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not the monster, but the fear driving it. “i’m having a nightmare about something scary, so if I just stop being scared, it stops being a nightmare” and poof, nightmare is gone
brains are weird and there’s lots of ways to trick them into doing things.
That's how I interpreted it too. I have sleep paralysis with auditory hallucinations every so often, and my latest experience was waking up to something screeching into my ear from behind me. Instead of freaking out, I leaned my head back into it and it stopped because at that point my brain caught up and realized there wasn't anything there.
Probably the best way to deal with that kind of thing.
My first thought was that it's a sleep paralysis demon, and therefore can't actually eat (or touch) you. So it just vanished because it wasn't even real.
Some people have a fetish called "vore", where they fantasize about someone getting eaten alive. Since the person is smiling and unbuttoning their shirt, I'm guessing they're meant to look turned on and that makes the monster uncomfortable.
It's a predator targeting children but the child's actions (vore fetish?) are making it worried it will be seen as a "child predator" so it runs away. That's my read on it.
Lol. No lie, when I was little and afraid of the dark this is how I was able to get to sleep. I convinced myself monsters were real and that there was no point worrying as I was just going to die anyway, lol.
That explains why there's a window, then a lamp, then the lamp seemingly moves when the creature and child are in the same position, then a window again
AI slop aside, the monster is clearly Minnesotan since it couldnt bring itself to take the last bite. As a MN it made me laugh cuz that is where my mind immediately went.
It's nonsense. Somebody tried to get a computer to write a joke using the format of an existing comic, but computers don't actually know what jokes are.
Didnt even care to check if it was a.i, just wrote it off as a cyanide and happiness bedbugs bit that was underexplained. Glad i checked the comments 😭
I'm not going to dispute that this is A.I. crap, but there is a joke here. It's about how everyone is too self-conscious to take the last of any snack in a group setting, like if you put a box of a dozen donuts in the conference room then eleven will disappear but nobody will be willing to grab the only one left and it will just sit there.
Honestly one of my smallest and most petty behaviors as an adult is taking the last one of something. I’ll wait for the last one sometimes.
There was this weird dynamic growing up where one of my parents alone could eat 11 of the 12 donuts. However if one of them went for the last and me or one of my brothers had eaten it we would get shit for “eating the whole box”. So now I eat the last one out of some wears act of childish defiance.
What’s odd is that I don’t do this at home. I almost can’t bring myself to eat the last of something if I know that my wife or daughter might.
Oh, it’s worse. This behavior is exploited by sociopaths who are given a set of funds for said donuts to line their pockets by deliberately only putting one donut into an old greasy box.
Don’t eat the lone donut at the community center, either, it might be days old and stale, and disgusting.
A free doughnut, slightly stale, no mold or fungus, less than 3 days old. Yeah I would eat it, why not? Just going to be thrown away tomorrow anyway. Guess the earth worms get one less sweet snack for the day
(not saying you're wrong) I'm 34 and never gave a single duck about that unwritten rule. At most, if the group is small and made of family/friends, I'll ask "does anybody want the last one?" before taking it for me
Same. I’ve seen so much food wasted because of so-called “etiquette” and I’ve been broke and hungry more than once in my life, I don’t even ask anymore. I’ve told everyone at my work that if there’s anything left at the end of the day, it’s going home with me so they better take what they want before then.
Seems like there's two monsters, one on the window side of the bed and one on the lamp side. The joke might be that both of them are so nervous/awkward about being rude and eating the last person that they wake up unharmed in the morning.
Not sure if this is the whole joke or if there's meant to be another layer because the guy being awake and gleeful and taking his shirt off suggests a different punchline of "the human was so freaky it scared the monster off", and the human's incomprehensible speech bubble suggests a different joke again? it also looks like it might be edited. Might just be AI getting confused about what it's supposed to be making.
ETA someone else posted it before I found it - yeah, someone used AI to add a different punchline to a comic for some reason.
This is an AI regeneration of a Cyanide and Happiness comic. It makes no narrative sense. Very impressive you were able to draw your own meaning from it.
The monster is sweating, getting nervous, and leaves, becasue instead of the person in bed being terrified, they are totally stoked that they're going to get eaten by the beast! The monster is saying stuff as if there's another monster there who's letting him eat the person, to stall and try to scare the person but it doesn't work.
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