>>149985490
>I still dislike this comic because the athor assumes people get randomly attached to characters.
That's not even scratching the surface of the issue.
The issue is that people believe the world works in simpler ways than it actually does, because it's easier and more comfortable to believe that. The REAL issue is that people don't even do this deliberately, but subconscously. They simply absorb stereotypes and cliches from the world around them, getting conditioned to believe the same simplistic falsehood platitudes everyone around them believes.
In this case, it was the platitude that if you just put in enough work, your art will be popular. This person, being autistic or otherwise mentally stunted, took it at face value without thinking about how that would actually work in the real world. Not that you have to be autistic to take stuff like that at face value, normies do it all the time. But normies know not to say it out loud if it feels like something they'd get ostrasized for. So when an autist does say it out loud, they can surround him like vultures and virtue signal by taking apart the stupid simplistic platitude he seems to believe in. The platitude that is, of course, unrealistic, because popularity is determined by demand and appeal to the lowest common denominator, not by any amount of nebulous effort you put in your work. All the while thinking to themselves: "Man, I'm glad it was this guy and not me who said it out loud and embarrassed himself, now I know not to say it out loud for sure".
