[Meta] Questionable Content is currently down. "Hacked and blown up." 😔
22h 29m ago by lemmy.world/u/jordanlund in comicstrips from www.jephjacques.com
If you aren't aware, QC is a long running online strip that (generally) has been running 5 days a week for 23 years(!)
Went to check it last night and was greeted with this. 😔
If you've never read it, it's generally SFW despite the title. Sometimes not.
Warning: Large cast, varied plots, an art style that has changed probably 16 times, huge time jumps, sentient AIs who sniff tea to see visions, and rocket powered roombas.
I'd link to a good jumping on point, but you know, "hacked and blown up." All the Google thumbnails are super blurry.
Jeez, that comic is still around? I haven't read it in like 15 years.
I used to read QC religiously but when Claire went to Canada Cube TM I just couldn't keep doing it anymore. The plotlines are boring IMO and you hardly see any of the orginal cast ( at least at the time I stopped reading). Obviously things change and grow but the whole cringey SpookyBot plotline really lost me and not seeing Martin or Faye nearly enough and as always a severe lack of pintsize.
That being said I don't see any reason for someone to attack QC beyond them being a majorly inclusive comic series. I do seem to remember Jeph getting into twitter beef a lot in years past tho so maybe he pissed someone off.
I really liked the spookybot plotline with bubbles and corpse witch. The director vs spookybot was an interesting continuation.
The cubetown thing is still finding it's place but I'm confident.
Ahn is a new character who has been hilarious, as has been Liz the gremlin. I'm not bothered by failing to get another Steve Eating Cereal. LOL.
Its not even the new characters. Its just kept feeling more and more lol xD random in a cringey reddit way and I couldn't stomach it. Also all the robots were getting hard to keep track of since Jeph can't draw different faces.
The robot issue is a fair cop, but hey, at least they are different colors and some have noses and some don't. 😉
I also really like Zlata but TBH she's so barely there I had to Google her name. She totally has a crush on Marten. LOL.
Yeah I vaguely remember Zlata, I do miss the squirrel camp edits tho hahaha
Oh no! I have kept them in RSS for about a decade. Hope they get back up soon.
Same here! I stopped reading my rss feeds for a few years (not sure why) but when I reloaded them to a new reader I was so happy to see QC still there chugging along. Why would anyone hack them??
My guess would be some anti-woketivist snowflake going "Main character in a trans relationship! Reeeeeeeee!" I dunno if we'll ever find out.
probably a script kiddie. Theres a ton of automated scripts out there. Or a bad update. IDK.
There is a very serious local exploit circulating with easy to use PoC that still has not been patched by various distros. So yeah, probably automated.