so many of the people in this South Park Archives community like literal background characters but this is confusing to you?

Pip is the pre-butters butters, he embodies senseless positive energy and optimism. i don't like him as much as the other dweeby characters but i like the dweeby role in general. pip is nicer than other dweebs in the series, and more friendless too. scott malkinson and butters are often described as being unpopular, but in reality they still hang out with the other kids and get invited to stuff. everyone was mean to pip for no good reason, and he was never able to get payback before being killed also for no good reason. in short, i think he gets allot of pitty support.

@Mrpetuski makes some good points in comparison to Scott Malkinson and Butters, who have been appearing fairly frequently, but I would add, often end up imitating Cartman and exhibiting sadism and misogyny independently of him, too; which, again, is something Pip does not have on his record anywhere.

I think a really important factor in his favor is that because Pip was retired so early in the show's run, he is relatively innocent and unscathed, whereas it's common to see users to fixate on whenever Stan/Kyle/Butters/Kenny/etc has done something wrong. Pip has no such 'baggage' and his story is finished. He is one of the very few characters in the 'South Park' canon who hasn't really, at any point, done something wrong, which is balanced by the fact the character was often bullied, was retired and eventually killed off, having done nothing to hint at deserving it, in a show where Cartman escapes consequences quite often.

I'm a fandom vet here and before "201" was one of the people who campaigned for Pip to have a role again; my interest in him dwindled off a lot after that for obvious reasons, so I've sort of been on both sides of this. He's had a big uptick in interest in the last couple years because of a fan comic called "Hell Park" in which he plays a key role, might be worth mentioning.

The way I see it, Pip is one of those characters who could've been great, but was treated extremely poorly by executives and writing team.

I'm not saying I hate him, if fact I have nothing against him as a character, it's just he could've been an interesting character (though not top tier), but he had very little screentime for him to flesh out his character enough. It's the same with Tracey from Pokemon.

Probably because he was more of a walking, talking punching bag instead of a fleshed out character with a interesting personality. Not saying I hate him, but these are most of the complaints I've seen from people.

My dumb brain dicied to make him a comfort character