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“Actiggressus essjaysalmonella”

“Don’t let those uneducated swine escape unshamed! It’s high time you stood up for what’s right by harassing, humiliating and bullying them into submission! It’s not an easy job, especially when you and I are the only ones in the world who aren’t insensitive scum, but no battle is too small, no words too cruel, no cretin worth mercy as long as they offended you first! The world can only stand to be a better place once we expose the culturally offensive way they celebrated Presidents Day or callously misappropriated banana pudding!

Why bother talking it out peacefully, when you can wildly presume they’re beyond all hope and focus all your pent-up frustration into ruining their lives? It’s not your job to educate them - it’s your job to make them hate themselves for perpetuating the ills of society, intentionally or otherwise, and then maybe they’ll even KILL themselves, which would just be hilarious! Let’s go for the high score!”

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vin·dic·tive (v n-d k t v). adj. 1. Disposed to seek revenge; revengeful. 2. Marked by or resulting from a desire to hurt; spiteful

The previous germs may be pretty evil, but even a well-intentioned hero can see them in a few too many places and go a little too far in their fury. No matter how hard you think you hate someone in the heat of the moment, you might be surprised just how much your own mind is exaggerating the situation, and just how receptive they could have been to a more constructive conversation…if you’d only given that a chance.

I’m guilty of acting this way now and then, though there are some cases, like the Deviantart neo-nazis, where I have to say I don’t regret my black and white treatment of them one bit. They are, after all, the sort of extreme lunatics who inspired Yesterday’s Racism germ. Some people ARE beyond hope.


….Anyway, I’m officially having too much fun now, I think. Originally this just had a vaguely bug-shaped gas body, but then I thought, nahhh, I better go full bug. ALWAYS go full bug!

I know some people might take this one’s “hurt butt” face as offensive, but this isn’t a play on “butthurt” so much as the ancient “bug up your butt” or “what’s up your ass” expressions (which are probably “butthurt’s” true roots anyway). If it’s a chronic vengeance-seeker, it also needed to be battle-scarred.

Obviously, the butt-fangs can sting.
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~jack-tallow Apr 10, 2013
Seems quite a few of these germs have flocked to your Misogyny and Nice Guy posts.
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~scythemantis Apr 11, 2013  Hobbyist General Artist
lol, yeah.
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~blkwhtrbbt Mar 4, 2013
It looks like a scorpion beheaded the Lorax and is wearing it as a prize on it's tail.....
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~scythemantis Mar 4, 2013  Hobbyist General Artist
lol...also after shaving him I guess, to add insult to injury. We can probably blame Onceler's toxic waste.
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~blkwhtrbbt Mar 4, 2013
This one disturbs me most of all just because of that......
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~rorschach2099 Feb 11, 2013
I love your stuff to bits, especially monsters like this one where you're not really sure if the punchable ass-face or the scorpion is in charge. Awesome metaphor for spitefulness!
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~Casandraelf Jan 18, 2013  Hobbyist Digital Artist
took me a few seconds to figure out what this was. i hope to see more from you
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*Omny87 Jan 18, 2013
I'm curious; is there a pun in the second half of his scientific name "essjaysalmonella"?
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~scythemantis Jan 18, 2013  Hobbyist General Artist
There's a brand of people who call themselves "social justice bloggers," especially on Tumblr, who focus on combating racism, sexism, homophobia and cultural or religious insensitivity. It's noble, and a lot of them are good people.

Some of them, though, act like this germ, and will go after innocent people for completely perceived offenses.

At some point someone made up a meme/mascot for these types named Social Justice Sally, or just "S.J. Sally" :)
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~AlgaeNymph Mar 18, 2013
When I saw "essjay" I thought of the notorious Wikipedia contributor Essjay, known for falsifying his credentials and taking advantage of being in Jimbo's cabal.

That was almost a decade ago, however, so don't starting hating on Wikipedia or I'll...

*looks up at germ*

Talk it over reasonably?
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