bastardry-2
Original: bastardry-2 on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1 (main comic):
A man with curly brown hair leans back in a chair (appearing to be on a stage or in a presentation setting), grinning wildly with a manic, delighted expression. Another man stands in the background watching with a flat, unimpressed face.
Speaker (curly-haired man): "FOR TOO LONG ONLY WORLD LEADERS HAVE BEEN ABLE TO CAST THEIR BASTARDRY AROUND THE GLOBE! I SAY EVERYONE SHOULD BE ABLE TO MAKE EVERYONE ELSE ANGRY ALL THE TIME!"
Caption (below panel): "What if social media was planned?"
Votey:
Handwritten text inside a hand-drawn box:
"I PREFER TO THINK THAT SOCIAL MEDIA REACHED HUMANS BY ACCIDENT VIA ZOONOSIS."
A man with curly brown hair leans back in a chair (appearing to be on a stage or in a presentation setting), grinning wildly with a manic, delighted expression. Another man stands in the background watching with a flat, unimpressed face.
Speaker (curly-haired man): "FOR TOO LONG ONLY WORLD LEADERS HAVE BEEN ABLE TO CAST THEIR BASTARDRY AROUND THE GLOBE! I SAY EVERYONE SHOULD BE ABLE TO MAKE EVERYONE ELSE ANGRY ALL THE TIME!"
Caption (below panel): "What if social media was planned?"
Votey:
Handwritten text inside a hand-drawn box:
"I PREFER TO THINK THAT SOCIAL MEDIA REACHED HUMANS BY ACCIDENT VIA ZOONOSIS."
Alt text
A man with curly brown hair leans back grinning maniacally while another man stands behind him looking unimpressed. The grinning man declares in a speech bubble: "For too long only world leaders have been able to cast their bastardry around the globe! I say everyone should be able to make everyone else angry ALL THE TIME!" A caption below reads: "What if social media was planned?" The joke proposes that social media was deliberately invented as a tool to let everyone make everyone else angry, like a democratized version of world leaders' villainy. Votey (bonus panel): plain handwritten text in a hand-drawn box reads: "I prefer to think that social media reached humans by accident via zoonosis" — joking that social media instead jumped to humans like an animal-borne disease.
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.