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Failed comic (Patreon)

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2024-01-08 21:24:56
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2026-06
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I don’t know what really made this comic fail since it has the right elements but usually within the first hour I can see how a post is doing and this was bad….like really bad. What’s your thoughts?

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Aeris Nuli

It worked for me, I can relate with this with my cats

Juan Perez

Obviously it’s cause hubs isn’t in it

Maria Margaret

Yup. That’s about right. The moment I put my dog’s toys away he waits for me to watch before taking one out and just dropping it somewhere as if to say “screw you I wanted it here!”

Andrew Bianchi

I didn't see it... but I chuckled at this one. My algorithm has been kinda borked last few months.

Delengor

Can't fathom why, but four panels tend to attract attention better than three. Could just be that?

Dre Porcher

Maybe chalk it up to timing? Folks still playing with all their new holiday gadgets and not back to regular routines yet? Also, is there a hidden Gary? You gotta have a hidden Gary!

VBOF

I liked it! Showed up as the first post when I opened Insta

The Reddot

It may be and I did have a rough draft of four panels but it felt it was dragging. There wasn’t enough tension before the punchline

The Reddot

Same here. Lots of artists I know to lost hundreds of followers over a few days. IG may be playing around with the algorithm and bot cleaning

Aura

Maybe people were just busy. I'm not sure. I liked it

Nathaniel G

It was the first post on my feed... I thought the low likes were just because it was just posted. I'm sorry it didn't do as well as you hoped!

The Reddot

They so are! I’ll walk out into my living room in the morning and there are toys, everywhere lol

The Reddot

lol it’s true! Charlie is very particular where he wants his toys. He’ll hide them for months then randomly bring one out to show off

Daniel Pamp

No matter if it’s pets or not (ie my kids or myself) it’s very relatable. And I really enjoyed it.

Derek Elsberry

Cats instead of dogs, but, yup, that's about right. Looks good to me!

Nicole Obritsch

Maybe because there’s a large amount of text in the first panel? Maybe people are like, I ain’t reading all that. :-/

Harlean Carpenter

Speaking as someone who couldn't have kids and who sent you a mental hug when I read it, it's possible the caption used on FB/IG in conjunction with this comic might have made people feel a bit "am I being insensitive liking/laughing at this?" and cut down on the number of responses you/this got ❤️

Heidi Hodges

It's totally relatable (for the love of Jesus, I just cleaned that!) but maybe deep cleaning on a Monday isn't? Weekend vibes perhaps?

Lizzy Martinez

I love it but at first glance I didn't notice it was a new one you created and thought it was a repost. I'm wondering if more was needed? Like if you drew what Dot said she did in the first panel and then she says something about being tired/glad cleaning is done only for the dogs to respond like that?

Lizzy Martinez

Either way it's a great comic and I'm sorry for not catching it was new!

Ivan Kok

I understand. We have cats and sometimes I want to fold and store the fresh laundry...

The Reddot

Yea. I do reposts in weekends but may have been better posted towards the end of the week

The Reddot

Last week was all reposts and this was reused set. I was hoping that the “put away holiday decorations” would signal it as new but I may overestimated things

The Reddot

Aw shit, you are right. I totally didn’t mean it that way. I meant it more of “I can barely handle these two” lol but thank you and I appreciate the perspective. It’s great that people are more sensitive and cautious to these situations

The Reddot

It happens! I still like the comic and glad to share it. Just working against algorithms and stuff is tricky so I don’t lose potential newcomers

Anthony

I thought it was funny, surprised Hubs didn't make it into this some how. Cause I know I make a mess in the house, or at least that's what my wife says.

Arthur G. Carlyle, PhD

This is great! My wife and I just went through this except instead of pets it was a three year old.

Colt G

I thought it was great

Misfit.lee

It's very relatable well so the wife says, our buppy is a habit of covering the floor with her soft toys fluff. Everytime the wife cleans it up the buppy will cover the floor again. Sometimes she gives her eye contact while pulling the fluff out and spitting it on the floor.

Edward Brothers

I liked it and it reminded me of parenting with 4 kids. If I were to speculate about why the stats were low I could point at the “cough” in frame two and not relating the sound to the dogs in frame three. It was also unclear to me what was significant about the different bits in the pet mess. TL;DR I liked the comic and could relate. There were parts that I didn’t understand fully. I didn’t care.

Eoghan Peter

I think it is hysterical!!! Def an algorithm problem, not a comic problem

Greg Dombroski

Think it could have used a pun from Gary. But I always think that

Mik Jacobs

Failed? How? It’s relatable, it’s timely & it’s FUNNY. I think it’s very well done.

Michael Swaim

I really like this one. No idea why it would bomb- it works very well.

Heidi

Possibly this! +1 I love reading, but lots of people don’t

Will cline

Saw a reel today talking about the best way to have a nice and upkept home is to not have kids, a husband and pets.

Rakeem2D

Idk I think it’s pretty funny

Chris

That is exactly what happens in our house. Spot on (no pun intended)

Don Bart

I can relate because I have kids. Dunno why it didn’t do well online! Solid gold material.

Richard Eggert

I think the issue is that the punchline evokes feelings of aggravation more than humor, and the dogs mostly come off as assholes. Having the dogs making a mess in a "zanier" manner probably would have worked better.

William Blanchard

Can I ask why you delete comics that don’t do as well as you’d hoped? Does it affect future comic views if one doesn’t do well?

GrandpaGothCrocs

I thought this comic was clear, very relatable, and adorable. Maybe you needed to sacrifice another goat to the algorithm?

CJ

Sometimes it's like the meme economy - sometimes things catch for no good reason and sometimes things fail for also no good reason. I liked it.

Michael W.

Like some others have suggested, it’s a situational comic, unless you have either pets or kids, it probably won’t hit just right. Personally, I have 3 kids under 6yo, and I’m the primary caregiver, so I felt it to my core. It made me laugh in that weirdly love-wrapped, anger-striped sadness-humor that you can only produce when you’ve been in that situation one too many times. I liked it, and I can think of a ton of other people who would too. Don’t beat yourself up too much.

Jean M. Appleton

While I liked this comic. I think it just hit TOO close to home for many of us. Especially for women. Just my 2 cents. 🤣🤣🤣

ShyMoo Kohai

If this isn't me trying to manage my room with a cat, I don't know what is. I giggled reading this.

Darrel Axtell

I liked it, It has (sorry for my adolescent mindset), A sexy red head, winning at life and then a reminder that life has team mates. Thank you, and make many more like this.

Remi

My wife really liked it.

Mr T

Those unfamiliar with the true struggles of having pets may not be able to relate. For them having pets is just non stop cuddles and joy, thanks to the abundance of cute pet videos available online.

Pete

I love your art, your humour, and your depiction of joyful life - but not this comic. I think this comic is based on a weak joke. I worked hard and cleaned everything, now I relax! Pets say no, we make more mess! You are more than talented enough to make weak jokes work, but you haven't done it for this one. Your execution here is competent, but not enough to lift the overall comic to Reddot standards. Maybe panel one needs a little "show, don't tell", like a montage of cleaning? Panel three looks like the bare minimum needed to establish that pets made a mess. I think it needs more funny chaos, like maybe if they had made forts out of the laundry and were launching literal shit-bombs at each other? Or maybe I'm wrong, and this was just one of the inevitable failures that comes with the inherent randomness of public popularity tests? Thankyou for asking for feedback, and thankyou for all your wonderful comics. You're making the world a better place.

Sam Simmons

This. Except it's their hair. I dust, the vacuum everything up. As I'm putting my $650 vacuum away, a big hair mass rolls by like a damn tumbleweed.