Anonymous
7/26/2025, 8:21:31 PM
No.149569152
>>149512076
>This comic feels like both a timeless classic and a perfect time capsule for what life and culture was like between the late 00s and mid 2010s.
Is that accurate? I picked it up a year or so ago and didn't get very far but it honestly felt very derivative and culturally stuck, something like "Scott Pilgrim mixed with Friends". I remember it did have some trappings of late 2000s-early 2010s culture, especially some political potshots, but otherwise felt more like the same kind of 90s young adult fantasy of living with friends in the big city and going to parties and "just trying to make rent". I struggle to believe it was an actual faithful image of what life was like for young adults at that time. I think that's why it ultimately didn't appeal to me, it would honestly break my suspension of disbelief at times at how by-the-books the lives of these characters were, while having this aura of wanting to be seen as REAL and RAW like it was portraying things other webcomics didn't have the BALLS for. Which is kind of crazy because usually I really dig characters that heavily rely on tropes.
I would say something like Homestuck did a great job at articulating the things unique about this time period, even though it focuses more on teens than young adults, with how much it emphasizes the internet as almost the sole interface of human interaction, making friends online, being thousands of miles away from the people you're closest to, and all the weird quirks of personality people adopt when their only way of talking to people is through webchat and video games. Octopus Pie, in comparison, almost feels more like the last hurrah of the previous generation's idea of being young and trying to find your place in the world.
>This comic feels like both a timeless classic and a perfect time capsule for what life and culture was like between the late 00s and mid 2010s.
Is that accurate? I picked it up a year or so ago and didn't get very far but it honestly felt very derivative and culturally stuck, something like "Scott Pilgrim mixed with Friends". I remember it did have some trappings of late 2000s-early 2010s culture, especially some political potshots, but otherwise felt more like the same kind of 90s young adult fantasy of living with friends in the big city and going to parties and "just trying to make rent". I struggle to believe it was an actual faithful image of what life was like for young adults at that time. I think that's why it ultimately didn't appeal to me, it would honestly break my suspension of disbelief at times at how by-the-books the lives of these characters were, while having this aura of wanting to be seen as REAL and RAW like it was portraying things other webcomics didn't have the BALLS for. Which is kind of crazy because usually I really dig characters that heavily rely on tropes.
I would say something like Homestuck did a great job at articulating the things unique about this time period, even though it focuses more on teens than young adults, with how much it emphasizes the internet as almost the sole interface of human interaction, making friends online, being thousands of miles away from the people you're closest to, and all the weird quirks of personality people adopt when their only way of talking to people is through webchat and video games. Octopus Pie, in comparison, almost feels more like the last hurrah of the previous generation's idea of being young and trying to find your place in the world.