• Evil_Shrubbery@lemm.ee
    794·
    4 days ago

    Ok, but like the use of the word is correct as it evolved from the original meaning.

    That dude is just explaining (albeit recent) word etymology to her.

    It’s like porn - “art porn” is not the same as “porn art” (eg food-/history-/Earth-/map-/artefact-/engineering-/city-/justice-/penmanship-/sky-/human-porn etc).

  • quixotic120@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1173·
    4 days ago

    What’s with modern webcomics only posting to social media and nowhere else unless someone reposts it? I want an easy to browse gallery. If your comic is only available via instagram/twitter then I won’t read your comic

      • Bahnd Rollard@lemmy.world
        41·
        4 days ago

        And it gives you some degree of control over reposts and people stealing content. If your not on the platform you cant really contest claims against a video or post.

      • quixotic120@lemmy.worldEnglish
        11·
        4 days ago

        Hosting is cheap and there is free hosting available if you don’t care about having a custom domain and have a limited audience. If your audience is big enough to go past that bandwidth you can probably monetize somehow and cover server costs easily, even if it’s just selling a few pieces of merch. My website is $80 a year with a custom domain and I get unlimited transfer/bandwidth. It’s shared hosting so over about 1k visitors per day means it’ll get slow but if you’re getting that kind of traffic you can probably sell more merch and get a vps

        Use twitter/pixiv/ig for promotion but if you don’t do the above your locking out anyone who refuses to make account. All of them won’t let you look at more than 1-5 images before locking you out entirely with account nag screens that can’t be bypassed. Or just stay on those platforms, I don’t care, I’ll just never read your comic

      • ayyy@sh.itjust.works
        51·
        4 days ago

        No, it really, seriously, doesn’t. People that rely on social media are just lazy and ignorant.

      • SkunkWorkz@lemmy.world
        2·
        4 days ago

        Plenty of ways to host for free, even with a custom domain. (Though the domain is $15 per year) Like GitHub. Or you can even just use Tumblr with a custom domain.

          • Mac@mander.xyz
            7·
            4 days ago

            You realize people make money from social media, right?

            Obviously not this one but the profitable ones.

            18k likes and 2200 shares.

            • meliaesc@lemmy.world
              21·
              4 days ago

              Yes, absolutely! But the suggestion to self host when you’re not even contributing to their income comes across as a little unjustified.

                • meliaesc@lemmy.world
                  21·
                  3 days ago
                  • Comment 1: Why do some comic artists only post to social media?
                  • Comment 2: It costs money to make a website.
                  • Comment 3: It only costs $10 to make a website.
                  • Me: The comic artist is not making any money right now from us on Lemmy.
                  • You: Social media platforms are profitable.
                  • Me: Yes, they are. Additionally, I believe that comment 3 is unfair because that person is not paying towards the $10 for the comic artist to make their own website.
    • datendefekt@lemmy.ml
      191·
      4 days ago

      Im OK with social media as long as it has RSS. But that also means no insta and no twitter.

    • intensely_human@lemm.ee
      121·
      4 days ago

      Maybe they don’t want their comics browsed.

      Used to be, you got one comic with the sunday paper. There was no bingeing your favorite comics you just waited until they came out.

      My guess is they don’t have enough material for a whole collection yet, and they’re using social media as feedback mechanism

      • quixotic120@lemmy.worldEnglish
        111·
        4 days ago

        If they don’t want their comics browsed that’s their choice of course but it seems pretty silly. What if instagram deleted/bans their account for nonsense? Goodbye audience and archive of everything you’ve ever done

        Used to be you got a free webhosting account and posted comics to a gallery on a shitty handmade webpage until you built up an audience or gave up. If you got bigger you’d move to a better site with a custom domain and new readers could catch up if they were interested. Achewood, gunshow, dinosaur comics, questionable content, xkcd, penny arcade, nedroid, etc all started about this way and many of them continue to this day. Use social media for promotion, not for archival

        My guess is they don’t want to bother with people who aren’t willing to fuck with facebook, twitter, pixiv, etc. or they don’t know how to make a free website. Whatever, just means they lose the audience of people who refuse to use facebooks bullshit

          • Crismus@lemmy.world
            1·
            4 days ago

            A lot more than that ignore the meta ecosystem.

            The same reason we’re here instead of on Reddit.

            • Mac@mander.xyz
              1·
              3 days ago

              Lemmy is a rounding error with regards to the size of large social media.
              Also, most of us are here not because we’re small-social media enthusiasts but because of Reddit’s business decisions.

      • ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.worldEnglish
        3·
        4 days ago

        Used to be, you got one comic with the sunday paper. There was no bingeing your favorite comics you just waited until they came out.

        I mean, this is true if “used to be” means “prior to WWII” (or maybe even earlier). Publishers have been putting out collections of comic strips in book form for a very long time - I grew up in the '70s reading Pogo compendiums published in the 1960s.

    • Mac@mander.xyz
      123·
      4 days ago

      There are a billion more people on Instagram that will see a comic there than actually go to websites to read comics.

      • quixotic120@lemmy.worldEnglish
        23·
        4 days ago

        that’s why the internet fucking sucks now. Everyone’s too afraid to make their own site and lazily relies on the conglomerates of social media, which has reduced the internet into like 5 websites that repost each others content

        Also seeing isn’t converted to income, especially on instagram. The more hardcore comic fans may want to see your work in full, may want to follow the story if there’s a narrative to your comic, see your arts evolution, etc. and they’re probably the ones that are far more likely to drop cash on merch for a series they enjoy. That’s why you combine the approaches, post comics on instagram or whatever to get the word out, and have a site so your hardcore fans can easily browse your work (with the added bonus of letting people who don’t fuck with social media also see it)

        Again, or don’t, I don’t care. Post everything to facebook and twitter, make the internet just 2 websites instead of 5, refuse to have control of the primary platform your work is shared on, whatever

    • pixelscript@lemm.eeEnglish
      8·
      3 days ago

      As a fanart hoarder, the number of great artists I know of who seem to exclusively post their work on Twitter, a completely unsearchable platform that lossy compresses anything you upload to it and makes it a pain in the dick to get highest quality downloads, as opposed to a browsable upload platform like deviantArt, Pixiv, or Tumblr, infuriates me.

      I think I know why a lot of them do it, too. To them, their work is intentionally ephemeral. They want to draw a thing, release it to the world, be admired for a day, and let it fade away into the aether. They don’t want a browseable archive of their past work. Art they draw is disposable. Twitter is the best platform for this, as everything on Twitter is naturally consumed this way. That, and its audience is way larger than any of the other platforms I mentioned, so they get more eyes on their work.

      Yeah, an archive exists on Twitter, but unless you want to scroll scroll scroll through every single tweet they’ve ever made in reverse chronological order, you’re never going to find what you’re looking for without some kind of external indexing tool. All of this before Elon bought it and further enshittified it within an inch of its life. You can’t even browse posts without being logged in anymore.

  • 2ugly2live@lemmy.world
    2312·
    4 days ago

    I mean, she’s still using it correctly in that context. 👀

    If I say something “tastes like ass” and I’m eating, like, a bagel, I’m probably saying it tastes bad and not like ass cheeks.

  • 7uWqKj@lemmy.world
    382·
    4 days ago

    Please explain like I’m 5, and a non-native speaker, what “rawdog” means 🧐

    • BeigeAgenda@lemmy.ca
      14·
      4 days ago

      Me: Stop playing with the Nintendo Billy and listen: Rawdogging is when a mommy and a daddy loves eachother very much, and want to make a little baby then daddy puts his pee pee into mommy’s wuu wuu…

      Billy: eeeew TMI!

    • grandkaiser@lemmy.world
      324·
      4 days ago

      Literal Eli5: “it’s a slang term that some people use, but it isn’t something you should worry about right now. It’s meant for adults”

      Since I’m becoming a father soon, I started learning responses like this

      • villainy@lemmy.world
        169·
        4 days ago

        This is how you end up with a generation of kids who grow up using “rawdog” to mean something other than “unprotected sex”. Just talk to your kids about sex.

        • angrystego@lemmy.world
          43·
          4 days ago

          Omg the downvotes, people are not ready to have open educational conversations with their kids or am I missing something?

        • JasonDJ@lemmy.zip
          15·
          4 days ago

          Well Billy, it’s when a penis penetrates persons vagina or anus without using a condom.

          Have fun now explaining condoms or why they would put a penis inside someone, to a person who is still learning how to wipe their own ass properly.

          Part of the reason why parents dodge these questions is because they know that more questions will follow, and while kids absolutely should be learning about sex (as in, having healthy sexual relationships) from their parents, that’s a conversation that’s better started a little closer to puberty.

        • orcrist@lemm.ee
          4·
          4 days ago

          What, you mean kids won’t learn dirty words properly if they don’t hear them from their parents? That’s one theory of development.

    • 2ugly2live@lemmy.world
      9·
      4 days ago

      Just in case you really needed an answer.

      In a sexual context, having sex without protection. In conversational context, it pretty much means with no support or accessories. So her “raw dogging” a bus ride means no music/entertainment, she’s just going to have to look out the window or something.

      • I_Has_A_Hat@lemmy.world
        9·
        4 days ago

        Not just without protection, also without lube or foreplay of any kind. That’s an important distinction.

    • funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works
      514·
      4 days ago

      Specifically, “raw” is rather obvious - meaning unprepared, as in to not use a condom

      But the dog part comes from a more sinister usage where to “dog someone out” was to “pimp someone out” - ie coerce someone into sex work. Source1: https://books.google.com/books?id=1yCc23OdyGkC&pg=PA75&dq=“dogged+out”&hl=en#v=onepage&q=“dogged out”&f=false - Source2: https://books.google.com/books?id=M_FGDWGG8C4C&pg=PA219&dq=“dogged+her”+in+the+ass&hl=en#v=onepage&q="dogged her&f=false both circa early 2000s when the slang took off.

    • The Picard Maneuver@lemmy.worldOP
      591·
      4 days ago

      People use it as slang for doing something in the most basic way without protection/assistance/augmentation, etc.

      Pretty much just like the lady in the comic.

      • Vespair@lemm.ee
        234·
        4 days ago

        Yes, because they understand the meaning and are making a play off of it. I genuinely do not believe anyone over the age of 12 who uses the term “rawdog” isn’t completely and fully aware of the meaning when they use it.

          • Vespair@lemm.ee
            18·
            4 days ago

            Different phrase, different conditions. “Bust a nut” can reasonably me misconstrued; nobody of adult age is actually out there misconstruing “rawdogging.”

        • scratchee@feddit.ukEnglish
          101·
          4 days ago

          Tbf the kind of person who might make this mistake is exactly the kind of person who would be embarrassed discovering the true meaning. The kind who doesn’t swear but is exposed to people who do and pick up the vernacular without the origins.

        • 🔍🦘🛎@lemmy.worldEnglish
          61·
          4 days ago

          People will often only hear slang in this context and have no idea it relates back to sex at all. This comic is very true to life. I was definitely the kid that used terms without knowing their true meaning.

          Also the character in the comic may well be under 12

        • orcrist@lemm.ee
          1·
          4 days ago

          I mentioned it in another comment, but that really is the name of my RSS reading software. It’s a package that’s been around for over 20 years, written by someone (not me) with contributions from many people. I believe there are hundreds of people who have started on GitHub, which means over the years there have been presumably been thousands or tens of thousands of users. (Update: There are far less than hundreds of stars, although you can find several forks on GitHub and elsewhere.)

          Certainly that open source software package is far less common than the traditional use of the word, but it is a very legitimate and non-dirty use of it. Perhaps the original developer had his mind in the gutter, that was his choice to make, and now we all have to live with the consequences.

    • Vincent@feddit.nl
      19·
      4 days ago

      Taking a transatlantic flight and spending it all awake, looking at the flight map.

  • Tylerdurdon@lemmy.world
    1501·
    4 days ago

    I had a friend who thought “Netflix & chill” just meant watch movies and relax, so she had it on her dating app profile and couldn’t understand why she only got hookups.

  • Smoogs@lemmy.world
    73·
    3 days ago

    Alternatively the phrase suggests a wiener is cooked for protected sex so it wasn’t the best used metaphor in the first place.

    • meowMix2525@lemm.ee
      14·
      3 days ago

      Raw can also refer to the lack of a protective layer. One can rub their skin raw, for example, meaning the skin was rubbed so hard that the top layer was removed. The “cooking” in this case would be the skin healing back. And putting a condom over it for safety.