discourse-2
Original: discourse-2 on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1:
A woman with dark hair and round glasses, wearing a yellow turtleneck and dark blazer, sits behind a man with flame-colored red hair and a long red beard, also wearing round glasses. They look at a computer screen (its grey back faces the viewer).
Woman: SO THAT'S THE PLAN. WE MAKE THE ONLINE DISCOURSE SO VILE AND FILLED WITH LOGICAL FALLACIES, THAT YOUNG PEOPLE WILL TURN TO CAREERS IN MATHEMATICS FOR MENTAL HEALTH.
Caption (below panel): One day, social media will be remembered as a hero.
Votey:
(DECADES LATER, ALL FLAME WARS ARE ABOUT TAU. THIS IS AN IMPROVEMENT.)
A woman with dark hair and round glasses, wearing a yellow turtleneck and dark blazer, sits behind a man with flame-colored red hair and a long red beard, also wearing round glasses. They look at a computer screen (its grey back faces the viewer).
Woman: SO THAT'S THE PLAN. WE MAKE THE ONLINE DISCOURSE SO VILE AND FILLED WITH LOGICAL FALLACIES, THAT YOUNG PEOPLE WILL TURN TO CAREERS IN MATHEMATICS FOR MENTAL HEALTH.
Caption (below panel): One day, social media will be remembered as a hero.
Votey:
(DECADES LATER, ALL FLAME WARS ARE ABOUT TAU. THIS IS AN IMPROVEMENT.)
Alt text
A single-panel comic. A woman with dark hair, round glasses, a yellow turtleneck and dark blazer sits behind a man with bright red flame-like hair and a long red beard and round glasses; both look at a computer monitor whose grey back faces us. The woman says: "So that's the plan. We make the online discourse so vile and filled with logical fallacies, that young people will turn to careers in mathematics for mental health." A caption below reads: "One day, social media will be remembered as a hero." The joke: toxic social media is framed as a scheme to drive kids into math. Votey (small follow-up panel of handwritten text in a box): "(Decades later, all flame wars are about tau. This is an improvement.)" — implying the plan worked, and now people only fight about the math constant tau.
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.