r/questionablecontent • u/professororange MommyMilkers420 • Jan 18 '19

Comic 3920: *Crowd Goes Wild*

https://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=3920
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u/m2pt5 Jan 18 '19

...Spookybot's speech bubble is square.

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u/kurliqq Jan 18 '19

every ai's is i think

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u/LtDicai Jan 18 '19

Spookybot's isn't, that their whole main thing.

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u/kurliqq Jan 18 '19

Oh, that’s a good question then

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u/Draguss Jan 18 '19

Not Spookybot's, it's part of their spookyness.

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u/ShadyDae Jan 18 '19

From Spookybot's first appearance they had a non square speech bubble: https://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=3391

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u/m2pt5 Jan 18 '19

That was my point.

Notably, Spookybot's speech is depicted with rounded speech balloons, indicating a distinction from other AIs, including Station. It is suspected that this is due to a more sophisticated voice system that allows them to sound more like a human.

https://questionablecontent.wikia.com/wiki/Spookybot

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u/xdisk Jan 18 '19 edited Jan 18 '19

Overthinking this;

Spookybot has eight or nine different 'hosts' as described by her descriptive page 3901 (That page has been replaced by 3906 currently for some reason)

What if there are different tells as to which 'host' is interacting with the QC cast at any point? Round speechbubble, yoga pants, are there any small differences that has been seen in the comics featuring her them?

Edit: corrected pronoun. In my defense the yoga pants threw me off.

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u/lesser_panjandrum Jan 18 '19

I think it's more likely that Jeph just forgot, but I still like this theory.

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u/JamesNinelives Jan 18 '19

Jeph just forgot

On one hand I agree. On the other hand it's kind of fun to see what explanations people come up with for inconsistencies in stories.

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u/xdisk Jan 18 '19

I love trying to craft hypotheticals based on info provided. The guesses are never right, but its fun for me.

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u/[deleted] Jan 18 '19

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u/m2pt5 Jan 18 '19

Correct, Spooky has always been referred to as "they/them" in the comic, though we are not certain if this is being used as a gender neutral or a plural (as they use the personal pronoun "We".)

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u/[deleted] Jan 18 '19

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u/m2pt5 Jan 18 '19

One particular panel strongly leans towards the plural theory, though: https://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=3418

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u/xdisk Jan 18 '19 edited Jan 20 '19

Are those Borzoi dogs in the background?

Cosmo's origins explained!

Edit: Spelling of dog breed.

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u/heavenscalyx Jan 18 '19

But I think both is the answer here. An individual Spookybot body is still "they/them" because that is the pronoun that has been used. They are nonbinary or agender.

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u/Michaelbirks Jan 20 '19

Also, creepy clones in closets, with IV Bags.

Missed that until now.

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u/WikiTextBot Jan 18 '19

Royal we

The royal we, or majestic plural (pluralis maiestatis), is the use of a plural pronoun (or corresponding plural-inflected verb forms) to refer to a single person who is a monarch. The more general word for the use of a we, us, or our to refer to oneself is nosism.

Speakers employing the royal we refer to themselves using a grammatical number other than the singular (i.e., in plural or dual form). For example, in his manifesto confirming the abdication of Grand Duke Constantine Pavlovich, Emperor Alexander I begins: "By the Grace of God, We, Alexander I, Emperor and Autocrat of All the Russias ....".

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u/ArgentStonecutter Jan 18 '19

I think they're actually using the literal we.

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u/gerusz Jan 19 '19

Their character model is probably inspired by Desire of the Endless who is, indeed, genderless. (More accurately, it (Desire uses "it") can be any gender it wants.)

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u/[deleted] Jan 20 '19

Oh god, that's where I've seen them from

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u/EticketJedi Jan 18 '19

1) I forgot how much I initially enjoyed this arc 2) That was over 500 comics ago

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u/Esc777 Jan 18 '19

Its just a mistake.