You Are Not Alone
I had stupid hair back then
it was the 90s
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We must be the same age, that was the hairstyle of every guy in junior high and high school.
It hits even AIs
You are (not) broken
Aw...poor pink robot with his depression and his early Nick Carter haircut...
Everyone had stupid hair in the 90s
I had a different stupid hairstyle in the 90's. Oddly enough, my current reduced capacity for enjoyment *is* being caused by the human equivalent of a loose cable: I have a pinched nerve and no treatment so far has helped. More medical appointments tomorrow....
i'm in this picture and i don't like it.
I know, I feel attacked too...and I think I had that hairstyle when I was 14. In *1977*. I think it's one of the secret hairstyles catholic mom's gave their sons to keep them from getting lucky too soon.
I’m feeling Sadbot right now.
Introduce him to Pintsize. He might find a wildly stupid meaning of life, but that's still a meaning of life
Pink, I hear ya.
You know you have to name him Marvin.
"I know how alone you feel... alone in all that cold blackness... but I'm there in the dark with you. Oh Bud you're not alone... Oh, God. You remember that time - you were pretty drunk, you probably don't remember - but the power went out in that little apartment we had on Orange Street? We were staring at that one little candle, and I, I said something really dumb like, that candle was me, and like every one of us is out there alone in the dark in this life... and you just, you just lit up another candle and you put it beside mine and said "No! See, that's me. That's me"... and we stared at the two candles, and then... well, if you remember any of this, I'm sure you remember the next part. But there *are* two candles in the dark. I'm with you. I'll always be with you Bud, I promise that." - The Abyss, Lindsey Brigman
Same, Pink Robot, same...
That hairstyle is very popular style in Sweden right now.
Is every character in this strip Jeph?
In one way or another, yes, every character is Jeph. I hear that, just like Steve, Jeph also likes eating cereal.
I too had this haircut, but only once. Unfortunately it was for my goddamn senior pictures.
In the 90s, I, too, had this haircut. From the hairdresser tho. (I didn't have depression yet, at least)
Let's meet Marvin.
I wonder what the AIs of the QC Universe would think of the Genuine People Personalities of Hitchhiker's Guide? I actually think Marvin would fit right in, but I am biased.
You don’t have to be alone with this, pink friend! Kudos to you for coming to talk to someone about this. At the moment, Faye and Bubs are analogous to an entire hospital of medical generalists and specialists. I wonder if over time, robot repair will evolve into a whole host of specialties and sub-specialties. I suppose with Lemon etc. there are at least some mental health analogs.
mfw this comic & Jeph's captions & just like the world & my life in general 😭
Saw the title and 100% thought there was going to be an Evangelion reference. “You are (not) alone”. AI suffering from mental illnesses is a fascinating concept! Very interested to see how this plays out (and I love how your work acts as a sort of thought experiment for a future with AI Jeph!)
Your Evangelion meta-reference made me think of a Doctor Who reference for the same phrase from the Russell T. Davies era. Topical!
PINK-BOY!
aw :(
Marvin!
Remember, kids: it’s a competition!
In the 90s, as a kid, I had a bowl cut.
Yeah that's the kid whose mom always does his haircut and thier family is snobby becuse they didn't see you at church on sunday.
If TikTok has taught me anything it's that apparently middle parts and late 90s hair is cool again with the yutes. As a former middle part victim of the 90s into mid 2000s I am deeply shook.
Everyone had stupid hair in the 90s, it was a reaction to the stupid hair we had in the 80s.
At least the 80s had volume. The 90s was all about straight hair.
Call Lemon.
It would not surprise me if Bubbles did have her contact information handy.
Hi, pinkbot. You are valuable, you are loved, and you deserve joy. I’m proud of you for being brave and seeking help.
If only it was a simple thing like a cable. Once a teacher told us, wildly inappropriate to kids but no less true, that if we all had a button we could press to end it all, most people would press it at some point. I've never felt that bad but I've felt plenty empty and fortunately I'm not blaming myself for it these days.
I don’t know. My teacher friends have seen kids we’d think are way too young very ready to press that button. Your teacher could have been responding to seeing that in some of her kids and thinking it was better to just let them all know hey they weren’t alone or irreparably broken.
I think we all had stupid hair in the 90's. You're also not alone, Jeph.
I dig the Andrew W.K. reference, even if that wasn’t what you were going for 🤘🏾
I feel this is relevant: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nJn8SS83LDI
Are Faye and Bubbles qualified to treat robot depression? Is Sam?
How old is he? Is this the equivalent of teenage ennui?
So Jeph was a depressed robot in High School? Neat.
I mean, who wasn't?
His capacitor for enjoyment isn't holding a charge.
[makes notes for next therapy session]
Yay! A Faye (and Bubbles?) arc! And a new character. We'll call him sadbot for now.
This is why many people want to be told they're just possessed by a demon or something.
When you're depressed in America you sit in a dimly lit room and pay to tell someone about your problems. When you are depressed in some other countries you get up and dance to killer drum music, and God's representative throws out the demons making you feel bad. The first approach does not work noticeably better than the second.
Oof I’ve been there pink robot
Being robo-people does mean that they can get people problems, it's true.
And for a moment there I thought is that Winslow?
Very likely another member of the Soft Boy™️ chassis series.
I had that same haircut in the 90s. Those were dark times 😔
The nineties were dark times period. “Y2K! The world is gonna end!”
Well a depressed AI makes sense in this world.
High school jeph had HAIR DRAPES???
excuse me we olds referred to those as "butt cuts" thank