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Explanation
This comic shows a man sitting at a computer, clearly frustrated, saying: "No, I don't want to see your boobs. No, you can't have my credit card. Look, let's just focus on how your media, institutions, and leaders are all untrustworthy."
The caption reads: "If we all just left the Internet, it'd be nothing but propagandists and sex-bots talking back and forth for eternity."
The joke presents a darkly funny thought experiment about the composition of Internet activity. The man at the computer is dealing with two of the Internet's most persistent nuisances simultaneously: sex-bots (automated spam accounts trying to lure people into scams or adult websites) and propaganda (disinformation campaigns designed to undermine trust in institutions).
The comic imagines what would happen if all the genuine human users abandoned the Internet: the only entities left would be bots trying to sell sex and bots trying to spread propaganda, endlessly talking past each other. The man in the panel is essentially already experiencing this -- he's trying to engage with content but everything he encounters is either a sex-bot or disinformation.
The humor has a nihilistic edge, suggesting that much of the Internet's content is already dominated by automated manipulation (both commercial and political), and that real human discourse is increasingly a minority of online activity. This connects to real concerns about bot activity on social media platforms, where studies have shown that a significant portion of accounts and engagement is automated. The image of propaganda bots and sex-bots talking to each other forever, with no human audience, is both absurd and uncomfortably plausible.