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Cyanide and Happiness

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About

Hello fellow Cyanide and Happiness fans!

Cyanide & Happiness (C&H) is a webcomic created by Rob DenBleyker, Kris Wilson, Dave McElfatrick and Matt Melvin. The comic has been running since 2005 and is published on the website explosm.net along with animated shorts in the same style. Matt Melvin left C&H in 2014, and several other people have contributed to the comic and to the animated shorts

Read more: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyanide_%26_Happiness

Hope you enjoy and feel free to contribute to the community with art, media, cool stuff about the authors, tattoos, toys and anything else, as long it’s Cyanide & Happiness related!

History

@[email protected] started this community and wrote:

About this community and how I post the comics… Many moons ago, I would ask my Dad to save the newspaper for me everyday so I could read my favorite comic strips. Of course these days you can read your favorite comics online instead of a newspaper, but I love the nostalgia of reading the daily comics. Anyway, one of my favorite current comics is Cyanide and Happiness and I will be posting the daily release from their website (https://explosm.net/) and a an extra or two randoms.

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All comics posted are freely available online. In no way is the poster claiming ownership, copyright or anything else. This is a not for profit community, we just want to enjoy our comics, thank you.

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 days ago (4 children)

See glowie if you're confused about the joke:

From glow +β€Ž -ie. Originated by Terry Davis, who stated in a 2017 video that "CIA removed glow in the dark", implying that they are conspicuous. The term "glowie" would become popular on the 4chan /pol/ board around 2019.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I read your comment and still didn't get it. Then, I clicked on the link, and discovered that when you said β€œCIA removed glow in the dark”, it's actually more like β€œCIA [redacted] glow in the dark”. I had first read it as if there was something that glowed in the dark, and the CIA removed its glow in the dark properties.

So, now that I have fully read and understood the meaning of the term, I can say that I still don't get it. Well... either I don't get it or I don't think it's funny. Like, if it's really just a joke that "glow up" could mean "became an agent," then I don't get why he's portrayed as old, because that joke would still work exactly the same if he just looked normal.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Yeah, I copy/pasted the quote as-is, and Lemmy has a slur filter that automatically changes things to *removed*, which in this case made it more confusing.

I also don't get why he's old and she's not 🀷

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

Your instance may have crappy admins that police users language. You should go to another one.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Your lemmy instance may have a slur filter, but that's not a common feature. We are all grown ups here, we can swear for fucks sake.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

Fuck yeah we can!

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 days ago

TIL the term glowie comes from Terry Davis the creator of TempleOS.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 days ago

Haha the best jokes always need to be explained

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Discuss.online censors comments??? I thought that was an ml thing

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

Where it says "removed" in their comment was a slur

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Lemmy used to hardcode it, and you would've needed to patch the code to remove it:

https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/622

It's now editable in the admin settings of the site. I'm not sure if the Lemmy devs inserted a default value or if it was manually set by @[email protected], but right now it just filters that one word and variant spellings on discuss.online. So IMO not really censorship in the same way that lemmy.ml does it

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago

I'm not against it in this case but it definitely surprised me!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago

It only filters one word πŸ™ ni((g{2,}|q)+|[gq]{2,})[e3r]+(s|z)?