realize
Original: realize on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1:
A balding man with glasses and a beard, wearing a suit, speaks into a phone.
Man: Do you ever realize suddenly, and with awful clarity, that we've become incapable of communicating with each other except through corporate-owned fandoms curated to subsume our identities, expressed via corporate-owned social networks designed to behaviorally addict us?
Panel 2:
The man sits holding a tablet/device, looking down at it. A notification sound appears beside the device.
Device: BING!
Panel 3:
Close-up on the man's face, looking thoughtful and weary.
Panel 4:
The man looks at the screen of his device, which displays a startled-looking Pikachu (the surprised Pikachu meme face) with mouth open.
Votey:
A hand-drawn picture of a clenched fist holding up a cane.
Caption (handwritten): I shake my cane at you
A balding man with glasses and a beard, wearing a suit, speaks into a phone.
Man: Do you ever realize suddenly, and with awful clarity, that we've become incapable of communicating with each other except through corporate-owned fandoms curated to subsume our identities, expressed via corporate-owned social networks designed to behaviorally addict us?
Panel 2:
The man sits holding a tablet/device, looking down at it. A notification sound appears beside the device.
Device: BING!
Panel 3:
Close-up on the man's face, looking thoughtful and weary.
Panel 4:
The man looks at the screen of his device, which displays a startled-looking Pikachu (the surprised Pikachu meme face) with mouth open.
Votey:
A hand-drawn picture of a clenched fist holding up a cane.
Caption (handwritten): I shake my cane at you
Alt text
A four-panel SMBC comic. In the first panel, a balding, bearded man in glasses and a suit speaks into a phone, delivering a long, self-aware lament: 'Do you ever realize suddenly, and with awful clarity, that we've become incapable of communicating with each other except through corporate-owned fandoms curated to subsume our identities, expressed via corporate-owned social networks designed to behaviorally addict us?' In the second panel his device chimes with a 'BING!' notification. The third panel is a close-up of his thoughtful, weary face. In the fourth panel he looks down at his screen, which shows the classic startled-mouth-open Pikachu meme face, undercutting his profound speech. The votey (bonus panel) is a crude hand-drawn doodle of a clenched fist raising a cane, captioned in handwriting 'I shake my cane at you,' framing the whole comic as an old-man-yells-at-technology joke.
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.