YMMV / Sarah's Scribbles

• Fandom Rivalry: Fans of Hyperbole and a Half often allege that this comic is an inferior knockoff.
• Friendly Fandoms: Usually with Shen Comix, also a webcomic about relatable young millennial problems.
• Memetic Mutation:
  • For a while, there was a meme that consisted of editing some of Sarah's comics and insert alt-right and neo-nazi offensive jokes or rhetoric. Sarah is not even a politically engaged artist, and it seems more like it was done with the intent of corrupting an innocent cutesy work, or wanting to ridicule something part of a genre (the "relatable webcomic" genre) which has become more discredited and subject to backlash in recent years. Apparently some alt-right 4-channers were also very attracted to Sarah, and therefore fantasized about her sharing their politics.
  • The "How I Spend Money" comic. For a bit of context, that's the comic where Sarah budgets carefully on necessities but spends a lot of money on books. In the panel where she does this, the books are replaced with various things that people might spend a lot of money on.
  • Like in the strip it originated, "A meme in its natural habitat!" it's often used as a reaction when somebody sees a meme in its source material.
• Once Original, Now Common: The comic is often lumped with other mediocre "relatable millennial webcomics" and bashed, despite the fact that the genre wasn't really a thing when the comic began; in fact, it was seen as fairly creative when it was first being written. Only Hyperbole and a Half precedes it.

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