Deliberately crude, taboo-breaking imagery can function as social commentary rather than mere shock, using exaggeration of sex, violence, and bigotry to hold a mirror to mainstream hypocrisy. The offensiveness is the method: it forces recognition of what polite culture represses or sanitizes.
Producing and distributing work outside established publishers removes the constraints of advertisers, censors, and commercial editors, letting content reach an audience uncensored. The absence of gatekeepers permits material that no sanctioned channel would carry, at the cost of mainstream reach.
Grotesque, compulsive imagery can read as the author's unfiltered psyche rather than a neutral portrayal, so the work becomes a document of personal obsession and neurosis as much as of its ostensible subject. Viewing the strip as confession, not just commentary, changes who is actually being exposed.
Depicting racist or misogynist stereotypes under the banner of parody still circulates those images and can be consumed straight rather than ironically. The intent to mock a prejudice and the effect of amplifying its imagery are separable, leaving the satirical frame contested rather than settled.