camouflage-2
Original: camouflage-2 on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1:
A woman with dark hair (in a red jacket) and a bald man walk together down a city sidewalk.
Woman: "OH NO, PASSENGER PIGEONS AREN'T EXTINCT."
Panel 2:
Close-up on the woman's face in profile.
Woman: "AFTER OVERHUNTING, THEY EVOLVED CAMOUFLAGE THAT MAKES THEM INVISIBLE TO PEOPLE IN FIRST WORLD COUNTRIES."
Panel 3:
The two figures stand facing a wall; the woman gestures.
Woman: "BUT, WE CAN HAVE A MACHINE DETECT THEM AND THEN OUTPUT THEM AS SIMPLE ARTWORK HUMANS CAN COMPREHEND."
Panel 4:
The bald man stands in a setting now full of pigeons, each labeled with a tag reading "REFUGEE." Pigeons perch on his shoulders and on the surroundings, all tagged "REFUGEE."
Man: "WOW, I'D LOVE TO SEE THEM."
Votey:
(text only, in parentheses)
"(PLEASE ADJUST TO SUIT YOUR MEME)"
A woman with dark hair (in a red jacket) and a bald man walk together down a city sidewalk.
Woman: "OH NO, PASSENGER PIGEONS AREN'T EXTINCT."
Panel 2:
Close-up on the woman's face in profile.
Woman: "AFTER OVERHUNTING, THEY EVOLVED CAMOUFLAGE THAT MAKES THEM INVISIBLE TO PEOPLE IN FIRST WORLD COUNTRIES."
Panel 3:
The two figures stand facing a wall; the woman gestures.
Woman: "BUT, WE CAN HAVE A MACHINE DETECT THEM AND THEN OUTPUT THEM AS SIMPLE ARTWORK HUMANS CAN COMPREHEND."
Panel 4:
The bald man stands in a setting now full of pigeons, each labeled with a tag reading "REFUGEE." Pigeons perch on his shoulders and on the surroundings, all tagged "REFUGEE."
Man: "WOW, I'D LOVE TO SEE THEM."
Votey:
(text only, in parentheses)
"(PLEASE ADJUST TO SUIT YOUR MEME)"
Alt text
A four-panel SMBC comic. Panel 1: a dark-haired woman in a red jacket walks down a city street with a bald man and says, "Oh no, passenger pigeons aren't extinct." Panel 2: a close-up of her face as she explains, "After overhunting, they evolved camouflage that makes them invisible to people in first world countries." Panel 3: facing a wall, she gestures and says, "But, we can have a machine detect them and then output them as simple artwork humans can comprehend." Panel 4: the bald man now stands surrounded by pigeons — perched on his shoulders and on ledges around him — and each pigeon wears a tag labeled "REFUGEE." He says, "Wow, I'd love to see them." The joke: the supposedly invisible pigeons, once rendered as artwork humans can comprehend, all turn out to be labeled "refugee" — a jab at how invisible/overlooked populations only become visible to first-world people when rendered through a chosen framing. Votey (aftercomic): a hand-drawn empty panel border containing only the text "(please adjust to suit your meme)," inviting the reader to swap in their own label.
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.