Hmmm... i'm not sure. They didn't start making fun of Sinfest until January 21, 2013. However, the person who posted it does say it was the first comic he ever hated.

About the blog itself - Meh. I don't hate it. There are other bad webcomic blogs I like more but really I think that arguing over who does it better is childish. Regarding the Anti-feminism and all that. I don't know if any of it is for real. It's probably just to piss off tmblr who are a bunch bigots.

Sometimes it's hard to tell with some people.

True.

If you intend to read SWC (which can certainly help get you free material for the wiki), don't take it at face value. After a while it became apparent to me that they only use inflammatory language to get a rise out of the tumblr crowd, especially ones that intersect with the webcomics they target. Once in a blue moon they have surprisingly really solid writing advice to followers (and occaisionally in-depth legitimate criticism of the comics they make fun of), but most of they time they stick with the ED-style shock trolling & schadenfreude. In their own words, 

This is the most important thing about our blog that I think most don’t understand:  if you want to be able to get our legitimate criticism stuff, you have to weather everything else we post, all the blatant trolling and saying COMIC BAD and shit.  You have to be able to take everything and stick with it.  Most couldn’t.  They didn’t have the fuckin BALLS... Because we don’t give a fuck if everyone unfollows us from our trolling.  If they can’t take trolling, they can’t take honesty either, so our advice would be wasted on them.

Here's the thing though: the approach is fucking boring. I could forgive all of the trolling, the latent MRA beliefs and them limiting themselves to just a handful a comics, if they weren't so stagnant about it. There's only so many times that they can repeat the same jokes and point out the same flaws about the same comics over and over until it just becomes repetitive. The reasons for a good chunk of their followers leaving had less to do with lack of balls and more with the fact that SWC has fallen into the very same traps that they've warned people about about time and time again. There's little new - in terms of both knowledge and entertainment - left tot get from them, and the stuff that is new you can probably get from several other sources that are probably just as reliable. The students have become their own masters. Whether or not they will be just as effective, only time will tell.

Relying on shock will only get you so far and it's a very easy crutch to rely on. Eventually you're going to have to get worse to get the attention you lost when your novelty wears off. That runs the risk of going too far to the point that not even all the accusations of "political correctness" and "lack of balls" will help you. Even if it doesn't happen, the attention your got won't last long.

I am going to agree with King. I use to read the SWC for a while and it wasn't long that I saw the same rants over and over again. I remember seeing asks on the tumbler bringing up other comics get kind of blown off ( I would have thought that they would go after the Trenches seeing as it was a joint comic with Penny Arcade). I think the SWC was just made to get under fan boys skin. They do give out some good advice once in a blue moon but it's not something you can't find on other web sites.

@RIffRaff: IIRC, pssing off fanboys was one of the reasons the tumblr was formed, assuming I got my shit together.

Also, they had this to say about BWW:

http://shittywebcomics.tumblr.com/post/67832792964/cool-mod-sorry-needed-an-ultra-dumb-picture-to

On the one hand, I'm highly reluctant to give more attention to these guys, on the other, they do keep saying we need to be more honest (whether or not that's true, I leave to you). So I'm kind of torn posting this. At the end, I'm posting it anyway. Since they don't give to shits about what we say, here is my rebuttal:

*Inhales*

"Yep, that's a butthurt!"

KingMan wrote:

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they do keep saying we need to be more honest (whether or not that's true, I leave to you).
 

Wow, it looks like someone didn't liked to get told to review more than the same 5 comics like other do. I'm confused, did they complain about critics going "pussy ass"; then start complaining about enraged critics?

=16pxDid you know that insulting someone’s work is in fact insulting their intelligence?

Immelmann (possibly) could have written better comics and drawn better art to go with it, yet he flat out refused to perform better, hiding behind the god old "you're insulting me" argument.

What criticism is supposed to be is not ass kissing and saying "this is very good" or "ha, that's bad.", but it's supposed to be brutal and honest "this is bad and this is how it can be improved" kind of stuff. We can only guess what one of the three that this blog is aiming for...

Also they should review more webcomics because making snarky comments at one page of about 5 webcomics is really going to shake up the whole industry.

All I can say is:

http://shittywebcomics.tumblr.com/post/67832792964/cool-mod-sorry-needed-an-ultra-dumb-picture-to

I actually agree with a lot of what they say here. Luiigian made this site right after Solomon died out and most of his reviews were just: "You comic sucks, fuck
you and eat shit". The same could be said for a lot of the guys who wrote reviews here at first and no longer post. I STILL write review that are all "Fuck you" and "Eat shit". Some of you don't like doing that and some of our readers don't like it that I do it, but I like it and I don't give a fuck and I let everyone else do their own thing. I like drama and I like personal attacks and I find some of your reviews to be boring as all hell but it isn't my place to tell others how to write so I don't.

Some of you fancy yourself serious critics while others just try to be trolls. Most are a mix. Everyone has their own style and that's cool. The same goes for SWC. This mod thinks we suck an another thinks we're okay. That's also fine.

I have some thinks about SWC I dislike, but other people like them and they sometimes piss-off artists and fanboys so they are fine by me.

You guys should stop trying to compare us (I had enough of that shit with YWIBAYSFB) and focus on writing good reviews.

 

oddguy wrote:

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http://shittywebcomics.tumblr.com/post/67832792964/cool-mod-sorry-needed-an-ultra-dumb-picture-to

I actually agree with a lot of what they say here. Luiigian made this site right after Solomon died out and most of his reviews were just: "You comic sucks, fuck
you and eat shit". The same could be said for a lot of the guys who wrote reviews here at first and no longer post. I STILL write review that are all "Fuck you" and "Eat shit". Some of you don't like doing that and some of our readers don't like it that I do it, but I like it and I don't give a fuck and I let everyone else do their own thing. I like drama and I like personal attacks and I find some of your reviews to be boring as all hell but it isn't my place to tell others how to write so I don't.

Some of you fancy yourself serious critics while others just try to be trolls. Most are a mix. Everyone has their own style and that's cool. The same goes for SWC. This mod thinks we suck an another thinks we're okay. That's also fine.

I have some thinks about SWC I dislike, but other people like them and they sometimes piss-off artists and fanboys so they are fine by me.

You guys should stop trying to compare us (I had enough of that shit with YWIBAYSFB) and focus on writing good reviews.


 

All of those things are good.

This might be a long shot, but I've once made a passive edit of a webcomic page years ago to correct an anatomical inaccuracy, and the author actually followed my advice, from what I've seen of the following page. Note that the author isn't as technically-inclined as I was.

Perhaps that's something authors desire in order to listen? I might perhaps try it again one day, but I simply don't believe I've improved all that much, despite others telling me otherwise.