One Hellva Critic

Welcome; I am here to deconstruct and critique the shitty writing and characters of the popular YT series, Hellvaboss and shine a bright spotlight on Hellva's more (serious) problematic themes in the show that get glossed over and immaturely handled by the show. I don't have an issue with the creators themselves; I have a problem with their writing, writing choices and how they address mature severe adult themes terribly in a show MADE for adults. It's about time I address this myself and explain, critique and deconstruct why this is an issue and how the show could've gone a different route if the writing was taken seriously. (I know they will never read this, lmao)

[sonankuzoff]

Would everyone please consult the graph

[polari]

that png of the apple that's getting passed around here really bothers me. the one with all the stickers plastered over it. like it's clearly a sculpture and the graphic design on the stickers having them all work as biblical references while still looking like stickers for fruit companies is such an interesting commentary on consumption of christianity and specifically (with the context of this being a supermarket apple) heavy secularization of the concept of sin until it's consumed thoughtlessly. and now the work, which is very intentional, is being passed around thoughtlessly...come on

[polari]

by freelance graphic designer bao t. nguyen, images sourced here.

[onehelluvacritic]

Breaking news- why this blog is not as active as it used to be. I don’t really wanna engage with the antis/critical community anymore. It’s become toxic in a way that I really don’t like and a lot of people just completely miss the point of her shows and go into bullshit drama with Viv on Bluesky and Twitter. Tbh, I just don’t care. Viv has made mistakes and some of you need to just get the fuck over it and move on. Deadass. I don’t know what you expect from her realistically. And I’m someone who doesn’t like her as a show runner very much. I don’t condone the crap she’s done. But like- beating a dead horse over it does fuck all.

I’ve reviewed some of my older posts and a couple of my older takes were not that great. Especially regarding like the serious stuff with SA. They were mid takes and some of the takes I’ve seen with that stuff in this community don’t do a great job handling the nuances around sexual assault and rape victims. Again, this kind of just stops me from wanting to engage with this stuff because people are going to misread it as “condoning.” Or some bullshit. Which says a lot about how dumb this community has become.

And I can’t be bothered to care anymore about hating these shows. Like I just can’t. I don’t hate Hazbin that much tbh. I’m just so done. And tired.

[onehelluvacritic]

I love this stupid TV man 😭😭🙏

[onehelluvacritic]

Okay now that Hazbin Season 2 is rolling out episodes- I have notes..

1. Alastor lost his sparkle after Season 1 and I think that fight scene with Adam ruined it.

2. A lot of telling and no showing. Again- not enough showing and too much telling.

3. Speaker of God is fucking awesome. 10/10

4. Give me more stuff with Heaven. I’m bored of Hell.

5. Vox is more interesting than Alastor, I’m not sorry lmao.

[natequarter]

we have to make more women suffer in fiction but crucially not in a man pain way. we have to let women suffer in fiction the way men are always allowed to suffer in fiction. we need women who grieve their male love interests always dying horribly at the hands of the villain of the week the way male action heroes always do. we need women who suffer in ways other than "dying in childbirth" and "abusive male relative". we need women with interiority and depth of character having the worst time of their fucking lives.

[onehelluvacritic]

I can think of 3 particular characters with this type of anguish. Princess Carolyn, works herself to death and can’t have children- but she wants to be a mother and she had multiple miscarriages in her life. She grew up with an alcoholic mother and she always had to take care of her. Then she flung herself into Bojack’s life and tries to put out every single fire that Bojack creates.

Beatrice Horseman. She’s literally the victim of her time. Had to watch her brother die in the war, then lose her mother to a lobotomy to feel better about her son’s death. She wasn’t allowed to even enjoy ice cream. She learned that love means loss and immense suffering. She takes that out on Bojack.

Sarah Lynn. She’s tragic. She wanted to be an architect- but her mother allowed Hollywood to wring every last drop of talent from her. The people in her life failed to protect her and took advantage. Child star, turned into sex idol and then an addict that self destructs over and over again. Until she went out in the planetarium- her light, the star that she was, faded to black in an instant.

But idk- yeah, I can’t think of many female characters that have this depth.

[toestychonk]

FOR FUCKS SAKE

Again about criticism but this time she's using buzzwords! Now she's comparing criticism to MAGA.

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The doxxing and threats are an exception as that's not okay whatsoever. But Viv has never spoken out about that. It's always her being mad that there's criticism at all or that there's victims that care about how sexual assault is portrayed or that not everyone thinks she's this hilarious writing genius.

[onehelluvacritic]

That’s crazy. Anyways- Viv has been incapable of taking criticism for decades. Nothing new. She claims she’s writing queer stories- sure. Because there’s nothing queer and cool like dry Lesbian rep and sidelined female characters. Her show is very male centered and it’s hard to unsee that. Charlie and Vaggie have 0 chemistry. She sidelines every female character in favour of the male characters like Alastor and Lucifer. The screenshots for Season 2 fucking demonstrates my point. Alastor and Lucifer are going to be center focus, along with Vox, while Charlie is in the background somewhere with Vaggie. Fantastic REP Vivziepop. Wow. MLM rep times a thousand. Maybe I’m just annoyed as fuck because I barely see any genuine Lesbian rep, or idk- trans rep either that’s done well enough for the modern era. Hazbin Hotel is decades behind with queer rep. It’s 2000’s era queer rep, not 2025 era rep.

Is that even a thing?

[onehelluvacritic]

I wasn’t expecting Hazbin Hotel to shit out another Season so fast. I don’t know when it’s going to release but I am not expecting it to be good. Do I even want to torture myself with this shit again-

[onehelluvacritic]

When I low-key like the show Digital Circus and the theories, but I’m forced to watch SarcasticChorus and Ayylmao deliver the theories in the most dry, dispassionate, pretentious, monotonous and shittiest way possible, so now I just hate both of them and could give a fuck if their takes are good.

[vitya-soopetz]

bro why did you tell em...

[onehelluvacritic]

Lmfao

[tjalexandernyc]

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[ralfmaximus]

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[onehelluvacritic]

Vivziepop be like:

And then:

Here’s a tip: STOP ENGAGING WITH THEM ASSHOLE!

You’re the one who shoves the bar into the bike tire and then falls over screaming “haters!” Then stop? You’re a grown woman and you still haven’t figured this out?

[onehelluvacritic]

I opened my asks again. 🙏

[medusadyke]

tumblr discourse after 13 years on this fucking website

[princessnijireiki]

[wantedpreferablydeadplease]

I'd argue it ain't about Blitz and his lil' rodeo, 'specially in Western energy.

Its about everythin being turned into some kind of sex thing, joke, innuendo. Everything's gotta be sexual n silly, doesn't matter how serious the situation may be. 🌾

OOC:// Rare reddit helluva W

[archivedblog16-deactivated20250]

At least one creator can read the room.

[onehelluvacritic]

I don’t understand why Viv bothers to put in POC characters if she’s going to pull some shit like this in production. I’m praying that this leak doesn’t become canon in the show and the backlash she receives forces her to change the storyboard so it’s not.. that in the final cut.

If she leaves it, she’s going to be in for a world of problems.

[meganenerd]

Thing is that this is a show, not an internet series she can postpone without the fear of it being cancelled.

If she tries to change the planned story under a corporation with very tight schedules she'll probably be told to not do it cuz it's a waste of time AND money that a corporation won't risk for her.

If she does end up doing changes she'll probably end up free ballin' the shit out of it and make it even more unwatchable than it is already (or maybe her fans will suck her dick even more like they always do, who knows lol)

[onehelluvacritic]

Wouldn’t it be a bigger risk to leave that shit in, because of the potential backlash? Forget YouTube reviewers- all it takes is news outlets to put out an article and boom Amazon has a nightmare PR situation (oh boo boo Amazon) and Spindlehorse dies. Amazon prime isn’t some cryptic indie website. It’s mainstream. Someone’s Grandma to Karen can watch Hazbin if they absolutely could. Imagine the scandal from someone’s enraged mother seeing Hazbin. ☠️ Amazon could give af about Viv and her show. They will drop that shit in an instant if they know it’s not worth the trouble. That’s corporate logic.

If Amazon smells a threat and it sounds like they might have already but went through it because it did well enough to get a second season; all it takes is one major Freudian slip like that scene (if it stays in the final product) to have some concerned parent make a couple phone calls or a journalist to write a viral article or a Tweet, then it all goes boom. The daily mail? Variety? How about the Hollywood reporter? Yeah- are you sure Viv that you wanna ignore your critics? 🤨 Viv is fucked to Timbuktu if they get their hands on Hazbin lmao.

Oh yeah, I’m sure some journalist would absolutely not see an issue with Alastor (canonically a black man) being fucking dragged around with chains and told by his “master” Rosie, that he’s her pet with Disney esque sing song music. 🤪

I don’t know how the production side works- I’m guessing Viv has some leeway to do what she wants but there’s deadlines, expectations and a budget- which makes her writing mistakes, her allergy to criticism and general lack of online general professionalism a higher risk. Amazon’s PR team is watching her.

But yeah. This is my educated guess.

[orionebulart]

Mammon's fans, I know the recent merch drop didn't give you justice. You're disappointed and hungry so I've brought a snack. Yeah, it's kinda messy and not cleaned up (prolly will do this later) but I hurried to feed you.

PS/ Couldn't resist to draw Stella being excited to take a slice of this delectable cake, sorry!