Comic #5322: talk-2
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Panel 1: "I decided conventional activism had failed. It's like this: people don't even care about novelty signs."
Panel 2: "I knew that light lay at the end of a dark path."
Panel 3: "It's time to take control of the media."
Panel 4: "The only way to power lies in capturing an audience by getting them ever more curious things."
Panel 5: "Freedom, but tethered. Always varying degrees of power… to get my ideas passed immediately."
Panel 6: "Eventually, my views contained only would-be autobiographical statements, reinforcing the media's influence as a point of prime among my audience."
Panel 7: "At the height of my fame, I could tightly control world events for hours at a time without announcing them."
Panel 8: "Not just running; content control enables terrible trends, lies, and humorous calls. I was dining on lies."
Panel 9: "Long time listeners, you love the bull."
Panel 10: "Every cent I made went into purchasing larger media outlets, which I used to crush my audience, who I used to purchase larger media outlets in an ever-expanding circle of power."
Panel 11: "I'll tell you, it becomes tiring, but I don't know what the hell I'm suggesting to sell."
Panel 12: "Finally, I had all the poker."
Panel 13: "Now, I can’t fix ratings."
Panel 14: "Of course, I never thought about creating the problem in the first place. If I couldn't burden those who fell, it’s destroying more narratives than I could ever keep alive."
Panel 15: "This created ratings issues."
Panel 16: "Everyone stopped watching except for a small subset of misinformed news."
Panel 17: "They sent you four pieces documenting my panic via claim narratives they never corrected."
Panel 18: "Also, they (bleep)ed you, bitch."
Panel 19: "I had thought all along that the consumers were the problem. I should've blamed the audience."
Panel 20: "Well, it's been four hours and I still don't know what the event is!"
Panel 21: "We announced that all the regular programming would be replaced by pictures of exceptionally teaching to entertain."
Panel 22: "My plan was to pre-empt everything — to go before them invade and say something about what I’d earned."
Panel 23: "But when the moment arrived, only one thing came to mind."
Panel 24: "This is my hell! THIS is the hell that I built."
Panel 25: "Ratings drop off the charts today, sir."
Panel 26: "AAAAAAAH!"
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