The original xkcd comic was better and this is a blatant ripoff. I know it says it’s based off of that original xkcd comic, but it’s basically line for line the same. Just talking about genAI instead of Databases, which ended up making less sense and made the whole joke worse.
I don’t got energy for this negativity and harassment. So I deleted my comment rather than argue. You wanna bug me about it too and I’ll block you too. You aren’t worth the energy.
ah no sorry, I actually have no idea what you wrote - I just find the “deleted by creator” stuff I see so often super funny because of how biblical it sounds
I hope you have a better day than this one, and don’t let the mob get you down
Yikes. I’ve never read Asterix and Obelix, but did they really make (I assume) the only black character a straight up knuckle-dragging gorilla imitation? 😬
Cartoons back then were a little bit sambo so to speak, but the intent wasn’t strictly malicious, just uninformed.
You use the words/concepts you know to express something to an audience. If society tells you that native Americans wear headdresses, then you will likely add a headdress when introducing a new native american character, not neccesarily realising the damage of the stereotype behind it.
He’s possibly the only reoccurring black character, and yes it is very much a product of its time.
In defense of the authors the Gauls are all depicted with large bulbous noses, the Romans with Roman noses, etc; all cariceturs. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caricature.
In the attached image you can see Obelix is also depicted as a “knuckle dragger” (at times). The character leading them is a Roman.
The original xkcd comic was better and this is a blatant ripoff. I know it says it’s based off of that original xkcd comic, but it’s basically line for line the same. Just talking about genAI instead of Databases, which ended up making less sense and made the whole joke worse.
The fact that it’s a joke about genAi and that joke is a rehash of existing material is rather on point though.
I… Didn’t think of it that way.
it literally has a credit to the original, go touch grass and stop inventing things to get mad over
Didn’t know I was mad… tell me more about what I should do and how I should do it.
deleted by His Holiness
I don’t got energy for this negativity and harassment. So I deleted my comment rather than argue. You wanna bug me about it too and I’ll block you too. You aren’t worth the energy.
ah no sorry, I actually have no idea what you wrote - I just find the “deleted by creator” stuff I see so often super funny because of how biblical it sounds
I hope you have a better day than this one, and don’t let the mob get you down
content was sinful
I think it’s a paraphrase of a culturally significant webcomic inserted into a more modern context without it’s original meaning being altered.
I don’t know if I’d call it a paraphrase when it’s using 90% the exact same words.
I think you mean “without its original meaningfully being altered.”
It’s an old joke updated for new technology … that’s part of what makes it clever.
It references the original joke (albeit in very small text)
The Asterix books frequently did something similar. https://cloud.wordpress.com/2022/02/17/asterix-and-the-historical-interpretation/
Yikes. I’ve never read Asterix and Obelix, but did they really make (I assume) the only black character a straight up knuckle-dragging gorilla imitation? 😬
Cartoons back then were a little bit sambo so to speak, but the intent wasn’t strictly malicious, just uninformed.
You use the words/concepts you know to express something to an audience. If society tells you that native Americans wear headdresses, then you will likely add a headdress when introducing a new native american character, not neccesarily realising the damage of the stereotype behind it.
He’s possibly the only reoccurring black character, and yes it is very much a product of its time.
In defense of the authors the Gauls are all depicted with large bulbous noses, the Romans with Roman noses, etc; all cariceturs. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caricature.
In the attached image you can see Obelix is also depicted as a “knuckle dragger” (at times). The character leading them is a Roman.
This second example shows the Vikings.