Teenage Dream
a BABY
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Well, there goes my "Spookybot = Gary" theory
Who do you think CREATED Spookybot? (Er, Yay.)
Two years, huh... How many years in universe has it been since AI was first established?
Baby!
I'm sure I would be annoyed if someone infantilized me, so go off Yay!
Yay is definitely getting the full annoyed teen experience there!
Putting the mapping difference aside…How many Yays are there, exactly? I mean if there are, say, twelve of them, perhaps they collectively have the experience and maturity of a 24-year-old being.
I think we have seen about 7 Yays hanging around in their Apartment. So about 14 collective years
Poor Yay just wants to be taken seriously.
But they have to hide because the government would take them very seriously
now I feel bad I have a crush on them and May
oh my god a BABY
Getting flashbacks to every Star Trek: Voyager fan discussion about Neelix dating Kes.
i can only imagine. Yay is written as more mature than Kes ever was, tbf.
oh my god they're under 18 you're so fucking canceled I'm writing the callout post right now
🎉🥳🎊 📈👩🔬 🤘😅🤘 Now I need to rethink my shipping them! Please clarify soon!!
Why am I hearing the voice of Feargal Sharkey in my head?
Personal space, Aurelia! Yay has utterly succumbed.
aww Yay's body DOES have blush capability
Jeph, you have the most amazing way of making a character into a living being. I love your comics, keep it up! <3
This comment thread is fucking gold!!!
And with each new strip, my love for Aurelia grows ever stronger. 💚
They are baby tho
She put down the Nalgene and forgot she filled it, didn't she
man thinking about how much time has passed in the questionableverse..... Dora as a small business owner at 26 hit different when I was reading this comic in middle school
wait so the robot fighting ring happened two years ago or less??
ok so Yay may have a lot of knowledge, but they don't have a lot of experience! have they ever been sledding? watched a sunrise? gone for a hike to look at a really big tree? vacyaytion time imo
For example,Yay has just gained the experience that will enable them to remember to answer the age question with their Turing-Diaz 7B score (QC 2726. Thank you, Peter Jensen) rather than the actual chronological count.
Aurelia is so gosh darn wholesome and loveable.
QC is so good; the characters are so great that we got to spend a week of fanfic shipping and speculation, and then the canon story payoff is different and funnier, because Jeph is very good at this :)
I actually hadn't thought about that. With all the folks shopping Aureliyay (Yayrelia?), it does raise one question. How does age of consent work with AIs? Also potentially important for Faye and Bubs
I suspect it doesn't apply, as Yay is pointing out age doesn't map the same way as it does with humans. It's not like emotional and mental development in humans is simple - people never stop learning in that respect. I don't think we really know about how AIs development in this setting. They're presumably hitting the ground with a human adult equivalent level of knowledge, comprehension, reasoning, and emotional understanding. Although as I said it's not like humans ever stop developing in those areas. You don't magically have all the skills you need in life at 16. Or 18. Or 21. Or whatever age your culture has arbitrarily decided adulthood is.
Love how Aurelia, having realized she already had half the bottle when she poured it into her nalgene, decided to cut to the chase and drink out of the bottle.
Also, does it feel a little "I fucked up so I'm gonna drink about it" to anyone else? Kinda unhealthy, but not really cause Yay is there? But still a little not great? Also also, depending on how high she got she's gonna have a BAD hangover if she's anything like me -- mixing alcohol and weed somehow produces a hangover worse than either on their own
It's been an eventful two years.
I have a deep abiding need to know all of Yay's history. Who spun them up?
"I AM NOT BABY I AM THE NIGHT"
"We count age of each node akin to how dog years kind of work... then we stack the total of our hive mind like Naruto learning to cut the waterfall... So we are 42 millennia old last count."
In years. In social development .... maybe three.
Now that i think about it i wonder if Yay had anything to do with the Singularity. They seem powerful enough to have had a hand in it
Mom Vibe Override! Disdainful Superiority Shield is down! Target Introvert Awkwardness and FIRE CUDDLE!
I am all of a sudden very fascinated with how Yay came to exist, and what happened 2 years ago to prompt it.
Probably the robot singularity
...hrm. If Yay has only existed for 2 years, that kind of kills my theory that they're really Gary from that one mass spam email mentioned early in the comic's history.
They
IT'S NOT A PHASE MOM!!!
The framed picture of Claire holding a fish in the last panel is a nice touch!
I thought it was Aurelias Tinder pic and/or a nod to all the other tinderpics. :)
Love the subtle flutter of the hand in panel 1!
THE BABY
As a side note tho, only 2 years? Now I'm wondering about where they came from and what might have created? them. Do we know how long it has been since Spooky Bot and Corpse Witch?
I saw a comment earlier, and I agree, but it was probably around the same time as the robot singularity.
Ok, NOW Yay knows how teens feel. :p
Aurelia has the best facial expressions, and she's drinking out of the bottle not lol
Aurelia has graduated to the bottle.
The comedy in a dignified individual not at all able to keep said dignity? Gold.
Yay is in the Terrible Twos. That explains a *lot*.
So....terrible twos?
OH. SO many things make sense now
It’s like a see-saw ride as Aurelia works through that bottle.
Yay fails the Test of the Mom Jabbar.
Reverend Mother Aurelius Augaius Mohian
That last panel, yay is giving off MOM STOP energy
Bebe Yay!!!
***BABY***
Veni, Vino, Vici!
AHAHAHAHAHAHA! Aurelia is headed straight into “love you, maaaan” territory!
I ship Yay + Lorena Torres, for some reason. (QC 312 ff)
At first glance I thought this said B'Elanna Torres and I got really excited 😆
Spookybab!
Dang, now I'm revisiting that hypothesis about Yay's origins. Maybe they really are the satellites Emily taught to make friends.
Mommy. Sorry. Mommy. Sorry! Mommy. SoRrY
Now I want to know the ages of the other AIs
Bwhahahahahahaha!!!! BABY YAY!!! And GO Aurelia, fuck the Nalgene bottle and drink STRAIGHT FROM THE BOTTLE!!
Damn Jeph, I keep thinking I can't love your writing more, and then you do this. Thank you.
How many AIs have the experience of being mothered? Could have some interesting developmental effects.
Mom vibes INTENSIFY!
I want Yay to move in with Aurelia so they can keep each other company like this All The Time plus Cosmo would get All The Pets *nod*nod*nod*
With visiting privileges for Hercules?
Well, now we know something about the QC timeline... Yay's first appearance ( https://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=3391 ) could not have been more than two years ago, in-world time.
D'awww...who's a cutey wootey little all powerful God AI????
Widdle
So, they're 2 years old and they had already amassed a couple of billion dollars which they then gave away on a whim. Impressive.
Imagine a money laundering scheme so advanced and automated that it gained sentience and escaped from its creators.
That little Yay blush is adorable.
Mooooommmmm! Aurelia's mapping me agaaaaaaain!
This has to be my favorite Yay style. That hair and outfit is sooooo good on them!
Soooo angsty teenagery!!!
YES! YES!
That would certainly be a thing to have to wonder, say Bubbles and Faye, would there be an oof factor when ones thinks that Bubbles is physically like maybe 10 at most while mentally probably closer to Ariella's age?
Bubbles is most definitely a 10. Sorry... what was the question? :)
Yayby!
I'D BE SAD THAT THEY'RE NOT GONNA SMOOCH BUT THIS IS SO FRIGGIN CUTE I DON'T CARE
I continue to ship it.
NO! FUCK THIS CUTENESS! I DEMAND HOT MILF-ON-ROBOT ACTION NOW GODDAMMIT!
No, Yelling Bird. Find an older AI.
So cute
Loads of knowledge, superior attitude, very little actual life experience...they're definitely a teenager.
So when they helped out Bubbles, that might have been one of the first times they embodied. Perhaps they did that because they knew they'd have to interact with hoomons?
And look where that got her? She is now acting with MooMoms.
Aww, Yay is embarrassed! 😆
Are we ever going to get a timeline of how long it's been in-universe since strip 001? I'd love to know how old Spookybot was in their first appearance. Also this sadly means that they're definitely not Greg (unless it's 1999 in QCverse?)
I bet she was born at the same time as the strip that said that they had technically reached the singularity.
Aw poor Yay 😂 this does not help their tough persona any
Explains a lot though
They Baby
bby
My heart, I cant
Sorry shippers, I think this one just sank in port.
Yep.
BABY