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Explanation
This comic shows a man named Allan praying with the word "HELP" repeated dozens of times, filling his entire prayer bubble. The caption below reads: "Allan doesn't actually need help. He's DDoSing God to see if he can crash prayer service."
The joke is a tech/religion crossover. A DDoS (Distributed Denial of Service) attack is a cyberattack where a target server is overwhelmed with a massive flood of requests, causing it to crash or become unresponsive for legitimate users. Allan is applying this concept to prayer: by flooding God with an enormous volume of "HELP" requests, he's attempting to overwhelm the divine prayer-processing system and crash it for everyone else.
The humor comes from treating prayer as if it were a server-client system with finite processing capacity. It's a very nerdy, very SMBC approach to theology -- taking a spiritual concept and subjecting it to the logic of computer science. The comic also plays on the image of someone praying intensely -- which normally signals deep piety or desperation -- and reveals the motivation to be essentially trolling. Allan isn't in spiritual crisis; he's a hacker trying to break God's infrastructure, which is both absurd and oddly in keeping with the kind of person who would DDoS something just to see if they could.