I don’t know if it’s because I grew up in a different time period or whether my sense of humor is just misaligned, or if it’s just that I don’t have the background necessary, but I don’t understand shit.
I don’t get any of the jokes, some are just completely undecipherable, and some comics just leave me feeling stupid as hell.
How do you guys understand any of this? What do the user demographics of this community look like?
Is this a government psyop? Are these comics evidence trails to hire super smart cryptography detectives like Cicada 3301? Are they memetic triggers for activating sleeper agents? To be honest I think I’d feel better if it was.
When I was young, I used to have a t-shirt of the comic where a dog is trying to lure a cat into a dryer with a sign that says “CAT FUD”. I mostly encountered his comics in a similar way. In bookstores, posters, etc. I didn’t even know the name of it at the time. So I agree it felt like a cultural thing back then to me.