history-is-weird
Original: history-is-weird on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Title text (top of comic): HISTORY IS WEIRD, AND IT GETS WEIRDER.
Panel 1
Woman: LIKE, HAVE YOU READ ABOUT WORLD WAR 2, OR THE COLD WAR? SO MANY INCIDENTS CONTAIN COINCIDENCES THAT ARE BIZARRE TO THE POINT OF MYSTICAL.
Panel 2
Woman: THINK ABOUT IT. ANY REALITY YOU EXIST IN IS ONE WHERE HUMANS DIDN'T ANNIHILATE THEMSELVES.
Panel 3 (two side-by-side captions)
Left: BEFORE ATOMIC WEAPONS, MOST TOMORROWS CONTAINED HUMANS.
Right: AFTER ATOMIC WEAPONS, FEWER TOMORROWS CONTAIN HUMANS.
Panel 4
Woman: ONCE GONE, HUMANS WON'T RETURN. SO, THE LONGER THE WORLD GOES ON IN YOUR VERSION OF REALITY, THE MORE ANOMALOUS YOUR VERSION OF REALITY MUST NECESSARILY BE.
Panel 5
Woman: IT'S CALLED 'ANTHROPOMAJICAL' MULTIPLE WORLDS THEORY. THE WORLD SEEMS TO GET WEIRDER OVER TIME BECAUSE IT'S ACTUALLY WEIRDER IN ANY SENSIBLE REALITY WE ARE ALL DEAD.
Man: COME ON MAN. THAT'S INSANE. WHERE'D YOU READ THIS?
Panel 6
Woman: ON A 'WORLDWIDE WEB' OF COMPUTERS THAT WAS ORIGINALLY CALLED 'THE GALACTIC NETWORK' WHICH CONTAINS ALL HUMAN INFORMATION BUT IS MOSTLY USED TO SEND PICTURES OF NAKED LADIES AND CATS.
Man: OH MY GOD.
Votey:
Man (looking distressed): How did we settle on "Internet"?
Panel 1
Woman: LIKE, HAVE YOU READ ABOUT WORLD WAR 2, OR THE COLD WAR? SO MANY INCIDENTS CONTAIN COINCIDENCES THAT ARE BIZARRE TO THE POINT OF MYSTICAL.
Panel 2
Woman: THINK ABOUT IT. ANY REALITY YOU EXIST IN IS ONE WHERE HUMANS DIDN'T ANNIHILATE THEMSELVES.
Panel 3 (two side-by-side captions)
Left: BEFORE ATOMIC WEAPONS, MOST TOMORROWS CONTAINED HUMANS.
Right: AFTER ATOMIC WEAPONS, FEWER TOMORROWS CONTAIN HUMANS.
Panel 4
Woman: ONCE GONE, HUMANS WON'T RETURN. SO, THE LONGER THE WORLD GOES ON IN YOUR VERSION OF REALITY, THE MORE ANOMALOUS YOUR VERSION OF REALITY MUST NECESSARILY BE.
Panel 5
Woman: IT'S CALLED 'ANTHROPOMAJICAL' MULTIPLE WORLDS THEORY. THE WORLD SEEMS TO GET WEIRDER OVER TIME BECAUSE IT'S ACTUALLY WEIRDER IN ANY SENSIBLE REALITY WE ARE ALL DEAD.
Man: COME ON MAN. THAT'S INSANE. WHERE'D YOU READ THIS?
Panel 6
Woman: ON A 'WORLDWIDE WEB' OF COMPUTERS THAT WAS ORIGINALLY CALLED 'THE GALACTIC NETWORK' WHICH CONTAINS ALL HUMAN INFORMATION BUT IS MOSTLY USED TO SEND PICTURES OF NAKED LADIES AND CATS.
Man: OH MY GOD.
Votey:
Man (looking distressed): How did we settle on "Internet"?
Alt text
A six-panel comic titled 'History is weird, and it gets weirder.' A woman explains to a man that history is full of coincidences so bizarre they seem mystical, then argues that any reality you exist in is necessarily one where humans never annihilated themselves. A two-part panel contrasts 'Before atomic weapons, most tomorrows contained humans' with 'After atomic weapons, fewer tomorrows contain humans.' She concludes that the longer the world survives, the more anomalous your reality must be, calling it 'Anthropomajical Multiple Worlds Theory': the world seems weirder over time because in any sensible reality we're all already dead. The man asks where she read this, and she replies it was on a 'worldwide web' of computers originally called 'the Galactic Network,' containing all human information but mostly used to send pictures of naked ladies and cats. The man says 'Oh my God.' In the votey aftercomic, a close-up of the distressed man asks, 'How did we settle on "Internet"?'
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.