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What is it about art like this that makes it so popular yet it's so shit? What makes something meme status?

>> No.3292184

>>3292178
wojak is incredibly expressive despite his simplicity and poor artistic quality.
his facial expression perfectly captures the meekness and warmness of a struggless young man, one who is honest enough to understand his flaw and emotional impotency yet not experienced enough or brave enough to know how to fix it, its the face of a man who is content but knows he shouldnt be. its a naive and infantile hope for the future that is disconnected from ones own actions, hes the incel, the virgin, the coddled child, the anon, no light in his eyes, no fire in his soul yet internally painfully aware of it all. in just a few lines this artist has summarised and depicted the unspoken and taboo angst of the flawed and flabby modern masculinity. the man who inwardly pines for an errant strife yet knows any will he has will direct him only to further comfort and humility, the awareness of the failed responsibility of an entire generation of young men. there is no better character design than wojak, he says what a thousand rhetoricians cannot hope to communicate, no wonder he became so widespread.

>> No.3292201

>>3292184
is this pasta

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>>3292184
fuck, man

>> No.3292216

i actually created wojak, not the other guy

ama

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>>3292178
>>3292184

>> No.3292232
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>>3292184
Beautiful anon

>> No.3292249

>>3292227
Thanks anon

>> No.3292271

>>3292178
Wojak is every man, and thus he is no man. He has no actual identity,aside from his vague sympathetic mood, which even then is becoming less common. He's stretched and pulled and edited to fit whatever thing the user is feeling. One person is a type of Wojak, another person is another type of Wojak, a smug person is a Wojak and an angry person is a Wojak. Everyone is Wojak, everything is Wojak, and if a place is not full of Wojaks, a bunch of Wojaks will come and try to spread their thing, stamping out any local culture that was built up over the years, and in return they get to be another type of Wojak.

Wojak may have touched many people, and has been taken up as a banner for said people, but this doesn't mean this is a good thing, or that it has become so big purely on its own expressive merit. Wojak, along with Pepe, has become the embodiment of imageboard cancer. He is a bland everyman movie protagonist that is relatable to everyone but is exactly no one. I am not Wojak.

>> No.3292280

>>3292271
Wojack resonating with as many people as it does while expressing so many things at once like some Rorschach painting makes it a better piece of art than any Van Gogh or Picasso. 100 years from now people will still know of wojack, meanwhile Starry what? Picablo? Was that the guy that cut off his own ear?

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>>3292201
Any good pasta can be revived with a lil bit of moisture anon.

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>>3292436
I got some moisture, RIGHT here

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>>3292271
>Wojak is every man, and thus he is no man. He has no actual identity

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>>3292178
., art that is relatable spreads faster , at a subconscious level , and there are people that like to create art with art already existent as homage and humility to the creator , The Difinity , The Divine Infinite Unity , The Delta-Difinity , Θε Δελτα-Διφινιτυ , and crafting art with regular resources , let alone posting that art to the public , requires a level of bravery not everyone has the cardiac strength to post , the art is not bad , the art is simplistic to show the point , sort of like drawing a basic triangle to then go on and display every form of triangle , and again not everyone is a born artist , and meme status is built from how relatively true something is to the group in that duration of Difinity , Θε Δελτα-Διφινιτυ , ανΔ αγαιν , ΘανΧσ βε το Θε Δελτα-Διφινιτυ φορ ανυ ψεαχεφυλ φιρτυουσ λιφε σηαρεΔ , ΘανΧσ Δελτα-Διφινιτυ ,.

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>>3292184
>...its the face of a man who is content but knows he shouldnt be.
>...the anon, no light in his eyes, no fire in his soul yet internally painfully aware of it all.
Too close to home, Anon

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>>3292184
if the drawing communicates it is a good drawing and it will connect with people

have you seen allie brosh's work? ms paint. but so full of expression and life that people love it

>> No.3294213 [DELETED] 

>>3292184
So wokak is the epitome of NGMI?

>> No.3294215

>>3292184
So wojak is the epitome of NGMI?

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>>3292178
because its literally everyone
like this pic, its literally me

>> No.3294262

>>3292227
thank you anon

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>>3292178
Like >>3292184 said, that face is incredibly expressive, probably why he was known as feels guy at first (at least on this site). Then he became a "character" and the only thing that remains of the original today is the shape of his head, buried behind jpeg artifacts from social media sites. A sad tale.

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>>3292184