Fund
Original: Fund on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1: A man with flame-like orange hair looks frustrated.
Man: "It's not fair. I can barely make rent. I wish I had some personal tragedy so I could run a GoFundMe."
Panel 2: Close-up of the man, an idea dawning.
Man: "Wait a minute. Wait."
Panel 3: The man, seen from behind, sits looking at a computer screen displaying his GoFundMe campaign page.
Screen headline: "HELP SUPPORT MAN WITH NO SUDDEN PROBLEMS JUST LONG CUMULATIVE SERIES OF FAILURES"
Screen: "$14.21 OF $10,000,000 raised"
Screen, Comments section:
"so sad"
"I would never get over it."
"tragic"
Votey:
The man, drawn in a simpler black-and-white style, looks downcast with a thought bubble.
Man (thinking): "WHY WON'T MY PARENTS DONATE?"
Man: "It's not fair. I can barely make rent. I wish I had some personal tragedy so I could run a GoFundMe."
Panel 2: Close-up of the man, an idea dawning.
Man: "Wait a minute. Wait."
Panel 3: The man, seen from behind, sits looking at a computer screen displaying his GoFundMe campaign page.
Screen headline: "HELP SUPPORT MAN WITH NO SUDDEN PROBLEMS JUST LONG CUMULATIVE SERIES OF FAILURES"
Screen: "$14.21 OF $10,000,000 raised"
Screen, Comments section:
"so sad"
"I would never get over it."
"tragic"
Votey:
The man, drawn in a simpler black-and-white style, looks downcast with a thought bubble.
Man (thinking): "WHY WON'T MY PARENTS DONATE?"
Alt text
A three-panel SMBC comic. Panel 1: A man with flame-like orange hair complains, "It's not fair. I can barely make rent. I wish I had some personal tragedy so I could run a GoFundMe." Panel 2: Close-up as an idea strikes him: "Wait a minute. Wait." Panel 3: Seen from behind, he sits at a computer viewing his own crowdfunding page, headlined "HELP SUPPORT MAN WITH NO SUDDEN PROBLEMS JUST LONG CUMULATIVE SERIES OF FAILURES," showing "$14.21 OF $10,000,000 raised" and sympathetic comments like "so sad," "I would never get over it," and "tragic." The joke: he's crowdfunding his own mundane lifelong mediocrity as if it were a tragedy. Votey (bonus panel): The man, drawn in simple black-and-white, looks dejected and thinks, "WHY WON'T MY PARENTS DONATE?"
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.