leaderless
Original: leaderless on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1:
Man with glasses (raising fist, addressing a crowd): We are a leaderless movement!
Panel 2:
Off-panel voice: Why?
Man with glasses: On the principle that resistance groups should be controlled by whoever is best at working social media algorithms right this second.
Panel 3:
Woman: Those people don't have to understand our cause or respect those who laid the groundwork or be burdened by responsibility to supporters who elected them, and so they become really amusing to follow!
Panel 4:
Off-panel voice: But how will you achieve anything?
Man with glasses: Achieve something? Do you wanna kill this movement?
Votey:
Man with glasses: If people are truly prepared for the burden of leadership, then they should have the funniest Twitter insults.
Man with glasses (raising fist, addressing a crowd): We are a leaderless movement!
Panel 2:
Off-panel voice: Why?
Man with glasses: On the principle that resistance groups should be controlled by whoever is best at working social media algorithms right this second.
Panel 3:
Woman: Those people don't have to understand our cause or respect those who laid the groundwork or be burdened by responsibility to supporters who elected them, and so they become really amusing to follow!
Panel 4:
Off-panel voice: But how will you achieve anything?
Man with glasses: Achieve something? Do you wanna kill this movement?
Votey:
Man with glasses: If people are truly prepared for the burden of leadership, then they should have the funniest Twitter insults.
Alt text
A four-panel SMBC comic satirizing leaderless online movements. Panel 1: A grinning man with glasses raises his fist before a crowd and declares, "We are a leaderless movement!" Panel 2: An off-panel voice asks "Why?"; the man explains the movement should be "controlled by whoever is best at working social media algorithms right this second." Panel 3: A woman enthuses that such people don't have to understand the cause, respect those who laid the groundwork, or feel responsibility to supporters, "and so they become really amusing to follow!" Panel 4: The off-panel voice asks "But how will you achieve anything?" and the man, beaming, replies, "Achieve something? Do you wanna kill this movement?" Votey: A close-up of the same man saying, "If people are truly prepared for the burden of leadership, then they should have the funniest Twitter insults."
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.