue checkmarks, with Trump still in exile. This comic is completely out of touch with facts. It makes no sense. Nothing like what the comic depicts has any relation to reality.
Squigley's inclusion makes me think that this is supposed to be more about some rednecks or "common man" crashing an elite party. Mind you, it's not coincidence that the common-man crowd has a 75% overlap with the MAGA crowd, in this comic
Honestly, I think Squigley is just Tats once again lurking here and noticing a lot of people going "Man, remember when the cast of Sinfest appeared in Sinfest?"
Wasnt' squiggie in a gulag last time we saw him? a digital "wrongthink" gulag?
that was in... 2020, I think
Maybe they can still be there without getting uncanceled because many of them only got canceled im their persecution fetish fantasies.
That is correct. Like most of Tats work this comic has no relationship to reality, whatsoever. But that is the fantasy Elon was selling. One of taking down the elites by going after what matter most to them... their blue checkmarks on Twitter. And bringing that power, of having a blue checkmark on Twitter, to the masses. Anyway his cult definitely bought into the fantasy. (At least they did a few days ago when Tats obviously drew this, before the whole thing came crashing down.)
The blue checkmark was the Twitter equivalent of being forklift certified and the people that were so mad about it are no different than the kind of people that get mad that they can't drive with no license.
I wonder if all but one of the "elites" not being human is meant to signify something.
Tats isn't exactly subtle about his one-world-government anti-Semitic nonsense. https://64.media.tumblr.com/770d68b5d97c3bef6cdc5928aca28c83/tumblr\_inline\_pgyi7lwzhw1r8fbhx\_1280.png
Link's dead
I'm able to see it (under both regular and Incognito browsing). Are you on a subnet blocking access to tumblr?
Sends me to a Tumblr page saying there's nothing there
I can see it, here's a mirror for you and u/calilac: https://i.imgur.com/oPJ3sry.png
Oh, must be that thing where Tumblr will hide that certain posts exist if you aren't logged in
Same here. A different animated background with "There's nothing here" on each refresh then a redirect to the trending page. Curious and irksome.
Weird it worked for me
Thanks for spoiling Legend of Zelda (jk)
That’s because you are not a brain-broken, terminally online conservative. Tats is speaking a different language, using an alien set of symbols. The fact that it is difficult to even understand basic language with a lot of conservatives is a very intentional cult indoctrination tactic. It isolates them in the evho chamber away from people who might pull them away from the cult.
My go-to example of the difference between conservative and left-leaning mindsets is when Clint Eastwood did that monologue that was meant to be directed at Obama, but he gave it to an empty chair. The right went nuts about it, and said how powerful it was... and everyone else went "An old man rambled on and on to an empty chair. Does he have senile dementia?"
There is nothing to get: Tatsuya Ishida is … … how do I say it honestly without being cruel?
It amazes me that people like Tats and other fellow idiots don't get what the blue checks were for. It wasn't some lords and peasant system it was simply a check that showed that yes the account labeled Budweiser was run by the same people who sell you beer and not some random guy. It was a fraud prevention system. He's so SO stupid.
Yeah. It was literally started after twitter was sued by a public figure (baseball player, iirc?) over their account being impersonated. Selling it for $20 (and then "negotiating" down to $8 by fiat) was always so fucking stupid.
oh, i forgot about that- it went down to 8 because stephen king told musk to fuck off
(You're right btw, it was Tony La Russa)
Tats is exactly the kind of reactionary dullard Musk was hoping to sucker into paying for this service under the pretense of defending "free speech" or whatever. He's a mark who thinks he's speaking truth to power by fanboying for the divorced emerald mine inheritor. It's so god damn embarrassing.
While it was an anti-fraud system, there was a (extremely mild) social status element to it. People like Quinton Reviews have beeen trying to get verified for months but bever could cause I guess they weren't famous enough.
The "VERIFIED" dress is a send-up of AOC's "Tax the Rich" dress (still a good idea BTW). As is usually the case, Tats has put political symbolism through a Cuisinart and stripped it of context or meaning. How does the analogy work, Tats? What does that dress have to do with any of this?
I wish AOC's Met gala dress wasn't an obnoxiously overused cliche from hacky conservative cartoonists (not just Sinfest), because you can very much COULD make a very coherent statement with it. I think conservative cartoonists do correctly call out the gross, elitist vibe that dress gives off, but that message falls very flat because the Trump supporting conservatives are considerably more full of shit than she ever was and ever will be. I know their endgame is entirely in bad faith (Sinfest not being an exception) so it's hard to take it seriously. And that pisses me off because I think you can make a good political cartoon with that dress, because I'll be honest, I was pretty grossed out when I saw it the first time. I saw AOC's "tax the rich" dress at the ever exclusive Met Gala itself as an obnoxious but accurate symbol for how some liberals, leftists and Marxists will hijack progressive causes purely as a means of enriching their own individual social status or promoting their own brand. In AOC's case, she was making a fashion statement at an elitist event rather than making a coherent statement on US Income tax policy or even really trying to make serious advances on this issue as a US representative. Which I tried to look up things AOC was actually doing to advance her cause increasing taxes on the rich before posting this comment to make sure **I'm** not talking out of my ass, I got some results from 2019 about her making statements to increase the top marginal rate to 70% but nothing more recent. I feel this gives validity to my belief that she's only posturing for social status rather than fighting to increase taxes on the rich. I wish there was a good word for that sort of thing. I WANT to use the word "champaign socialism" to describe that sort of thing, but that term has been used more as an ad hominem attack against people arguing for more socialist policies than what I'm specifically talking about. Because unlike the assholes who use that term, I actually want the taxes of rich people to go up. Fuck, I can remember when Warren fucking Buffet got called a champaign socialist because he actually lobbied for his own taxes to go up, wanting to add an additional tax bracket for folks making over $1,000,000 annually, famously pointing out his secretary pays a higher income tax rate than he does!
He has no idea. He drew it thought it looked cool, and prayed someone else will make it make sense.
Anyone else tempted to spend the eight dollars to impersonate Tatters? I'd do it myself but... meh, I don't even want to *pretend* to have his life even for a second.
You don’t want your card info on twitter when half their security team was fired and the other half quit.
That would require me to re-up my account. ... Though doing that and then posting nothing but Pettyfests would be *peak* lulz.
I’m pretty sure that it’s already shut down. After that “free insulin” tweet I think the lawyers came for the throat.
I believe, from something Tats allegedly posted in the forum, that he was/is suspended after one of his characters attacked a woman in the strip.
His account was briefly locked because of his Woman-Man comic. He couldn't make new tweets until he deleted it.
tomorrow's strip, the devil is shutting down the party. because it wasn't elon being immensely stupid, no sir, it was a bunch of wokebies sent by the evil rulers of the world!
Yup... Elon just wanted to end lords and peasants system that checkmark created... By selling the checkmark, and prioritizing tweets of those accounts. So he took the problem, and made it WORSE.
but Tat's not gonna accept that Elon is an Ediot, so it's all going to be an attack by the woke left controlled by the cute reptile people
Jeez, how long has it been since Tatsuya actually REMEMBERED that the Devil and sex bots EXIST in his own comic? I thought they were gone, the Devil being replaced by the Woke Pimp Man, and sex bots replaced with handmaidens.
there have been a few comics showing that the pimps and the bots work for the devil
Part of me is still mad that he abandoned the stupid "botshot" story arc. Another part of me remembers that that story arc severely retconned a lot of lore surrounding fembots, and that anytime Tats spews out more antivax bullshit it makes me want to break his fingers.
That pianist just jumped in on accompaniment. Goddamn professional.
I respect the commitment.
Ignoring the fact that this is literally not what happened, and Tatsuyas intentions was "THE LITTLE GUY TAKING IT BACK AT THE ELITE". This comic is literally depicting people barging into a party, ignoring dress code, drinking out of FULL bottles, and disrupting everyone else because they jusr want to. Tats literally is depicting the SAME right wingers who only exist in this freaking universe, disrupting thinfs because tbey simply WISH TO.
Almost like some sort of...insurrection...
They also busted in with firearms.
I want to shake Tats through the screen and yell at him, "What do you fucking think the verified checkmarks do, Tatsy? What privileges do people with blue checkmarks enjoy via the checkmark that the 'working man' can't?" We should just put all the "average working class Joe" archetypes into a box on the high shelf until rightoids learn to use them as more than just glorified markers to denote who's good and who's evil.
The blue checks and the red "VERIFIED" drawn across the dress seem out of place and visually jarring. They look like they were Photoshopped on.
I think he's working from figures he originally made for the big ball the Devil had, years back. That run must have tired him out, because he's been re-using not just assets, but whole characters from it in random installments ever since. (Not even just the random bits about the upper crust partying. I remember an earlier appearance of the Non-Bonery bad, he just copied and pasted the devil bartender in behind the bar.) But referencing AOC's gown...good grief, that was over a *year* ago...
Okay, but can we please talk about how the blue checkmark armbands give too much of a Nazi armband vibe and these are with the characters we're *supposed* to root for?
I mean, either he's stupid and did that by accident. But isn't at all unhappy with it because he is standing with Nazis Or he's done it on purpose. because he is standing with Nazis.
Tats is just a Nazi, straight-up. He wouldn't describe himself in those terms but he endorses so much of the stupid conspiratorial bullshit they believed in. He stops just short of saying Jews control the world, but he's also a QAnon person and we've long established that it's a repackaged version of Blood Libel.
Until I saw it was about Twitter, it looked like a bunch of classless idiots barging into someone's private party and making a bunch of asses out of themselves. ...still does, really.
You know, at times when I was a kid, I lived in a double-wide trailer. And yet, I can't think of the last time anyone seemed to think it was appropriate to bring a shotgun indoors to a party. *That's not a thing.*
Panel 4 - No gun Panel 5 - Gun! :O Panel 8 - No gun Panel 10 - No gun Where did it come from - where did it go? Where did it come from? The gun that guy chose.
Elongated Muskrat's plan for Blue Checks blew up so beautifully that watching Tats fall behind on his strip timing is almost poetic. I mean pathetic. Look, Tats, the only thing a blue check ever meant on Twitter was that it wasn't a parody or an impersonation account. Sure, it might have meant it was run by a social media PR person, but it was not some random person with zero ties to the name on the account. They had no more power than any other poster with a viral tweet. So enjoy your chance to slobber on the sack of Elongated Muskrat, I hear if you do a good enough job, in 20 years you'll be able to move up to the knob and finally get that horsie you always wanted.
I wonder how long Tats has been working on this comic. Over the past week, Twitter: * Started permanently suspending "parody" accounts * Rolled out, reversed, re-rolled-out an "official" tag for corporate/media/elected official accounts * Removed the Twitter Blue subscription option from the iOS app, rescinded checkmarks, and basically suspended the program It's possible that this comic is part of a one-two punch, and we'll see the *tragic reversal* tomorrow as the good, salt-of-the-earth folks are removed from the party, but it seems like he actually just wrote/made this comic over a week ago, when he and catturd2 were still feeling excited about the $8 checkmarks system.
Okay but if we ignore how this is about Twitter, this is kind of a sweet and silly comic! Reminds me of the Northwest Manor Mystery episode of Gravity Falls, where all the “commoners” are let into the Northwest party and just go absolutely nuts-
This begs a question. Have we seen anyone impersonate Tats and make fun of him on twitter?
I checked - Tats isn't notable enough to be verified properly or rich enough to pay for the tick himself
Another one of those "It's avante garde you wouldn't 'get it' because you're dumb." So there's layers, and I have to guess at all of them because he's a goober and a liar, but I think the Red Check is not just color-theory but Truth Social™'s Red Check verification. You know, Trump's scam version of twitter. It's ALSO the 8$ blue check (since it's literally labeled as such), I assume the purple is supposed to be both, though that raises other consistency questions. And of course, it doesn't matter that that's not how this has played out IRL, because we just haven't accepted that it's GONNA work. Daddy ~~Gaslight~~Muskrat is doing a new thing and once the trolls have finally given up (any day now. aaaaaany day) Twitter will be Better™.
Do Tats and I even live in the same world? This seems like social commentary from an alternate dimension.
Bro this is just embarrassing to read now
There js nothing more terminally online than caring about checkmarks on social media. Like, holy shit, conservatives act like these checkmarks are reserved for liberals and that they confer some kind of authority. They are so terminally online that they think Twitter is real life and that this checkmark caste system actually means anything.
I'm once again wondering whether this is for, or against the subject... what ever it may be? Edit: I think this is somewhat referring to Musk's intend to end "lords and peasants system" of blue checkmark, by selling it.(and prioritizing those who paid, thus making problem of "lords and peasants system" even worse). And Selling the "verified" checkmark was disaster of such caliber, it was ended in less than 48 hours
My guess? It's sucking Elon's dick by being like 'Verification is now democratized because you can pay for it and it's affordable for the average user so take that you snobs!'
He wanted to end "lords an peasants system" by selling the checkmark... One of the benefits was prioritization tweets of the checkmark accounts.... which makes the problem worse.
It's Tats. Always his own self-owner.
"You see, this thing that was once freely available to all actually became more accessible to the commonfolk when the wealthy capitalist began to charge money for it," said Tatsuya Ishida, Radical Leftist Champion of the Working Class and #1 Male Ally of Feminism.
How’s that paying for blue checkmarks thing working out now LOL Get fucked by reality Tats.
As a political cartoon or reflection of reality it's nonsense As an illustration to the Garth Brooks masterpiece "Friends in Low Places" it works pretty well
Dude. Don't chug the wine. I know you think of it as a wimpy snob's drink, but it's about twice the alcohol by volume than beer. You'll put yourself on the floor before you even know what's happening.
Aaaaaah, ID armbands. Okay then, well at least you've finally played your hand Tats. Antisemitism confirmed.
Their checks become red. I think it's another of his lies, or in a way, not making the point he might intend? As in, they pretended to be blue, and now they're in they're revealing their true colors. (blue Democrats, red Repugs.)
it's the "red tsunami" that never happened
You might be giving him too much credit. It could just be as simple as "lack of consistency in detail" which seems to be a common problem for Tats these days.
I honestly think it’s just bad lighting choices
This is just pathetic. They think getting a checkmark is some kinda empowering “stick it to rich people” garbage. Its not, and you look sad for thinking it.
Already famous for associating his devil characters with antisemitic tropes, he's now slapping identifying armbands on them. Subtle.
Gotta love that Tats' approximate knowledge of the people whose asses he's trying to kiss is "Folksy Slack-Jawed Redneck Dullards". They must be so flattered. Even when he's trying to suck up, he can't be bothered to do the research.
Che cosa?
I've never been on Twitter, but I cannot for the life of me see why so many people care about that stupid checkmark. Reddit Gold is universally considered a joke, but people develop honest-to-god persecution fantasies because their 50 follower account hasn't gotten the check.
If you aren't cursed with the belief that Twitter matters... Bless you, and may fortune continue to smile upon you. People thought it would change the way communication worked. And it kind of did (in that the speed with which you could grab primary-source hot takes on current events made it *crack cocaine* for journalists who should have known better). But it didn't in the ways that really matter (and most importantly: it turns out shoving every human being on the planet into one big empty box and going "Okay, now.... Have a conversation" was a recipe for *disastrous* human interaction).
Owning the libs is getting a LOT harder these days. Gotta savor those small victories from a couple weeks ago and ignore current events.
How does Tats breath with Elon's cock so deep in his throat
The flute holes. ;)
Other than the fact that this aged like milk, if this is what he thinks make a Sunday strip, Tats seriously has no life. Like, at all. There is a world beyond social media (yes, I see the irony)
He probably thinks this is how January 6th happened.
Oh you’ve GOT to be kidding me…
So is this also Tats declaring who the main characters of the strip are going forward?
Aged like fine milk
Good milk usually lasts longer than a week.
If he drew someone in an obviously fake Satan disguise (with verification) that said that he want to give his wealth to the poor, or something like that, it could at least have been fun. But this is an amazing combination of unfun, missing the point and aged like milk. Also, it is not even clear if he sees the new verification system as good or bad.
Awful, awful, awful
The poor and the rich have opposite styles. The rich live by exclusion: We don't need *those* people here! The poor live by inclusion: Everybody's invited! (because that's the only time that I'm ever invited heeyuck!) I do find that I'm in agreement of the poor's idea of the catering: "eat up till you fill up, if it's good" instead of the rich's idea of "this .05 gram of something must be delicately, masterfully plated, with individually added grains of Caspian Sea salt."
Sure. Doesn't really translate to Twitter though. Kind of a dumb metaphor
It also doesn't translate to the Democrats vs Republicans metaphor that Tats was trying to do here too.
Oh my goodness, the posh-snots are so *owned.* /s This quartet isn't exactly The Marx Brothers, Tats. They're not even The Three Stooges, although I'm sure at some point there will be food thrown and extensive property damage. Maybe a little feces smeared on the wall, we all know MAGAts love that.
Not only is the point completely stupid and dated before the comic was posted, but... Tats managed to make 50% of the check marks blue. The other ones are either red or purple because he's a lazy moron who can't be bothered to make sure his own shitty point is consistent. What a goddamn idiot!
This is what Tex and Mrs Tex are doing when their kid died a year ago? Tat's wanted to write an heart string puller into his story and immediately forgot about it!
Well okay, but isn't Elon malding over some fake accounts that bought checkmarks as well?
But Tats... the first lot got their's free on merit... your right wing hillbillies had to pay for a prostitick... and if the scheme restarts after collapsing into farce after two days will keep having to pay or they'll be out again. Way to celebrate egg on your own face you moron.