flesh
Explanation
This comic parodies the notoriously long-winded personal essays that precede online recipes. The first several panels read like a gothic horror narrative: "I have always longed for human flesh, ever since my very first taste," and "I was not the first in my line to crave the blood of man. The hunger was passed down, generation after generation." The imagery is dark and atmospheric, showing what appears to be raw meat in a bowl, moonlit beaches, and brooding narration about forbidden lust.
The punchline comes when someone in the background shouts: "For God's sake stop all the SEO stuff and GET TO THE RECIPE!" This reveals that the entire horror-movie monologue was just the preamble to a cooking recipe on a food blog, written by what is apparently a cannibal.
The humor works on two levels. First, it perfectly captures the universal frustration of scrolling through thousands of words of someone's life story before reaching the actual recipe on a cooking website. These preambles exist because search engine optimization (SEO) rewards longer content, so food bloggers pad their pages with personal narratives. Second, the comic escalates the absurdity by making the recipe in question one for human flesh, which means the already-annoying preamble format is being used for something genuinely horrifying -- and yet the reader's primary complaint is still "just get to the recipe." The joke suggests that the format is so annoying it can make even cannibalism feel like a secondary concern.