Dilbert - C or D?

the corgan/adams axis of demagoguery

Both bald weirdos who manage to alienate just about everyone.

Twenty+ years ago he tried selling the "nutririonally complete" Dilburrito, the most perfect food ever devised. He thought that once you eat it, your body would recognize that it was perfect and from then on you would crave only the Dilburrito.

this is the man who almost named a character dildog

That’s actually kinda funny though

The product failed to catch on in the market, leading Adams "several years and several million dollars later" to sell off his intellectual property and exit the business. Adams himself noted, "[t]he mineral fortification was hard to disguise, and because of the veggie and legume content, three bites of the Dilberito made you fart so hard your intestines formed a tail."[5] The New York Times noted the burrito "could have been designed only by a food technologist or by someone who eats lunch without much thought to taste."[6]

He had a good thing going too, if you had to think of a career where you made a ton of money for very little work and were kind of a household name but also able to fly under the radar, well he had it. Every time he did something weird there’s a lot of people going “holy shit I had no clue he was like that” but I think they probably just forgot about the previous things because nobody’s talked about Dilbert for decades. Lo and behold he managed to find the perfect linguistic kill shot for his own career.

I mean like he's been saying shit like this for a while

I lost my TV show for being white when UPN decided it would focus on an African-American audience. That was the third job I lost for being white. The other two in corporate America. (They told me directly.)

— Scott Adams (@ScottAdamsSays) June 29, 2020

also remember him getting really aggressive about how there were no black characters in Dilbert, which he defended by saying he was so not racist that he could not possibly make fun of a black character. just recently he put a black character in Dilbert who existed only to say "I identify as white". given this was a weekday strip which therefore did not print in color, the character actually *was* white in the newspaper, because Scott Adams is a fucking idiot who is terrible at his job. admittedly it did make the joke work though.

Omg i somehow saw that and thought it was an odd ironic “joke” about some white millenial needing to “identify” as white.

"transmutes the reader's anger at stupid bosses from revolutionary impulse into a perfunctory laugh" - Remember the days when "Why doesn't Dilbert turn to the reader and call for a communist revolution?" was considered a genuine question that people wrote entire books about? pic.twitter.com/s2CQve5Jlu

— Werewolf2000ad (@Werewolf2000ad) February 26, 2023

I saw an interesting twitter thread (from a locked account, so I can't link to it) arguing that this interpretation of Dilbert (that it's basically leftist, but doesn't go far enough, stops at blowing off steam at stupid bosses rather than calling for revolution) is wrong and that Dilbert was implicitly about how the staid, weak bureaucracy prevents nietzschean overmen like Adams from achieving their full potential and rightfully dominating the world, rather than being anti-hierarchy, and that this is true of a lot 90s office drone comedy (Fight Club making the fascist subtext explicit)

I've lost three careers to direct racism so far. Crocker Bank, Pacific Bell, and cartooning.

All three were perpetrated by White people for their own gain.

No Black person has ever discriminated against me. That's partly why I identified as Black for several years.

— Scott Adams (@ScottAdamsSays) February 27, 2023

see and people think this guy isn't funny anymore

I mean his bio does say 'wrong about everything'

xp was just coming here to post this!

He should have mentioned both marriages!

I think he believes "demagogue" means "I just throw ideas at the wall, see what sticks, and then pretend I didn't say the other shit or tell people I used to be black"

I’m not sure it’s ideas he’s throwing at the wall atm

lol

My publisher for non-Dilbert books has canceled my upcoming book and the entire backlist. Still no disagreement about my point of view. My book agent canceled me too.

— Scott Adams (@ScottAdamsSays) February 27, 2023

idk sounds like maybe they do disagree with you

the most cancelled man

the garrison-adams feud has exploded back into life

garrison winning bcz he can actually draw

Watching his meltdown at a distance is quite enjoyable.

Just saw this thread bumped. Dilbert's a pretty funny comic! I wonder if the creator is cool too.

worstpersonyouknow.jpg

even ben garrison is making fun of scott adams now pic.twitter.com/paPbqqdU4f

— jenny_tightpants🪑 (@halomancer1) February 27, 2023

garrison probably ecstatic that adams gave him an excuse to draw angry black people

the thing he loves best to draw is the shape of scott adams' head

CLOTT adams call him by his name

he has been very careful not to draw the angry black people as racist caricatures, but they are still kind of racist caricatures.

in any case have to say the racist caricatures of angry black people are otm re:dilbert guy

clott adams probably salty that The Coneheads had already been done

The Highland shooting and every Fentanyl overdose death among the young are teaching us the same lesson, and we refuse to learn it. It's difficult, but I'm qualified to give you this lesson (unfortunately).

This won't be easy to read.

— Scott Adams (@ScottAdamsSays) July 6, 2022

When a young male (let's say 14 to 19) is a danger to himself and others, society gives the supporting family two options:

1. Watch people die.
2. Kill your own son.

Those are your only options. I chose #1 and watched my stepson die. I was relieved he took no one else with him.

— Scott Adams (@ScottAdamsSays) July 6, 2022

these are old -- and possibly were posted upthread -- but this is the level of cognition we are dealing with here. scott adams is crazy.

context to the above is that he was in the process of getting (even more) divorced at the time. which obviously doesn't reflect any better on him.

i'm familiar with regular divorce, but what's "more" divorced?!

won't go so far as to say that he planned it, but i'll bet this is the most fulfilled he's been in years

he's presumably set for life financially, i can't imagine that he actually enjoys drawing dilbert, and after years of crying about his victimhood -- 'if biden wins i'll probably be dead within six months' -- he now has something concrete to point to . . . despite it being entirely of his own doing

'more divorced' = blaming your divorce on 'how all women are'

xxp this is where I realise that the "divorced guy energy" thing is a left twitter meme and not universally understood

first your wife divorces you, then you get divorced from reality

I disagree with ya there mookie. He doesn't enjoy doing Dilbert but it brings in tons of cash and still makes him relevant. it's his ace in the hole for any of his dumb debates too. "if I'm so stupid and wrong, how come I made millions doing newspaper comics when I can't even draw?" before this no matter what dumb shit he said he was still the guy behind a universally known comic strip. now he's the dude who lost his comic strip because he was so racist. not to mention his book publishing deal, which I suspect he cares about more. I mean sure he's probably cool with not having to do it anymore but it can't feel good to just destroy your whole legacy like that.

I'm sure he pulled a Jason Richards and now, rather than admitting it, he's doubling down.

I’m laughing thinking about the idea of people someday reading an Adams biography like people read a Charles Schulz bio

these are old -- and possibly were posted upthread -- but this is the level of cognition we are dealing with here. scott adams is crazy.

This is a man who published a best-selling book in the 90s where he earnestly argued that the only reason he was famous is because he wrote “I will be a successful cartoonist” 10 times on a napkin. It has been known that he is crazy for decades.

I can always get more cancelled

Now that I have no anchor on my free speech, tomorrow will be fun.

— Scott Adams (@ScottAdamsSays) February 27, 2023

I guarantee he will absolutely not have any new material ready by tomorrow. This man’s only come up with maybe one half-recycled idea a month for decades. Now he’s just recycling weird racism

prediction: he will say the gamer word in the next 24 hours

He will introduce a character named BLMbert

Born in Watford, Hertforshire, England, Jason first started modeling for Sensodyne at just 6 months old. He was the face of the advert 'He's Ready For His First Toothbrush', featured in practically every dentist in the UK at the time.

He went on to star in King Ralph (1991) starring John Goodman and later starred in Jewels (1992) with Annette O'Toole.

Jason was also the face of television commercials and was known as a catalog model.

He attended Nothwood Prep School from 1991 and the Royal Hospital School near Ipswich, UK from 2001. He continues to live in Hertforshire, England but has intentions to move to Edmonton, Alberta, Canada in the near future.

ok

I still can’t figure out what the good faith reading of his comments is supposed to be

Apparently to understand his comments in context you have to watch a two hour video?!?!?!

he was basically saying "we white ppl cant do ANYTHING right right now! best thing to do is stay away from black people so we cant be accused of anything and get canceled!"

v stupid man

this is good on the indulgence of Adams and others like him
https://armoxon.substack.com/p/the-case-for-shunning

The phrase "Still no disagreement about my point of view." is very funny to me, idk why