Explain SMBC — the wiki for Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal

This comic is a pie chart titled "Time Spent Sending a Sexy Note." The overwhelming majority of the pie (in purple) represents "Confirming you have the correct email address," while only a tiny sliver (in pink) represents "Composing sexy note."

The humor captures a very relatable anxiety of the digital age: sending an intimate or sexually explicit message carries enormous social risk if it goes to the wrong person. The joke is that the actual creative effort of writing something flirtatious or provocative is trivial compared to the paralyzing fear of accidentally sending it to a coworker, a parent, or a group chat. This speaks to the broader theme of how digital communication has created entirely new categories of social anxiety that didn't exist in the pre-email era. The pie chart format -- a signature SMBC device -- gives the observation a deadpan, data-driven presentation that makes the embarrassing truth even funnier.