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prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 days ago
Dilbert was never funny anyway. Fight me about it.
I don’t actually want to fight.
But when it first came out, it fit right in with Dave Barry and Milton, etc. If you were working just to get a paycheck, you could relate. The overuse of sarcasm could be overlooked bc it only happened once a week.
It never grew or evolved with the times, mirroring Adams.
It did add a bald CEO in later years, but that’s about it.
That’s it, we’re gonna fight now
Okay: it criticized the corporate bullshit machine, how it promotes short-term thinking, and how it turns hopeful, creative people into burned out cynics. Yes, it had flaws, it overused the “work, amiright” trope and it liked to kick downwards, for instance. But at its core it was a sarcastic criticism of capitalism and our broken society that resonated with lots of people. Even if it never spelled such things out.
Doesn’t excuse the author being a racist asshole, of course.
I said it wasn’t funny, not that it had chosen a bad target.
The most boring comic in the Sunday paper.
I didn’t know we were talking about Family Circus or Nancy.
Have my up vote. Never cared for it one bit.
uh okay i guess. since you staked out my position though, i’m gonna have to pick something ridiculous like scott adams character the pointy eared boss was inspired by an interaction that adams had with a mirror while on mescaline
imadethis@fedinsfw.app 5 days ago
Fighting takes too much energy. It was never a witty comic, but it would resonate with you when you were in the office job that had a nepo boss making random decisions. The life of the comic was just the same joke said in a thousand different ways though, which is why we can now look at it and mentally shrug.
Windex007@lemmy.world 5 days ago
Boss: I hav a nu idea
Gilbert: No don’t u realize how stoopid that
Boss: oh well I stil say do
Garfeel: oh boy Monday… NOT