Blobby N Friends "I'll Get That Asshole" Comic — Two-panel comic of a blue-haired girl asking her pink blob 'You ok?' and the blob pulling out a knife saying

Blobby N Friends "I'll Get That Asshole" Comic

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Published October 17, 2026

Blobby N Friends "I'll Get That Asshole" Comic is a June 2019 webcomic strip where a blobfish sidekick threatens a catcaller with a knife, which Twitter users dragged over a year later for making the supposed heroes look like the aggressors. By September 2020, parody redraws were circulating in which the blobfish gets stabbed or teams up with another reviled webcomic character.

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Overview

In the original three-panel strip, a woman walks down the street carrying Blobby the blobfish when a smirking man leans in and asks, "Hey beautiful, what's your number?" The woman freezes with an uncomfortable look while Blobby produces a knife and declares, "I'll get that asshole"1. The comic reads as a straightforward power-fantasy response to street harassment, with the blobfish acting as a loyal pocket enforcer.

The later backlash reframed the same panels as unintentionally villainous: critics argued that answering a verbal catcall with a drawn blade turned the comic's own protagonists into the dangerous party on the sidewalk4. Know Your Meme grouped the reaction with the "New Guy" style of criticism, where a cartoonist's attempt at a sympathetic hero reads online as the opposite7. Comparisons to Tom Preston's "fedora bear" strip, in which a bear beats a photographer with a bat, became the shorthand reference during the pile-on3.

Origin & Background

Platform
Tumblr / Twitter (viral backlash)
Creator
Blobby N Friends
Date
2019

Webcomic artist Blobby N Friends posted the strip to Tumblr on June 4, 2019, under the caption "well have none of that thankyouverymuch," where it collected over 2,600 notes1. The same comic went up on the artist's Twitter account that day and gained more than 750 retweets and 3,100 likes in its initial run2.

At the time of posting, the strip attracted little criticism and sat quietly in the webcomic's back catalog for over a year before being rediscovered by hostile readers in 20207.

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How It Spread

The mockery arrived on September 6, 2020, when Twitter user @reviewlhu quote-tweeted the strip alongside Tom Preston's fedora-bear comic, drawing roughly 40 retweets and 360 likes for the side-by-side3. Later that same day, @TheHinduDindu quote-tweeted the panel with the line "how do you manage to look like the bad guy in your own damn comics," which took off with over 450 retweets and 4,900 likes and became the defining caption for the dogpile4.

Parody redraws followed within hours. @mediissoccus posted a version in which the blobfish gets stabbed in the final panel instead of the catcaller, gaining over 230 retweets and 2,300 likes5. @dawndeera posted a crossover where the woman from the Blobby strip and the bear from Tom Preston's comic join forces against a shared target, picking up over 80 likes6.

The criticism did not spawn a lasting meme format so much as a brief internet morality trial, with the strip cited afterward as a go-to example when a webcomic's intended hero reads as the aggressor7.

Timeline

2019-06-04

Blobby N Friends posts the "I'll Get That Asshole" strip to Tumblr and Twitter, collecting over 2,600 Tumblr notes and 3,100 Twitter likes[1].

2020-09-06

Twitter user @reviewlhu quote-tweets the comic with Tom Preston's fedora-bear strip, kicking off the rediscovery[3].

2020-09-06

@TheHinduDindu posts the viral "how do you manage to look like the bad guy in your own damn comics" quote-tweet, which gains over 4,900 likes[4].

2020-09-06

@mediissoccus posts a parody redraw where the blobfish gets stabbed in the final panel[5].

2020-09-06

@dawndeera posts a crossover parody with the Blobby woman and the Tom Preston bear joining forces[6].

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