🎨 Artcow Iconoclast / Jonathan Mack Sweet - The Chris-Chan of Arkansas

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Holdek said:
I would love a Belch Dimension-Sonichu crossover, or even yet, an Apserchu-like take on The Belch Dimension :ween:.
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Jonichu is pretty much an unintentional villain in the canonical comics. A Belch Dimension Asperchu would be fantastic.

Now we've got some more photos of Jon, I might do some more Sweet Bro and Hella Rush.

Also, what is it with Sweetness and not being able to draw fingers? We called him out on it before and he posted an picture of his hands in some weird position, IIRC. Don't remember much other than that though - what was he trying to prove? That his hands a weird and so he draws every character he creates with weird hands too?
 
Le Bateleur said:
Jonichu is pretty much an unintentional villain in the canonical comics. A Belch Dimension Asperchu would be fantastic.

Now we've got some more photos of Jon, I might do some more Sweet Bro and Hella Rush.

Also, what is it with Sweetness and not being able to draw fingers? We called him out on it before and he posted an picture of his hands in some weird position, IIRC. Don't remember much other than that though - what was he trying to prove? That his hands a weird and so he draws every character he creates with weird hands too?
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Well, clearly, Jon had a sloppy, unskilled hack for an art teacher.

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"I never had any formal training. I taught myself to draw..." Jon Sweet
 
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I'm not sure what disturbs me more, the idea that Sweets would draw a dog suckling on a human's breast, or those mangled, and deformed, fingers. Either way, we'll all be haunted for eternity.
 
He Sets Me On Fire said:
I couldn't agree more. For a guy who calls himself the "Bad Boy of College Journalism," there's absolutely nothing insightful, different, enlightening, or heck, even insanely conspiratorial. He may as well have written "Bill Clinton is bad and is going to do bad things!" With a little tweak and editing here and there, you could just as easily substitute Clinton for Bush, or Bush II, or Harding, or Chester A. Arthur. It's just thoughtless, recycled pablum.
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Yeah, but the whole, "Clinton will be impeached and removed from office, and then Gore will succeed him but will be impeached and removed too because he has the same beliefs, and so then a Republican Speaker will become rightful President," was a nice touch of autism that most columns wouldn't have.

DrJonesHat said:
I meant yelled at by his parents or teachers.
Since Sweet is very bad at interpreting people's reactions, he probably didn't know people didn't like him in elementary school, just like he didn't know he was universally loathed in college. So his peers' opinion of him would not factor into his thinking. I doubt very much he noticed people avoiding him. I imagine he got the crap pounded out of him a lot in elementary school. He was probably the target of vicious pranks in high school, but he's such an insufferable twit that I doubt anyone felt sorry for him.

But on some level, Sweet has to know that most people have friends, and since he doesn't (at least, he's never mentioned any friends), somewhere in his mind is a dim awareness he's not normal.
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He is. You'll see such occasional flashes of awareness in his comics and posts. But he quickly changes his mind back again and explains it through his conspiracy paradigm because that's a lot more comfortable for him, and then entrenches that paradigm by disavowing his flashes of awareness as temporarily being suckered by the "ploy" of said conspiracy.
 
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We've seen it a couple times. There's at least one time, that I can remember offhand, where he's admitted to his issues almost completely. As you said, there's other times where everything clicks into focus for very brief moments. It's like the inverse of how most normal people operate. Whereas someone leading a relatively normal life will have moments where they get depressed, or everything seems so out-of-focus, or they wallow in self-loathing for a bit, Sweets has those rare lucid moments.

That alone automatically makes me think (purely as a casual observer) schizophrenia. There's likely more to it, and I'm not an expert, nor is this a new theory, but that's how I see it. Normally someone like this, likely undiagnosed (at least I've never seen mention of it) wouldn't be ripe for comedy for me personally. That said, Sweets has obviously been acting this way for a long time, and as this thread has shown, there's been people around him that have sought to get him help, or pushed him that direction by pointing out when he was acting awkward. Instead of heeding that advice, well, when's the last time someone that has a thread this long on the site heeded good advice?
 
melty said:
it's true. The only bit I remember him talking about was that random story about putting peanuts under the pyramid. The incident with his mom getting beat up while he cowered under a table or w/e also happened in high school. Other than that, you really get the impression his life began senior year of college or in graduate school because he talks about very little before that.
If the schizophrenia theory is correct, it's possible John wasn't a total weirdo until 20+ when it really took root. Other than that, my best guess is that he tends to focus on the few months in his life where things were finally going his way (the Herald job, the relationship - later on, the shop jobs where he was actually working and doing something) so maybe he's been a punching bag the entire time we just don't hear about it because there wasn't a corresponding high that he was brought down from if that makes sense.
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I believe that AJM interview is where he's talked the most about his childhood. From what I remember, it was mostly spent watching cartoons on TV, and then, later, also drawing comics.

I think it was through these comics that he lived out the childhood with friends having adventures around the neighborhood that he never had in real life.
 
I know Sweet has done some reprehensible things, but some part of me feels sorry for him. He never really had a chance. If he wasn't so resistant to help, there are low-cost and free services that could address his obvious mental health issues, and maybe the rest he could sort out himself. 40's not old anymore, and he could still turn over a new leaf if he really wanted to.
 
DrJonesHat said:
I know Sweet has done some reprehensible things, but some part of me feels sorry for him. He never really had a chance. If he wasn't so resistant to help, there are low-cost and free services that could address his obvious mental health issues, and maybe the rest he could sort out himself. 40's not old anymore, and he could still turn over a new leaf if he really wanted to.
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I think it might be too late for Sweet. The decades of pure, uninhibited autism and no responsibility have left him so warped that I don't even know where one would start with "fixing" him.
 
I truly, and sincerely, hope he does. I don't see it happening, due to the obvious resistance to change, and the fact he's been living in the past for more than half his life, but I hope he does. Step one is admitting there's an issue, and then resolving to fix it, or at least work on it. Step two's not continuing to be a racist, entitled asshat. I see a lot of problems with both of those.
 
Francis York Morgan said:
I think it might be too late for Sweet. The decades of pure, uninhibited autism and no responsibility have left him so warped that I don't even know where one would start with "fixing" him.
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A lobotomy might work :alog:

And the big thing with Sweets is that he doesn't see himself doing anything wrong for the most part. He is utterly unaware how others feel and is delusional to the point where he though getting pranked was them praising him. Even when faced with direct statements on the matter, he just compartmentalized that into a "conspiracy" or as lies. Jon made his bed, and he's the one forcing himself to sleep in it. You can't fix what doesn't want to be fixed, and in this case I can't feel bad about that.
 
Adamska said:
And the big thing with Sweets is that he doesn't see himself doing anything wrong for the most part. He is utterly unaware how others feel and is delusional to the point where he though getting pranked was them praising him. Even when faced with direct statements on the matter, he just compartmentalized that into a "conspiracy" or as lies. Jon made his bed, and he's the one forcing himself to sleep in it. You can't fix what doesn't want to be fixed, and in this case I can't feel bad about that.
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In addition to all of that, keep in mind that Sweet doesn't want to help himself. He wants someone to do everything for him so he can continue to mess around with his comics or be a creepy sperg on the Internet. You can help those who can't help themselves but you can't help the ones who will not.
 
MarineTrainedTard said:
Reminder to everyone that Sweet claims to be a small government conservative opposed to social welfare and pretends to be a "law and order"/"personal responsibility" Republican.
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So he's the very thing he hates? No wonder he's angry all the time.
 
I don't think Jon has a very long life expectancy if he doesn't get help. He's already a hard 38. And like I've said before once Momma Sweets is gone, who's going to take care of him? He doesn't even have control of his tugboat.
I don't see Sweets going quietly into a group home.
 
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