>>56139025Normies happened. Back in the day expressing yourself on the Internet was more important than making awesome-looking art, hence the eye-gouging quality. But by 2012 everyone was obssessed with "perfect art style" (which usually meant anime slop, coupled with the general low plot quality of webcomics, the scene transformed from "ONE and Chris-chan"-level into "soulless slop". Sorta like what happened to video games, all RTX, no gameplay.
