"We're the people that decided posting toxic bullcrap is activism" (Something Awful vs Jessica Price)

From thisRemember Cozy? Bad nerds have been arguing over cozy things again.To review, the cozy story is a story of comfort, without alarming, disturbing or controversial elements. The game Ryuutama is supposed to be cozy. There's a lot of meal breaks, I hear. If art is suppose to comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable, it supposedly does the first thing.That is all well and good. They heyday of cozy games was in the early days of the pandemic when Animal Crossing was like the second-most discussed topic after Tiger King. Undeniably, the players were afflicted and in need of comfort--we all were.Like most purportedly wholesome things, cozy has an extremely online fandom bent on making it the most catastrophically toxic subject possible, and they have extended the Theory of Cozy far beyond simply sustainable statements like "Some people like it". Our story begins there.The Worst Theory of Cozy For most of history, cozy was untheorized. People enjoyed cozy mysteries in drawing…