The Oatmeal

Cartoonist and Creator of the Exploding Kittens Netflix series

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I like how Easter is about Jesus but we celebrate it by stuffing unborn chickens with mustard, naming them after Satan, and consuming their flesh

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I finished the drawing

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I’ve also drawn a classroom-friendly (SFW) version if you want to share the comic with kids
https://t.co/3GpVrHN3zs

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We need to talk about naked mole rats
https://t.co/jJiHek8zHs

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Shoutout to my dog for being in Variety Magazine, even after death

https://t.co/CigeGBvh7t

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How Matthew Inman’s Viral Cartoon ‘My Dog: The Paradox’ Came to Life as a Short Film https://t.co/Dah15bd2K3

[Diwaker @diwakergupta]

dang the @Oatmeal on AI art goes hard

https://t.co/qiY4rHIcGl

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The trailer for My Dog: The Paradox just dropped

https://t.co/falbka6MpW

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February 2026

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✝️unashamed

[Tori🫧 @toricantstfu]

Hey, @Oatmeal!
We love Horrible Therapist. Even Calypso came to see what all the fuss was about.

[Pravin Dhake @wanderingraptor]

Shots fired by the Oatmeal. Long read, but necessary.

[Brian Govatos @briangovatos]

The @Oatmeal puts beautiful pen to paper here. This is how so many of us feel when everyone cheers about the latest Sora or Grok Imagine sludge.

https://t.co/3uUIDDkkj7

[Nadim Hossain @NadimHossain]

Holy shit @Oatmeal is a fucking genius. Finally an AI curmudgeon after my own tastes

(Also: I’m totally going to prompt the AI: remake this loser thoughtboi thread in the style of an Oatmeal comic. hahaha).

https://t.co/uiYFTwcVjH

[Phill Boucher @PhillBoucher]

Come for the Butt Rat, stay for the nuanced take on the way AI art removes much of the purpose of art itself.

[Col Alois Hammer @andyinsdca]

An excellent breakdown of AI art from @Oatmeal (with the killer phrase "emotional nutrition") https://t.co/OYARCKUozO

[Sean Bailly @SeanMBailly]

Great post, here's a couple of highlights

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@andyinsdca My friend @AllieBrosh came up with that part!

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I wrote a comic about AI art https://t.co/gaDDJQUeoF

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What you think your brain is supposed to do