judge
Original: judge on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1:
Woman: Why are people judgmental around other people's tastes? Let people enjoy things.
Panel 2:
Man: Every single great art movement has come from saying FUCK YOU to an earlier movement. If you want a new Picasso, you need someone who thinks the stuff everyone likes is artistically stale conservative trash that must be destroyed!
Panel 3:
Man (arms spread wide): The embrace of "everything is equally art" is a chokehold around the neck of the muse!
Woman: No no no no no!
Panel 4:
Man: If "people like it" is the only standard, rebellion is dead. "Amusing" will always defeat "beautiful." All that remains is popularity — a status achieved by being rich, attractive, a panderer, or all three.
Panel 5:
Woman: ...Bro, you draw a webcomic about cats and anxiety.
Man: A man must eat, madam.
Votey:
Caption: I have an idea for a graduation speech on the value of intensely hating all of your peers.
Woman: Why are people judgmental around other people's tastes? Let people enjoy things.
Panel 2:
Man: Every single great art movement has come from saying FUCK YOU to an earlier movement. If you want a new Picasso, you need someone who thinks the stuff everyone likes is artistically stale conservative trash that must be destroyed!
Panel 3:
Man (arms spread wide): The embrace of "everything is equally art" is a chokehold around the neck of the muse!
Woman: No no no no no!
Panel 4:
Man: If "people like it" is the only standard, rebellion is dead. "Amusing" will always defeat "beautiful." All that remains is popularity — a status achieved by being rich, attractive, a panderer, or all three.
Panel 5:
Woman: ...Bro, you draw a webcomic about cats and anxiety.
Man: A man must eat, madam.
Votey:
Caption: I have an idea for a graduation speech on the value of intensely hating all of your peers.
Alt text
A five-panel comic. A woman in a red sweater asks a man why people are judgmental about others' tastes, saying "let people enjoy things." The man passionately argues back: every great art movement, he says, came from saying "FUCK YOU" to an earlier movement, and that treating everything as equally valid art is a chokehold around the neck of the muse. He spreads his arms wide and shouts as the woman protests "No no no no no!" He continues that if "people like it" is the only standard, then rebellion is dead and "amusing" beats "beautiful," leaving only popularity achieved through being rich, attractive, or a panderer. In the final panel the woman deadpans, "...Bro, you draw a webcomic about cats and anxiety," and the man replies, "A man must eat, madam." The votey (a small bonus panel) shows only handwritten text: "I have an idea for a graduation speech on the value of intensely hating all of your peers."
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.