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

[melty]

He's responded:
https://archive.is/cAWPd

For the record, Japanese does not have a "bah" or a "bao" (although you can combine several characters to make them sound like them) and I have no idea what the hell he's talking about.

And I'm curious on how we got blocked from deviantart.

Ugh. You know what I'd bet good money he's talking about? Bánh bao, the Vietnamese steamed buns. "Bánh bao" sounds kind of like "bah bao". The Chinese version of this dish is commonly called bao too. Bao are so popular, even Sweet has surely come across them in his bumfuck town. He probably remembers they are some kind of Asian thing because all Asian stuff is exactly the same right?!? Food, people, Chinese, Japanese who cares amirite?
So let's get this straight: he names a Japanese character after a Chinese exchange student. Then when called out he backs this up by citing more words that don't really exist in Japanese, but are most likely ripped from a popular Vietnamese dish.
Jesus christ, Sweet. Why didn't you just name her Ching Chong and get it over with?

 

[Le Bateleur]

So is the laptop he claims to have bought last Black Friday his, or the family's? The way he was carrying on about it I assumed it was his personal computer...but then again, this is the same guy who claims that his mom lives with him when we all know it's the other way around.

Also, was going to mention this is my last post but forgot : I find it really funny that one of the linked journals on his dA page is something to the effect of "Why you and your comic get ignored."

Wouldn't surprise me if it was the family's/his mother's. Alternately, I wouldn't be surprised if the Sweet household still had dialup internet and he has to take turns hooking into the phone line.

 

[autism420]

Wouldn't surprise me if it was the family's/his mother's. Alternately, I wouldn't be surprised if the Sweet household still had dialup internet and he has to take turns hooking into the phone line.

Any modern computer would be a pain in the ass to hook up to dial up - we would have for sure heard him complaining about that if it were the case.

 

[sonichuis44]

There's also no way he's watching Youtube over dialup.

 

[ToroidalBoat]

So is the laptop he claims to have bought last Black Friday his, or the family's?

Considering how Sweet complained that he couldn't buy new parts for the older computer at his mom's place earlier in this thread (because he has no credit card and he doesn't have control of his tugboat), and how he was recently complaining about having to share internet access with the Sweet family, I'd guess that that Black Friday laptop is the Sweet family laptop, and not the Sweet only laptop.

>inb4 Sweet powerlevels some more and claims we're stupid or ignorant again

 

[Le Bateleur]

Ugh. You know what I'd bet good money he's talking about? Bánh bao, the Vietnamese steamed buns. "Bánh bao" sounds kind of like "bah bao". The Chinese version of this dish is commonly called bao too. Bao are so popular, even Sweet has surely come across them in his bumfuck town. He probably remembers they are some kind of Asian thing because all Asian stuff is exactly the same right?!? Food, people, Chinese, Japanese who cares amirite?
So let's get this straight: he names a Japanese character after a Chinese exchange student. Then when called out he backs this up by citing more words that don't really exist in Japanese, but are most likely ripped from a popular Vietnamese dish.
Jesus christ, Sweet. Why didn't you just name her Ching Chong and get it over with?

It's lost on AJM somewhere, but when we laughed at his archaic racist Chinese character in his comic he says he wished he'd drawn it as a caricature of Kim Jong-Il to really aggravate those dang dirty liberals who must obviously love North Korea. So there's a good chance he thinks Korea and China are interchangeable, linguistically and culturally. (The racist Chinese character is named Dung Tung Wu, incidentally. My sides.)

Any modern computer would be a pain in the ass to hook up to dial up - we would have for sure heard him complaining about that if it were the case.

There's also no way he's watching Youtube over dialup.

Fair points. Most likely it's his mother's laptop then. She works part-time as a book keeper, so presumably her technological knowledge is more current than Sweet Bro's.

EDIT: Sweet is about as good a writer of dialogue as Chris

Spoiler

Sweet will probably claim that us liberal Kiwi whippersnappers don't understand that the ugly blonde and angry brunette are speaking some Valley Girl dialect, when in fact I do, I just think he's doing it ineptly. Also, is "damp down the noise" something people say in the South?

DOUBLE EDIT: wow Sweet actually makes a "memorable quotes" section for his own comic that nobody reads.

 

[DrJonesHat]

It's hilarious how it seems that whenever Sweet tries to defend himself, he just ends up powerleveling and revealing even more "interesting" stuff about himself.

From what I remember (and assuming Sweet kept the story straight), at least some of the time. Sweet was complaining earlier in this thread how his brother pretty much ran the place and only let Sweet have the car on Sundays.

Sweet can't drive. His mom has to cart him around everywhere. Sweet is the second most incompetent person I've ever encountered. For someone who hates change, Sweet's narrative sure switches around a lot. And no matter how he tries to change his stories to make himself look less inept, he always comes out looking more like an clod than before.

 

[melty]

Sweet can't drive. His mom has to cart him around everywhere. Sweet is the second most incompetent person I've ever encountered. For someone who hates change, Sweet's narrative sure switches around a lot. And no matter how he tries to change his stories to make himself look less inept, he always comes out looking more like an clod than before.

Wait, who's more incompetent?

 

[Sanae Kochiya]

Dom Brokejaw: And this Saturday at the Ritz Theater the lovely Tina Ray Rumry will show us her ass...[stares at script, horrified, turns to next page] ...sorted talents on stage....

Sweets, don't quit your day job.

Anthony Logatto was funnier.

 

[Adamska]

Sweet's comedic timing is the same as his fashion sense, stuck behind three decades and it wasn't even cool back then.

 

[John Titor]

(not that they'll ever admit it's their own fault, of course).

Oh, the irony is so strong I bet it can break stone.

Ugh. You know what I'd bet good money he's talking about? Bánh bao, the Vietnamese steamed buns. "Bánh bao" sounds kind of like "bah bao". The Chinese version of this dish is commonly called bao too. Bao are so popular, even Sweet has surely come across them in his bumfuck town. He probably remembers they are some kind of Asian thing because all Asian stuff is exactly the same right?!? Food, people, Chinese, Japanese who cares amirite?
So let's get this straight: he names a Japanese character after a Chinese exchange student. Then when called out he backs this up by citing more words that don't really exist in Japanese, but are most likely ripped from a popular Vietnamese dish.
Jesus christ, Sweet. Why didn't you just name her Ching Chong and get it over with?

I doubt that's the case. He was probably trying to sound like a linguistics expert by trying to make sense of the Japanese language.

More importantly, when was this comic made? Because it wouldn't be too unusual for someone to slap an Asian sounding name to the wrong ethnicity if this were pre-Wikipedia/pre-Google age. When I was still making original characters (donut steel), I accidentally gave someone a surname for a given name. All I simply had to do was just retcon them with a name that makes more sense. With Jon, he just decided to double-down on his error and kept it.

 

[ToroidalBoat]

Why didn't [Sweet] just name her Ching Chong and get it over with?

Sweet could've done some research and did an internet search for "Japanese girl names," or - if he did a little extra research, he could've come up with an authentic (or at least potentially authentic) original name.*

*A better and not potentially racist name I'd suggest for "Tin Boo Tee" is 錫子 ("Suzuko," which kind of translates to "tin girl") - and it only took a little time and effort to do the necessary research. And, as it turns out, Suzuko is a real Japanese name after all. "Bad boy of college journalism" my ass.

 

[sonichuis44]

With Jon, he just decided to double-down on his error and kept it.

Christ, that should be his epitaph.

 

[Holdek]

A couple of choice lines from his last two updates:

you have to wonder why there always has to be one idiot who ruins things for the rest of us.

Probably what his fellow AJMers are thinking right now.

I have to concede the computer and put my whole damn life on hold

Oh please, Jon, that's what you've intentionally done yourself for the past 15 years.

 

[Holdek]

I don't doubt there were people who liked Sweet's columns - there's such a thing as College Republicans, after all. But a handful of people who agree with your milquetoast middle of the road conservativism is a far cry from hordes of crypto-fans secretly heaping adulation and offerings on the Bad Boy of College Journalism (can you tell I really like that nickname?)

Here's the thing on that...there's no proof that he even wrote any columns that could be associated with a term like "Bad Boy of College Journalism." What I've been able to dig up on the web are columns like a very weak suggestion to take Ross Perot seriously, and a movie review recommending The Nutty Professor as funny because of the obesity and flatulence. Sweet also claims he no longer has any of his columns because he gave his only copies to The Herald for publication . I'm starting to think that the emperor of lulz has no clothes in that respect.

He mentioned before he used to hang out with a Japanese exchange student but did not provide any details of the encounter.

At one point he claimed he dated her, too, which is understandable considering how elastic his definition of "dating" is. But he probably backtracked on that claim since he remembers that she never talked to him again.

Spoiler

And also she wasn't white.

 

[sonichuis44]

Here's the thing on that...there's no proof that he even wrote any columns that could be associated with a term like "Bad Boy of College Journalism." What I've been able to dig up on the web are columns like a very weak suggestion to take Ross Perot seriously, and a movie review recommending The Nutty Professor was funny because of the obesity and flatulence. Sweet also claims he no longer has any of his columns because he gave his only copies to The Herald for publication . I'm starting to think that the emperor of lulz has no clothes in that respect.



At one point he claimed he dated her, too, which is understandable considering how elastic his definition of "dating" is. But he probably backtracked on that claim since he remembers that she never talked to him again.

Spoiler

And also she wasn't white.

Right, that was my point. There is a vast gulf between what he thinks happened and what actually happened, and who he thinks he was and who he actually was.

 

[Holdek]

Right, that was my point. There is a vast gulf between what he thinks happened and what actually happened, and who he thinks he was and who he actually was.

I agree, but I think it goes even further...I'm not convinced he even wrote any conservative columns at all.

The only thing political and it's about how Ross Perot may have some good ideas (no examples given), rather than an endorsement of Bob Dole or a warning against another Clinton term?

 

[sonichuis44]

I agree, but I think it goes even further...I'm not convinced he even wrote any conservative columns at all.

I dunno, I bet he did, they just weren't as edgy as he thought they were. Look at that Ross Perot column; it's only superficially conservative, and reads more like a kid just learning about the idea of third-party candidates and how campaigns work. I'll bet he did some columns along the lines of "What if we made all the people on welfare get jobs? No one would need welfare anymore!" and "When are we going to celebrate white history month?" and all those other baby's first politics topics.

 

[Sanae Kochiya]

Well, while he might've been very restrained when it came to his other columns, Sweets seems to have very... passionate views about politics (even if they're almost 100% wrong and 200% ill informed), since he's called his detractors Liberals and the like. It's possible that he might've made several politcal columns that were simply cut for their... *ahem* controversial nature, and the Ross Perot one was the only one that made it through either due to the editors trying to reel Sweets in in an attempt to get something decent out of him or an editor simply taking a hacksaw to everything irredeemable in the piece.

 

[Holdek]

And I'm curious on how we got blocked from deviantart.

If I had to guess it's because so many LOLcows have fucked up drawings on DA and so we've hotlinked the shit out of that site in our threads, so links from here to there are blocked.

Is he changing his story about getting fired from the paper? He's now saying they were all jealous of his popularity; wasn't he saying they were threatened by his hardcore conservativism before?

The more malleable his conspiracy theory, the more it can be used to justify his failures. It's like how Chris' real-life villain/troll mythology has changed over time and since his first arrest even includes his local police.