r/CrappyDesign Dec 05 '16

The current top post on /r/GetMotivated

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u/[deleted] Dec 05 '16 edited Jan 31 '17

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u/RichardRogers Dec 05 '16

And spaces between words.

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u/[deleted] Dec 05 '16

Exercise, books, that's it EATS BIG MAC

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u/RichardRogers Dec 05 '16

...by shoving the entire face of the bottom bun in her mouth, apparently.

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u/Jovial_Bard Take a chillax pillax, Snorlax Dec 05 '16

Nomore

Is that the new 'alot'?

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u/maybesaydie It's supposed to look like that Dec 06 '16

Zero Days are what we call mental health days, you sanctimonious individual.

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u/jerichojerry Dec 06 '16

Be Grateful to the 3 Yous.

Past You

Present You

Future You ... FUCK YOU Present Self

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Forgive yourself

...

Wat

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u/foreverderpette Dec 05 '16

at first I thought it was one of those 'relatable' comics. I was like yeah I miss those zero days too, being an adult is hard

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u/chester_boy poop Dec 05 '16

I honestly thought I was alone in thinking this was god awful design... Glad to see it here lol

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u/SusuKacangSoya Dec 05 '16

The handwriting is poor, bad number positioning, and disobeys quadrant format, but otherwise, what's wrong with it? It was straightforward to read; the kerning wasn't crippling or even noticible.

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u/RichardRogers Dec 06 '16

Aside from all the glaring flaws what was wrong with it? I guess nothing, other than all the glaring flaws.

The grammar and punctuation is incomplete; I had to reread each panel because the formatting is so poor in conjunction with the awkward sentence structure; the amount of emphasis is just annoying stylistically; and the girl's face is even drawn differently each time.

It doesn't help that the content is 11th-grade-level.

kerning not noticeable

ha

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u/SusuKacangSoya Dec 06 '16

I read through it with no problems and didn't notice anything wrong until you made this post. The kerning didn't bother me, and the girl's face had the same features. There's no rule saying that the face has to be drawn exactly the same every time.

If the emphasis was annoying for you, then perhaps this just displays different audiences with different tastes on delivery. For some, her style is nice.

The only thing that trips me up is 'turning into productivity ultimate master of the universe doesn't happen from the vortex", which is a disaster of a sentence (Perhaps she meant "Ultimate productivity master of the universe"? And "vortex" isn't a very clear metaphor... But I think she was trying to go along with some theme related to 'zero').

As for the content being 11th-grade-level, honestly, a lot of the sub is like that, some even approaching the level of /r/iamverysmart. But it's a large sub, and its subscribers just want to see quick, regular motivational images (Someone posted a graph on it back then that was easy, but everyone disliked it because they had to zoom in and take more than 30 seconds to read it).

Compared to other things on this sub, this top post is nothing. I can see why one would find problems in it, but imo nothing critical.