2010-07-09
Original: 2010-07-09 on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Title caption (taped paper note at top): SMBC: PAPERCRAFT / MAKE YOUR OWN MASLOW'S HIERARCHY OF NEEDS FLIPBOOK
MODIFIED TO ACCOUNT FOR CHANGE OVER TIME
The comic is a vertical stack of flipbook frames, each a Maslow's hierarchy pyramid drawn on a punch-hole-edged page. From bottom to top, the standard pyramid tiers are labeled:
PHYSIOLOGICAL NEEDS
SAFETY
BELONGING
SELF ESTEEM
SELF-ACTUALIZATION
Frame 1: A complete pyramid with all five tiers, top tier reads SELF-ACTUALIZATION.
Frame 2: Same pyramid, but the top SELF-ACTUALIZATION region has begun to morph, the word changing toward MASTURBATION.
Frame 3: The top region now clearly reads MASTURBATION, growing larger and pinker, pushing down over the upper tiers.
Frame 4: The MASTURBATION region has swollen enormously, a large pink blob now dominating the pyramid and overwhelming SELF ESTEEM, BELONGING, and SAFETY, leaving only PHYSIOLOGICAL NEEDS at the base labeled NEEDS.
Frame 5 onward: The pyramid returns toward the original complete five-tier form (SELF-ACTUALIZATION back on top), and the cycle of frames repeats, so that flipping the book animates SELF-ACTUALIZATION repeatedly ballooning into MASTURBATION and back.
Votey:
Caption: INSERT ANYWHERE
A single pyramid outline with the text inside reading: SEE IF ANYONE'S ABOUT TO COME IN
MODIFIED TO ACCOUNT FOR CHANGE OVER TIME
The comic is a vertical stack of flipbook frames, each a Maslow's hierarchy pyramid drawn on a punch-hole-edged page. From bottom to top, the standard pyramid tiers are labeled:
PHYSIOLOGICAL NEEDS
SAFETY
BELONGING
SELF ESTEEM
SELF-ACTUALIZATION
Frame 1: A complete pyramid with all five tiers, top tier reads SELF-ACTUALIZATION.
Frame 2: Same pyramid, but the top SELF-ACTUALIZATION region has begun to morph, the word changing toward MASTURBATION.
Frame 3: The top region now clearly reads MASTURBATION, growing larger and pinker, pushing down over the upper tiers.
Frame 4: The MASTURBATION region has swollen enormously, a large pink blob now dominating the pyramid and overwhelming SELF ESTEEM, BELONGING, and SAFETY, leaving only PHYSIOLOGICAL NEEDS at the base labeled NEEDS.
Frame 5 onward: The pyramid returns toward the original complete five-tier form (SELF-ACTUALIZATION back on top), and the cycle of frames repeats, so that flipping the book animates SELF-ACTUALIZATION repeatedly ballooning into MASTURBATION and back.
Votey:
Caption: INSERT ANYWHERE
A single pyramid outline with the text inside reading: SEE IF ANYONE'S ABOUT TO COME IN
Alt text
An SMBC papercraft comic titled "Make your own Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs flipbook (modified to account for change over time)," shown as a vertical stack of flipbook frames on hole-punched pages. Each frame is a Maslow pyramid with tiers from bottom to top: Physiological Needs, Safety, Belonging, Self Esteem, and Self-Actualization. Across successive frames, the top "Self-Actualization" tier morphs into the word "Masturbation" and swells into a huge pink blob that overwhelms the upper tiers until only the "Needs" base remains, then resets to the normal pyramid so flipping the book animates self-actualization repeatedly ballooning into masturbation. The joke: over time, self-actualization gives way to masturbation. The votey is an extra flipbook page captioned "Insert anywhere" showing a pyramid whose inner text reads "See if anyone's about to come in."
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.