Girlz 'N' Games

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About

Girlz 'N' Games is a defunct video game webcomic created by Noelle Adams. Though the comic never garnered a significant following, several of its strips were remarked upon as cringeworthy years after the comic stopped posting, particularly a Christmas-themed comic that made a The Cake Is a Lie joke.

History

Noelle Adams, under the alias Pfangirl, first began posting Girlz 'N' Games strips on August 20th, 2004.^[1] Many of the original comics appear to be lost. Some of the earliest extant strips include a Loss parody the comic posted May 20th, 2009^[2] (shown below, left) and a Christmas comic posted December 24th, 2008^[3] (shown below, right).

The comic ran sporadically over its lifespan, with Adams making her final post to the comic's Facebook page on May 18th, 2015.^[4]

Online Presence

Though the comic never gained a significant fandom, it generated a strong anti-fandom after it stopped. The comic was covered by the Badwebcomicwiki,^[5] who wrote, "We get tired, even chauvinist, jokes about women. Jokes that aren't even clever, lack an understanding of both women (at the very least women who aren't gamers) and, strangely enough, of video games as well." Many of the comic's panels have appeared in subreddits celebrating cringe (examples shown below).^[6]^[7]

Christmas Comic

The most infamous Girlz 'N' Games comic was the comic's 2010 Christmas-themed strip.^[11] The comic appeared in /r/cringe^[8] on October 23rd, 2012 (shown below).

The strip was referenced as an example of cringeworthy 2000s webcomics throughout the 2010s. On June 26th, 2017, it was cited as the most cringeworthy webcomic Twitter user @abigbagofkeys^[9] could find in a Twitter thread that gained over 2,200 retweets and 4,000 likes. It also inspired parody edits. On December 26th, 2019, an edit appeared on /r/gamingcirclejerk^[10] parodying cringeworthy copypastas (shown below, left).