i have to admit the twitter bot fiasco is insanely funny.
mutual 1 will be like ‘I have been very depressed lately ngl’ on a tweet with 0 rts 0 likes and mutual 2 will be in the comments like ‘omg are you okay :(’ and you scroll down a little and sure enough theres Pussy Bertrude going 𝒟𝑜𝓃𝓉 𝒞𝑜𝓂𝒾𝓉 𝒮𝓊𝓈𝒾𝒹𝑒….𝒿𝓊𝓈𝓉 𝑒𝓃𝓋𝒾𝓈𝒾𝑜𝓃 𝓂𝓎 𝒷𝑜𝓊𝒷𝑒𝓈
and then theres the other side of the spectrum where some media news account will announce that pixar is making toy story 45 and you open the comments and its just a sea of blue checkmark cryptoguys who are almost definitely not real people going “yess i know film of toys.” and “Another briliant entry in the Tale of Woody and Bus.” and “wow. a toys life.” and “an extremely toys story” and even still Pussy Bertrude is still there, omnipresent as she is, saying “𝕎𝕚𝕝𝕝 𝔹𝕦𝕫𝕫 𝕐𝕖𝕒𝕣 𝔹𝕖𝕔𝕠𝕞𝕖 𝔽𝕣𝕖𝕒𝕜𝕪…?”
I call it Lumpy Kiba and I’ve seen it used for car decals, stickers, clipart, traced with varying degrees of obviousness by artists of all skill/experience levels, I’m pretty sure I saw it in some small local company’s logo once.
here’s the original still from Wolf’s Rain (which is not a lot less weird-looking, but it looks fine in a stylized anime where it’s supposed to be), which I saw early in high school and ever since have had to live with apparently being the only one who knows that all these people just fucking traced an anime wolf.
it’s like the goddamn wilhelm scream of lazy art, once you see it you will never unsee it again, and it’s everywhere. and you can always tell because it’s frankly a pretty mediocre trace of an already wonky-looking wolf, so like. you can tell.
here it is on two different bumper stickers (two of MANY, just google ‘howling wolf bumper sticker’ and at least 70% of the fullbody ones will be Lumpy Kiba):
jewelry:
clipart collections that REALLY show off the Lumpiness compared to silhouettes referenced from actual wolf photos:
random art, including my personal favorite, a watercolor where the artist could just as easily have looked up an actual photo of a wolf but chose Lumpy Kiba instead:
a tattoo:
and THIS mcfuckery where he went through the whole process of sketching and refining to make it look like he was drawing a wolf from scratch (the gods know what you’ve done, jon harris):
anyway Lumpy Kiba is the bane of my existence but if I point it out I sound insane so I’m glad I had this opportunity to curse you all with the burden of this knowledge.
