Why
Original: Why on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1:
First man (a man with green hair, walking with a companion): WAIT, SOCIAL MEDIA NETWORKS WERE BUILT FOR HUMAN CONNECTION. ALGORITHMS TURNED HUMAN CONNECTION INTO HUMAN PERFORMANCE. NOW AI VIDEO GENERATION WILL TURN HUMAN PERFORMANCE INTO JUST PERFORMANCE, COMPLETELY SEVERING THE LAST TREMBLING STRAND OF SHARED UNDERSTANDING BETWEEN HUMANS AND HUMANITY!
Second man (a man with orange/red hair, gesturing): I DON'T UNDERSTAND! HOW CAN IT BE THIS WAY!
Caption (below panel): Later, it turned out that God Is Dead.
Votey:
A reclining figure: AW SHUCKS!
First man (a man with green hair, walking with a companion): WAIT, SOCIAL MEDIA NETWORKS WERE BUILT FOR HUMAN CONNECTION. ALGORITHMS TURNED HUMAN CONNECTION INTO HUMAN PERFORMANCE. NOW AI VIDEO GENERATION WILL TURN HUMAN PERFORMANCE INTO JUST PERFORMANCE, COMPLETELY SEVERING THE LAST TREMBLING STRAND OF SHARED UNDERSTANDING BETWEEN HUMANS AND HUMANITY!
Second man (a man with orange/red hair, gesturing): I DON'T UNDERSTAND! HOW CAN IT BE THIS WAY!
Caption (below panel): Later, it turned out that God Is Dead.
Votey:
A reclining figure: AW SHUCKS!
Alt text
A comic. In a single wide panel, two men walk down a purple city street past a building's wall and door. The first man, with green hair, delivers a long anguished speech: "Wait, social media networks were built for human connection. Algorithms turned human connection into human performance. Now AI video generation will turn human performance into just performance, completely severing the last trembling strand of shared understanding between humans and humanity!" The second man, with orange-red hair, throws up a hand and cries, "I don't understand! How can it be this way!" A deadpan caption below reads: "Later, it turned out that God Is Dead." Votey: a sketchy reclining figure says "Aw shucks!"
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.