She has a "My Wife" shirt and they're suprised?

Yuri memes delivering Oxford Comma propaganda… That definitely wasn't in my bingo card

Why does no one have eyes in the second panel?

Worse yet: Castorice is literally a virtual girl.

Bonus points for Marydjiang for using the correct phone decals for each character.

that's pretty cool

I think it's just a way to express awkwardness in the drawing

I would get a shirt like that if it helped me pass as a lesbian girl

Mmm girls

It's just a trope in anime.

It's not awkwardness as much as it's trying to convey everyone's brain short circuiting for a moment.

Awkwardness is usually represented with sweat on the forehead/temple area.

And then you get stuff like jittering eyeballs conveying extreme stress, or long internal monologues occurring within half a second in the middle of combat.

Anime literacy to the rescuuuuee

meow am girly

In hindsight the artist could've used the loading headgear lol

I appreciate it. I wouldn't say I'm super anime literate.

If only I could have that type of weight while eating burgers or pizza. 😭

Wouldn't Oxford comma be "girls, burger, or pizza?"

It's my understanding that the Oxford comma only exists in lists that are at least three items long. So in the case of the original comic, there can not be an Oxford comma.

One element of the humor in this comic is the ambiguous place the comma occupies for representing a pause in English speech.

Unfortunately, my favorite punctuation for this type of pause in written English---the em dash---is now a sign of AI writing.

Consider,

• "Girls, X or Y?"
• "Girls---X, or Y?"

Both convey the nuances of pauses and emphasis in spoken English slightly differently.

Mmm

Indeed. The lack of Oxford comma is what lead to a misunderstanding :P

If you consider “girls” as its own clause, then yes, the list is only two items long and therefore no Oxford comma is needed. But the joke precisely appears when you consider “girls” as part of the list and when you take into account that some people don’t use Oxford commas. If you do so, that leads to a 3-items-long list

Is she using one of those collectible Zelda DS'?

Its her phone in landscape mode

Ah, that makes sense. Appreciated.

I feel called out and I don't know if I hate that I feel called out

You can! Just not afterward.

unhealthy relationship with food yay