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* TheMerch: Characters will sport a new funny slogan or t-shirt in a few strips, then Jeph will talk about it in his Info post, then it will show up in the Merchandise section. Doing a massive Archive Crawl, you could see this six or seven times in a short span. It ain't called the "Questionable T-Shirt Factory" for nothing.

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Characters will sport a new funny slogan or t-shirt in a few strips, then Jeph will talk about it in his Info post, then it will show up in the Merchandise section. Doing a massive Archive Crawl, you could see this six or seven times in a short span. It ain't called the "Questionable T-Shirt Factory" for nothing.nothing.
** You can buy plush Yelling Birds in the store. Plushies of Pintsize and Winslow have also been made.
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* WhatCouldHaveBeen: According to TheRant on [[https://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=4923 #4923]]:
-->there was originally dialog in the last panel but when I hid it to do the inks I burst out laughing at them just squinting in silence
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* WordOfGod: According to Jacques, Sara, a girl with a crush on Marten who worked at Coffee of Doom, got [[EverythingIsBetterWithDinosaurs eaten by an allosaurus]], which was why she disappeared from the comic.

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* WordOfGod: According to Jacques, Sara, a girl with a crush on Marten who worked at Coffee of Doom, got [[EverythingIsBetterWithDinosaurs eaten by an allosaurus]], allosaurus, which was why she disappeared from the comic.

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* ScheduleSlip: Conventions and other things that take Randy away from home (and sometimes strips that didn't work out or ended up longer than expected) mean he resorts to {{filler strip}}s often, but tries to make up for it.



* WordOfGod: A veritable ''ton'' of information is available about the strip and the {{backstory}} behind it by Milholland's interviews and commentaries. Just which situations are based off of real events, and which characters are based off of specific people, is often answered. According to Jacques, Sara, a girl with a crush on Marten who worked at Coffee of Doom, got [[EverythingIsBetterWithDinosaurs eaten by an allosaurus]], which was why she disappeared from the comic.
* WriteWhatYouKnow: A webcomic about a bunch of indie music fans, musicians and heavy drinkers with mental problems. All four descriptions suit (or used to suit) Jacques. As the comic moved away from the initial story beats, topics such as yoga and [[VirtualYouTuber VTubers]] gained relevance not long after Jeph expressed growing interest in them. Among other details, Davan's awful job in Medicaid billing ("I phone people and tell them that while we're sorry their son died in a drive-by shooting, here's an $800 bill for the ambulance") was what Milholland did for a living before ''S*P'' became profitable enough to support him.

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* WordOfGod: A veritable ''ton'' of information is available about the strip and the {{backstory}} behind it by Milholland's interviews and commentaries. Just which situations are based off of real events, and which characters are based off of specific people, is often answered. According to Jacques, Sara, a girl with a crush on Marten who worked at Coffee of Doom, got [[EverythingIsBetterWithDinosaurs eaten by an allosaurus]], which was why she disappeared from the comic.
* WriteWhatYouKnow: A webcomic about a bunch of indie music fans, musicians and heavy drinkers with mental problems. All four descriptions suit (or used to suit) Jacques. As the comic moved away from the initial story beats, topics such as yoga and [[VirtualYouTuber VTubers]] gained relevance not long after Jeph expressed growing interest in them. Among other details, Davan's awful job in Medicaid billing ("I phone people and tell them that while we're sorry their son died in a drive-by shooting, here's an $800 bill for the ambulance") was what Milholland did for a living before ''S*P'' became profitable enough to support him.

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* ScheduleSlip: Conventions and other things that take Randy away from home (and sometimes strips that didn't work out or ended up longer than expected) mean he resorts to {{filler strip}}s often, but tries to make up for it.



* WordOfGod: According to Jacques, Sara, a girl with a crush on Marten who worked at Coffee of Doom, got [[EverythingIsBetterWithDinosaurs eaten by an allosaurus]], which was why she disappeared from the comic.
* WriteWhatYouKnow: A webcomic about a bunch of indie music fans, musicians and heavy drinkers with mental problems. All four descriptions suit (or used to suit) Jacques. As the comic moved away from the initial story beats, topics such as yoga and [[VirtualYouTuber VTubers]] gained relevance not long after Jeph expressed growing interest in them.

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* WordOfGod: A veritable ''ton'' of information is available about the strip and the {{backstory}} behind it by Milholland's interviews and commentaries. Just which situations are based off of real events, and which characters are based off of specific people, is often answered. According to Jacques, Sara, a girl with a crush on Marten who worked at Coffee of Doom, got [[EverythingIsBetterWithDinosaurs eaten by an allosaurus]], which was why she disappeared from the comic.
* WriteWhatYouKnow: A webcomic about a bunch of indie music fans, musicians and heavy drinkers with mental problems. All four descriptions suit (or used to suit) Jacques. As the comic moved away from the initial story beats, topics such as yoga and [[VirtualYouTuber VTubers]] gained relevance not long after Jeph expressed growing interest in them.
them. Among other details, Davan's awful job in Medicaid billing ("I phone people and tell them that while we're sorry their son died in a drive-by shooting, here's an $800 bill for the ambulance") was what Milholland did for a living before ''S*P'' became profitable enough to support him.
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* WriteWhatYouKnow: A webcomic about a bunch of indie music fans, musicians and heavy drinkers with mental problems. Jacques has (or had) all four. As the comic moved away from the initial story beats, topics such as yoga and [[VirtualYouTuber VTubers]] gained relevance not long after Jeph expressed growing interest in them.

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* WriteWhatYouKnow: A webcomic about a bunch of indie music fans, musicians and heavy drinkers with mental problems. Jacques has All four descriptions suit (or had) all four.used to suit) Jacques. As the comic moved away from the initial story beats, topics such as yoga and [[VirtualYouTuber VTubers]] gained relevance not long after Jeph expressed growing interest in them.

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* ArtistDisillusionment: Jeph generally likes his fans, but he hates his discussion forum due to its tendencies towards SeriousBusiness and Shipping (ironic, considering the shift in focus of the comic towards relationships and the frequent shipping by character of each other and fictional characters from other media). At one point it got so bad that he openly threatened to delete the whole forum should people keep posting that kind of stuff. He has considerably softened up since then, realizing that the phrase "You can't please all of the people all of the time." is quite accurate.

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* ArtistDisillusionment: Jeph generally likes his fans, but he hates his discussion forum due to its tendencies towards SeriousBusiness and Shipping (ironic, considering the shift in focus of the comic towards relationships and the frequent shipping by character of each other and fictional characters from other media). At one point it got so bad that he openly threatened to delete the whole forum should people keep posting that kind of stuff. He has considerably softened up since then, realizing that the phrase "You can't please all of the people all of the time." time" is quite accurate.



* TrollingCreator: Long story short, Jeph Jacques has ''fun'' with shippers - so much, it was a tradition in the past to have "surprise kisses on Friday", because there wouldn't be update between Fridays and Mondays. When asked about one StoryArc designed to piss off shippers in particular, [[WordOfGod his response]] was "See my entire comic". ShipSinking is a common occurrence in the comic, but in Jacques' defense, breakups for real-life twenty-somethings can be just as sudden, so this trait makes the comic actually kind of realistic. That said, as mentioned elsewhere in other subpages, ShipTease can truly reach ridiculous proportions, the epitome of which would be the early 2013 StoryArc where Marten, right after Claire revealed herself to be [[spoiler:transgender]], started to [[SpotlightStealingSquad share a lot of screentime with her all of a sudden]], going as far as asking her to accompany him to his father's wedding. The [[TheRant commentary]] for [[http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=2405 this strip]] outright says "I am trolling you guys pretty hard".
** Although the trolling seems to have finally stopped with strip 2408, according to the [[TheRant commentary]]. Still, it's been four strips in a row being ''nothing but fan-trolling'' (at the [[ArcFatigue expense of storytelling]]).
*** Four hundred strips later, it turns out [[RedHerring it wasn't trolling]], but [[RelationshipUpgrade foreshadowing ...]]

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* TrollingCreator: Long story short, Jeph Jacques has ''fun'' with shippers - -- so much, much that it was a tradition in the past to have "surprise kisses on Friday", because there wouldn't be update between Fridays and Mondays. When asked about one StoryArc designed to piss off shippers in particular, [[WordOfGod his response]] was "See my entire comic". ShipSinking is a common occurrence in the comic, but in Jacques' defense, breakups for real-life twenty-somethings can be just as sudden, so this trait makes the comic actually kind of realistic. realistic.
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That said, as mentioned elsewhere in other subpages, ShipTease can truly reach ridiculous proportions, the epitome of which would be the early 2013 StoryArc where Marten, right after Claire revealed herself to be [[spoiler:transgender]], started to [[SpotlightStealingSquad share a lot of screentime with her all of a sudden]], going as far as asking her to accompany him to his father's wedding. The [[TheRant commentary]] for [[http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=2405 this strip]] outright says "I am trolling you guys pretty hard".
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hard". Although the trolling seems to have finally stopped with strip 2408, according to the [[TheRant commentary]]. Still, it's been four strips in a row being ''nothing but fan-trolling'' (at the [[ArcFatigue expense of storytelling]]).
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storytelling]]). Four hundred strips later, it turns out [[RedHerring it wasn't trolling]], but [[RelationshipUpgrade foreshadowing ...]]
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*** ...And then they ''also'' ended up together.
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* WriteWhatYouKnow: A webcomic about a bunch of indie music fans, musicians and heavy drinkers with mental problems. Jacques has (or had) all four.

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* WriteWhatYouKnow: A webcomic about a bunch of indie music fans, musicians and heavy drinkers with mental problems. Jacques has (or had) all four. As the comic moved away from the initial story beats, topics such as yoga and [[VirtualYouTuber VTubers]] gained relevance not long after Jeph expressed growing interest in them.
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* FanNickname:
** The line often gets blurred between a fan nickname being adopted in-universe by the characters and in-universe nicknames being picked up as second nature by the fans. "Hanners" is probably the most commonly-used one both in and out of the comic.
** "Twinksize" being used to refer to Pintsize after he switched to the standard AI body used by the other AIs in the cast, after having been the last holdout in his original Anthro-PC body.

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* FanNickname: The line often gets blurred between a fan nickname being adopted in-universe by the characters and in-universe nicknames being picked up as second nature by the fans. "Hanners" is probably the most commonly-used one both in and out of the comic.

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The line often gets blurred between a fan nickname being adopted in-universe by the characters and in-universe nicknames being picked up as second nature by the fans. "Hanners" is probably the most commonly-used one both in and out of the comic.comic.
** "Twinksize" being used to refer to Pintsize after he switched to the standard AI body used by the other AIs in the cast, after having been the last holdout in his original Anthro-PC body.

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* TheWikiRule: [[https://questionablecontent.fandom.com/wiki/Questionable_Content_Wiki Questionable Content Wiki]]
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** BreakThemByTalking
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* JustForFun/AdOfWin: [[http://jephjacques.tumblr.com/post/3439350865/suck-it-willis Via Jeph's Tumblr]]. Oh, Yelling Bird. You always know exactly what to say.
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** Starting with [[https://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=4230 here]], the strip leaned heavily on the implication that [[spoiler: Clinton and Elliot]] were finally going to make good on all the hints that been dropped in the past about the possibility that they're bi and fancy each other, but Jacques stamped on all that two strips later.
--->'''Jeph Jacques''': what, you thought you were gonna get CLOSURE???
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* WordOfGod: According to Jacques, Sara, a girl with a crush on Marten who worked at Coffee of Doom, got [[EverythingIsBetterWithDinosaurs eaten by an allosaurus]], which was why she disappeared from the comic.
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* CantTakeCriticism:
** Jeph literally got drunk and stabbed his hand over it, though he had a lot of other stresses in his life that lead up to this event, and the criticism was just the final straw.
** To a lesser degree, Jeph seems to detest when fans analyze or speculate over the direction the comic's narrative is taking.
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* FanNickname: The line often gets blurred between a fan nickname being adopted in-universe by the characters and in-universe nicknames being picked up as second nature by the fans. "Hanners" is probably the most commonly-used one both in and out of the comic.

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* CantTakeCriticism: Jeph literally got drunk and stabbed his hand over it, though he had a lot of other stresses in his life that lead up to this event, and the criticism was just the final straw.

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* CreatorsFavorite: Jeph rotates through a '''lot''' of them. Dora, Hanners, Marigold, Emily and Claire have been the main ones so far.

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* CreatorsFavorite: Jeph rotates through a '''lot''' of them. Dora, Hanners, Marigold, Emily and Emily, Claire and Bubbles have been the main ones so far.
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* ArtistDisillusionment: Jeph generally likes his fans, but he hates his discussion forum due to its tendencies towards SeriousBusiness and Shipping. At one point it got so bad that he openly threatened to delete the whole forum should people keep posting that kind of stuff. He has considerably softened up since then, realizing that the phrase "You can't please all of the people all of the time." is quite accurate.
* CantTakeCriticism: Jeph literally got drunk and stabbed his hand over it, though to be fair, he had a lot of other stresses in his life that lead up to this event, and the criticism was just the final straw.

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* ArtistDisillusionment: Jeph generally likes his fans, but he hates his discussion forum due to its tendencies towards SeriousBusiness and Shipping.Shipping (ironic, considering the shift in focus of the comic towards relationships and the frequent shipping by character of each other and fictional characters from other media). At one point it got so bad that he openly threatened to delete the whole forum should people keep posting that kind of stuff. He has considerably softened up since then, realizing that the phrase "You can't please all of the people all of the time." is quite accurate.
* CantTakeCriticism: Jeph literally got drunk and stabbed his hand over it, though to be fair, he had a lot of other stresses in his life that lead up to this event, and the criticism was just the final straw.



* TrollingCreator: Long story short, Jeph Jacques has ''fun'' with shippers - so much, it was a tradition in the past to have "surprise kisses on friday", because there wouldn't be update between fridays and mondays. When asked about one StoryArc designed to piss off shippers in particular, [[WordOfGod his response]] was "See my entire comic". ShipSinking is a common occurrence in the comic, but in Jacques' defense, breakups for real-life twenty-somethings can be just as sudden, so this trait makes the comic actually kind of realistic. That said, as mentioned elsewhere in other subpages, ShipTease can truly reach epically ridiculous proportions, the epitome of which would be the early 2013 StoryArc where Marten, right after Claire revealed herself to be [[spoiler:transgender]], started to [[SpotlightStealingSquad share a lot of screentime with her all of a sudden]], going as far as asking her to accompany him to his father's wedding. The [[TheRant commentary]] for [[http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=2405 this strip]] outright says "I am trolling you guys pretty hard".

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* TrollingCreator: Long story short, Jeph Jacques has ''fun'' with shippers - so much, it was a tradition in the past to have "surprise kisses on friday", Friday", because there wouldn't be update between fridays Fridays and mondays.Mondays. When asked about one StoryArc designed to piss off shippers in particular, [[WordOfGod his response]] was "See my entire comic". ShipSinking is a common occurrence in the comic, but in Jacques' defense, breakups for real-life twenty-somethings can be just as sudden, so this trait makes the comic actually kind of realistic. That said, as mentioned elsewhere in other subpages, ShipTease can truly reach epically ridiculous proportions, the epitome of which would be the early 2013 StoryArc where Marten, right after Claire revealed herself to be [[spoiler:transgender]], started to [[SpotlightStealingSquad share a lot of screentime with her all of a sudden]], going as far as asking her to accompany him to his father's wedding. The [[TheRant commentary]] for [[http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=2405 this strip]] outright says "I am trolling you guys pretty hard".

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* LyingCreator:
** [[BlatantLies "Everything is fine,]] [[http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=2308 please do not email me".]] Yeah, [[SarcasmMode everyone believed that]]. Cue [[WhamEpisode the following comic's newspost.]]
** Jeph once claimed that he was "trolling" readers by [[ShipTease repeatedly Ship Teasing]] Marten and Claire. Not 400 strips later, [[RelationshipUpgrade they're in a relationship]].

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* LyingCreator:
** [[BlatantLies "Everything is fine,]] [[http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=2308 please do not email me".]] Yeah, [[SarcasmMode everyone believed that]]. Cue [[WhamEpisode the following comic's newspost.]]
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LyingCreator: Jeph once claimed that he was "trolling" readers by [[ShipTease repeatedly Ship Teasing]] Marten and Claire. Not 400 strips later, [[RelationshipUpgrade they're in a relationship]].
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* TheMerch: Characters will sport a new funny slogan or t-shirt in a few strips, then Jeph will talk about it in his Info post, then it will show up in the Merchandise section. Doing a massive Archive Crawl, you could see this six or seven times in a short span. It ain't called the "Questionable T-Shirt Factory" for nothing.
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* CantTakeCriticism: Jeph literally got drunk and stabbed his hand over it, though to be fair, he had a lot of other stresses in his life that lead up to this event, and the criticism was just the final straw.
** To a lesser degree, Jeph seems to detest when fans analyze or speculate over the direction the comic's narrative is taking.
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* DemandOverload: The first page of Jeph Jacques' new comic killed the servers for his ''original'' comic, ''Questionable Content'', and the new one.

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* CreatorsFavorite: Jeph rotates through a '''lot''' of them. Dora, Hanners, Emily and Claire are but the tip of the iceberg.

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* CreatorsFavorite: Jeph rotates through a '''lot''' of them. Dora, Hanners, Marigold, Emily and Claire are but have been the tip of the iceberg.main ones so far.



** Jeph once claimed that he was "trolling" readers by [[ShipTease repeatedly Ship Teasing]] Marten and Claire. Not 400 strips later, they're in a relationship.

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** Jeph once claimed that he was "trolling" readers by [[ShipTease repeatedly Ship Teasing]] Marten and Claire. Not 400 strips later, [[RelationshipUpgrade they're in a relationship.relationship]].



* TrollingCreator: Long story short, Jeph Jacques has ''fun'' with shippers - so much, it was a tradition in the past to have "surprise kisses on friday", because there wouldn't be update between fridays and mondays. When asked about one StoryArc designed to piss off shippers in particular, [[WordOfGod his response]] was "See my entire comic". ShipSinking is a common occurrence in the comic, but in Jacques' defense, breakups for real-life twenty-somethings can be just as sudden, so this trait makes the comic actually kind of realistic. That said, as mentioned elsewhere in other subpages, ShipTease can truly reach epically ridiculous proportions, the epitome of which would be the early 2013 StoryArc where Marten, right after Claire revealed herself to be [[spoiler: transgender]], started to share a lot of screentime with her all of a sudden, going as far as asking her to accompany him to his father's wedding. The [[TheRant commentary]] for [[http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=2405 this strip]] outright says "I am trolling you guys pretty hard".
** TeasingCreator: After being asked one too many times about where Steve has been, Jeph gives us [[http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=2407 this.]]

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* TeasingCreator: After being asked one too many times about where Steve has been, Jeph gives us [[http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=2407 this.]]
* TrollingCreator: Long story short, Jeph Jacques has ''fun'' with shippers - so much, it was a tradition in the past to have "surprise kisses on friday", because there wouldn't be update between fridays and mondays. When asked about one StoryArc designed to piss off shippers in particular, [[WordOfGod his response]] was "See my entire comic". ShipSinking is a common occurrence in the comic, but in Jacques' defense, breakups for real-life twenty-somethings can be just as sudden, so this trait makes the comic actually kind of realistic. That said, as mentioned elsewhere in other subpages, ShipTease can truly reach epically ridiculous proportions, the epitome of which would be the early 2013 StoryArc where Marten, right after Claire revealed herself to be [[spoiler: transgender]], [[spoiler:transgender]], started to [[SpotlightStealingSquad share a lot of screentime with her all of a sudden, sudden]], going as far as asking her to accompany him to his father's wedding. The [[TheRant commentary]] for [[http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=2405 this strip]] outright says "I am trolling you guys pretty hard".
** TeasingCreator: After being asked one too many times about where Steve has been, Jeph gives us [[http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=2407 this.]]
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* ArtistDisillusionment: Jeph generally likes his fans, but he hates his discussion forum due to its tendencies towards SeriousBusiness and Shipping. At one point it got so bad that he openly threatened to delete the whole forum should people keep posting that kind of stuff. He has considerably softened up since then.

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* ArtistDisillusionment: Jeph generally likes his fans, but he hates his discussion forum due to its tendencies towards SeriousBusiness and Shipping. At one point it got so bad that he openly threatened to delete the whole forum should people keep posting that kind of stuff. He has considerably softened up since then.then, realizing that the phrase "You can't please all of the people all of the time." is quite accurate.
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** To be specific, a group of people on the website Tumblr got mad him for not drawing Marigold "fat enough" in a swimsuit, so he got drunk and stabbed his own hand. Many suspect the almost immediate reveal of [[spoiler:Claire being transgender]] after this incident to be his way of sucking up to them in order to get back in their good books.
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** To be specific, Tumblr's social justice warriors got mad him for not drawing Marigold "fat enough" in a swimsuit, so he got drunk and stabbed his own hand. Many suspect the almost immediate reveal of [[spoiler:Claire being transgender]] after this incident to be his way of sucking up to them in order to get back in their good books.

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** To be specific, Tumblr's social justice warriors a group of people on the website Tumblr got mad him for not drawing Marigold "fat enough" in a swimsuit, so he got drunk and stabbed his own hand. Many suspect the almost immediate reveal of [[spoiler:Claire being transgender]] after this incident to be his way of sucking up to them in order to get back in their good books.

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