2014-06-11
Original: 2014-06-11 on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
A single-panel comic showing a hand-drawn line graph.
Y-axis label: PATHETICNESS OF EXISTENCE
X-axis label: SIZE OF SCREEN ON WHICH YOU ARE CURRENTLY VIEWING PORNO
The plotted curve is a U-shaped (parabolic) red line: high on the far left (very small screens), dipping to a low minimum in the middle, then rising sharply back up high on the far right (very large screens). Both ends of the curve terminate in upward-pointing arrowheads.
Votey:
A man's head shown in profile, smiling slightly, wearing eyeglasses with a small electronic display/prism mounted on the frame in front of his eye — a head-mounted wearable display (Google Glass style).
Y-axis label: PATHETICNESS OF EXISTENCE
X-axis label: SIZE OF SCREEN ON WHICH YOU ARE CURRENTLY VIEWING PORNO
The plotted curve is a U-shaped (parabolic) red line: high on the far left (very small screens), dipping to a low minimum in the middle, then rising sharply back up high on the far right (very large screens). Both ends of the curve terminate in upward-pointing arrowheads.
Votey:
A man's head shown in profile, smiling slightly, wearing eyeglasses with a small electronic display/prism mounted on the frame in front of his eye — a head-mounted wearable display (Google Glass style).
Alt text
A hand-drawn single-panel comic with a U-shaped (parabolic) red curve on a graph. The vertical axis is labeled 'PATHETICNESS OF EXISTENCE' and the horizontal axis is labeled 'SIZE OF SCREEN ON WHICH YOU ARE CURRENTLY VIEWING PORNO.' The curve is high at both extremes — tiny screens on the left and huge screens on the right — and lowest in the middle, with arrowheads pointing up at both ends. The joke: viewing porn on either a very small screen (e.g., a phone) or a very large one (e.g., a wall-sized TV) is most pathetic, while a mid-sized screen is the least pathetic. The votey shows a man's head in profile wearing glasses with a tiny head-mounted display screen (Google Glass style) over his eye — implying the ultimate tiny-screen, ultimate-pathetic case.
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.