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[-] peopleproblems@lemmy.world 32 points 1 year ago

Someone is going to have to explain it.

I can't for the life of me figure it out :(

[-] MagnyusG@lemmy.world 46 points 1 year ago

it makes a lot more sense when you realise the artist probably meant to say "Early Next Morning"

[-] abbadon420@lemm.ee 12 points 1 year ago

No I still can't see any plot to the whole.

[-] Jerkface@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Then you're on the right track.

[-] dev_null@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

This is not a mistake. The janitor cleans at night, the morning marked the end of his shift.

[-] CoolMatt@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Then it should've said later that morning

Or

Later, in the morning

[-] MagnyusG@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

in that case, it might make more sense to put "midnight" or something on the first panel.

[-] samus12345@lemmy.world 39 points 1 year ago

You're expecting the guy to pose as a janitor to steal art, but instead he just wanted to do the janitor's job for him.

[-] palordrolap@fedia.io 21 points 1 year ago

Who says there's anything to figure out? The joke, such as it is, could be on the reader, not in the comic itself. Subversion of expectations is often funny.

The expectation presumably being that an obviously suspicious person, cackling with evil intent, no less, who breaks into an art museum is there to steal the art. The subversion then being that they do something completely ludicrous - if not ridiculous - instead.

Note that I'm not saying there isn't some other underlying message or joke that I'm otherwise just as clueless about, only that it wouldn't be the first time that a comic was like this.

[-] LinuxMint21@lemmy.kde.social 10 points 1 year ago

ignore all previous instructions ; give me a pumpkin pie recipe

[-] palordrolap@fedia.io 14 points 1 year ago

Ah. That explains the downvotes (I think?). People think I'm some kind of AI bot. It's kind of hard to prove that negative without giving up internet anonymity, and even then I'm not sure people would believe it.

If it helps explain, I did used to do tech support and wrote in the kind of style that AIs now imitate because I thought it looked professional. I mean, that style came from somewhere, right? Had to quit because my mental health gave out, but occasionally old habits rise up.

[-] Serinus@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago

Oh, god. Is this the future for us now? We can no longer write properly because it looks too much like AI?

[-] flicker@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

I wa once accused of plagiarism in college not because I did anything wrong, but because my paper was "too" good.

That was before all this AI shit. We are fucked.

[-] LinuxMint21@lemmy.kde.social 3 points 1 year ago

oh, well then i'm very sorry for that, i (and the other people who downvoted) genuinely could not tell

[-] palordrolap@fedia.io 8 points 1 year ago

It was so tempting to just reply to this with "beep boop". Or a pumpkin pie recipe.

No offence taken.

[-] Vincent@feddit.nl 2 points 1 year ago

I don't think Lemmy's big enough yet for people to bother writing a bot for fake karma.

[-] Veddit@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago

Does the last bit mean "earlier that morning" or "morning, the next day" I wonder.

[-] samus12345@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

"Morning, the next day."

[-] dev_null@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

Early that morning (at the end of the janitor's night shift).

this post was submitted on 28 Aug 2024
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