before-2
Original: before-2 on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Title banner (Panel 1): BEFORE INTERNET
Panel 1:
Child (a boy with orange hair): "WHEN I GROW UP, I WANNA BE A COW!"
Man (in suit with glasses, red tie): "HAHAHAHAHA!"
Title banner (Panel 2): AFTER
Panel 2:
Child (the same orange-haired boy): "WHEN I GROW UP, I WANNA BE A COW!"
Man (same man, now with a flat, resigned expression): "YEP. THERE ARE PEOPLE INTO THAT. YOU DO YOU."
Votey:
The man (close-up, looking uneasy/sweating): "YOU... HAVEN'T BEEN LOOKING AT MY BROWSER HISTORY, HAVE YOU?"
Panel 1:
Child (a boy with orange hair): "WHEN I GROW UP, I WANNA BE A COW!"
Man (in suit with glasses, red tie): "HAHAHAHAHA!"
Title banner (Panel 2): AFTER
Panel 2:
Child (the same orange-haired boy): "WHEN I GROW UP, I WANNA BE A COW!"
Man (same man, now with a flat, resigned expression): "YEP. THERE ARE PEOPLE INTO THAT. YOU DO YOU."
Votey:
The man (close-up, looking uneasy/sweating): "YOU... HAVEN'T BEEN LOOKING AT MY BROWSER HISTORY, HAVE YOU?"
Alt text
A two-panel SMBC comic contrasting "BEFORE INTERNET" and "AFTER." In both panels an orange-haired child tells a bespectacled man in a suit and red tie, "When I grow up, I wanna be a cow!" In the BEFORE INTERNET panel the man laughs heartily: "Hahahahaha!" In the AFTER panel the man wears a flat, resigned expression and replies, "Yep. There are people into that. You do you." The joke is that internet exposure has made the man treat an absurd childish wish as just another niche fetish. In the votey aftercomic, a sweating close-up of the man asks nervously, "You... haven't been looking at my browser history, have you?"
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.