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oh come ON Booster
Tumblr is better for formatting and tags and chronological sorting and shit
…
granted, that’d take work, which Walky isn’t willing to do…
Eh, Twitter’s easier to search for strips.
Plus they don’t censor your whole blog just for mentioning strings.
Is there a story behind the “strings” thing or is that just hyperbole?
**whispers**
Look at his gravatar…
A creator I followed, “Wings and Strings”, had his whole blog marked as NSFW and rendered inaccessible, as well as other blogs with the word “string”, ’cause the censor bots read it in the context of G-strings.
They all tried to get this fixed, but Tumblr’s support service isn’t worth SHIT!
Oh.
Well now I feel dumb.
I thought you were talking about balloon penises.
….
Well, don’t feel TOO dumb.
Your suggestion just gave me an idea!
I am intrigued.
Also, unrelated, but I was giggling so hard about all this that my wife was like “what’s so funny” and so I had to explain all this…
Her response was “oh, that happened to me too. Remember that toy blog I used to do with classic 80s My Little Ponies? It kept getting flagged as NSFW even thought it was just pictures of toys. Eventually, I just gave up and shut it down because I couldn’t be bothered anymore.”
So yeah.
Awe so sorry that happened to her blog!
Was it even on Tumblr?
Also, I’m intrigued too. I wonder just what The Wellerman has in mind….
I am also intrigued, but if the song is any indication I’m guessing it has something to do with tonguing?
A friend of mine had her blog censored during the whole nsfw thing a while back despite all her work being *very* wholesome. We concluded it was because of rabbit in her username and the mention of bunnies
A rabbit is a type of sex toy
….
**slow clap**
How in the bloody hell do you search for anything on Twitter?!
Modern social media is too transient for a comic archive.
Hashtags, tweet threads, and ‘moments’ are the relevant Twitter tools.
None of which are regularly used, and since tweets aren’t editable, a forgotten hashtag can’t be added in except as a reply, which feels kinda silly. Also hashtags take up the already limited character limit, which while not necessarily an issue when it comes to art/comics, can be limiting if the creator wants to add some thoughts.
Tumblr, ultimately, is far superior in its UI and inner workings when it comes to any sort of tagging system (I loved that I could search tags within an artist’s page), but the whole nsfw ban soured the system immensely.
Right now my go to is Pixiv, but the language barrier probably gates a fair number of people from going to that route.
To be fair tumblrs that site yahoo bought for like a billion dollars only for it to crash hard after they were forced to ban porn so it could be put on the apple store(which didn’t work) and ended up being sold years later for a pathetic 3 million. Walky wouldn’t stand a chance there. It’s basically lord of the flies in that place.
Tumblr selling for a billion dollars either means the seller was a master con-artist or that Yahoo are an easy mark
Community did manage to get a sixth season out of Yahoo and wind up tanking their fledgling video service when it underperformed, so… yeah, I think Yahoo was just an easy mark.
As a Community fan it worked out pretty well for me, though!
Still waiting for that movie.
What I don’t understand is how sites like, say, Reddit are filled with porn and have no problem being on the App Store.
sorry O/T, your avatar made me chuckle ^^ where’s it from?
I’d guess it’s a “backdoor deal”.
Seconded milu. Please, tell us where your gravatar is from?
Reddit outsources its governance to the mods of subreddits. That means a wider pool of moderators that are also conveniently human. I believe tumblr’s moderation was (and still is) mostly automated, and it’s all run by tumblr themselves.
So when someone who’s underage posts nude selfies to tumblr, easy for the tumblr team to miss it. It gets reported to the itunes store and down goes the app. And unless the info I got back when it happened was wrong, the ban came not from porn in general but because it was an underage instance of it. Reddit’s infrastructure wouldn’t allow for that, between community moderators deleting the posts then banning the users and the fact that any subreddit that allows that content being able to be safely closed and excised without affecting the site at large.
Actually that might explain how my Tumblr stuff never takes off haha (besides the lack of self-promotion and all)
Walky is unaware of Twitter’s new authentication method whereupon you must upload footage of yourself eating a salad to prove you’re not a bot, because everyone knows robots only eat nuts and bolts that they wash down with delicious oil.
Are we sure Walky’s not a robot?
If somebody made a robot that’s fueled by McNuggets and Taco Bell, well, good for them but I bet it’s not very fuel efficient and the emissions are awful.
Sounds like Walky to me.
If he was, he would tell everyone about it.
What if the salad has nuts and oil?
Then the machines have won.
Walnuts and olive oil.
Could be pine nuts. And sunflower oil.
… and I suppose the lettuce could be bolted, but you probably shouldn’t eat it then.
Oh yeah I forgot Willis made official twitters for the DOA characters
Walky’s twitter. It gives a whole new meaning to shit takes.
bad Sirksome
Naw, they’re just takin’ the piss mate.
Walky’s too pooped to do much more
Start up a new thread
@walky #nopoopsIswear
No poop is wear!
Nop?
Oops! I swear!
No? Poop is we ar!
No Poop Sis Wear!
Nopoo psisw ear!
Nopo Ops, Is Wear
Couldn’t Walky just… make a second account for his comic?
I mean, probably not because it involves extra work.
Hmm, I suspect Walky’s next issue is gonna be ‘scanning all his comics’.
He can do it next to Joyce.
That could easily lead to a spiritual successor to the “Billie bought an expensive recorder” joke.
Joyce: I had to take an hour long bus trip to Kinkos and it cost 49 cents per page (of which I have several hundred), but I got all my comics scanned!
Walky: I downloaded a free scanner app for my phone.
I would hope Daisy has a scanner in the journalism building and her employees won’t be charged for using it for their jobs
There must be multifunction copiers all over campus that can scan-to-email.
Yeah, but they’re only for employees. Students have to pay to use the crappy one down at FedEx Office.
From my experience, students don’t have to pay to use scanner, only if they want to print stuff.
I meant to mention CamScanner, “scan” a thick border around it then crop off the watermark along the edge (or leave it if lazy), seems like a probable move for one of them, although Wally may have to figure out how to take a screenshot from a phone (in his case, prob just take a phone photo and call it a day)
He’d end up emailing a crooked, muddy version of the strip (with a hand-holding-a-phone shadow over half of it) to the paper.
The graphic design student in charge of laying out the classifieds would in horror.
*would stare at it in horror.
(Don’t try to edit comments on a phone.)
Make a dedicated account for it or something
Awe great, another strip leading me down yet another mental path of existential woes….
Wait a minute! Why the hell would you describe poop on social media anyway? It’s not like they REQUIRE you to do it.
Wait, do they?
What did you think shitposting is?
I thought they were random as hell clips with anime clickbait, and I don’t really see those on Walky’s Twitter up there.
Bad Needfuldoer.
No Internet!
My first year in college, I met a group of friends who, VERY unfortunately, took – and tweeted! – selfies while pooping on a regular basis. In hindsight, I can’t believe we stayed friends that whole year.
Twenty first century mother fucker! Anyone can publish their comic.
then you just need to figure out how to get people to read it
Luck from what I gather.Post art under a popular hashtag and hope the people stay for more. Usually something videogame related like fanart of a new pokemon or smash character. Or just draw porn. I follow a ton of artist only to discover they have a way more popular nsfw account. But I don’t think Walky’s good enough for that yet.
“Twenty first century mother fucker!”
I thought Mike was dead (or alternatively, Jennifer)?
“Twenty first century mother fucker!”
i… just had an urge to repeat this sentence. i don’t know, it slaps. thank you
Something about this is familiar…
Hmm…
Nope, can’t figure it out
(Possibly) Relevant
https://mobile.twitter.com/its_walky
No comics yet, but it did get some updates related to today’s comic while I was checking it out earlier
I mean… you could have an alternate account.
Or is that not a thing anymore since you need to have phone numbers and SSNs for everything now?
‘How is your body like this?’ Option 1: He’s 18. So are you, Booster.
Option 2: You would be amazed the weird things bodies adapt to. Or just. Completely and utterly refuse to adapt to as the case may be. Or were adapted to and spontaneously decided, ‘nope! Lettuce is officially No Longer A Food! Fuck you.’
(My digestive system and I are in a cold war at the moment on the subject of things like ‘tomatoes’ and ‘not eating the precise amounts and speeds at which it deems appropriate.’ Delightful.)
What exactly makes it a cold war as opposed to a real war?
Are ketchup and mustard neutral in this struggle or what?
Cold war with your digestive tract means you don’t actually die from eating the wrong thing, you just wish you could. Real war means you’re test fitting coffins.
Pretty much. And that it’s mostly been pain and heartburn rather than… even less pleasant ways of lodging complaints.
GERD really sucks. The worst part is I had it largely managed before COVID threw off all my routines.
My digestive system seems to like giving me random pains and issues whenever it feels like these days, even though my diet really hasn’t changed much in a long time.
Sympathies.
Booster could be an upperclassman or “delayed” student, doesn’t have to be 18
I mean, Dina’s 19
Dorothy’s also 19, and hasn’t had her birthday since the start of the comic so she might be going on 20.
Booster, realistically, could be anywhere from 18-22 without even remotely raising eyebrows, and could easily be up to 23 or 24. (Though I sincerely doubt they’re an upperclassman, or they’d at least consider living off-campus with a friend/twin sister rather than risking another random roommate.)
However, I still wouldn’t expect a 24-year-old’s metabolism to really get picky yet, or at least not be firmly shifted.
Yeah, Walky!
Do what Booster said!
Strip on twitter!
I think he would get the wrong kind of fans that way but hey, maybe it’ll make him some money.
Oh, it’ll get him only fans.
Would they be Only Fans though?
Or one of the comic hosting websites, there are many of them. Or on Reddit.
Aww, Mike is so thoughtful
I’m going to assume you are joking and not calling Booster “Mike” for some reason.
I dunno, I’m still hanging on to my theory that Booster is in fact Mike in some sort of identity protection scenario. Can’t speak for Jep tho.
Mike alternates between being Booster and being Jennifer. It’s all very complicated, but it keeps them busy.
Mike was Booster’s Wario.
In all seriousness regarding the “Booster = Mike” theory, I’m going to go ahead and assume it’s never going to happen if for no other reason than that I’m fairly certain Willis isn’t the type of person to go “oh hey this Hispanic character that’s been in my comic for the past year(s) is ACTUALLY a blond-haired white guy doing brownface.
Seriously, that would be VERY bad taste.
I can’t say I had caught on to Booster being hispanic prior to this post, and that’s a fair point, but at the same time I wouldn’t put it past *Mike*. Probably wouldn’t even be the worst thing he’s ever done.
It’s way more outrageous that Willis violated his no one dies rule and supposedly killed him off. And it isn’t brown face if Booster is paler as if he undergone healing away from daylight for a long period of time
I didn’t know Booster is Hispanic this whole time. I guess this is known outside the webcomic? How do you know he isn’t Filipino? Race controversies isn’t something new for this comic. Such as Jennifer’s retconned asian ethnicity
#stool
You won’t get paid, it’ll eat up your free time, and you’ll spend years trying to build an audience…
but nobody wants to read about your stools anyway.
Yes, Walky! Do it.
Oh good, the poop talk is back, Walky just has so many charming quirks that I had blocked that one out.
Walky just needs to add some Super Colon Blow to keep himself regular!
I knew which SNL skit you referred to without clicking the link, because I’m just that old.
Is it also a dessert topping and floor wax?
When your gut biome is way too used to junk food
Watch the one person who hasn’t unfollowed Walky be Ethan, who’s about to get gutpunched by a bunch of Mike-themed comics.
This will either lead to Ethan’s return, or just to Walky losing his one last follower.
He might be confused between “regular”, “normal”, and “typical for me”.
Dumbing of Age, Book 13: It Might Learn Something
DOA 13: I Sort of Lost All My Followers After Describin’ Bad Poops Too Many Times
I thought we were on Book 12. Anyway, another good DoA book title: Hadta Mainline McNuggets Just to Get My Stool Back to Normal
Book P00P: Far Be It For Me to Besmirch the All-Powerful and Relevant Printed Newspaper
I had never considered that Booster having intense desire to analyse people so they can help would be overwhelmed by Walky having all of the problems.
There’s a dartboard Booster keeps somewhere just so they can keep up with walkys problems.
Twitter’s bad with a lot of things, but I guess it’s probably better for discoverability than Tumblr would be, and deviantART’s definitely… seen better days.
Haha he could do live readings on YouTube while holding the individual panels up to his phone
…that might actually be less work for him
though he’d get demonitised at the first mention of his poop maybe
Okay, sorry, but can I point out that twittter is the worst place to host a webcomic? The navigation is crap if you are binge reading it and only seek to read the comic. You might have some chance if the author tag specifically each of his comic page but seeing it has to be done manually, they are deemed to forget to tag one of them and you are doomed to seek through tons of tweet to have an hope to find the missing one to make sense of the next page.
And let’s not forget of the image clicking on twitter, that don’t allow “fit width only” or “fit to length only” that tend to make the reading of a comic page much more comfortable.
I don’t know how the trend of posting comics on twitter became popular, but it was a really bad idea and should have never caught on. there are dedicated websites to host webcomics, for christ sake! Just post a daily link to you new page on twitter, instead.
That was a very opinionated post about how putting your webcomic on twitter is awful and should have never happened! Thank you for coming to my TED talk!
Considering that LAWsome has no continuity it might be okay.
It became popular bc people like Walky
I wonder if that salad’s been washed or not. Probably not.
I am trying desperately to not make a salad tossing joke.
And I am trying desperately not to post an upvote.
It’s the end of October and I’m getting a freaking shiver every time I see Booster’s naked belly button. Put some clothes on, dude, you’re gonna catch your death.
don’t worry, they live in Indiana which if i remember the world properly is this big tropical country in Asia
(pst Booster = not a dude, probably
“Dude” is kind of gender neutral- I’d be fine saying exactly what Arianod said about Becky including “dude”. Or Sierra, or anyone else wearing what seems to be unseasonable clothing.
yeah no definitely. did an unnecessary language policing there
I suppose Booster’s ok having that bare midriff as long as they don’t go outside. But I’m assuming they will have to go outside eventually to go to classes though.
Now ah might just be a small tropical island native l, but
They’re inside, don’t y’all do internal heat in your cold-getting countries?
No idea why that random l is there .-.
What gets me about Booster’s top is not so much that it’s a crop top in the middle of winter (they’ll probably throw a coat on when they have to go to class*)…it’s that it’s a crop top hoodie…Hoodies are supposed to be warm…
* Actually…does IU have classes in the same buildings as the residences? I know some schools do that, some don’t. If they do, they might not need to go outside, at all, if they only have classes in the same building.
I’ve met enough teens and 20somethings who wear flip flops and shorts in the winter to go ‘sure, I can buy this.’
Sierra scorns those flip flops.
Adding a new food to ones diet, especially if they dont eat it it often regardless of if its healthier for does tend to do that to be fair.
Though as weird as that seems humans have some of the best digestion of any animal, considering the fact we can eat things that would be literally poisonous to 90%.of all other species on this planet.
Chocolate and coffee? Pure poison to everything else. The cocoa beans literally evolved to be poisonous so animals wouldnt eat it
So we decided to eat it.
It’s because we evolved as a scavenger. We literally live off spoiled food. There are even several different kinds of spoiled milk we can live on that other animals can’t digest because they are made from milk and most animals can’t digest lactose past babyhood.
I did a blog post about how we are literally terrifying animals because we can eat almost anything, our preferred mode of hunting is to chase our prey until it dies from fear and exhaustion, our females can literally get pregnant at any time of year compared to most animals that only ovulate once a year, and we can think our way out of most problems we don’t think our way into. Also chili peppers evolved so that mammals wouldn’t eat them but birds would so the seeds would be more widely distributed, but we like the pain so we are pretty much the only mammillian species that consume them.
Yeah humans have a lot finer control over our motor functions than alot of animals who act in a very “all or nothing” sort of way. So generay when hunting a deer for example it would sprint full speed away while we would keep a brisk pace. Not as fast but we wouldnt exhaust ourselves chasing after it.
Well, that has less to do with us controlling our speed, and more to do with the basic premise of sweating. Our endurance over long distances and time periods absolutely dwarfs most animals, we literally must have seemed like slasher movie monsters. Every time you look back, think you lost them…nope. They are always the exact. same. distance. behind you.
Don’t wolves have a similar hunting strategy? Part of why we teamed up.
@Opus: are you talking about lactase persistance? that evolved very recently in some human populations due to cattle domestication, not because of a scavenging diet.
Mr. Morningstar: where does your claim that humans have unusually high control over motor functions come from? i’m genuinely curious (if sceptical)
and both of you claim that humans can eat almost anything compared to other animals, where does that come from? and is it a human thing, or a primate thing? unless you mean because humans invented cooking— which, fair enough. cooking was an evolutionary gamechanger.
The thing about motor functions might be true but for how well we can operate things with our hands when compared to our cousins like chimpanzees who are much stronger but lack the fine control.
Well with chimps and apes generally it acts in two settings
Minimum strength or ALL OF YOUR STRENGTH.
Humans can go pretty much anywhere in between but it means using your full strength you’re capable of is very difficult
I’d like to note this is me grossly simplifying it but it works more or less like that I beleive
OK, i did some digging! here’s probably your main source:
“The Strength of Great Apes and the Speed of Humans” by Alan Walker (2009) (this LiveScience article sums it up)
It should be noted that this paper doesn’t produce any data, it only outlines a hypothesis which i don’t think has been tested as yet.
So after summarizing various strands of data (anatomy, fossil evidence, and studies of chimp vs human strength) Walker proposes that chimpanzees have a higher threshold for muscle activation— so what you said basically, maybe not quite an “all or nothing” situation, but certainly less capacity for subtle movements. Whereas the Homo line traded in some of their maximal muscle strength in exchange for greater precision, by increasing nerve density.
Now some of his claims have been disputed, like how much stronger than humans chimps are, Walker says FOUR times, this 2017 study (PNAS, O’Neill et al) says more like 1.5 times; also the same study notes that there’s no support for Walker’s claim that a change in neural density in the muscles would lower the capacity for maximal effort. Their explanation for higher strength in chimps, but also for higher endurance in humans, has to do with the type of muscle fiber itself, not the granularity of neuromuscular control.
Now I’ve quite possibly missed some other primary sources. but from what i could glean in 1.5h of research, this is the best that can be concluded: humans may possess finer motor control than chimps (our closest cousins). at a glance, i couldn’t find any source for the claim that human motor control is finer than other animals besides chimps.
ISTR reading somewhere that farmers in India grow chillis to deter elephants from their crops, and it turned out to deter most elephants but encourage a select few. But in general, yes.
The farmers must feel like the chilli peppers when they first developed capsaicin
Plant:Finally! Now no animal will be eating us up!
Human: Ohhh Spicy veggie
Plant: Oh no
No MAMMAL.
Birds are fine with it, which helped the plants (as birds tend to spread the seeds further when they poop them out).
This reminds me this theory that the true winner in the game of evolution is grain because it suckered humans into spreading it all over the place.
r/HFY
Compromise
I ship them.
Oh god what have you done.
all you wanted was a little fun
Quick, someone make a silly pun.
Okay. Walky is apparently Cartman now.
“My poop was all solid, like no water at all”.
Booster is giving a great advice to walky. This may be the beginning of a great career.
I know, Walky, I got shadowbanned on Twitter too (not because poop talk). Better create an fake acc.
Awww, c’mon Walky. I know you’re kind of a garbage fire given human form but even you are too good to sink to the level of using twitter.
Also, bad Booster, trying to get Walky to do something reprehensible.
This is cute. I dig the roommate interaction.
I have to assume Walky is constantly operating with minor constapation and has no idea what a regular bowel movement feels like. His diet consists almost entirely of junk foodand fast food, usually meat based like nuggets, tacos, and pizza with assorted toppings (probably the only time he gets any vegetables depending on the toppings). That’s a LOT of cheese and meat! Add snacking and typical college stuff like ramen and we can’t forget Dina’s choice in the cereal bar. That salad probably made him think he had diarrhea by not fighting him on the way out.
Kudos to Willis for pushing the limits of his artistic skills and sanity by continuing to have his characters appear in difficult to render clothes, with Booster’s paint splotch hoodie being a welcome addition to the canon, alongside all of Becky and Joyce’s plaid looks.
Just gonna say booster’s being the best character in the strip for a moment here and Walky’s aggressively relatable levels of ADHD struggles is making me sad. Esp with some of the comments. I kind of resent the idea that wanting to put less work into something = not caring.
I take shortcuts with my art all the time bc i know if i don’t my brain won’t let me continue it. Plus seeing characters with obvious ADHD being called lazy is uh…kind of a sore spot? Maybe it’s the rejection sensitivity acting up but people’s reactions to him feel kinda… Insensitive? I’m feeling like I’m caught in the backsplash a little but that’s just on me ig. It doesn’t look like any of the others with ADHD are bothered so I’m probably just taking some comments about a cartoon character too seriously.
I’m also saying this while having only written 2 sentences in a 2500 word essay due at 4:30 today
so ha haha..
I confess I have little knowledge of ADHD and have probably been insensitive in the past. From my perspective it looked like Walky simply lacked discipline. I will be more mindful in the future.
Thanks :). Most people don’t know that much about ADHD, hell DOCTORS don’t know it as well as you’d think. E.g. one specific medication didn’t work that well one so they just kept upping my dosage for years until they reached the max I could take and when i still wasn’t reacting well, instead of trying something else they basically said “huh i guess you don’t have ADHD ¯\_(ツ)_/¯”
yeah idk if i have ADHD or just some sort of spoilt child syndrome or whatever, but i also relate to Walky, hard
maybe i’ve just convinced myself that i actually am an extremely lazy person, so while i might take folks calling Walky lazy personally, i’m like, “yes, yes, i know that about myself already. you can’t judge me any harder than i judge myself. U_U”
I mean to be fair, Walky himself insists on pretending he’s lazy, so… it’s understandable that people take him at face value maybe?
I dunno, people are so angry on twitter.
I think it must be the angriest platform, for some reason.
There is an intersection in my town called the McNugget intersection. The cross streets are Glacier Highway and Egan Drive, but the intersection is McNugget. Official police reports will say things like “there was a collision involving two vehicles at McNugget.” and even if you’re new to town and have never heard this term before, if someone says “make the turn at McNugget,” you’ll pause for a moment to process the phrase, but then you’ll figure out where they mean without any explanation needed.
Anyway, the phrase “mainline McNugget” took me a second.
Why do I get the feeling that Walky would consider a tapeworm to be normal?
Remember Atkin’s diet? The fad diet where you could eat all the steak and eggs but no carbs? This is something that actually happens to people going off Atkin’s diet. But chicken nuggets have carbs so it can’t be exactly it.
Isn’t ‘keto’ the same idea, just rebranded?
maybe he just thought the salad gave him bad poop because he doesn’t know what good poop is? “Dude! My poop came out solid and sank into the water instead of its usual watery butt soup that floats on top of the water like bog algae!”
from walky on twitter
“just went to the bathroom to do my normal push and grunt, and it literally rocketed out of me… what the heck is this?”
“did another struggle 2 today, getting kinda worried. are people supposed to be able to go bm more than once every 3 days?”
“ok this is bad… i went to do my normal herculean efforts, and it came out so fast that it hit the toilet with an audible thud, like, super loud. it sounded like i was playing with a handball in there.”
I actually think this is exactly how it is.
Hey Walky, could you also post it somewhere else that’s easier to read in archival form? Like, say, Hiveworks?
Oh you know what, the Walkyverse site is wrapping up the other universe’s rerun and could use some new content afterwards
I get posting your content on Twitter, Tumbler, or DeviantArt, but why has no one mentioned Patreon? I figured that would be the most direct way to get paid for your creative work.
(I mean, *I* have zero Patrons so far, but my stuff has nothing to do with comics, so…)
Patreon requires a bit of effort to actually be successful, and we’ve established that Walky can’t quite muster that
(otherwise, I’d be totes makin’ it rain)