SweetBeans99 Shoplifting Comic

About

SweetBeans99 Shoplifting Comic refers to a webcomic by SweetBeans99 featuring an artist who shoplifts materials from an art supplies store. The comic spawned parody variations and debate over whether it was promoting unethical behavior.

Origin

On April 8th, 2020, artist SweetBeans99 posted a webcomic on Twitter^[5] in which a character shoplifts from an art supplies store and pays for only one eraser.

Spread

That day, a thread about the comic was submitted to 4chan's /co/ (Comics & Cartoons) board, where it received more than 500 replies before being archived on Fireden.^[4] In the post, the OP refers to SweetBeans99 as "New Guy asshole," referring to the artist's New Guy webcomic.

Meanwhile, Twitter user @NUTTTMANRETURNS^[3] posted a comic in which the art supplies store clerk is fired after the incident, along with the description "made a cute lil follow up" (shown below). Within 48 hours, the tweet garnered more than 5,000 likes and 280 retweets.

On April 9th, Twitter user @chippledipple^[2] posted a parody version of the comic with the description "relatable artist comic" (shown below). Within 24 hours, the tweet gathered more than 23,000 likes and 3,500 retweets.

That day, a post about the controversy titled "starving twitter “artist” 👩🏻‍🎨makes comic about the struggles shoplifting the bare essentials to survive🥺🥺 and gets baselessly attacked by capitalist bootlicking trolls" was submitted to /r/Drama.^[1]

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