I was browsing r/all on reddit and I see this odd post (the sub was r/NoahGetTheBoat) while scrolling along, so I check the post out and it’s this comic of a fluffy (or at the time I thought MLP tbh) bugging it’s owner for attention, and then at the end it gets it’s pillowed I was like WTF crazy I wonder if there were more as I love crazy comics and art so I had to find more like it.
So I find out there’s a wiki and even a dedicated website for this kinda of fandom, well I think by then Booru, was closed down so I browsed the sub and learned about the community and seeing the various artists and stories, I’ve been here for a few months and like it.
I knew who the OP was going to be before even opening it. I’m pretty sure it was one of u/dvli’s posts on r/noahgettheboat which brought me here, too. Only it was McGonagall’s Bubblegum comic.
So I’m not alone. Don’t remember what the specific first comic i saw that he posted was, but I think it was a @gr1m_1 post. Alot of my early exposure was abusebox. Ended up as wierdbox somehow.
I love gore, so I was looking around on booru every now and then, and when I saw The Click made a video on Reddit, and I decided I should draw some abuse, but got trapped in the fandom instead :> and I’m glad I did, people are so kind here
You know whats funny, I came into the community the exact same way. I think its common for people to share these as “WTF” fodder, and a small portion of readers (or large) come to appreciate them for their sadism
Another one first introduced by The Click, but I wasn’t attracted by either hugbox or abuse for abuse’s sake. What caused me to seek out further content was the on-point satire about consumerism, mass production, the value of ‘lives’ and such. Worldbuilding.
Found the community through Click and honestly I am happy I did, the hugbox stories and comics help with my lifelong battle with depression and anxiety as well as the homophobia directed at me by people I know in my day to day life while the Abuse helps with my stress and frustration and anger giving me an outlet for my emotions instead of my body being my outlet.
Not really cure it, it just gives me an outlet to take out my frustration instead of self harm if that makes any sense like the thoughts are still there but the abuse comics and stories and drawing help take alot of the things that cause me to self harm and direct it to a less harmful way of releasing it.