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Original: and-so on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1:
A robot addresses a small crowd of people (seen from behind).
Robot: "...AND SO, FOR UNLIKELY REASONS, THE HUMAN SECURED A MATE WHO WAS 3 STANDARD DEVIATIONS MORE DESIRABLE THAN THEY HAD EXPECTED BASED ON THEIR PHYSIOLOGICAL AND SOCIOECONOMIC CHARACTERISTICS."
Caption (below panel): The machines quickly dominated the romance novel market.
Votey:
Handwritten text inside a roughly drawn square border:
(PORNOGRAPHY IS THE SAME, BUT VISUAL)
A robot addresses a small crowd of people (seen from behind).
Robot: "...AND SO, FOR UNLIKELY REASONS, THE HUMAN SECURED A MATE WHO WAS 3 STANDARD DEVIATIONS MORE DESIRABLE THAN THEY HAD EXPECTED BASED ON THEIR PHYSIOLOGICAL AND SOCIOECONOMIC CHARACTERISTICS."
Caption (below panel): The machines quickly dominated the romance novel market.
Votey:
Handwritten text inside a roughly drawn square border:
(PORNOGRAPHY IS THE SAME, BUT VISUAL)
Alt text
A single-panel comic shows a boxy robot standing at the front of a room, addressing a small crowd of people who are viewed from behind. The robot says: "...and so, for unlikely reasons, the human secured a mate who was 3 standard deviations more desirable than they had expected based on their physiological and socioeconomic characteristics." A caption beneath the panel reads: "The machines quickly dominated the romance novel market." The joke is that the robot's dry, statistical narration is what passes for a steamy romance story when machines write it. The votey (bonus panel) is handwritten text in a hand-drawn box that reads: "(Pornography is the same, but visual)", extending the gag to imply machine-made porn would be equally clinical and data-driven.
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.