It's the dreaded author's footnotes again! Unless you're new here, in which case it's just the dreaded author's footnotes! This time instead of being contained within an image, it's actual text on the webpage! No idea why I didn't do that the first time around. [ Actually, I do: the first time around I didn't know how to code it so that I could put my text in coloured boxes, and it's important for me to speak as black text against a pink background almost consistently, so that I can easily be identified, except in the cases where I don't do that. ]
On our snazzy new website that I painstakingly made to look like the old website all over again [ This is symbolically relevant for me to do, by the way, I'm certainly the type to pay attention to detail as evidence of my impeccable intelligence and this is real and totally not a joke ], I have decided to write an introduction for realsies this time, because I recently decided being anywhere else on the Internet upsets me so the only way to know anything about me is probably from here:
I am rolypolyphonic and I am a ghost inside a computer. I am the author of BreadAVOTA, a very famous and ultra-popular webcomic that all people are familiar with. rolypolyphonic is pronounced RO-li-PO-li-PO-nik. All the o's and i's are pronounced the same way: the o's are similar to the o in 'roll' and not like the o in 'phone' (It is NOT pronounced PHONE-ik) and the i's are pronounced like the i in 'intraveneous'.
I have an assistant who is also rolypolyphonic! Say hi to our three readers, rolypolyphonic: [ rolypolyphonic does not entertain the footnotes much, and will not say hi ].
Here's a short rundown of BreadAVOTA history:
Here is the footnote from FC2:
Goodness, what an optimistic person I was just a few years ago. 2023 was very difficult, and it still is, so I can no longer relate to any concept of 'self-improvement'. I have ruined all my relationships with my unmitigated psychosis and hebephrenia, and I just feel terrible all around. I'm not even 'just' schizoid anymore, so I can't even make that joke. Now I really am just a washed out schizophrenic, and my cognition is in shambles. Ça alors!
Enjoy the story, or don't. In a few years maybe somebody will ask r/lostmedia about a mediocre webcomic written by 'this guy with the obnoxious footnotes' and it'll be the only time anybody has ever preserved my memory. Just kidding! Don't do that! The nature of a cognitohazard is to be crude and ephemeral, and being mean to middle-aged lunatics sharing their Time Cube lore is so passé by now.
It's actually not, denigrating mentally ill freaks is still all the rage. Here's a challenge for anybody intent on reading the entire comic: try and guess at which point I was having a psychotic episode. Yippee! You know, when other people make jokes about feeling stupid and unwell it's seen as funny and endearing but when I do it it's seen as severe and off-putting. 'It's no laughing matter,' one might insist. Right?! People can laugh at the insane and abandon them in the trenches but God forbid we make light of our own situations. Cor blimey!
My other hobbies are making dolls and psychological research, which has been relegated into hobby status because my poor cognition has robbed me of the ability to hold it as a job. I wish I had studied computer science, in retrospect. I used to be so good at Maths. I could have gotten a better job and used the money to buy more dolls. Me (not me) when I (not me) walk into the unemployment competition and my (not mine) enemy is a PSYCHOLOGY MAJOR!!! (me).
Let's think of something positive! At least my text is now on a cuter shade of pink.