Hyperbole and a Half reading experience

Reading Hyperbole and a Half was an experience not to be understated. Allie Brosh’s approach to writing creative content was creating things that people could relate to. Some of the stories she wrote about are things that we have gone through ourselves, but are too embarrassed to admit. Reading her writing was sort of a guilty pleasure for me, as I was able to see a lot of the things that I agree with but too embarrassed to speak of represented on a book. Unlike Homestuck where the printed version of the creative material is missing features that the web counterparts have, Hyperbole and a Half does not have much difference between the print and web versions. The drawings are slightly differently as I have noticed when comparing the print and web versions, but other than that the contents are the same. I think this similarity might be caused by the platform that the creative content was originally published on. Hyperbole and a Half started out as a blog, so naturally the contents do not have weird formatting as some of the webcomics out there because the purpose of a blog is to be read and not admired as a piece of art. The attitude that the author has towards writing the content is also something to note. Allie seems like she simply does not “give a f**k” when she wrote about her life in her blogs — there are no flowery languages or pretty fonts, only crude dialogues and rough writings, but it feels “real” and therefore it resonated with the readers. This type of mentality is prevalent is the American culture and has been capitalized by many. “Deadpool” and Donald Trump are the most prominent ones that have benefitted from this mentality. They all appear to “not give a f**k”. So next time when you are running for a leadership position, maybe you could also try to write your script the most rude way and appear “not to give a f**k”.