Existential
A protestor and another person block a busy road creating a traffic jam. Text on image: "Protesting? No. I just come here when I need to affirm my existence."
Existential (#5) Published on: 2026-06-03
Permalink: https://sloppypixels.com/comics/5/
Notes

I got this idea after watching a video of a driver forcibly removing protestors from the middle of the road. Despite being one against several, the driver won because the protestors seemed to be utterly unconcerned with being dragged across the pavement and out of the way. Well, unconcerned other than being compelled to hurl insults at the driver. They didn't fight back. They didn't attempt to return to their original spot while the driver walked back to his car. To me, it seemed like all they truly cared about was having been an inconvenience to others, at least temporarily. Once that was accomplished, there was nothing left for them to achieve.

This is the comic that really kicked things off. I had been checking in on image generation every few months with some of my older ideas. This time around, I had the idea for this comic, and I was getting unusably sloppy results on a few engines. Finally, I tried ChatGPT and it produced a good image (basically what you see here). That prompted me to try some of my other ideas, and they also turned out well. That's how I knew the tech was where I needed it to be and I began the work to get The SLOP off the ground.

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