chemicals

A three-panel comic. Panel 1: a shirtless man lies in bed at night holding a phone, complaining, "God, it's 2am and my stupid brain chemicals won't just let me sleep!" Panel 2: against a yellow background, a cartoon brain standing upright on two little stick legs retorts, "You were up until 12:50 reading internet memes and vacuous political commentary and now you're blaming your insomnia on chemistry?" Panel 3: a close-up of the man lying in bed with his eyes shut, looking offended, saying simply, "How dare you." The joke: the man blames brain chemistry for his insomnia, but his own brain calls out that he was actually doomscrolling. Votey (a small black-and-white aftercomic): the man, still in bed, holds up his phone and declares, "More stupid shit for you, brain!" — immediately ignoring the advice and feeding his brain more late-night phone content.