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PizzaCakeComic

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Published October 9, 2026

PizzaCakeComic is a webcomic artist whose relatable comics about family and cat life went viral on Reddit in late 2021. Starting in December 2021, users on /r/ComedyNecrophilia began making satirical edits of her panels as exploitables, and the artist herself joined in on the joke, becoming one of the few original creators to embrace an ironic edit community that formed around her work.

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Overview

PizzaCakeComic is the pen name of a webcomic artist who draws cheerful, autobiographical strips about her husband, her cats, and the small frustrations of adult life. Her panels are polished and emotionally direct, which is exactly what made them irresistible to a very different kind of audience on Reddit3.

The meme format pulls her original comics into /r/ComedyNecrophilia and /r/bonehurtingjuice, where redditors rewrite the dialogue to twist a wholesome punchline into something absurd, mean, or deeply dark1. The joke works because her art style is so earnest, so any swap in the final panel feels like a betrayal of the setup. A strip about her artistic ambitions, for example, got rewritten into a bit about Hitler being rejected from art school and climbed to the subreddit's Hall of Fame2.

What set PizzaCakeComic apart from most people whose work gets exploitable-treatment was her reaction. Instead of asking the edits to stop, she drew a comic about discovering /r/ComedyNecrophilia and leaned into the bit, eventually posting her own self-edit to the subreddit4.

Origin & Background

Platform
Tumblr (original comics) / Reddit (viral spread)
Creator
PizzaCakeComic
Date
2021

PizzaCakeComic began posting on June 26th, 2021, with a strip about staying optimistic during COVID-19 lockdown, published on her Tumblr-powered site pizzacakecomic.com. The post pulled only 27 notes over its first year3. Her Reddit debut came on September 7th, 2021, with a comic about the daily hazards of owning a cat, which cleared 1,800 upvotes on /r/comics1.

The exploitable version of the meme began on November 23rd, 2021, when u/euratowel posted the earliest known edit of one of her comics to /r/bonehurtingjuice, a subreddit built around literal, dumbed-down rewrites of popular comics. That edit reached over 9,300 upvotes5. On December 20th, 2021, u/Lactose_and_Lecithin brought the format to /r/ComedyNecrophilia with another rewrite, the earliest known PizzaCakeComic edit on that subreddit3.

How It Spread

Through January 2022, PizzaCakeComic edits picked up speed on /r/ComedyNecrophilia. On January 23rd, 2022, u/Alamasag posted an edit referencing Hitler's rejection from art school as the punchline, built around the original comic's focus on the artist's past art ambitions. It cleared 9,500 upvotes and was inducted into the subreddit's Hall of Fame2.

The artist herself noticed the trend around this point. On January 24th, 2022, she posted a comic on /r/comics playing up her exaggerated reaction to finding her work being chopped up on /r/ComedyNecrophilia, which pulled over 4,000 upvotes and a gold award4. Two days later, on January 26th, she posted her own edit of one of her comics directly to /r/ComedyNecrophilia and got over 9,400 upvotes plus a platinum award, with commenters calling it possibly the first time a creator joined the subreddit instead of complaining about it6.

On February 13th, 2022, PizzaCakeComic posted a second self-edit to /r/ComedyNecrophilia that pulled over 15,500 upvotes and three gold awards7. The explosive peak of these edits ran January through February 2022, and while output cooled afterward, redditors still posted fresh edits of her new comics on /r/ComedyNecrophilia through July 20223.

Timeline

2021-06-26

PizzaCakeComic posts her first comic, about COVID lockdown optimism, on her Tumblr site.

2021-09-07

She makes her Reddit debut on /r/comics with a comic about cat ownership, pulling over 1,800 upvotes.

2021-11-23

U/euratowel posts the earliest known edit of a PizzaCakeComic strip on /r/bonehurtingjuice.

2021-12-20

U/Lactose_and_Lecithin posts the earliest known PizzaCakeComic edit on /r/ComedyNecrophilia.

2022-01-23

U/Alamasag's Hitler-art-school edit hits the /r/ComedyNecrophilia Hall of Fame with over 9,500 upvotes.

2022-01-24

PizzaCakeComic posts a /r/comics strip reacting to her work being edited on /r/ComedyNecrophilia.

2022-01-26

She posts her own edit directly to /r/ComedyNecrophilia and earns a platinum award.

2022-02-13

Her second self-edit on /r/ComedyNecrophilia pulls over 15,500 upvotes and three gold awards.

How to Use This Meme

Edits typically take an unaltered PizzaCakeComic panel and replace the dialogue in the final frame to flip the sincere tone into something absurd, bleak, or non sequitur. Common conventions include keeping her artwork pixel-perfect so only the swapped text does the comedic work, and often picking a strip where the original punchline is especially sweet, since the contrast powers the joke.

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