IN THE FIELD: Tandem Cancel Research Study Reveals Subreddit Has No Taste in Palmods.

r/JojoHFTF - Tandem Cancel's researchers have made a discovery that shook absolutely nobody - that the subreddit has no taste in palmods.

Created in a grueling 5 minute development cycle, "Purple Guy Khan" was made to see just how popular a palmod made with the explicit intent of being bad would get. After being posted to the subreddit page, it took off, quickly rising above 150 upvotes despite it being complete garbage.

"For some ungodly reason these guys are more than willing to give anyone well over 100 upvotes simply for making a bad meme or mediocre palmod. I have a theory for why this is, but I'm not 100% certain yet." commented Tandem Cancel's lead researcher. "I believe that it started innocently enough, with a palmodder going to go show the subreddit a palmod in it's infancy, which led the more casual crowd that populates it to become infatuated with the idea of making Jotaro hot pink. I believe this fascination eventually spiraled out of control as users realized that they could easily reach the front page of the subreddit and farm karma by appealing to the would-be hueshifters."

"As the results show, the subreddit does not hold palmods to the same level of scrutiny as the Palmod Gallery or the Palmodding channel in the discord server, which is why I theorize that the subreddit's palmodder population is comprised of people who couldn't handle the heat of being told to add more contrast to their Dio palmod with Jotaro's color scheme." explained another Tandem Cancel researcher. "This creates an environment where bad meme palmods like say, minion Iggy, would be able to thrive despite quite obviously being inferior products compared to a creation from the Gallery."

When shown this research study's results, a player going by Hurk had the following to say. "No [redacted] they have no taste. Have you seen some of the stuff that's on there? I say we lock the place and just have only one message sending people to the discord server where the palmodders at least have some form of quality control, even if it's dumb."

"What I think is actually the most fascinating part of this whole experiment is how it performed relative to other posts of considerably higher quality." said Tandem Cancel's head researcher. "If you take a look at the combo post made by Babro, you'll see that despite having actually good palmods and a cool combo it under performed considerably compared to something as bad and poorly thought out as our Purple Guy Khan. I have yet to draw a conclusion as to why, but I think that it may be linked to why so many palmodders have low playtimes. I cannot wait for our reporter who's studying palmod culture to return with his findings so I can analyze them and hopefully bring more clarity to this situation."

Regardless of why the subreddit is so passionate about bad palmods, one thing is for certain: there isn't nearly enough contrast in Reddit's UI and it hurts my eyes. More updates to follow.