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Title: ATTENTION SPANS ARE WEIRD
Panel 1 (label: ME, BROWSING SOCIAL MEDIA):
A bald figure looks down at a phone, frowning.
Figure (thought/caption): "This comic has more than 2 panels and I am not gonna slog through that."
Panel 2 (label: ME, FINDING A NEW PODCAST):
The same figure holds a phone, looking thoughtful.
Figure (thought/caption): "There's only 629 hours, do I really wanna get invested?"
Attribution: smbc-comics.com
Votey:
A hand-drawn horizontal axis labeled "ATTENTION SPAN" at the top, with an arrow indicating "less" on the left and "more" on the right.
Points marked along the line from left to right:
- "tiktok" (below the far left)
- "comics"
- "TV"
- "career in mathematics"
- "fantasy novel series" (below the far right)
Panel 1 (label: ME, BROWSING SOCIAL MEDIA):
A bald figure looks down at a phone, frowning.
Figure (thought/caption): "This comic has more than 2 panels and I am not gonna slog through that."
Panel 2 (label: ME, FINDING A NEW PODCAST):
The same figure holds a phone, looking thoughtful.
Figure (thought/caption): "There's only 629 hours, do I really wanna get invested?"
Attribution: smbc-comics.com
Votey:
A hand-drawn horizontal axis labeled "ATTENTION SPAN" at the top, with an arrow indicating "less" on the left and "more" on the right.
Points marked along the line from left to right:
- "tiktok" (below the far left)
- "comics"
- "TV"
- "career in mathematics"
- "fantasy novel series" (below the far right)
Alt text
A two-panel SMBC comic titled "ATTENTION SPANS ARE WEIRD." In the first panel, labeled "ME, BROWSING SOCIAL MEDIA," a bald figure frowns at a phone and thinks, "This comic has more than 2 panels and I am not gonna slog through that." In the second panel, labeled "ME, FINDING A NEW PODCAST," the same figure looks thoughtfully at the phone and thinks, "There's only 629 hours, do I really wanna get invested?" The joke is the absurd inconsistency in attention span: unwilling to read three comic panels but pondering a 629-hour podcast. The votey (bonus panel) is a hand-drawn "ATTENTION SPAN" number line running from "less" on the left to "more" on the right, with items placed along it: tiktok and comics near the low end, TV in the middle, and "career in mathematics" and "fantasy novel series" at the high end.
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.