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[–] [email protected] 29 points 6 days ago (3 children)

I don't get it... How is "too late" the punchline?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 days ago (1 children)

It’s telling the reader they are too late reading the title after being called out for not reading it.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 days ago

As someone that reads titles and is therefore the superior romantic match I am immune (to thinking it was funny)

[–] [email protected] 13 points 6 days ago (1 children)

I don't get it either, and what order are you supposed to read it? Does the title come first, or at the end?

[–] [email protected] 42 points 6 days ago (1 children)

read the comic, realize you didn’t read the title, read the title. too late.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 6 days ago (2 children)

Thanks for the explanation. I didn't get it until you explained it. Ironically, the people who read titles will have a harder time understanding the comic, because we've read it out-of-order.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 days ago

I read the title, discarded it from memory because I had no context or meaning for it, read the comic, went back to remind myself what the title is. Now I just feel numb.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 days ago

Oh just brag about stealing my wife, why don't you!

[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Also on my lemmy the title of a post is below the image. It would be very strange for someone not to read the image first. This joke is bad.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 days ago

It depends on what client you are using. It’s above the post on Voyager.