context-4
Original: context-4 on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1:
Woman (in bed, silhouette): Come on honey, come to bed.
Man (with flame-like red hair, sitting up at a desk/computer): No. There's a decontextualized video of something that may be bad and I have to respond to it.
Panel 2:
Woman: But baby, don't you think visceral feelings are a poor guide to proper action?
Panel 3:
Man: I mean imagine if you saw a kid being cut open and nobody told you it was surgery to remove a tumor.
Panel 4:
Man: Is there a video like that? If I say the government is at fault I can make 2 dollars.
Woman: Maybe I'll sleep alone.
Votey:
Man (head only, sheepish expression): Two dollars for Elon Musk that is, but I get a percent.
Woman (in bed, silhouette): Come on honey, come to bed.
Man (with flame-like red hair, sitting up at a desk/computer): No. There's a decontextualized video of something that may be bad and I have to respond to it.
Panel 2:
Woman: But baby, don't you think visceral feelings are a poor guide to proper action?
Panel 3:
Man: I mean imagine if you saw a kid being cut open and nobody told you it was surgery to remove a tumor.
Panel 4:
Man: Is there a video like that? If I say the government is at fault I can make 2 dollars.
Woman: Maybe I'll sleep alone.
Votey:
Man (head only, sheepish expression): Two dollars for Elon Musk that is, but I get a percent.
Alt text
A four-panel SMBC comic. A man with flame-like red hair sits at a computer late at night while his partner, shown as a silhouette in bed, calls him to come to bed. He refuses: there's a 'decontextualized video of something that may be bad' and he has to respond to it. She argues that visceral feelings are a poor guide to proper action. He insists that, for instance, you might be horrified seeing a kid cut open without knowing it's surgery to remove a tumor. Then he immediately pivots, asking 'Is there a video like that? If I say the government is at fault I can make 2 dollars,' revealing his real motive is engagement money rather than principle. She says 'Maybe I'll sleep alone.' In the votey panel, the man adds sheepishly that the two dollars is actually 'for Elon Musk... but I get a percent,' admitting the payout goes to the platform owner and he only earns a cut.
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.