No offense meant but I don’t have a Bluesky and I don’t go there. I also have no idea if I’m supposed to have seen this video and so on.
The baseline of the joke is basically “tech oligarchs are aliens or machines” which is a well known and kind of player put joke that has been made repeatedly at the expense of literally almost every tech oligarch who’s heading a tech company today. Sam Altman, Elon Musk, Sataya Nadela, Sunsar Pichai, and Mark Zuckerberg have basically all had this joke made about them especially in regards to how they schill AI.
Even if it’s not a self insert it follows the same basic premise of saying something we all agree with as the punchline. I don’t consider the HAL or Mr burns reference to be particularly funny but I’m not trying to trash talk this comic or the other one (which I also didn’t find particularly funny).
I’m just pointing out the difference in reaction and also wondering if this is a holdover from the comics community where people read an opinion they agreed with and then regurgitated it over here.
Much though I like the anti-ai community, I am willing to admit that something like this comic and the other one normally would do numbers with its users and not receive a lot in the way of backlash or open dislike except by trolls who frequent the community to start arguments.
Not sure why you think I’d take offense to that? You asked who the purple guy was. It’s the guy in the screenshot this comic was made in response to.
And that’s kinda the big difference. This comic is in response to a screenshot of a video where Sam Altman really said that line. The other comic exists solely for the artist to have a bland take on AI.
But I do agree there might be some holdover resentment from r/comics, though not in the way you’re describing. She was a prolific posters and often the political posts just felt like reaction bait. I really liked a lot of her non-political comics but IMO she rarely has anything clever to say about politics
The punchline isn’t very good but how is this “basically the same thing”? There’s no self-insert character saying something commendable
Who is the purple guy supposed to be?
I don’t know his name. Look at the bluesky link, the artist based this on a screenshot from the video
No offense meant but I don’t have a Bluesky and I don’t go there. I also have no idea if I’m supposed to have seen this video and so on.
The baseline of the joke is basically “tech oligarchs are aliens or machines” which is a well known and kind of player put joke that has been made repeatedly at the expense of literally almost every tech oligarch who’s heading a tech company today. Sam Altman, Elon Musk, Sataya Nadela, Sunsar Pichai, and Mark Zuckerberg have basically all had this joke made about them especially in regards to how they schill AI.
Even if it’s not a self insert it follows the same basic premise of saying something we all agree with as the punchline. I don’t consider the HAL or Mr burns reference to be particularly funny but I’m not trying to trash talk this comic or the other one (which I also didn’t find particularly funny).
I’m just pointing out the difference in reaction and also wondering if this is a holdover from the comics community where people read an opinion they agreed with and then regurgitated it over here.
Much though I like the anti-ai community, I am willing to admit that something like this comic and the other one normally would do numbers with its users and not receive a lot in the way of backlash or open dislike except by trolls who frequent the community to start arguments.
Not sure why you think I’d take offense to that? You asked who the purple guy was. It’s the guy in the screenshot this comic was made in response to.
And that’s kinda the big difference. This comic is in response to a screenshot of a video where Sam Altman really said that line. The other comic exists solely for the artist to have a bland take on AI.
But I do agree there might be some holdover resentment from r/comics, though not in the way you’re describing. She was a prolific posters and often the political posts just felt like reaction bait. I really liked a lot of her non-political comics but IMO she rarely has anything clever to say about politics