Think Different

RT: This, #phoneanxciety -.-

I’d love to see Clinton and May trying to keep a stoned Marigold and Aurelia on track and out of the kitchen if they eventually met up for a stream in the same room.

Funny responses. I haven't had those mobile connection issues since we left the old analog phones behind. The original smart phones, which were kinda stupid compared to today's versions.

thats a fair point! i guess it really depends on context, and there are situations where i find text-based communication to have it's advantages, especially how inconsistent mobile-coverage can be.

i feel like an odd one out here, i much prefer verbal communication to written. it's so much faster and smoother for me, so i've never really understood phone anxiety.

I can personally attest that jumping out of an airplane with a parachute packed by some hillbilly who has already taken my money and who would also see my death as an opportunity for free advertising is easier than making a phone call.

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Wait they haven't been in vc this whole time????? Most vtubers who collab do this constantly???

If I get a phone call, I send it to voice mail. If they want to talk to me, they can leave name and number. The last time I answered the phone the caller claimed to be an IRS agent and demanded I send him a LOT of money. He hung up when I said that "I'm reporting this call to the local police, the FBI, and the IRS."

I feel like they're gonna find out they basically know each other and they're gonna be like "this fucking town"

I love her hair lately it longer looming and the side bangs are just so cute

I realized that my wife was the “one” for me, when it dawned on me that I actually didn’t mind talking with her on the phone every day!

Phone calls are indeed the worst of both worlds of email and the like, and face-to-face.

I have worked in call centers for 18 years and I still get phone anxiety

I slightly prefer things like facebook messenger, signal, whatsapp, and other asynchronous messaging than actual phone calls. I also refer video calls with people rather than just phone calls. I am 68 years old. It may not be *just* a millennial preference, though I will make phone calls whenever that seems the only appropriate action. I wouldn't, unlike a news story of a few months ago, reduce to answer a phone call from a potential rescuer if in need of rescue. I think phone calls can be (comparatively) hard work, and now there are alternatives a lot of the time.

It *is* different!

I'm feeling very attacked here Jeph...

As someone who practically has an Anxiety attack when my phone rings, but loves to voice chat with friends or play D&D online with my group.. i can related to this so freaking much..

My job is talking on the phone all day long. I cannot relate.

LMAO!!

Relatable.

I kinda miss phone calls.

I have no idea why I stick out in my social circles being able to make phone calls easily. Most of my closest and dearest are text only and get flummoxed. Additionally I do occasionally leave voice mails...and I'm a millennial

I wonder who’s idea it was to do this phone call. I mean, a collab is one thing but they clearly don’t need to talk on the phone.

they'll get along fiiiiine

Oh no!

100% please never make me directly interact with another human. Written language is our greatest accomplishment, everyone should stop talking.

god. yeah

God damnit Aurelia, don't make me love you. I've been hurt by too many fictional characters before.

The Goon Sax have a song for everyone here: https://youtu.be/aescdKwQDYA

That's supposed to be Aurelia in the last panel, right? It looks incredibly like Claire.

Haaatttee phone calls. And video calls. Text and email only please and thank you.

Me too. I hate phones.

Daaaaaang.... Aurelia is absoLUTELY channeling younger Claire in panel four! The MILF is strong in this one.

I've never liked talking on the phone. There's not enough information coming through. Video + sound provides nuance. But it helps if I know what I'll be talking about, and whether I'm talking about it with folks I respect, and who I know respect me.

I've had a very high level of phone anxiety since my mid-teens, so uh... something like 45 years now. But now video calls exist! And voice calls from computer to computer! And they turn out to be different enough that they don't trigger anxiety the same way, so I can schedule them and do them.

On a recent trip, I stayed one night in a different hotel in order to avoid making a phone call to change my reservation.

Gah, this is triggering my social anxiety by proxy. I'd be worse if my job didn't require lots of phone calling of clients.

I hate the stress of having to simultaneously prepare to talk to a human being and to leave a message, not knowing which I will be doing until the last moment.

It really is. This is why when you have to have a difficult or uncomfortable conversation it’s good to talk while doing some activity, e.g., fishing. It makes eye contact optional and long pauses less awkward.

I worked at a call center for over a decade. I have talking on the phone.

I think that so many of us are so used to multitasking when communicating that it’s jarring to be locked in to a phone call where it’s disruptive to have 1. music or other happenings in the background and/or 2. more than a couple of pauses to temporarily attend to another matter. And it’s like that because the other person is locked into those parameters with you, and the only way for one to understand the environmental context of the other person is for a lot of explaining to happen that interrupts the flow.

Oh please oh please let them learn of their relations on-stream :D

I smell a crossover.

I *always* select "email" under "preferred contact method", and they *always* call anyway. Why bother giving me the option?

There's no avatar to conceal you on a phone call.

Phone calls are scary.

They should just talk in a game chat instead

Same

Phone call is devil.

I can relate. I hate talking on the phone.

I prefer a video call over a phone call,

I went from nervous don't call to I will fucking call you pick up or else. Also some family members go overboard in written messaging and without being able to say "hey that's actually not the case" after the first of their sentences they've had a history of "toxic essays"

Burger-Oni and Mommymilkers don't even know they live in the same town, do they?

#relatable

And even worse than voice calls are zoom or FaceTime calls.

I’m great with text or email, totally fine with in-person conversations. I would rather get a thousand papercuts than talk on the phone.

Is it just me, or is phone anxiety increasing? Or is it just that people are talking about it more? Because I get being nervous about a phone call, but more and more I notice people who genuinely can't handle phone calls. And it's not even their fault--they're not lazy or unmotivated, they just have an unmanageable amount of anxiety about phone calls.

I hate unexpected phone calls 😭

I feel this one!

It me!

Honestly, I can't remember the last time I physically dialed a phone and spoke to someone on the phone. And Claire is going to talk to marbear and she won't recognize each others speech?

Phone calls are in fact Hell

Mood

How long before someone makes a phone that can do everything BUT make a phone call just to avoid exactly this.

Marigold I get, but why is Aurelia freaked out about a call? Her generation only had that as an option.

This is like a Shakespeare comedy. Except with fewer long-lost twin siblings. (THAT WE KNOW OF).

I love these nerds (and yes, it's different!)

Phuck phonecalls

I have never related so much to one of your comics as I have to this one.

I've been told that some people don't have phone anxiety. Sounds fake to me.

It 100% is

It's becoming the norm, I'm certain.

I just changed my whole dinner plans because they would have involved calling the restaurant. I was like...nvm I'll eat at home

It's different!