Talk:The Couch/@comment-36706113-20180825053357

I find the sort of vague intention to get children to hurt themselves or put themselves in dangerous situations is an interesting genre in and of itself, regardless of its "horror" elements. It's less work to imagine someone just trying to make the world a little worse for amusement than it is to imagine elaborate conspiracies in which the paranormal element has an interest in us and our particularitie despite the infinite possibilities.

The writing may not be great, but that's of a piece with almost any classic works like this from the computer era. Ted the Caver also has a lot of wasted words and no real theme, but when these things work they have a quality separate from "literary effect". Some of them are almost better for having to be fixed in the mind of the reader; no one creates in the internet era with the conviction that they can control how their work is experienced and used, and it's probably more effecient to lean into that.

I suppose I just thought the tone of the vitriol being loosed on this particular comic was odd. Did "Johnny" try to defend a woman online and end up being targeted by trolls or something? This might be a meta-pasta in the works.