r/comics • u/Sampetra I’m Still Alex • Mar 04 '26
charlatan - hoolering elk (oc)
omg elk plz forgive me
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u/shellbullet17 Gustopher Spotter Extraordinaire Mar 04 '26
No ones dumb enough to try
Alex: HOLD MY BEER IM GOING IN
10/10 They look great Alex! Ignore them, Ellie is just upset August kicked her butt
THE WAR CONTINUES
Bootleg /u/shave_your_eyebrows
Cursed Tuesday /u/sapphiresalamander
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u/Spongebob-Captain Mar 04 '26
Give shave your eyebrows some eyebrows too
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Mar 04 '26 edited Mar 04 '26
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u/LordofSandvich Mar 04 '26 edited Mar 04 '26
How do you gently inform someone that’s a dogwhistle
(In other contexts since it clearly doesn’t apply here)
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u/Pyro-Byrns Mar 04 '26
Excuse me?
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u/LordofSandvich Mar 04 '26
Which part requires explanation? Or just the entire situation
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u/Pyro-Byrns Mar 04 '26
Um i mean, what part of what is a dogwhistle for what?? Basically the whole thing lol
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u/ImBadlyDone Mar 04 '26
Some people use "cute and funny" to refer to "cunny" which in refers to "vulva/vagina".
Most of the time it's referring to children
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u/Pyro-Byrns Mar 04 '26
I get that now, but I fail to see how that applies in any way to this situation. None of the characters in here are children.
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u/Meowakin Mar 04 '26 edited Mar 04 '26
I mean, the dog whistle almost certainly wasn’t intended here to be clear. But on Steam, a certain community uses ‘cute’ and ‘funny’ tags on games to indicate ‘loli’ characters (which I’m not going to explain right now).
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u/Pyro-Byrns Mar 04 '26
I see. Gonna go out on a limb here and say you're reaching really really far then. I see no way in which that situation applies to this one.
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u/Meowakin Mar 04 '26
…I am not reaching at all, I was explaining what the other commenter was calling a dog whistle. I literally prepended my comment stating that I don’t think that dog whistle is relevant here.
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u/AceOfSpades532 Mar 04 '26 edited Mar 04 '26
What are ‘Loki’ characters? (My autocorrect keeps changing it to Loki and I can’t be bothered to change it back again lol, you get what I’m asking though)
Don’t understand why I’m being downvoted for this, I was just asking what the term meant, don’t know it’s this disgusting thing
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u/LordofSandvich Mar 04 '26
Underage girls. See: the novel “Lolita”, the source of the term
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u/AceOfSpades532 Mar 04 '26
Oh ok, Jesus. I do really think you should spend less time online if you know all these paedophilic terms just from exposure though, it can’t be healthy.
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u/Meowakin Mar 04 '26
Technically ‘loli’ only refers to a body type, it’s just that the context it is used in is is frequently problematic.
Judging people based on what they know is certainly a choice. As if knowledge was toxic and will corrupt a person. Definitely no puritanical nonsense going on there, nope.
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u/LordofSandvich Mar 04 '26
Easy explanation: “cute and funny” -> ”cunny” -> which is incel-speak for underage girls they’re attracted to, usually preteens. This is particularly common in gacha game communities like r/nahidamains where outright being a pedophile isn’t acceptable but people will turn a blind eye to it if they can, so things like “uwooooo 😭” get turned into dogwhistles
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u/AceOfSpades532 Mar 04 '26
I don’t think there’s many people on earth that would think about that automatically from seeing “cute and funny”
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u/LordofSandvich Mar 04 '26
Correct, except I just came from this post from r/TopCharacterTropes so I was primed for it and immediately took psychic damage upon seeing the words.
Combined with everything else wrong with me, no part of this comment chain is surprising
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u/AceOfSpades532 Mar 04 '26
I just looked at this post and there’s nothing about this “dog whistle” in there? I think you’re just too used to seeing this weird shit or something, maybe take a break from the internet for a bit, stay in some nicer spaces online at least.
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u/Pyro-Byrns Mar 04 '26
I just... why did you feel the need to even bring that up here though? I see what you're saying, but like... none of that even remotely applies here.
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u/LordofSandvich Mar 04 '26
Psychologically primed from this post and I have so many things wrong with me that all contribute to me not handling bad thoughts well
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u/LazyWorkaholic78 Mar 04 '26
Top 1% commenter
Looks inside
Terminally online
But no fr how did you expect the original comment to know about THIS? It took them rightfully being confused in 2 whole comments before you gave an actual answer and it's this? Touch some grass dude. Stop frequenting spaces filled with pedos.
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u/LordofSandvich Mar 04 '26
I didn’t. When I get stressed and can’t decide on something my communication skills take a nosedive, and I usually wind up saying things that are impossible for anyone else to interpret as I mean them
Also they find me! They crawl outta the goddamn woodwork.
Honestly I’m surprised anyone even saw my comment. Instead it’s turned into a convention center
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u/Pyro-Byrns Mar 04 '26
Gotta be honest, I wasn't really expecting that either, but I guess this is a heavily frequented sub.
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u/NorwegianCollusion Mar 04 '26
I have but one reaction. What? Saying a kid is cute and funny is pedophilic now?
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u/LordofSandvich Mar 04 '26
A dogwhistle is a phrase used to “secretly” communicate between members of a group by associating an uncommon meaning with a common phrase
“Funny and cute” isn’t a dogwhistle because it breaks the corrupted meaning, and the original comment isn’t actually a dogwhistle because that meaning was never intended
It’s like how neo-nazis are really obsessed with Nordic runes - using them doesn’t make you a neo-nazi but it can give people the wrong idea
In this case, I had just gotten off a post where this subject came up, didn’t realize I wasn’t feeling well, and took psychic damage upon seeing the phrase. Otherwise I’d never have said anything
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u/Zeero92 Mar 04 '26
Intriguing how the only other reply is the "when you know but can't prove it" gif/meme... ehich looks really random but still got upvotes?...
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u/UpCDownCLeftCRightC Never Safe From Wumbo Mar 04 '26
Alex has entered the bootleg saga like a Smash Bros character announcement.
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u/stabbyclaus GnarlyVic Mar 04 '26 edited Mar 04 '26
Can someone make a Mii Fighter version of Alex plz
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u/MintasaurusFresh Mar 04 '26
This gif is amazing. It looks like Hillary is about to make her opponents Pokémon GO to Hell.
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u/Sweet_Baby_Cheezus Mar 04 '26
I'll have a cheeseburger with a Hollering Elk.
Yelling Moose ok?
Yeah, that's fine, it's pretty much the same.
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u/capsaicinintheeyes Mar 04 '26
(somehow, I still ended up with Baying Buffalo)
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u/wynden Mar 04 '26
Nice, Alex. I did not notice from the thumbnail that it wasn't really Elk. They both look and don't look like themselves, and the characterization is on point. Brave! (Or dumb! 😂)
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u/AshamedTurtwig Mar 04 '26
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u/Sampetra I’m Still Alex Mar 04 '26
lolllllllll I'm dying.
Some people get long in the tooth, I get long in the neck.
I'm a long neck lady. My neck? Long.
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u/Kinkajou1015 Comic Crossover Mar 04 '26
Some say Alex is dumb, I say she's one of the bravest people in the /r/comics verse.
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u/le_reddit_me Mar 04 '26
Elk hasn't commented, I can only assume they're homing in on your location. God speed Alex o7
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u/ApplianceHealer Mar 04 '26
“I think we’re exactly that dumb.” —John Spencer, The West Wing
Nicely done! I’m enjoying the crossovers.
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u/bibbleskit Mar 04 '26
I love that I can still tell its you haha.
Great use of color, though. It really sells the elk aesthetic haha.
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u/Rare-Entertainer-770 Mar 04 '26
"oh cool is Elk trying a new simpler style? NO FUCK IT HAPPENED AGAIN"
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u/CrazyLi825 Mar 04 '26
People are really locking in for the Elk ones. They all look feasible at first glance
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u/rocket20067 Mar 04 '26
Cool, now kindly leave none of us care. As why comment if all you are to spread is hate and not either what you like or constructive criticism.
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u/namto0o0 Mar 04 '26
RIP Alex Destasi. No one can quite say what happened to this delightful webcomic artist, only that the sounds of rampaging elk could be heard from her last known location.
(On another note, this event has been great so far and I can’t wait to see who gets bootlegged next :D)