2011-12-15
Explanation
A man sits at his computer watching the news, thinking indignantly: "How are politicians still using that argument?! Don't they know it was satirized on a blog I read!?" The caption below reads: "Sometimes I think things, and then I feel dumb."
The comic pokes fun at the tendency of politically engaged internet users to overestimate the impact and reach of their preferred media. The character genuinely cannot comprehend how a political argument could persist in the real world after it was mocked on a blog -- as if a satirical blog post should automatically end a political debate. The self-aware caption acknowledges the absurdity of this mindset. It is a commentary on the echo chamber effect of online media consumption, where people become so immersed in their own information bubble that they forget most of the world is not reading the same niche blogs and commentary they follow.