No human being is the epitome of perfection. Since society is made of human beings, it too is imperfect, and we seek to remedy as much as is possible of our imperfect world. Through our art at Happy Impulse, we seek to critique society in a way that inspires others to get out and get things done, rather than to sit back and go with the flow.
In other words, Happy Impulse is an only anarchy approach on today’s issues. In our view, greedy capitalism belongs in the dustbin of history, global warming sucks, and weed is lit. We think that mental health ought to be given the importance that it deserves and that LGBTQ+ rights are human rights. While others promote disinformation, we counter this with art that encourages people to rebel against all that is wrong in this world.
No matter one’s race, sexual orientation, or gender, we believe that everyone can make a difference. The more we talk about these things, the more we draw about these issues, the more change we’re able to bring to the world around us. Simply put, in rebels we trust!
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Peace Grenade
I am at a loss for words, my heart breaks for Ukraine. STOP THE WAR, STOP THE VIOLENCE AND STAND FOR PEACE.
IMHO, the worst part is that it is totally unnecessary. It wasn't escallating tensions and legitmate grievances that led to this, just one old man's desire to return to the "glory days" of the Soviet Union.
My name is Roberta Hall and I create work under the alias of "Happy Impulse". I'm a rebellious illustrator, with some kind of anarchy and happiness sold separately.
I started illustrating because I was tired of being quiet in a world full of problems. And naively enough, believed (and still do) that art can change and shape the world, or at the very least start a conversation.
Love Is Love
Who else agrees that Love is Love is more than a hashtag?
Eat The Poor - Fly To Space
The richest 1% of Americans are responsible for 70% of all unpaid taxes. The wealthy and corporations are gaming the system, pointing the finger at the very people they’re stealing from.
The wealthy criminalize the homeless, so they don’t have to house them. They criminalize drug addicts, so they don't have to face substance abuse as a public health problem. They criminalize the poor, so they don't have to address wealth inequality.
The existence of billionaires is predicated on the exploitation of human labor and unsustainable environmental harm. Reducing the amount of money in circulation, destroying economies.
And they will continue to do so until we have a wealth ceiling. A different world is possible.
My alias holds a simple truth about my story: that even through all of life's pain and nonsense. I try to make the conscious choice to be irrationally happy in spite of it. I will unapologetically find joy in the chaos.
Even when I'm angry at the blank canvas staring back at me, it also gives me a thrill. Because it means I care about what I am doing and making.
I am in love with the process because the process reminds me that no matter what I am feeling that I am in love with what I do, even on the bad days, or even when I'm not motivated to create. Likewise, for all the things I am not in love with I won't continuously be trying to improve and develop my skill.
Say Gay Everyday
Children should be taught that who they are and who they love is valid. They shouldn’t have to hide the love inside them. All children deserve love and respect. All children deserve to be who they are.
For some children, the Don’t Say Gay bill is a punishment. For others, it's a death sentence. The world is going backwards and I do not consent.
The Don't Say Gay bill is evil and unjust. Children have a right to learn about gender and sexuality.
Not Your Ashtray
Corporations are not people.
Or rather, we are not corporations. Not us, anyway, who can’t afford space tourism amid a global pandemic. We can’t be corporations. We don’t spill millions worth of oil into the ocean. We don’t emit hundreds of tons of greenhouse gasses. And we sure as hell don’t have massive marketing budgets to tell the world “this is all your fault.”
Corporations have treated the planet like an actual ashtray and turned it all on us. Their greenwashing campaigns and sustainable missions may free them of guilt (and give them huge tax incentives). But that all falls on us as we stress to recycle their toxic products and host river cleanups to minimize our tiny footprints.
So what can we do? Well, it’s still on us. But it’s on us to hold corporations accountable. To vote. To make our voices heard. To support our communities. To redistribute wealth. To help our neighbors. To live simply. We can make change. But when it comes down to it, we shouldn't have to.
It's hard because people are not willing to spend even a little more. Maybe Americans are more stubborn in this area than many Europeans, but we are going to have to foot the bill eventually for holding corporations accountable, and I am worried that we don't have the will to do it.
I have received both negative and positive reactions. I fully recognize that my art isn't for everyone and I love that. My art is supposed to make the viewer uncomfortable, question the status quo, and ask for better. I don't want people to avoid things that might make them think or feel. The world is full of pain, and the more we talk about the things happening in our society the more we can change and improve the world around us. Because change doesn't happen unless we normalize having the hard conversations, even when if feel hopeless. There are parts of history that have been swept under the rug and we have the opportunity to undo the cover-up, by refusing to be silent.
Your Sanity Is Not A Product
You are not a product. And neither is your sanity. No matter what the world tells you, you are not for sale.
Capitalism has played a dirty trick. Conditioning us to believe that our value is what we make and not who we are. Your productivity is not your worth. Don't be fooled by hustle culture. Being overworked 24/7 is not a good look and it's not something that should be bragged about.
Rest when needed and feel no guilt about it. Create a work-life balance that works for you. Work will always be there, but your health won't be.
I've always been making or creating, but I found my home with illustrating.
Besides illustrating, I'm the host of a podcast called "Happy Impulse Unfiltered". And recently I have been fantasizing about learning how to screenprint my illustrations in-house on apparel, and to have some of my illustrations sculpted as toys for a solo art show. Keep up with me on Instagram to see how far I get into my creative endeavors.
Pay Gap
In 2021 the average woman still made only 82 cents to the average man's dollar. Taking away 18% is offensive, and it's more for women of color.
Stop insulting women and pass legislation to close the gender wage gap.
Photoshop Cream
PSA - Remember with your heart that we live in a world with unreachable beauty standards.
You are a bit of an anarchist when you chose to be yourself, but man it is wonderful.
Social Media Addiction
Daily addiction.
Pride Vision
We have made great strides in the LBGTQ+ community, but we still have a long way to go.
I dream of a world where one day a boy can say he likes a boy, the same way a boy can say he likes a girl.
I hope to help create that future full of acceptance and a lot more love. Because honestly, it takes all of us to move in that direction, not just a few.
Make Rent Or Die Trying
Trust science? Absolutely. Corporate America? Not so much. The CDC recently cut recommended quarantine time down to just 5 days for breakout covid cases—right after major corporations said “pretty please?” Now, the working class is in an inevitable catch 22: protect yourself from covid, or protect your paycheck. Can’t say we’re surprised.
I want this as a t shirt. Happy if you got a store going up please include this.
Your Skin Tone Is The Privilege
I didn't get to choose my skin color, and i don't think anyone else did either. Can we, as a society, start treating people like PEOPLE, instead of skin color?
And just because I don’t share the same skin color, don’t assume I’m evil and part of the problem
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Wow, I'm hearing a lot of defensiveness. I'm a white, cis-gendered, WASP in the U.S., & the point of recognizing privilege isn't to feel guilty. It's to open one's eyes to others' realities. Having privilege doesn't mean you've had an easy life. It just means your race (or religion, or country of origin, or orientation, or sexual identity...) hasn't made it harder. The POINT of recognizing our own privilege is to then USE that power to improve conditions for everyone. Pretending institutional bias doesn't exist is helping no one.
Problem is that I am white and had to deal with police bothering me a broken home and growing up poor...... and no one gives one #%@ about that, if I was black or Hispanic there would be ten different programs and organizations to help me.
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ah yes, the white jews who had lots of privilege and had to live their lives in concentration camps. why is it that humans have to look at race when judging someone?
Explain to me why they've decided to start shaming people in the opposite direction instead of just not shaming anyone at all. Oh you're awhile person? How DARE you! You're a straight cis human? You should be ashamed of yourself!! I don't get it. Why can't we all just agree that people are born the way they're born and just let it go? The most beautiful conversation I've ever heard between a parent and child was while I was at work. A little girl had asked why some people were black and some were white. He mom responded with a question of her own. "Well, why do you have blonde hair and your dad has brown?' "I dunno. That's just how I was born." "Well there you go then." And that was that. No one should be ashamed of genetics they didn't have a choice in. No one should feel bad they like one gender or another or even none at all. Instead of pointing and shouting "Privilege!" Why don't we just work to treat EVERYONE equal?
The question is why do you feel ashamed 🤔. No one is saying be ashamed they are saying acknowledge your privilege. The fact that acknowledgement makes you ashamed my speak to a different problem. It may speak to the fear that the people in power with privilege are afraid that if we keep moving in this direction you will lose your power. The thought of that probably makes you angry and afraid so you subconsciously project your negative feelings on what is causing you discomfort.
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I'm 47. We did not even think about this garbage in the 80s. It did NOT exist.
Hence why so many people suffered during the 80s. History has shown us this was an awful time
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Racism has always been and will always be. All people of all skin tones can be racist. CRT is racist
Telling someone they're privileged because of their skin color is, in itself, racist.
No it is not. You don't know the definition of racism so I will educate you. "prejudice, discrimination, or antagonism directed against a person or people on the basis of their membership in a particular racial or ethnic group, typically one that is a minority or marginalized." with that definition in mind how is saying that your skin tone is a privilege prejudice, discriminatory, or antagonizing. Privilege isn't a bad thing it is a neutral fact. There are also many types of privilege. Having healthcare is a privilege that is a fact, having clean running water is a privilege. We need to know our privileges so we can act not take them for granted and act with empathy to those without the privileges we have.
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I didn't choose to be white. My ancestors didn't choose it. They chose to do horrible things. I chose to tell you to stop generalizing. That ship's racist.
No it is not. You don't know the definition of racism so I will educate you. "prejudice, discrimination, or antagonism directed against a person or people on the basis of their membership in a particular racial or ethnic group, typically one that is a minority or marginalized." with that definition in mind how is saying that your skin tone is a privilege prejudice, discriminatory, or antagonizing. Privilege isn't a bad thing it is a neutral fact. There are also many types of privilege. Having healthcare is a privilege that is a fact, having clean running water is a privilege. We need to know our privileges so we can act not take them for granted and act with empathy to those without the privileges we have.
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Before Illiberal leaders introduced false concepts like CRT to our country, we were moving beyond skin color bias. We were on track to achieving what MLK believed was possible. Now MLK is turning in his grave.
Why don't you want kids to learn our real history? As an American & a mother I feel we owe it to our children to be honest with them. German children learn about the Holocaust in school. "Lest we forget" is a phrase all Germans live by. They don't hate themselves or Germany because of it. They OWN it, which is what we have to do. I love America and it's my home- America has committed atrocities. Both things can be true at the same time.
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Say it loud in the back. The one's with guns and flags didn't hear you. They were too busy whining about their god given right as an American tax payer and hard working citizen, something something, die hard patriot Ar 15 rifles ford f150 American flag tattoo etc etc blah blah blah. To be a white racist and fascist.
Yes you are you are absolutely right. You are so disgusting. Proud boy?
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Drink Dia-Betes
It is okay to occasionally treat yourself, just don’t overdo it. Its the case for everything.
Earth Sucker
"Life is short, though I keep this from my children.Life is short, and I’ve shortened mine in a thousand delicious, ill-advised ways, a thousand deliciously ill-advised ways I’ll keep from my children. The world is at least fifty percent terrible, and that’s a conservative estimate, though I keep this from my children. For every bird there is a stone thrown at a bird. For every loved child, a child broken, bagged, sunk in a lake. Life is short and the world is at least half terrible, and for every kind stranger, there is one who would break you, though I keep this from my children. I am trying to sell them the world. Any decent realtor, walking you through a real shithole, chirps on about good bones: This place could be beautiful, right? You could make this place beautiful."
"Good Bones" by Maggie Smith.
I disagree with the "half terrible" statement. There is more good than evil, the evil is just louder.
Lipstick Bullet
Every day is a battle. No matter what you are going through. You have a choice. Wait and do nothing. Or fight and save yourself.
I haven't worn makeup in well over a decade. And nobody gives a rat's a**e!
Stolen Souls
The fight is daily and we will not forget.
Forgifta
1) Shouldn't the bullets point the other way? At least two of them. 2) "Förgifta" is Swedish for "to poison"
Not enough normal decent people looked at this post. The racist homophobic misogynists infiltrated the comment section. Absolutely delusional disgusting people.
Oh no somebody has a different opinion. Let's call them every ist and phobe we can think of.
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I really like your style. Great illustrations and on point. Don't stop!
Man I wish I could draw edgy cartoons that people will look at agree with and then keep on doing what they do any how ....
These aren't hard questions. This is you going onto Twitter, finding popular opinions, then cramming them into easily-digested images that you pretend are universal, profound truths so you can feel like a martyr.
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Loved all of these! Yes, let's all be rebels and man (and woman) our X-wings against Wall Street and all other 1% fat cats.
Not enough normal decent people looked at this post. The racist homophobic misogynists infiltrated the comment section. Absolutely delusional disgusting people.
Oh no somebody has a different opinion. Let's call them every ist and phobe we can think of.
Load More Replies... I really like your style. Great illustrations and on point. Don't stop!
Man I wish I could draw edgy cartoons that people will look at agree with and then keep on doing what they do any how ....
These aren't hard questions. This is you going onto Twitter, finding popular opinions, then cramming them into easily-digested images that you pretend are universal, profound truths so you can feel like a martyr.
STOP WASTING YOUR TIME ON FAKE PEOPLE WHO CLAIM TO BE AN AGENT I WAS SCAMMED 4TIMES NOT UNTIL I RECEIVE A MESSAGE ON MY WHATSAPP TO CONTACT MR HARRIS WHICH I DID NOW I AM A FULL MEMBER OF THE GREAT ILLUMINATI BROTHERHOOD BE WHAT YOU WHICH FOR IN LIFE BY JOINING THE GREAT ILLUMINATI BROTHERHOOD TODAY Further encouraging the rumours is the widespread use of supposed "Illuminati" imagery in music videos. Many Freemason and Illuminati symbols, like devil horns and the all-seeing eye, have simply become popular in mainstream culture. But it's also true that some musicians seem to enjoy deliberately playing with symbols connected to secret societies.if you are interested contact on email illuminatiriches50085@gmail.com or whatsapp number +19718012239 GOOD LUCK.......
STOP WASTING YOUR TIME ON FAKE PEOPLE WHO CLAIM TO BE AN AGENT I WAS SCAMMED 4TIMES NOT UNTIL I RECEIVE A MESSAGE ON MY WHATSAPP TO CONTACT MR HARRIS WHICH I DID NOW I AM A FULL MEMBER OF THE GREAT ILLUMINATI BROTHERHOOD BE WHAT YOU WHICH FOR IN LIFE BY JOINING THE GREAT ILLUMINATI BROTHERHOOD TODAY Further encouraging the rumours is the widespread use of supposed "Illuminati" imagery in music videos. Many Freemason and Illuminati symbols, like devil horns and the all-seeing eye, have simply become popular in mainstream culture. But it's also true that some musicians seem to enjoy deliberately playing with symbols connected to secret societies.if you are interested contact on email illuminatiriches50085@gmail.com or whatsapp number +19718012239 GOOD LUCK..
Loved all of these! Yes, let's all be rebels and man (and woman) our X-wings against Wall Street and all other 1% fat cats.
