>>149571791
It was very popular within the fandom itself, I can assure you, it was just normies who didn't know about it yet.
>>149572470
There was, it was very shocking to us. The general consensus pre-episode was that they were absolutely going to tear us fujos a new one and that we absolutely deserved it. Along with all the regular art getting sent in there was also a lot of intentionally awful stuff sent in for laughs, which is probably why the art staff ended up having to also contribute some art.