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>VGCats down
Did Scott finally die?
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>>153249914
No. He stopped years ago, supposedly because he hated lewding his characters, but in reality, because almost nobody suscribed to the Patreon where he posted the images.
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>>153249980
Yeah, for lewding his characters, giving them terrible designs and enormous nipples to the females.
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>>153249965
>He stopped years ago
he started again like a year ago. he still puts out pics every few months it seems like. still looks weird but at least we got an ok leo and aeris pic out of it
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>>153250447
Even now, seeing VGCats takes me back to the mid-2000s and the internet being good.
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>>153250540
See >>153250467
It was the best era of the internet, so people will be talking about anything from it for a long time to come. Honestly, probably as long as the memory of it exists. That was the era where internet usage was exploding and "internet culture" really got going as a mainstream thing. A thousand years ago, people will be looking back at it as the beginning.
Maybe in 3064, they'll read some VG Cats in history class.
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I’m not celebrating, because I actually have a ton of VG Cats strips I need to read, but I’m not upset that I don’t have to look at the state of that website any more. All new websites for 2000s webcomics have bad UI, but holy shit, Scott. If Homestuck can look good, you can look good.
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>>153250655
The golden age of the internet was from around 1995 to 2007. Then there was a six-year period that zoomers like me can kind of appreciate (despite Chanology in 2008) where people like Tobuscus were huge and the emergence of big, budgeted web shows under Machinima and similar publishers happened. Then there’s a hard cutoff in 2013 when Vine redefines social media and the internet’s userbase permanently, then we start descending into the atheist/skeptic meta, Gamergate happens and makes pedos go to war with gamers forever, Trump in 2016, and the original American geek community disappears from the public permanently after 2017 under the encroachment of the Marxist uprising that inevitably fails and leaves nothing but destruction in its wake. Here we are now, with nothing to do.
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He might not be dead, just in a bout of madness again. Not a good place to be.
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>>153250540
I mean we could be like /a/ and talk about
>I think Rei is worst girl
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>>153250540
What's wrong weren't people told to stick with past work if they don't like gay/trans/socialist/feminist/etc content in 2013? Why are you surprised people did this?
Many newer projects are made by people who hate me, who have personally harassed me and celebrated my hardship. Just 1 person like that is enough to spoil my enthusiasm even if nobody else on the crew did it. Scott clearly has warmly interacted with me on /co/ before. Are you also surprised that people respond positively to good treatment?
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>>153255535
This is not true about anybody. Porn consumers actively goon when they push an artist to making porn, they get off on the domination and corruption.
Millennials say this crap because they embraced porn but didn't want to think about what fueled their pleasures from it.
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>>153250655
Ain't that the truth brother. I wish I could relive those times.
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i remember discovering vgcats from this poster i got at a con 12 years ago
Good Times
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>>153254497
Ghost babes are hot
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>>153257290
See you're seeking to dominate, humiliate and violate by attacking a strawman and trying to make a show of it.
There was no statement about “all” anything in my post. You don't care about an honest discussion because you lose a gooner mentality the more you act like a normal person. Coming up with this likely comes from judging me as a “bigot” as well but it makes perfect sense to be bigoted against people who get off on harming your life.
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>I never said what you claim I said
Okay, fair.
>you're making generalizations and attacking a strawman
>btw let me do the exact same to you
>fancy words words words
Is that revenge or something? Also, you are a narcissist. Fuck you, no more (you)s from me.
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Aeris drawing
>>153257850
Has that fucking worked yet you retard? I was spending my time drawing the characters.
>>153257836
By “narcissist” you mean I preserve my individual identity instead of dissolving it into a trans gay furry polycule discord blob where no one has anything to speak of besides porn and consumption.
Whatever word you use you merely mean I have the spiritual aptitude to call your shots as you make them. I use this ability to police your kind’s behavior on /co/, thus dispelling it on the rest of the internet.
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>>153258447
That's your version of an admission of defeat. You can't speak to me as an individual because you disintegrated that to join your polycule. By yourself you're, y’know, the kind of person who's terrified to speak on the phone.
I enjoy things like animal antics in solitude without needing the permission of random perverts online to enjoy my life. Its nice. I can draw whatever I want too.
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>>153249781
I wanna fuck her.
>>153250540
Well many like Bittersweet Candy Bowl are beautifully written.
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>>153257398
>If one of the only cultural relics of the 2000s a millennium from now was VGCats they'd be poring over it as well
With the way internet preservation is going, that might actually happen. So much is already lost, and if the major archive sites ever go down it'll be even worse.
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>>153259806
And then he forgot how to draw his own characters.
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>>153249965
>because he hated lewding his characters
I will never understand why he didn't just get into drawing general rule 34 of cartoons and comics in general. He's skilled enough. Has that toony style. His problem is how he handles faces most of the time. Needs a refresher on what parts of a toon to exaggerate what to not.
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>>153262702
>His problem is how he handles faces most of the time.
When drawing porn, he insisted in giving all females saggy boobs with enormous areolas. I mean, that's probably his fetish, but not everyone enjoys the same things...
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>>153262736
I don't mind boob sag, some natural sag is good. Too much is yuck, makes the characters look too old. Not a fan of big pepperoni arys.
The lipstick does not work here. At least she has a nose.
>>153259941
Head too big, almost looks like she has a bulge too.
>>153259806
Weird hump where a nose should be. I know he kinda goes through anime phases, but its not a human where you can place a dot or line for a nose - its an animal and if you're drawing furry their noses are a predominant feature, as their tails and ears are.
>>153249965
Massive side mouth.
I know Simon still lurks saw him in the Bounty Hamster thread, get him in here to handle these designs, give a GOOD Aries (and April).
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>>153262893
She did that because he wouldn't stop annoying her
He got better at any rate
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>>153262870
>I don't mind boob sag, some natural sag is good
Yeah, I agree: boobs naturally sag and that makes them perfect. But he went to the extreme...
https://files.catbox.moe/p5kf5c.jpg
That's supposed to be Leo's younger sister, and he gave her the boobs of a 40something after having several kids...
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>>153262927
This is peak Scott style. I misremembered though, the characters typically didn't have noses.
I remember when he made a post on the site about switching from drawing on paper and scanning and cleaning up digitally to straight up digital drawing on a tablet. That's when his style started to change.
>>153262928
I dislike how he draws the crotch area, looks weird.
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>>153262973
>I remember when he made a post on the site about switching from drawing on paper and scanning and cleaning up digitally to straight up digital drawing on a tablet.
Do you have an exact date? Would be good for future reference
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In another timeline Scott harnessed the power of his webcomic and kept on with reg updates. When the internet grew bigger, a whole new generation started to get into VG Cats. Then he starts making little animated shorts....that balloons into a pilot, and then, maybe a short web series. And it's all great and he makes alot of money
I remember he had merch made of a plush Leo once, those are likely very rare now to find now. I don't think he followed up with a Aries plush.
I think getting married, having kids, and divorced really fried Scott's brain. Go maybe he was always mentally a little off. I dunno. It's just sad how he was in the perfect spot with his webcomic right at the dawn of webcomics and fumbled it massively.
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>>153262928
yeah this is pretty horrendous
everything i saw of his porn was just so lumpy and unappealing
really sad t b h
is he still awol? i remember he pissed of commissioners en masse which is usually a really bad idea as the pool of them for any given author is always smaller than you'd think
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>>153263054
>is he still awol?
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>>153263013
I used to visit VG Cats monthly back in the day. I think this might have been somewhere between 2007 and 2009. If you WayBack Machine the site, it would be front and center on the little news page where he posted updates.
Too me the changes in how he drew were very apparent regarding the characters but it wasn't bad at first. It was just different. However I always mark that point as the very slow unravelling of what his art became, which is to say...sloppy, I guess. Exaggerated for the sake of being wacky.
And he didn't always draw like shit after the tablet. I don't want to give him too much grief, like a broken clock is correct twice a day type shit, but man, some of those bodies and faces...
Does anyone remember VG Cats had a full cast of side characters? The underwear pants on head guy?
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>>153263089
Tried to kill himself I think.
He's over 40, maybe almost 45 now.
The stealing of peoples money is not something people forget easily.
I think people always gave Scott the benefit of the doubt he'd make a legit comeback, or at least say sorry for what he did.
Then again I had faith in Amy Winehouse that she's get clean and comeback to the top of the charts and we all know how that went.
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>>153263081
>Too me the changes in how he drew were very apparent regarding the characters but it wasn't bad at first. It was just different. However I always mark that point as the very slow unravelling of what his art became, which is to say...sloppy, I guess. Exaggerated for the sake of being wacky.
>And he didn't always draw like shit after the tablet. I don't want to give him too much grief, like a broken clock is correct twice a day type shit, but man, some of those bodies and faces...
For me, that was clearly noticeable with this comic from 2012 -the first one he posted after a long hiatus-. Just look at Dot's face here: it's terrible.
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I don't mind Dot's face there I think its ok t b h. But maybe that's cause its a face exaggeration for a one off character and not his usual cats. Leo is drawn good there, though a bit small (unless its kid Leo).
One thing I will say is that the Xmas comic where Leo works hard to buy Aries a game was one of the most heartfelt things ever, and I thought it was drawn good (been a while since I seen it though).
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RIP Scott
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>>153263162
No, it's from the old animated series Reboot. It showed the world within a computer and, when a human user won in a videogame, the inhabitants of said world were "nullified", so they became the woms that are shown in the last panel. The joke here is that since Leo won the game, the people living within his Xbox suffered that fate.
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>>153263208
Someone saying "I tried to kill myself" and then going lol like it aint no thing...that's fucked up. Sounds like some emo teenager and the dude was like around 40 at the time. He could also totally be lying for the sake of attention.
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>>153263454
I don't know. He didn't finished said comic, and while reading it, it had de vibe of the last comic he would've produced for the series. But I don't think VGLewds could be considered as canon, sinceit made Leo a huge twink that was actually raped by both of Aeris' brothers.as well as havingLeo fucking both his sister and his mother.
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>>153263513
>spoiler
Talk about whoring out your characters.
This from a guy who in the 2000s did not like porn of characters.
Not a footfag but those feet look terrible.
Also that's a virgin sweater, not a Scorpions album cover.
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What deal?
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>>153262928
Man talk about Ren & Stimpy artstyle.
>>153263131
The question is honestly why didn't it catch on when so many zoomers and gen-alphas jackoff to inflation-like art? the THICK MEME artstyle?
Is it because VGCats didn't appear in Fortnite?
Gen-Zers are retarded and don't care for /fit/ aesthetic bodies, they want ugly turkish african bodies like most browns n pajeets do. (albeit most indians are skinny as hell)
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>>153263747
I want to call him a dope for turning them down, BUT, if you didn't read the fine print signing the contract for the cartoon, he might have fucked himself over if he wasn't careful. And this was years before indie shit could take off on places like Youtube.
I always wondered what Leo and Aries would sound like.
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>>153263513
>Humanoid toes
>No paw pads
>Weird coloring
Hmmmmmm
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>>153263975
Man you have no fucking idea. I stay alive because part of me still hopes there is something out there for me, some interest or hobby or person or something that could justify my existence by breaking me out of my eternal boredom and giving me purpose. I can't just kill myself, not yet. I'll shitpost about old cartoons and comics and always keep an eye out for that thing that gives me reason to show its head.
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>>153249781
I'm bringing GamerCat up because this is the video game cat comic I read during the 2010s while you guys were reading VGCats in the 2000s.
What I find interesting is that when you start to read either one you can immediately notice how dated they are and what era of the web they were raised in. VGCats was created when Flash was the tool of choice for art and the web was more decentralized. Think fan sites, GeoCities, and discussion forums. A lot of the early strips have that amateur pseudo-anime feel attached to them, clearly made by an artist that loves anime and manga but doesn't have all the fundamentals figured out yet to do the style justice.
GamerCat, on the other hand, was very clearly created when fandom as a whole was just barely making it into the mainstream. Tumblr was the choice for blogging about it and YouTube was the choice for vlogging about it. The concept of the internet artist was beginning to take shape and this is apparent from how clean the comic's art is from the start, built from all digital art knowledge shared on DeviantArt during the previous decade. You can literally see a bunch of gaming and lolcat trends come and go throughout the comic's run going from 2011 all the way to 2020, where it has since remained on an indefinite hiatus.
They both have a naivety attached to them that's hard to describe. Like, the internet was this sort of new medium at the time and there was a belief that there were unknowable opportunities to be discovered and unlimited potential with it's dynamic multimedia nature. It feels so long ago and distant now.
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You how Neurotically Your's got really pissed when people sexualized the main girl then he started leaning into it which only made it worse? Yeah Vgcats did that except it worked because the porn was actually bad.
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>>153264092
A very well written post anon, kudos.
I always liked GamerCat and thought its where VGCats could have been content wise had Scott not bailed on regular updates by the time GamerCat came out. It was nice to have another comic about cats and vidya and I liked the art and jokes...but it made me mourn what VGCats had become by then.
The fact VGCats still get threads on /co/ once in a while, a series created by Scott fucking 25 years ago, is amazing to me. For a webcomic that never went beyond anything than being a webcomic. These characters have some sort of hypnotic pull to the fans that knew them. Maybe it ties into a happier moment in time, like what was talked about earlier in thread about the internet being a better place back then. I miss seeing silly VGCats comics shared on Livejournal. I just want to go back to a simpler time. Before everything sucked. Before Scott got old and lost his marbles.
With time as Gen Y gets older, less and less will remember VGCats and this era of internet. Be happy if you were there, all I can say. Eventually VGCats will be look at as a footnote in Internet history.
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>Neurotically Your's
I thought that shit was so funny back in 2004. Then again I was a teenager. Now? I"m not sure I'd like it. Aren't all the old episodes lost media now? How can one squirrel be this angry after over 20 years??
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>>153264181
He uploaded like almost every episode he ever made on youtube in HD himself
>Check his channel for the first time in years
>He uses AI voices on songs where he isn't just being one of the squirrels
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PL9myXwtJ0s
Holy shit, he's the LAST person I'd thought would ever use that stuff.
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>He uploaded like almost every episode he ever made on youtube in HD himself
Ok I stand corrected.
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>the speaking voices are exactly the same I remember
Wild. How does he do it? Some Alvin and The Chipmunks type vocal trickery?
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>>153263984
>I always wondered what Leo and Aries would sound like.
In my head I always think Leo is some goofball gamer like Scott the Woz/DanTDM but dumber As for Aries I feel like she would sound like one of the Hololive EN Vtubers not sure which tho
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I mean, I know what they sound like thakns to those fan dubs by Omahdon
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kq96pIF12Ig
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>>153250716
Everyone forgets we were still at war and the economy just tore itself a new one, or how the iPhone and advent of YouTube basically lead to the tiktok brainrot.
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>>153265027
>Everyone forgets we were still at war and the economy just tore itself a new one
Yeah, but the economy didn't suck until 2008, which is already nearing the end of that era. The wars were a big deal of course, but all that going on in the background didn't really change much for most people online. Especially for most of the teenagers and college kids creating internet culture. We're not saying it was a golden era in all aspects of life, just for the internet and its culture.
>how the iPhone and advent of YouTube basically lead to the tiktok brainrot.
This is true, but it took a while. Early YouTube was great, no ads or anything.
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>>153251897
This new VGCats lore is INSANE.
>>153257348
PUSSY!
>>153257985
Are you ChatGPT?
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>>153263653
>seething because his sticc supermodels aren't getting drawn anymore
Kek.