Comic #5041: fixing-social-media
Description
Here is the transcription of the comic:
Panel 1:
- Character 1: "God… the internet has gotten so mean."
- Character 2: "I think it’s structural."
Panel 2:
- Character 2: "It used to be that if you wanted to express yourself, you had to sit down and compose your thoughts, then write everything out."
Panel 3:
- Character 2: "That provides a natural barrier both to lazy jerks and to nice people who are temporarily inflamed."
- Character 1: "What if we built that?! A totally new kind of social media where people have to post long thoughts and then curate all the responses!"
Panel 4:
- Text at the top: "47 VENTURE CAPITAL FUNDING ROUNDS LATER…"
- On a stage, Character 2 says: "Terrible news, everyone. It turns out we invented blogging."
(End of transcription)