golden
Explanation
This is a minimalist single-panel comic showing a timeline stretching from the "Dawn of Humanity" on the left to the present on the right. An arc rises from early history, peaks at a point labeled "Eradication of smallpox" (which occurred in 1980), and then drops sharply at a point labeled "Creation of Social media."
Below, the caption reads: "I was born during a brief golden age."
The joke is that the comic defines humanity's "golden age" as the narrow window between the eradication of smallpox (one of humanity's greatest public health achievements) and the creation of social media (which the comic frames as a civilizational catastrophe of comparable magnitude). The humor lies in the absurd juxtaposition — placing the invention of social media on the same scale of historical significance as a deadly pandemic — and in the self-deprecating millennial/Gen-X humor of claiming to have been born in the one brief good period of human history. It also plays on the common sentiment that social media has made the world measurably worse, expressed here with exaggerated graph-based precision.