I don’t know if it’s because I grew up in a different time period or whether my sense of humor is just misaligned, or if it’s just that I don’t have the background necessary, but I don’t understand shit.
I don’t get any of the jokes, some are just completely undecipherable, and some comics just leave me feeling stupid as hell.
How do you guys understand any of this? What do the user demographics of this community look like?
Is this a government psyop? Are these comics evidence trails to hire super smart cryptography detectives like Cicada 3301? Are they memetic triggers for activating sleeper agents? To be honest I think I’d feel better if it was.
The Far Side was a huge phenomenon in the late 80s and early 90s. Many people loved it (me included).
I think weirdness is just more mainstream now, so having a daily panel of genuine strangeness in the paper was reassuring to me.
Of course, Family Circus was also popular at one point, so times do change.