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A four-panel SMBC comic. Panel 1: A long-haired woman in a red jacket stands at a podium and announces, "People of Earth, in three days time the aliens will arrive to introduce us to the galactic federation." Panel 2: Still at the podium, she says, "They will not find us as we wish to be, but as we are." Panel 3: Facing a small crowd, she clarifies, "Fellow humans, what I'm saying is the time has come to delete your browser history. Your secret subscriptions. That one folder. All of it." Panel 4: A banner reads "Shortly..." A flying saucer carrying two aliens hovers over a crowd of smiling humans. One human asks, "Why are they faking happiness so weirdly?" and an alien replies, "Heh. This happens on every contacted planet." The joke: humanity scrubs its embarrassing secrets before first contact, putting on a forced cheerful front, and the aliens have seen this on every planet they meet. Votey: An extreme close-up of a face wearing a strained, sweating grin, thinking, "I can keep this up for precisely 17 more seconds."