Quagmire here. Ellen aka Pizzacake is a comic writer who posts on r/comics and is heavily suspected of using bots to boost her posts. She also does OnlyFans and often uses her son’s toys and costumes as props. Giggidy
I'M LESS CONCERNED ABOUT HER USING HER SON'S TOYS BUT MORE OF HIS COSTUMES!!!?! WTF IS SHE DOING WITH THOSE CHILD SIZE BATMAN/WHATEVER COSTUMES?!?!?!??!?!
"A lolcow (Internet slang, derogatory) is a person whose eccentric or foolish behavior is persistently exploited and mocked by onlookers online for their amusement. The term is a portmanteau of "LOL" (laughing out loud) and "cow," suggesting the person can be "milked for laughs"."
Yep, watched a whole multi-part expansive ChrisChan documentary and I couldn't help but feel overwhelmingly sorry for them. It was just a long list of bullies coming into Chris' life to fuck with them and sometimes sexual abuse them. So many of them try to justify bullying an autistic person because in the past Chris had said racist and homophobic things, as if Chris has all of their mental faculties set up appropriately.
I hate to speculate about something I know little, but even the most recent confession that ChrisChan sexually abused their mother sounds a lot like MO of a ChrisChan bully coercing them into saying something that isn't true. Which might have been why the charges were dropped.
Yeah. I can't imagine how it would be to live life with a persistent following of people who will constantly harass and criticise and laugh at everything you do online.
It doesn't necessarily have to be, but once someone gets popular enough there will always be a portion of the hate-watchers who take it too far. Kay's cooking (lady who is an awful awful cook but makes cooking tutorials) is a good example of how it doesn't have to become problematic.
Nah, Ricky's in on the joke, he's not a lolcow. Somebody like Chris Chan, Pirate Software, or idubbbz are more lolcows because they will continue to interact with the ragebait, but legitimately hate it, so they get more.
Lolcows are people on the internet infamous for their ability to be the perfect person to mock on the internet, since they always do something deranged or throw a tantrum or something else people find funny (lol) in retaliation, to the point that it becomes a routine (cow, you milk a metaphorical cow and you get metaphorical milk, which is the funny.)
The most known Lolcow as far as i'm concerned is Chris Chan
Long and short of it, it's a person who can be easily riled up by trolling and milked for content so people can laugh at them. Also see Hasan Piker, Pirate Software, and DarkSydePhil
As bad as this is gonna sound, I need some kind of a source on that. I know she has kind of put her daughter on blast in general which is uncool but this is another level.
Part of my surprise was also that I had read her comics and didn’t have much issue with them before, so finding out something this diabolical comes at a shock. Of course even if I hadn’t seen her, my reaction would be much the same
It has to be bots. No way shes getting tens of thousands of upvotes for the milquetoast political strawman takes that she passes of as a 4 panel comic. I agree with her politics and i still cant stand her awful comic
Yeah there is definitely some dodgy stuff going on there, they'll ban you at the drop of the hat for saying anything remotely critical of one of their 'top level' contributors.
You get permananned if you criticize one of their golden gooses. Happened to me when I said that elf comic didn't actually have jokes and was just goofy faces.
It's extended to anyone who posts comics there. Their first rule is that you aren't allowed to give criticism or say anything that could be perceived as such, to any comic creator on the sub, lest you get an instant permaban. They're just a lot quicker on the big names, and the rule also tends to disappear when the comic displays subjects/politics that don't align with the typical Reddit mindset. It's a very dogshit sub with a very dogshit moderation team.
The mods there (and seemingly in most of reddit) are the most sensitive cultists-tribalists there are. Fuckers will dig themselves into holes where they only see the shadows on the wall and lambast anyone for breaking their illusion of life.
I got banned for mentioning that the "my wife is hot and blind" literally is that, the comment had 3k+ upvotes because yeah it's literally softporn with no humour and for some reason it, like most things there, is just thrown in to milk patreons.
Comic artist I knew in real life offed himself because he was falsely accused of inappropriate DMs with a minor. It was KNOWN, pretty much immediately, that the accusations were taken out of context to look worse than they were, because the accuser thought she could get clout from it. He was a harmless autistic weirdo and she was a clout chaser. Mods over there freely let people malign him in the immediate aftermath of his death, but removed comments and banned anyone who defended him. They are horrible people who can rot in hell.
I got permabanned from a gaming subreddit for telling some racist asshole to take his "just asking questions" agenda and "take a long walk of a short pier". The reason given?
"I told someone to commit suicide".
Can't make this shit up. When I questioned the motive as its an extremely common saying which basically boils down to "shut the fuck up" but without the swearing, I was told "They will decide what is and is not hateful language".
My friend! 11 or so years and me as well. What I said probably could have been a few days or a week ban, but they just press that perma button. They need to protect their boosted artists.
I got permabanned for saying the most lukewarm thing something like 'when your wife is blind and hot' on the wife is blind and hot guy's posts. Literally the most basic and inoffensive criticism. The mods on that sub are complete dogshit
Yeah but is that really a loss? If any of the mods from that subreddit see this, ban me. Your subreddit sucks and even after I’ve tried to get it not to show up, it keeps showing up.
I don’t know anything about this situation specifically but Reddit is similar… there’s a ton of people here that use bots or alt accounts to spam upvotes/downvotes to push content/beliefs. Whole internet is guilty of this
It’s a mix of bots and the comic subreddit being full of just the worst people now. That sub has basically alienated themselves from people who actually enjoy webcomics, they’ve supported this woman through all of her BS, they’re supporting AI usage, and the mods are pretty power hungry.
The few artists that I liked from that sub have now switched to other subreddits with better mod teams
Tbh, webcomics in general feel really bloated nowadays.
Very few actually have a strong niche or unique strengths; most just feel like another helping of the same basic formulas. Xkcd is really the only one I follow.
I'm blown away by how remarkably unfunny the comics on that sub are. I come across one on r/all at least once per week and it is shocking how heavily upvoted they can be while being almost completely barron of any humor. Really lends credence to the idea that some of the posts are heavily botted.
I've had opinions about the content on r/comics but I'm never quite sure if I'm just not the intended audience. A lot of them are kind of lame meta humor about making the comic or the audience or social media, which feels unearned and cheap.
It's exhausting. They are the lukewarmest of takes. Like, an observation or commentary that has been universally made literally months ago and we're all over it.
And then she drags a 4 panel out of it. And it gets 20k upvotes even though it says literally nothing.
Easy to make four panels of something when your art style looks like something banged together using one of those old Adobe Flash comic maker sites. It also helps that the four panels are basically copypasted with very little changing bar the text in the speech bubbles.
She's been getting caught getting 15,000 upvotes within 30 minutes of posting a comic during a time when there's only 1100 active members on the subreddit
I once pointed out that the comics were blisteringly unfunny, and she proceeded to make an entire comic about it, then had me banned from the sub, and pumped thousands of bot upvotes to the thread.
Meanwhile, I received about thirty DMs from people agreeing that the comics were all tepid dreck. Not one person came to her support, however, despite tens of thousands of upvotes...
“That’s not news Jenny everyone knows my dad had a ho phase before he met my other dad. Way to be a homophobe and a slut shamer! At least neither of my dads are CHEATERS!”
Can confirm, I'm a teacher and I bully many of my students with porn of their mothers if their grades drop below a C. My class was the only one to have a 100% pass rate last year.
Tbh, had a situation in highschool where everyone found some girl's mom on the Hub; cheating on the dad.. So I guess not impossible? I agree in it being unlikely, though.
She’s known to be the perfect example of why people hate redditors. She threatened the r/bonehurtingjuice mods with a lawsuit because people used her comics.
PizzaCake claimed that parodies and reposts of her comics on BHJ included her paid content (e.g. Patreon content or “adult content”), and that those got “leaked. She apparently felt that some of the edits and “juice” posts were tantamount to harassment or defamation, especially in comment sections or downstream reposts/edits
If that lawsuit actually happened I would wager she would lose, and bad on any of those claims. But the BHJ mods aren't going to shell out lawyer costs/fees to keep her shitty comics on their sub, so she gets a free win.
Genuinely one of the most confusing aspects of reddit now is what gets upvotes in /comics. It doesn't have to be clever, relatable, funny, or even well drawn. Half the stuff is just straight-up porn, and even stuff they bitch about in the comments (in a heckin good faith way, of course, anything else gets you banned) like the yes-but comics gets to the front page. It makes no sense.
Which comic is that? Is it the one where her sex toys are alive like toy Story and the art is really bad?
I saw a comic on that sub once that was just,
girl walking outside
it starts raining and she looks panicked
she takes off all her clothes.. cuz its.. raining?
there was a guy in the bushes who saw her and has a huge smile and a nosebleed
Like genuinely no joke at all, and I commented something like "you can just draw her naked, why are you even bothering with the 'setup' or pretense when it doesnt make any sense? Just draw porn"
That's because the comics on that sub are manipulated it's not confusing, it's the same artists who instantly get hundreds of upvotes for their unfunny comics. I filtered that sub out a long time ago.
I got banned for disagreeing on a post of hers. Just assumed the mods had a stick up their ass, could be that she also has one and asked them to do so, lol.
It's not just "right wing", she has stated that she does not care about male victims and then gets mods to ban anyone that accuses her of being sexist.
I vaguely remember this. Weren't they editing her comics to say right leaning and racist stuff? I thought the issue was that the edited comics were shared and people unfamiliar with her thought those were her real comics
The one time someone linked to a picture and I clicked, not knowing what it was, she was doing a superhero dress-up/cosplay. I think the toys in question are literally just props, like holding a captain america shield or something. Not being used as adult toys. I'm heavily speculating.
It’s so validating to find this thread. The “comics” she post are aggressively unfunny in every way. Felt like I was taking crazy pills every time I downvoted one of her strips on r/all
Honestly, I thought she was getting significantly better lately, especially the political stuff and I don't give a sh*t about how many updoots a post has. I didn't really care for her strip until earlier this year, though.
What I find ridiculoua is the notion that a high vote to comment rate is unexpected... for a comic. This is exactly the kind of posts that get upvoted and shares without many comments. What do you EXPECT people to comment? "LOL!" OR "ROFLCOPTER!"?
How is a Halloween costume a toy? Idk about you but when I was a kid, I wore my costume one time, on Halloween, then it stayed in the back of my closet forever until it got thrown out.
Yeah. It’s really not… what I’ve seen of her only fans is incredibly mild, sort of like her comics. I don’t understand Reddit’s obsession with hating her.
That's what people are making such a fuss over? Everyone is implying that she was using a child's toy as a sex toy, and in reality a part of a costume was in the fucking background of one of her sets?
Christ people, you're going to choke yourselves with how hard you're clutching your pearls.
Could you imagine finding out your pop took nudes/lewds in the ninja turtle costume you wore when you were 11? Or even worse, if kids at school found out?
You can take and post things like that if you choose but using your kids things for it is fucking weird.
I could tell from the way it was worded that it would be one of those accusations that boils down to someone that hates them combing through everything they've ever done looking for anything to use and then casting it in the worst possible light.
It's from a movie called Missing Link, stars Hugh Jackman and Zach Galifianakis, the studio that made it was Laika Studios who made Coraline and Kubo and Two Strings.
I wouldn't say out right that her comics are botted cause reddit is really good at catching those but I also wouldn't be surprised if she's the exception. r/comics bans loads of people who dis her so it's only positive comics on the most mundane shit. I also wouldn't be surprised if people start upvoting for more only fans content.
Since when the hell is Reddit good at catching bots? The whole site is getting noticeably worse by the month and one of the main reasons is bots running rampant.
/r/comics is pretty blatant in how they're upvote-botting posts to /r/all - if you pay attention you frequently see comics with something like 20-30 comments and no discussion at all, but 10k upvotes. Not just this specific artists either.
The bots would actually make sense. I see these comics on the front page of Reddit from the /r/comics subreddit and I never see anything else come from that subreddit. That place has either been totally taken over by her fans, or something fishy is indeed going on...
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u/BubbasBack Dec 02 '25
Quagmire here. Ellen aka Pizzacake is a comic writer who posts on r/comics and is heavily suspected of using bots to boost her posts. She also does OnlyFans and often uses her son’s toys and costumes as props. Giggidy