This is a joke about Craigslist and Facebook marketplace listings. That’s why the sales person keeps saying to look at the “post” and not the sign. If you ever sell something online you will get hundreds of people like this. They clearly have the literacy to log on to the site and to ask questions in written form but still don’t read the post.
The literacy levels of people can be shockingly low, even if they manage to navigate the Internet. Some people literally just don’t retain information that they read, they can remember one in five things in a listing.
Cartoonist don’t necessarily draw things based on what’s commonly happened to people. Often they’re just drawing things that are funny regardless if whether they’re realistic. There’s just nothing I can see in the images that shows either way.
Sure, but I think it’s pretty obvious here they are trying to relate to a common frustrating experience people have. And the funniest way to show that isn’t going to be two guys at a computer having the same conversation.
This is a joke about Craigslist and Facebook marketplace listings. That’s why the sales person keeps saying to look at the “post” and not the sign. If you ever sell something online you will get hundreds of people like this. They clearly have the literacy to log on to the site and to ask questions in written form but still don’t read the post.
And ask the color when there is a picture right there.
You can lead a horse to fresh water, but you can’t make them drink.
The literacy levels of people can be shockingly low, even if they manage to navigate the Internet. Some people literally just don’t retain information that they read, they can remember one in five things in a listing.
It’s a tragedy.
It’s still horribly annoying.
What makes you say it’s a comic specifically about those websites?
Looks like it’s depicting like a garage sale.
Because no one posts a sign like that at a garage sale. It’s very clearly meant to represent a common experience, and that would be selling online.
Cartoonist don’t necessarily draw things based on what’s commonly happened to people. Often they’re just drawing things that are funny regardless if whether they’re realistic. There’s just nothing I can see in the images that shows either way.
Sure, but I think it’s pretty obvious here they are trying to relate to a common frustrating experience people have. And the funniest way to show that isn’t going to be two guys at a computer having the same conversation.