what do you do to ensure you never become him?
Literally who
Truth nuke: He draws better than and has accomplished more than 90% of /ic/.
>>7820789>to ensure you never become him?Literally, the average /ic/ user in picrel. IT'S OVER.
>>7820789isn't he like un uber redditor söyboy?bitch I chudmaxx everyday. how would I ever end up like him
>>7820789But he draws well and have a lot of fans?
>>7820792Most people know that buddy
>>7820792>>7820796he had a few dozen fans and got a degree that he hated and led to absolutely nothing. Anyone would rather be the average /ic/ user, at least they have potential, dobson just stagnated forever and dwelled in his own misery. Unironically would have had a much better life if he just stuck to making inflation art for money
>>7820791holy newfag
>>7820789You mean as a person? Nothing. Most people would have to actively try really hard to turn out like him
>>7820803>few dozen fansNuclear cope. Dobson had one of the biggest webcomics in the early days, on par in fame with Penny Arcade and Buckley. Towards the end, he was making several hundred dollars a month on patreon doing nothing. This is success the average ic incel can only dream of.
>>7820811made your bait too obvious award
>>7820811>on par in fame with Penny Arcadelet's not get too crazy here
>>7820805I draw here since 2019 and never heard of this bald lard
Dobson, like Chris-Chan or serial killers before we invented DNA evidence and put cameras on every street corner, is a product of his tlme you couldn't replicate today, most of the events that turned a mediocre comic strip artist into the son of Dob would play out very differently.LARPed as a woman to draw inflation porn and have an unhealthy lesbian fetish? big deal.People talk shit about your art ? These days they'd get banned in minutes.Banned from Twitter because you said Trump should be shot ? These days you can.Traced a few things but generally legit ? Hey, who hasn't ?
>>7820812No, it's just pathetic how people love to shit on someone while being worse themselves. How's your patreon? How much money have you made from you art? Has anyone even heard of you? Lol, but yea Dobson is such a loser, couldn't be you.
>>7820816yea it was definitely these few events that made him a lolcow and not him being a complete retard who's fun to laugh at but miserable to actually interact with. It's infinitely funnier when you find out someone you already laughed at was caught tracing art as opposed to some literal who on xitter
>>7820789Literally just ignore the trolls and have the slightest iota of self-awareness
>>7820815>I'm a newfag and never heard of this bald lardyea I know
>>7820824?Let's see what 10 years+ of ic looks like
>>7820789>be open to criticism>actively work on improving your art>don't get bent out of shape over small shit>don't pretend to be holier than thou when you're the as bad or worse>don't wallow in the festering memory of nostalgia and pretend it's the greatest shit ever>don't be an arrogant, self centered, smug, condescending prick
>>7820789That's difficult. You need to be a level of self aware, and self critical, to catch if you're being cringe. The opinions and politics he displayed in his comics are hardly all that divisive, it's just the way he went about it.Would his famous cosplay comic have been so cringe if he didn't base it on a misrepresented moment of his life, rather than just an opinion on cosplayers and their vulnerability to the crowd?Would his inflation fetish have been so embarrassing if he just owned it and said "yeah, I like inflation, what of it?", rather than hiding or ignoring it?Would his responses and blog posts have been so embarrassing if he wasn't so emotional, or so hostile?The problem is this stuff is only obvious in hindsight, and so easy to get wrong in the moment.We I can sit here and say 'just don't be cringe', but we can see even from this board, that can be too high a hurdle for some.So I guess just act professionally, and don't be too personal with your comics to the point that people can legitimately say they were featured in your comic and it was misrepresenting them.>>7820811True, maybe not to the extent you're claiming, but he was one of the more popular deviantart artist of his time. This doesn't mean that he couldn't have tarnished that reputation though, and chased his fans away, which seems to have evidently happened in the end.
>>7820838>This doesn't mean that he couldn't have tarnished that reputation though, and chased his fans away, which seems to have evidently happened in the end.His fame got to his head too quickly. But his sins are just being an annoying doofus. In today's landscape of grifting influencers and sociopaths, I'll take a dozen Dobsons over a lying AI photobasher. If anything, Dobbie would fit right in /ic/. He's a depressed incel who loves to draw/make comics, except unlike most of us he's tasted success for a brief moment. And he at least has the shame and self awareness to leave the internet after everything. Influencers today would ignore it and keep grifting.
>>7820828I accept your concession newfag
Because whatever he draws, I refuse to draw
>>7820848>10 years+ of ic and still feels ashamed to post his workembarrassing
>>7820853why would I do anything for a newfag? I'm here to laugh at you lol
>>7820858Ok permabeg
>>7820860look its trying to fit in by using our words, how cute, do it more newfag
>>7820866Keep grinding that Loomis heads for another decadeMaybe you will reach mid beg
complain less, assume less, keep learning, dont be lazy. dobson was never "bad" just lazy and talkative. people dunked on him but most of them were not artists themselves. its mostly just his stupid, uneducated autistic opinions that rubbed other autists wrong. tldr; just shut up and draw.
/v/ pls go
>>7820789I miss him so much it's unreal. He was an S tier lolcow and people should have just left him alone to post his unhinged nonsense takes for our enjoyment. The internet is poorer without him on it.>>7820812>>7820813Every SYAC strip without exception would end up on the front page of deviantart. It really was one of the most popular webcomics of its era, even though it's largely forgotten now.
>>7820844>And he at least has the shame and self awareness to leave the internet after everything.I actually give the dude props for sticking to his guns and just leaving, like he said he would. Not many who make such declarations, especially when being as 'online' as he was, would see it through.Though I'm surprised he hasn't tried (as far as we know) to go just the traditional publishing route.
>>7820923>even though it's largely forgotten now.That seems to be the case for webcomics in general. Penny Arcade has been brought up a few times here, but how many youngins have read it, or even know about it?Hell, it seems like Homestuck had nearly been mind wiped from people's consciousness until the pilot was announced.I guess that's the fate of online culture... to become completely forgotten and irrelevant when their time is due. Compare this to traditional media, that seems to have longer legs; the greats will always remain great and become a 'must read/watch/play', instead of being banished to the shadow realm like internet culture does.
>>7820939Yep it's true. Around the early 00's the #1 webcomic was a comic called Wendy which is practically lost media now because the creator hates it and doesn't want to repost it. You basically have to get your comics into regular print for them to stick, and even then it's hard.
>>7820789no cautionary tale to tell, dude just had a shitty personality and was lazy, it sinked his art career. somethings can't be fixed sadly. sucks i really liked that one traditional animation animations he madeonly think i took from his story is not to feed the trolls, or share personal infromation on the internet, but that's a given
>>7820950Might be because of the price tag on them. If I hear about a great webcomic, I'll probably book mark it to read later, but never follow up on that.If I BUY a comic, now I've invested in it, and I'm not likely to just leave it unread and waste said investment.The fact that the internet isn't as permanent as we initially thought is also an issue.
>>7820848>another /co/ schizo shits up a different board
>>7820789>draws only what he wants>has an iconic styleyou need to ensure you are MORE like him, op. Go draw.
>>7820866Psst. Spending lots of time here is not something to be proud of.
>>7820789I'm literally him though. Except I never made it
>>7820789Accept criticism and move on. He used to draw decently but had an insufferable personality. So many cases…>>7820791Hello newfag.
>>7820789Just don't become a lolcow, which for normal people is extremely easy. On the topic of dobson i've seen a bunch of threads on /v/ about his supposed comeback, specifcally an animation channel he made it seems he's just chilling and posting animated stuff so i guess he had his happy ending.>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Ijx2fOQqRAfunny thing is if this actually is dobson then he's doing way better then like 99% of /ic/
>>7820789Hate women and minorities.
No if i were Tom Dobson I'd be writing about two queer women on a boat, one of whom was brown and OH NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
I mean Pizzacake is basically nuDobson down to the liberal stand in owning the conservatard gimmick and also down to the severe sexual deviancy but the internet loves her because her brand of sexual perversion is empowering or whatever.
>>7821230shes also a cute girl so that helps a lot. Imagine if Dobson were a cute girl
>>7820789who is this?
I don't draw.
>>7820792sad but truehe had a consistent paying gig making a webcomic for a minor eceleb. most of /ic/ wont even amount to that
>>7821239She's a 4/10 at best, how low are your standards?
>>7821371i just dont watch much porn man, i dont think a woman needs to look like a bimbo to be cute
>>7820789Quite simply don't draw inflation art.
>>7821470Nobody mentioned bimbos you projecting retard, she's objectively not attractive
>>7821371>>7821490>elbows too sharpcope
>>7821490Regardless, no one would put up with her constant self-aggrandizing, reddit-pandering, woe-is-me, strawman-slaying schtick if she was a dude
>>7821496Yea, even a 4/10 lives life on easy mode. The reddit moderators work tirelessly to delete and ban any criticism of her, can't imagine them caring if she were a guy or they weren't castrated simps
>>7820789>>7820792don't be a male feminist? sounds pretty easy not gonna lie, the average person on either side of the fence can sniff out disingenuous virtue signaling.whether or not he "draws good" is kind of irrelevant once you enter the art community as a public figure. you have a lot more freedom to be cringe if you never post your face out there or go to comic cons with cosplay sluts.
>>7821230>>7821496>>7821496You gross mutants will fund lucrative porno empires after empire with site traffic and money then seethe about women for having audacity to be paid a precentage of the trillions they've already forked over. You fags are completely too faced.
>>7820789Didn't he silently return recently and made a bunch of really good "classic zelda" animations on YouTube?
>>7821698Found the guy i was talking aboutCapsyst animations on YouTube
>>7820789Easy: i don't draw.>7821705Bro leave Blue Bear alone, he has a right to start over.
>>7820789 I Hitlermaxx everyday so I don't become like him.
>>7821688Being a male feminist is irrelevant. He's just a sperg with an ego and more success than people thought he deserved, making him an easy target. None of the things he said or did would mean anything today, where the internet is a sea of scammers, grifters, and influencers whose obnoxiousness would make Dobson look like a saint. He could come back with a single post of his bear being inflated, then resume drawing comics and have a decent sized patreon by the end of a year.
>>7820789If I become him it's probably because I was right about something and everyone else couldn't get over it for the next decade
>>7821695Ha, speaking of catty bitches who like to tussle with strawmen. You're right on cue!
>>7820794You're already fat (probably wear glasses too), all you need is to finish balding and then grow out that beard
>>7820820Zach sure loves ugly things. He's a perfect fit for Adult Swim.
>>7821695Clean your vagina
>>7820789Learn to distinguish constructive criticism and shit takes. Also don't spent hours arguing over petty things. To give him credit where credit is due, I am glad he made comics like these. Some critics act like asshats and get upset when you openly dismiss their "golden" opinion.There is this notion that an artist is in the wrong if they dare to openly reject what critics have to say. Do people genuinely believe that the critics are always right?Many of them have unwarranted self importance and think anything they say should be taken as gospel. Any opposition is for some reason deemed as disrespectful.LOL you aren't owe respect just because you took time out of your day to criticize something. Don't like it then fuck off.
>>7823961I feel kind of bad for mocking him for these takes. It's a little petty but most of these were probably just thrown out for fun for other artists to relate to and get a chuckle. He had comics that actually represented what he wanted to do which probably amounted to way more of his output by volume, but he had no way of knowing that social media posts would become more of a cultural force than print media. It's scary how quickly a slanted public perception can becomewho you are to the world.
>>7823966>It's scary how quickly a slanted public perception can becomewho you are to the world.His behavior isn't really that much different from your typical devianttard. He did some despicable things like supporting LGBTQ for the wrong reasons(He fetishize lesbians) and tried to smear someone as a creep(powergirl cosplay comic).Most people however seem to hate him for being petty, entitled, argumentative, thin skinned, inflation(paraphilia), lazy and tracing. All of those crappy characteristics could be applied to many deviant-art users. But he was treated like the worst person ever, people went out of their way to harass him IRL.If anything he should had been mocked for being a living stereotype of the deviantart user base. Hardly seems fair that he was specifically mass target to the degree he was.
>>7824179>>7823966It comes down to how successful/famous he was, and this just made people want to tear him down more. The fact that he did leave the internet (he could've covered his ears and grifted, his patreon was netting $80 a month towards the end for doing nothing), shows he has morals and is capable of self reflection/growth. Meanwhile today we have the most despicable grifting influencers whose asshattery only seems to get them a bigger platform to grift from. Narcissists who seem incapable of feeling shame, whose only goal is to accrue a bigger audience to sell out to scams and corpos. Dobson, I hope you see this thread. It's been over 7 years, that's enough time for any person to change. Your main problem is you've always wanted to be liked by everyone too much. You were hurt when the left rejected you even though you were such an "ally". But it's enough that you are empathetic and compassionate for others, even if they despise you or bully you. If you really are good and not just 'good for show', people will see that eventually. Don't bother trying to please everyone, just draw your comics.
>>7820789Be humble.
>>7821785>He's just a sperg with an ego and more success than people thought he deserved, making him an easy target. None of the things he said or did would mean anything today>>7824215>It comes down to how successful/famous he was, and this just made people want to tear him down moreYeah people just use this as an dishonest excuse to justify to themself why Dobson deserves it. Had he never gotten famous, the same people if they came across his internet shitflinging.Would just had dismiss him as another deviantautist who can't take criticism. who thinks like this to be honest?>man what an asshole, this dobson told someone to go fuck himself for criticizing how dobson draws hands, we must humble him!
