being
Original: being on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1: A parent and child sit on a grassy hill at night under a starry sky.
Parent: "I worry for kids. I worry everything will be pointless to you because AI will master all arts, science, math. No ambition, no striving. Everything will be pointless."
Panel 2:
Child: "I spent 6 hours drawing Pokemon today and it never occurred to me for a second that anyone else might be better or worse."
Panel 3:
Child: "Even if it had, I would've been excited for them, not sad for myself."
Panel 4 (close on the two sitting together):
(no dialogue)
Panel 5 (close-up on the child, with the parent beside them):
Child: "YOU'RE the one with the problem. I don't need to figure out how to be like you, YOU need to figure out how to be like ME."
Panel 6 (the two silhouetted on the hill again):
(no dialogue)
Panel 7:
Parent: "We can start a popular Instagram around your philosophy, and-"
Child: "NO! Stop adulting my life!"
Votey:
A person (drawn in simple SMBC line-art style) thinks to themself:
"I wish I could make something without wanting to sell it on Etsy."
Parent: "I worry for kids. I worry everything will be pointless to you because AI will master all arts, science, math. No ambition, no striving. Everything will be pointless."
Panel 2:
Child: "I spent 6 hours drawing Pokemon today and it never occurred to me for a second that anyone else might be better or worse."
Panel 3:
Child: "Even if it had, I would've been excited for them, not sad for myself."
Panel 4 (close on the two sitting together):
(no dialogue)
Panel 5 (close-up on the child, with the parent beside them):
Child: "YOU'RE the one with the problem. I don't need to figure out how to be like you, YOU need to figure out how to be like ME."
Panel 6 (the two silhouetted on the hill again):
(no dialogue)
Panel 7:
Parent: "We can start a popular Instagram around your philosophy, and-"
Child: "NO! Stop adulting my life!"
Votey:
A person (drawn in simple SMBC line-art style) thinks to themself:
"I wish I could make something without wanting to sell it on Etsy."
Alt text
An SMBC comic set on a grassy hill under a starry night sky, where a parent and a young child sit together. The parent frets: "I worry for kids. I worry everything will be pointless to you because AI will master all arts, science, math. No ambition, no striving. Everything will be pointless." The child replies that they spent 6 hours drawing Pokemon that day and it never occurred to them that anyone else could be better or worse, and even if it had, they'd be excited for those people, not sad for themselves. In a close-up, the child turns the worry around: "YOU'RE the one with the problem. I don't need to figure out how to be like you, YOU need to figure out how to be like ME." The joke lands when the parent immediately demonstrates the problem by saying, "We can start a popular Instagram around your philosophy, and-" and the child shouts "NO! Stop adulting my life!" Votey aftercomic: a simple line-drawn person thinks, "I wish I could make something without wanting to sell it on Etsy."
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.