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11	->''"The Website/TVTropes QC page is every single idiotic comment from my forums distilled into one HTML document."''
12	-->-- '''[[https://web.archive.org/web/20150220194530/https://twitter.com/jephjacques/status/3756326459 Jeph Jacques]]''', the webcomic's author
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14	''[[http://questionablecontent.net/ Questionable Content]]'' ("QC") is a [[WebcomicsLongRunners long running]] SliceOfLife webcomic with a strong SF theme by Creator/JephJacques.
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16	The comic has changed direction a few times over the years, as Jacques has acknowledged.
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18	WillTheyOrWontThey ''(strips 0-500)'' Marten Reed, an under-employed and unhappy indie-rock fan, lives in Northampton, Massachusetts with an [[ComedicSociopathy adorably sociopathic]] [[RobotBuddy little robot]]. He runs into a girl at a bar, Faye Whitaker, a barista who's just moved from Savannah and needs a friend, but adamantly [[JustFriends no more than a friend]]. She then accidentally burns down her apartment building while making toast and needs a place to live--namely, Marten's couch. Before long, he meets Faye's sultry, gothy boss Dora Bianchi, and they have fun, hang out, and joke around.
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20	[[SliceOfLife Indie Rock Coffee Shop]] ''(strips 501-1800)'' After some character-defining backstory is revealed, the comic settles into an EnsembleCast SliceOfLife comic of early twenty-something squad hijinks and indie rock jokes, mostly centered around Dora's coffee shop.
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22	[[MechanicalLifeforms My Post-Singularity Life]] ''(strips 1801-3900)'' Dora and Marten break up, Faye is forced to leave the coffee shop, and the comic shifts focus to relations between the humans and the AI characters. Faye becomes close to an especially strong, emotionally damaged combat AI called Bubbles.
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24	[[RidiculouslyHumanRobots Robots R Us]] ''(strips 3901-present)'' A more subtle shift, where the relationships between the AI characters are just as important as the relationships between AIs and humans or humans alone. Heavily inspired by Literature/TheCulture.
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26	QC updates every weekday, with remarkable consistency considering that Jacques often works without a buffer. It has exceeded 5000 comics over 19 years. Six print collections are currently out, featuring re-lettered and sometimes re-drawn (as the art has gotten remarkably better over time) versions of the first arcs.
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28	Loosely connected to ''Webcomic/DieselSweeties'' by way of Faye's sister Amanda's brief fling with Li'l Sis and a couple of maybe-canon[[note]]Jeph Jacques refused to say whether they were canon or not, explicitly messing with readers.[[/note]] guest strips by [[Webcomic/SomethingPositive Randy Milholland]]. In addition, [[Webcomic/ScaryGoRound Shelly Winters and Amy Chilton]] have been spotted [[http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=519 on holiday in Northampton]] as well. Also, the AIs may have something to do with it, somewhere. Some occasional appearances of the cast in Webcomic/{{Shortpacked}} also occur.
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30	Jeph debuted a new comic, ''Webcomic/AliceGrove'', on September 25th 2014, which was sometimes advertised under the QC strips; it ended in 2017. During October and November of 2015 he also did a comic called ''DORD'' which seems to have been abandoned.
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32	''Definitely'' not to be confused with QuestionableConsent.
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35	!! ''Questionable Content'' contains examples of:
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37	[[index]]
38	* QuestionableContent/TropesAToD
39	* QuestionableContent/TropesEToH
40	* QuestionableContent/TropesIToL
41	* QuestionableContent/TropesMToP
42	* QuestionableContent/TropesQToT
43	* QuestionableContent/TropesUToZ
44	[[/index]]
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48	->''"[[https://web.archive.org/web/20160808083820/https://twitter.com/jephjacques/status/73196546786729985 Okay]], I like one thing about Website/TVTropes, and that is the quote at the top of the page for QC."''
49	-->-- '''Jeph Jacques'''
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