knock

A two-character comic. A brown-haired man stands looking concerned and says, "Jeez, why are you getting so tense? I'm just telling a joke." Beside him, a hunched man with flame-like orange hair and round glasses sits with arms crossed, thinking in a separate bubble, "...If I stay quiet he won't think I'm here." A caption below reads: "Rising social anxiety has devastated the knock-knock joke format." Votey (aftercomic), shown as a block of handwritten text: "Knock knock. Who's there? Boo. Boo who? Please don't cry in my presence. I've been online so long I've lost the ability to give comfort with my physical presence." The joke: classic knock-knock jokes collapse when filtered through modern social anxiety and online-induced emotional detachment.