#I did a detailed analysis on it a while back gamzee changes drastically from mildly unhinged hippie to That as a direct result of Jane

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i think it was in pretty poor taste to take gamzee, who was already criticized as an antiblack and ableist caricature while the main comic was running, and depict him the way they did in the epilogues. it is already bad enough that meenah, another arguably black-coded character, was written into a relationship with pre-retcon vriska, a kid 6 years younger than her

like obviously they do not have to be devoid of flaws, but these are characters who are often read as black, who were in a comic that lacked definite black representation among its cast of humans, created by a non-black author with a prior history of making racist jokes

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