YMMV / The Oatmeal

• Memetic Mutation: Nope. Nope. Nope.
• Misaimed Fandom: "What it means when you say 'literally'" features a quote from anti-gay televangelist Jerry Falwell, in which he claims that a "homosexual steamroller will literally crush all decent men, women, and children who get in its way" as an example of the word "literally" being misused. The point is illustrated with a cartoon of people being run over by a pink-and-rainbow "Gayroller 2000". Although the point of this was to mock homophobes, some anti-LGBTQ memes unironically use the image. The Oatmeal later made a tweet clarifying that the image is meant to be pro-marriage equality, in response to a right-wing publication posting an image of a giant rainbow steamroller destroying small businesses.
• Squick: Many of his comics feature large quantities of poop and vomit, including this one about his 17 childhood cats who all pooped in the same litter box...that his parents made him clean every day for 10 years.
• Tear Jerker: The story of Inman's house burning down is just a little heartbreaking. Until the end that is.
• Ugly Cute: Many of the characters generally drawn with this quality.
  • Oatmeal describes most of his people looking like a "frog-eyed sausage".

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