class-and-media
Original: class-and-media on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Title: MEDIA AND SOCIAL CLASS: A GUIDE
The comic is a 3x3 grid (a 2x2 matrix with row and column headers).
Column headers (top row):
- (empty cell)
- POOR
- RICH
Row header (middle row, left cell): POOR PEOPLE ENTERTAINING ________ PEOPLE.
- Middle column: COMICS
- Right column: THEATRE
Row header (bottom row, left cell): RICH PEOPLE ENTERTAINING ________ PEOPLE.
- Middle column: FILM AND TELEVISION
- Right column: FINANCE
So the matrix reads:
- Poor people entertaining poor people = COMICS
- Poor people entertaining rich people = THEATRE
- Rich people entertaining poor people = FILM AND TELEVISION
- Rich people entertaining rich people = FINANCE
smbc-comics.com
Votey:
Handwritten note: "Politics" and "porno" fit in every box.
The comic is a 3x3 grid (a 2x2 matrix with row and column headers).
Column headers (top row):
- (empty cell)
- POOR
- RICH
Row header (middle row, left cell): POOR PEOPLE ENTERTAINING ________ PEOPLE.
- Middle column: COMICS
- Right column: THEATRE
Row header (bottom row, left cell): RICH PEOPLE ENTERTAINING ________ PEOPLE.
- Middle column: FILM AND TELEVISION
- Right column: FINANCE
So the matrix reads:
- Poor people entertaining poor people = COMICS
- Poor people entertaining rich people = THEATRE
- Rich people entertaining poor people = FILM AND TELEVISION
- Rich people entertaining rich people = FINANCE
smbc-comics.com
Votey:
Handwritten note: "Politics" and "porno" fit in every box.
Alt text
A webcomic styled as a chart titled "MEDIA AND SOCIAL CLASS: A GUIDE." It's a 2x2 matrix. The columns are headed POOR and RICH (the class of the audience being entertained). The rows are labeled "POOR PEOPLE ENTERTAINING ___ PEOPLE" and "RICH PEOPLE ENTERTAINING ___ PEOPLE" (the class of the entertainers). The four cells are: poor entertaining poor = COMICS; poor entertaining rich = THEATRE; rich entertaining poor = FILM AND TELEVISION; rich entertaining rich = FINANCE. The joke classifies media forms by the social class of who makes them versus who consumes them, with finance treated as rich-on-rich entertainment. Signed smbc-comics.com. Votey (small aftercomic): a handwritten note reading "'Politics' and 'porno' fit in every box."
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.