2011-10-24
Original: 2011-10-24 on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Main comic:
A hand-drawn line graph. The vertical (Y) axis is labeled "PRIMARY HOUSEHOLD BREADWINNER" and the horizontal (X) axis is labeled "TIME."
A blue line labeled "men" starts high on the left, stays high for a long time, then curves downward.
A red line labeled "women" starts low on the left, stays low for a long time, then rises into a sharp peak before falling back down. The men and women lines converge and both descend together toward the bottom on the right.
A green vertical dashed line is labeled "INVENTION OF INTERNET."
After that point, an orange line labeled "cats who do funny things on camera" rises steeply from near the bottom up toward the top right, becoming the dominant line.
Caption below the graph: "How Culture Ends: Not with a bang... with a whisker."
Votey:
Panel: A man leans toward a small cat sitting on the floor in front of him.
Man: "DO SOMETHING CUTE! I NEED TO PAY RENT!"
A hand-drawn line graph. The vertical (Y) axis is labeled "PRIMARY HOUSEHOLD BREADWINNER" and the horizontal (X) axis is labeled "TIME."
A blue line labeled "men" starts high on the left, stays high for a long time, then curves downward.
A red line labeled "women" starts low on the left, stays low for a long time, then rises into a sharp peak before falling back down. The men and women lines converge and both descend together toward the bottom on the right.
A green vertical dashed line is labeled "INVENTION OF INTERNET."
After that point, an orange line labeled "cats who do funny things on camera" rises steeply from near the bottom up toward the top right, becoming the dominant line.
Caption below the graph: "How Culture Ends: Not with a bang... with a whisker."
Votey:
Panel: A man leans toward a small cat sitting on the floor in front of him.
Man: "DO SOMETHING CUTE! I NEED TO PAY RENT!"
Alt text
A hand-drawn line graph titled by its caption "How Culture Ends: Not with a bang... with a whisker." The Y-axis reads "PRIMARY HOUSEHOLD BREADWINNER" and the X-axis reads "TIME." A blue line labeled "men" stays high then drops; a red line labeled "women" stays low, spikes into a brief peak, then both fall together. A green dashed vertical line marks the "INVENTION OF INTERNET," after which an orange line labeled "cats who do funny things on camera" shoots up to dominate, overtaking everyone as the primary breadwinner. Votey: a man leans down toward a small cat on the floor and demands, "DO SOMETHING CUTE! I NEED TO PAY RENT!"
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.