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FionnM's avatar

Jesse Singal wrote an entire article about how the sealion is right (https://jessesingal.substack.com/p/of-course-the-sea-lion-is-right). In the comments were people defending the artist's original intention, their defenses sometimes running to several paragraphs or more. Which is something of a self-own: if you need 3+ paragraphs to explain the message of your comic (which is, you know, a visual medium), it's failed in its intended purpose.

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Geoff Olynyk's avatar

This isn’t just the left. This is basic Marshall McLuhan — the medium (online discourse) dictates how things are communicated. Memes end up ruling because online discourse leads us all to have the attention span of toddlers. We probably need to severely restrict the enhanced-virality short-video/meme type of social media if democracy is to survive.

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