there's a purity culture of hating PizzaCake it seems like. rather than just not liking PizzaCake, some people have to prove they hate PizzaCake. what's the goal of proving you hate PizzaCake? to feel included and socially accepted. the funny thing is i've only ever seen this culture of proving you hate something arise around women, girls, and things women and girls like. i'm about to age myself a little bit but here's a list of things that have gotten these purity hate cultures around them since i've been able to notice:
- Britney Spears
- Boy bands
- Jessica Simpson
- Twilight
- Katy Perry's come up
- Lady Gaga
- Carly Rae Jepson
- indie folk
- Hillary Clinton
- women's marches
- PizzaCake
- OnlyFans models
- AOC
and for all those people, and things, the purity culture around hating them just keeps them in the zeitgeist, an effect that has only been intensified by engagement driven algorithms. when you make it a point to say you hate something, you are platforming that thing and the things you say you don't like about it.
personally, i like Pizza Cake on the whole. i think she has some insights. i don't find anything amazing or detestible about the art style. it's just… a newspaper cartoonist's style. it's unique enough to be evidently hers while being clean enough to appear alongside other comics with a similar blend of insight, comedy, and personal testimony. it also helps her have a consistent style across the run of her comic. i see a lot of people complaining that the art hasn't shown signs of practice or improvement, but that's… exactly the aim of this style of cartooning. to be extremely consistent and repeatable in order to meet deadlines and to allow resharing long after the original was shared in the event it becomes relevant again.
i guess my point is… if you, the reader, hate PizzaCake, that's fine. i won't convince you to not. but you won't convince me to hate it either. so just move along. proving you hate something only makes that thing more visible to others. do what i do when i hate stuff: don't talk about it or think about it. if you come across it you can say "oh, here's another thing that's doing something similar i just like a little more better"
not everything has to be vitriol all the time