ID: A Sophie Labelle 4 panel comic featuring Stephie in different poses, saying:

Landlords do not provide housing.

They buy and Hold more space than they need for themselves.

Then, they create a false scarcity and profit off of it.

What they’re doing is literally the opposite of providing housing.

    • Wiz@midwest.social
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      13 days ago

      Not all sequential art is meant to be funny.

      Side note: One of the best non-fiction books of all time is Understanding Comics by Scott McCloud.

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        13 days ago

        You’d expect a sub that’s about memes to contain memes, or, if not quite memes in the “proper” sense of the word, at least generally funny or entertaining content. This is just a brief lecture in four panels. McCloud’s wonderful comic is pretty much the last thing this could remind me of.

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          13 days ago

          “memes” in the proper sense of the word are not inherently funny or amusing. Same with “satire”, for what it’s worth.

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          13 days ago

          I disagree, i do agree that a comic is not perse a meme but a meme does not need to be entertaining or funny.

          Memes are an evolution of language. A picture can convey a thousands words at a glance and by sharing recognizable meme patterns we can streamline that language for efficient consumption.

          Most memes do tend to be humor because humor is an effective and popular language format but plenty of nom humor examples exist: Rage comics/Wozak, loss.

          Other argument: In some ways the “4 panel comic” pattern is a meme. And there is something funny in that its a child saying it while holding wildly different positions. That does convey a certain recognizable “but what do i know, I am just trying to live my own life”

          We could argue its subjectively bad or ineffective at being a meme, but in the subjective nature of information you can’t argue that this is definitely not a meme.

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      13 days ago

      Yeah, comic only laugh. Funny funny or else why? Why comic if no funny? Funny pages, comics, funny /s

      Dude, comics can be whatever the fuck you want. Want to make a comic that’s just four panels of an unmoving rock? Still a comic. And there’s no reason why anyone should question otherwise.

      Between this and all the “how is this a meme?” comments. Most inane, useless comments. Maybe, just maybe, it wasn’t meant for you? Clearly it’s getting upvotes

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        Want to make a comic that’s just four panels of an unmoving rock? Still a comic.

        Sure, except that would be a somewhat shitty comic and anyone would have the right to say that if that’s their opinion.

        Between this and all the “how is this a meme?” comments. Most inane, useless comments. Maybe, just maybe, it wasn’t meant for you? Clearly it’s getting upvotes

        Maybe my comment wasn’t meant for you if it bothers you this much? Just move on bro.

        • dwindling7373@feddit.it
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          12 days ago

          Let me help you.

          The comic, as many other do, revolves around the final panel where the character portrayed wandering in a state of frustration comes to the somewhat paradoxical conclusion that landlords, that supposedly provide housing, do the opposite.

          It’s political, but also plays on the relatableness of the situation and has a certain quirky dinamicity to it, with changes of location, gesturing and inbalanced poses.

          Its effect on some people is best summaryzed as “it’s funny because it’s true”.

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            12 days ago

            It’s 4 sentences with a hard hitting message. This doesn’t need to be in a comic 🤪

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                12 days ago

                Oh, I mean you’re not wrong. Let me adjust my message:

                I dislike this comic, not because of the message, but because it is in the form of a comic. Personally, I think it’s gimmicky and unnecessary to put this message in a comic. Though, I understand that the person trying to get this message out might use comics as their main platform, which then brings me to understand and respect their decision. Still, the comic adds nothing to the message, and that was my original point.