NSFW wound be overkill for this. This is mild.

I think that if you can get in trouble by watching something like this at work you should not be browsing internet at work.

People are pussies. Protect innocent eyes.

I think NSFW is good in this case.

I think you’re right about it being borderline. At first glance, Leatherface just looks like a cartoon zombie. You have to look closely and maybe read the comic to understand the implied gore.

Bit overzealous in my opinion, but I appreciate you making the request rather than delete first and ask questions never like most mods with a problem, so sure!

While I sure wouldn’t go sharing it in an email thread, I wouldn’t say it’s overtly nsfw. Might raise a few questions of that was your common taste though.

Your are overthinking a comic where the punchline is “facebook but taken too literally”. Honestly i think lemmy has this problem where too many people overthink on jokes

If the man / woman roles were reversed in the four panel comic would you find humour in its subversiveness and reversal of tropic norms?

Edit: by “tropic” I mean relating to tropes, not Cancer nor Capricorn.

I think you might be overthinking a comic where the punchline is “Hey remember Leatherface from the well-known horror film The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, who had the mask made of human skin? I bet if he referred to “Facebook”, it would be a literal book filled with faces.”

Hell, I’d bet real money that the only reason they specifically mentioned a teenage blonde is because one of the film victims was a teenage blonde. They mention her “hanging” around there, and the blonde teen in the film gets hung on a meat hook.

It sounds like your gripe is with the film, and the horror genre in general. This comic is just a pun.

This is a reference to a character from The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974).

It’s not funny to me either.

I think it’s because most would agree the punchline isn’t it’s funny because the Facebook is real faces - that’s just not very funny, especially given the context of Texas Chainsaw Massacre and Leatherface, that takes away any absurdist element as it’s grounded in their context.

To explain this to downvoters, imagine it was an unknown killer speaking to a random accomplice and they were browsing a bunch of assorted races and gendered faces in the book, without the reference to the blonde 18yo girl. Is that still funny, or is it just a meh joke hardly worth drawing, and not worth an upvote. I think the latter?

The real punchline is that it’s funny because of how casually they talk about the murder of 18 year old, screaming girls. It’s subversive edgy humour in the worst way - punching down to a relatively powerless group in a way that dehumanises them to nothing more than a throwaway premise about a Facebook.

Bleh.

personally when I trap women in my basement to butcher, I want them to fight it. I mean that with all sincerity. I spent the last ten years building this murder hut into the side of a mountain so nobody can hear you scream, but that doesn’t mean you shouldn’t scream.

I mean come on, look at all the effort I had to go through to make this dream a reality! the least a woman could do is play along with it.

but no. modern women just crawl into one of the roach infested corners and sob quietly as I peel off their sorority sisters face off. such a fucking insult! sure Barbara, you can write a flame review for your pumpkin spiced latte with a turd in it, but you won’t give my efforts the time of day?!

you know, this is probably why I kill them. not because I want to, but because if I didn’t skin them alive they would just think less of me as a man.

fucking women, am I right guys?