Covid was especially hard on XKCD. Spent multiple years with every other comic advertising that he was a neurotic mess, and an authoritarian who was more than willing to subjugate everyone to calm his unfounded fears.
Of course any sort of punch line fell by the wayside, and many comics became "you're a bad person if you don't agree" or "aren't the people who don't agree terrible " lectures.
Anyone who still liked XKCD after that arc is a lost cause. Even if you agreed with him about covid, it had to be tiresome to be reminded about it constantly in a comic that was apparently supposed to be somewhat humorous.
Covid was especially hard on XKCD. Spent multiple years with every other comic advertising that he was a neurotic mess, and an authoritarian who was more than willing to subjugate everyone to calm his unfounded fears.
Of course any sort of punch line fell by the wayside, and many comics became "you're a bad person if you don't agree" or "aren't the people who don't agree terrible " lectures.
Anyone who still liked XKCD after that arc is a lost cause. Even if you agreed with him about covid, it had to be tiresome to be reminded about it constantly in a comic that was apparently supposed to be somewhat humorous.