chaper-drone
Explanation
This comic satirizes modern surveillance technology through the lens of helicopter parenting. A mother tells her daughter that instead of personally chaperoning her date, she's sending a swarm of quadcopter drones as a "compromise." The mother then describes increasingly invasive surveillance capabilities: the drones will record conversations and ambient conditions, run biostatistics, and feed the data to a third-party service to determine if the daughter is "growing up too fast" or at risk of pregnancy.
If the likelihood of an unwanted pregnancy appears high, the swarm will project a "bonker-melting hologram of a shaved orangutan" to kill the mood. The daughter asks the pointed question: "How did society simultaneously get more permissive and more oppressive?" -- to which the mother replies she's letting her wear whatever she likes. The comic brilliantly captures the modern paradox where social norms have become more liberal while technological surveillance capabilities have become far more invasive, and parents can be simultaneously open-minded and controlling.