>>10716 Dude, man, that's sad as shit

>>10716 That sucks to hear.

>>10716 I don't read Whomp regularly but I hope he's able to recover soon.

Figured it would be good to let /co/ know, I always looked forward to his comics.

>>10716 i havent heard about whomp since like 2014. figured he just dropped out of fad. hope he doesn't troon out.

I remember I asked him what his favorite VN was a few years back. He told me he hadn't actually played a VN in a long time and was really apologetic about it and I felt kind of bad. That dude needs some self confidence. Hope he feels better.

>>10838 On the other hand it's inspiring knowing someone like him with very deep issues can manage to make a comic so widely influential on the internet. Sort of helps put what you or I or anyone could actually achieve into perspective.

>>10716 >self deprecating humor You'd think people would have gotten tired of "self-aware" ironic humor by now.

>>10716 >seems his self deprecating humor either got the best of him or was a cry for help all along. >"or"

>>10848 self depreceating humour is entirely diferend from self-aware ironic humour nigger.

>>10910 *deprecating *different

>>10716 >seems his self deprecating humor either got the best of him or was a cry for help all along. That's basically the humor of tumblr.

He seems fine now

>>10972 Except that tumblr's brand of self deprecation is centered on the denial of the fact their flaws make them a worse person. It's all about compartmentalizing personal problems into quirks, or if they're particularly self-aware, isolated bad behaviour to retain their inflated self-image.

>>11032 That's my experience as well. I noticed a bunch more "god I'm such a basic bitch scum bag uwu" tier jokes on other social media once tumblr gutted itself.

>>10972 The more honest version.

>>10848 >You'd think people would have gotten tired of "self-aware" ironic humor by now. Self-deprecation is a very old comedy tradition and it isn't going away any time soon.

>>10724 This one still makes me laugh every time. God bless this man.

>>10724 Imposter Syndrome: The Comic

>>10716 He also got a girlfriend around the same time didn't he? He's probably just making better use of his time.

>>21393 This woman should be hanged by her tits for doing this to him.

>>10716 >>11027 Fuck at least he's still alive, I keep thinking he was gonna turn up as dead at some point I keep checking for comic updates.

>>21433 He made a comic about getting a girlfriend, then after a long hiatus, a comic about being lonely. That was months ago and is the last comic he's made since. She probably broke up with him.

>>10716 Is he at least DEALING with the source of his depression? Muh chemical imbalance is all fine and dandy, but 99 times out of 100 the root cause of depression is something that's bothering you, or past trauma. Something that you're ignoring and burying deep to never see.

>>21654 Ronnie should vent more, imagine a grimmer serialized version of Ronnie where he's more honest, like giving it a garfield minus feeling.

>>49238 So, is she pregnant or just fat?

>>49238 agrias sexo

>>49238 >Ronnie moves out >no more fat fuck around to eat all the junk food >still maintains old habits from living with him >keeps gaining weight offscreen >last time Ronnie sees her, she's wearing a Hawaiian dress and is as round as him

>>10716 >he has started taking medication for depression as of February 12th I started 35 years ago. Crossing my fingers but cognitive behavioral therapy (short-term, very popular with insurance companies) is usually necessary in conjunction with that to open up some of the underlying issues once your brain chemistry is able to deal with them. I had a bad feeling about him trying to get back into Whomp! since he pretty much told every joke he could without repeating himself too much the first time, and now that he's a decade older the self-deprecation's going to be harder on himself. He had an excellent run and it was a product of its time, but take a look at how many webcomics from that time are still around and what degree of shambling undead they're in. He owes us nothing.

>>49709 Pretty much how I feel about it and him Whomp had like 7-8 really good years, and I still think it's up there with the best/funniest webcomics ever. Yeah, it wasn't great in its last 2 or so years, but having a good long run like that is really hard as is and I can't fault someone for running out of steam at that time, shit's hard. It's gotta suck when that shit is your livelihood too. It's no surprise other webcomic creator's go to other fields like the deathbulge guy doing a game. Here's hoping things go well for Ronnie

>>49712 No one should make webcomics their day job. Jeph Jacques is a mediocrity factory and Randy Milholland jumped at taking over Popeye as soon as he could; they were among the first to attempt this which is why they succeeded. Look at Wapsi Square, Least I Could Do, Dumbing of Age, Alt-Ctrl-Delete, Penny Arcade; all of them were supposed to subvert the syndicated newspaper strip paradigm but they've all become exactly like it except for being able to say "fuck."

>>49709 >I had a bad feeling about him trying to get back into Whomp! since he pretty much told every joke he could without repeating himself too much the first time Whomp was growing stale by like 2016 or 2017, whenever it was he switched primarily to the vertical 4koma style. It had a good run but that good run is like 3 years. 3 exceedingly excellent years but still a relatively short amount of time.

>>49238 oh god they are back together. I knew it. This is going to end in shipping drama i can feeel it