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I have posted the submissions that reached a place between position 11 and 25 of this year’s artwork contest.
- Sandra: You accidentally sent a nude photo of yourself to several people?!
- Larisa: Yup.
- Sandra: To how many people?
- Larisa: Well, yesterday I installed this new, unofficial add-on…
- Larisa: … and apparently I misconfigured it, or it had a bug, or something.
- Sandra: This means you sent it to all your contacts?!
- Larisa: All SnapPic users in North America.
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Then again Novil could use these lines of logic to save Larisa via having the application get so much spam that…
Why would anyone have bought and kept using this application for so long?
I definitely want to fap to that photo… How can I obtain it too? 😀
Oh my…I can only imagine how Landon will take it. And the number of arrests that are going to be made.
I can imagine Larisa getting into legal trouble for this, due to previous RL cases where younger people were sharing pictures of themselves.
This is the kind of app that deltes after 5 minutes, right?
*deletes images
@ myth buster:
Well it is truth that it is getting insanely difficult to guess the age of the girls now…
But I am protesting against discrimination – why only in North America… In words of Sheldon Cooper:
that is groose discrimination against “otherwise located”
In other news, one of the worlds largest rings of child porn distributors has been exposed, with their ringleaders either in custody or forced into hiding.
I knew it,
I thought to myself with the previous comic, define “all”
lol, she probably got a whole bunch of people in trouble, especially if they opened the file in a public place.
Well, she has a flamethrower. I imagine going to school will be quite interesting now for the pyromaniac girl. Yes, people might bully her, but did I mention her flame thrower? I really want to see what happens next.
Also, I wonder, based on comic logic, if they are going to plant trackers and virus on that image so that anyone who keeps it will be attacked. That will dissuade people from keeping it.
I don’t care about your intended plot, just have Zoey receive the picture too and show us her reaction
Well, that settles the question of whether or not she was actually nude in the picture.
Now the question remains as to how this will be resolved: Realistically, or cartoon-fashion?
I’m going to guess cartoon-fashion because anything else would leave Larisa in a world of trouble.
Sudenly wish i had snapchat lol
Looking back at the previous page, it looked like she was taking a selfie “the old fashioned way” (by holding her phone’s camera to her and not using a phone that has a built-in selfie cam). If she’s lucky, she may have accidentally put her thumb in front of the lens, obstructing anything that could get someone in trouble.
Inappropriate picture attack on a whole continent. Would win a lot of internets for doing that IRL. Though probably a bad idea in North America, the land where you better repent and grovel before the public if you took photos of yourself.
It never fails to amaze me how insane this is and that nobody seems to notice.
I mean, really, an entire continent is fine with crazy levels of conflict and brutality in any kind of media, but is so terrified of anyone’s appearance, it must be covered at all times and even possession of data on it can get you attacked and jailed.
Brainwashing is crazily effective.
Back in school days, a girl in my class did pass around nudes of herself. I don’t recall much of a reaction. I don’t think it ever became a topic with anyone I talked to, except that some girls seemed impressed that she was bold enough to do that.
And that seems a reasonable reaction. How the heck would it have been correct to insult or punish her for it? Why does most of the net assume she should have been dispelled or realized her great mistake or something along these lines? Might one of the grown-ups suddenly have turned berserker and raped her? I can’t even make out the mental image this form of brainwashing is creating, it’s just so nonsensical.
Holy shit…
Quite a crushing grip on Sandra there.
Honestly, the default dialing app in basically all smartphones has the same issue.
The gesture for “Scroll through your call history” and the gesture for “Call this person” are nearly identical, and the latter requires absolutely no extra confirmation, and often costs money.
And nobody seems to see it for the UX disaster that it is.
My sympathies are for Landon here, we all know that this means his poor mother just died of a stroke.
Landon might have died as well considering his known health issues, I certainly hope his inhaler was nearby.
Perhaps there is an attempted murder charge in Larissa’s future.
But a charge of production of pornography is not.
Please if you called this “porn”, rethink your position.
What creeps me out the most about this, is that everyone assumes that because she’s naked in a photo that it’s ipso facto pornographic.
Not every nude image is pornography, even if that nude image is a child and even if you personally happen to become excited by the image. Also anytime you think that “others” will become excited by something, I’ve got news for you, you think that way because YOU personally just got excited by it, so you might want to meditate why.
Nevertheless, excitement or not, most nude images could not be considered pornographic. Furthermore not all pornography is nude or even semi-nude.
What makes something pornographic has nothing to do with the state of undress and really comes down to the intent of the artist and the viewer.
The simplest test is, “Is the artist exploiting the model or the audience for gratuitous purposes?” The other test is to ask, “Is the image lascivious?”
It can probably be argued that yes Larissa was attempting to elicit arousal from her longterm boyfriend whom she has previously expressed a strong desire towards.
However a rational person cannot reason that this was exploitative.
She’s not selling anything, she isn’t trading anything and no one got anything in return. It’s also plain that it’s not a lascivious display.
Look at the positioning, it’s intended to be a celebration of her body.
You might argue that she is trying to bait or tempt Landon.
Realistically, the position and the framing are very telling.
Even if it were her full body that was visible, the message would still be “I’m showing you me. This is what I look like, remember me and smile, because I’m thinking of you too!”
Compare that to the intent many of you are implying here which seems to be along the lines of “Hey let’s make babies, I’ll be along in an hour, here’s a picture to get you warmed up! Make sure to have $10 ready please!”.
Try to keep in mind that the word pornography literally means “images of prostitutes”, this is something totally different than simple casual nudity or even artistic nudity.
All of these are totally different concepts.
If you call this imagery “porno”, you are literally saying that Larissa is acting like a prostitute, i.e. selling herself for money or some other material gain. There is also the disturbing implication that you believe that simple nudity of a person is enough to elicit arousal.
Just think about that for a moment. Are you really feeling aroused by this? Or are you just parroting a viewpoint to fit in, because suddenly you feel uncomfortable at the thought of how you might react were you to see a naked twelve or thirteen year old girl? When I was that age you couldn’t keep clothes on me, especially in the summer.
As for Larissa, I would say that she’s not selling or trading for anything. She’s just documenting a fact of her body and her state of mind. Something that she should be very proud of, something that should be celebrated.
Larissa is a free spirit, we all love her because she expresses the same level of intellectual and spiritual freedom that did when we were young girls.
Don’t you find it disturbing that we keep telling our young and ourselves, “Be yourself. Celebrate who you are. Be the very best you that you can possibly be!”
Yet when a “compromising” picture is taken or “leaked”, regardless of the intent in taking it, we shame them and punish them according to some hang ups that we as a society have only recently attached to the human body.
Why are we even calling it “compromising”? We appear to all be suffering from hangups we have adopted mostly to sustain the power of an elite and wealthy priest class? A class of society with clearly documented issues of their own in this regard?
I applaud the authors of this comic for tackling this honestly and fairly because it’s a tough subject. We as a society have begun to attach a lot of incorrect meaning to things. One result is an unhealthy obsession in which anything to do with the human body is suddenly taboo, especially our own sexuality.
If this situation had been reversed. If Landon had sent her a picture of himself, at that same angle and (un)dressed to the same extent, would we even be having this discussion? What if his genitalia had been plainly visible for the world to see? Would you still be calling it “pornography”?
I’m not even trying to claim a double standard.
I’m saying it’s not at all pornographic to anyone who still has a healthy mind. People who feel that it is pornographic should probably seek mental health counseling, because you are literally saying you find that this arouses you.
Think about this for just a moment…
Forget the fact that she is legally a child. I’m giving you a break on that because it’s only the last 100 years or so that she wouldn’t be considered “of age”.
Where I’m calling you out, is that you are saying that for you, a simple picture of a naked body, unprovocatively posed might just be enough to provoke your sexual desire.
If viewing images of or even being around naked people is arousing to you, that’s actually an unhealthy mindset. How do you manage to shower, bathe or go to the bathroom without fighting your own arousal?
My word, what must a cool breeze on a warm sunny day at the beach do to you? Seriously, go get that checked!
In the meantime, look back across time.
Back before everyone had a camera with unlimited film in it and the ability to instantly share with the entire world.
Jock Sturgis & Sally Mann just a few years ago were making images that were controversial at the time, but not too different from what Larissa just created. Eventually those images were deemed art and perfectly legal. This was a fierce legal battle, despite the fact that taking pictures of your children splashing around in the tub or pool wasn’t all that uncommon yet.
Think back further to when breaking out camera was reserved for special occasions. At that point, well staged nudity comprised a significant number of images in art galleries. My own highschool had a ton of these right in art class.
Just a few years prior to that, in the early 1960s, I remember going with friends and classmates to the local swimming hole after school.
Can you imagine that? A dozen girls aged twelve and thirteen all stripping our clothes off and swimming around, completely naked!
Sometimes there were even boys there, of course we kicked them out and of course they did whatever they could to sneak a peek.
To quote Larissa “We must’ve all been real pervy pervs!”
It just wasn’t a big deal then, so why is it a big deal now?
A few decades prior to that and there was an actual fad to capture and study nude figure studies of people in motion. People of all ages and conditions. It was quite the thing, our library still has a ton of these on microfiche. I think I saw some on wikipedia too.
Go back a few centuries to the height of the renaissance and look at the works of Michelangelo and any of the other “true masters”. They all made gorgeous nudes, many times of nubile young men and women. Look closely at them, almost anyone who wasn’t an adult was depicted without clothing. Yet these are some of the most important examples of artwork from a time of high puritanism.
Proper clothing wasn’t always considered an essential element of childhood, partly because clothes could cost a lot of money and partly because, well have you ever tried to actually keep clothes on a kid that doesn’t want to wear any?
Almost all of the surviving art of the classical Greek and Roman period is nude or seminude. Almost none of it would qualify as pornographic in nature or intent.
These are all classics of art, but we as a society have gone blind because of our recent swing over to extremist prudish and puritanical views. It’s Sharia law starting to be imposed on all of us.
Why are we suddenly saying humans should be ashamed of their bodies? Why is the human form now a thing to be derided and reviled rather than celebrated and admired?
This attitude is a symptom of the human mind becoming more closed and attaching an implied sexual intent in many places where no intent was ever implied.
Why am I in the minority opinion here? What is wrong with society that this is even a thing we have to discuss in this day and age?
As a child of the 1960s and a “hippie”, I find that this is what saddens me any time the topic comes up. How did we lose so much ground?
Ask yourself, why would you shame this girl by calling what she created pornographic?
How is this different than fat shaming, or shaming people for homosexuality, or any other myriad of things, whether or not those things are under their control?
Why should she be ashamed at all? Why should any of us?
We have suddenly moved from a society that felt free to express and celebrate who we are, to a society obsessed with a culture of shaming and being shamed and feeling ashamed.
Our generation promised that we would be different. That we would celebrate who were are and that we would teach our children and our grandchildren to celebrate and love themselves. What happened to us?
My advice to Larissa, or even my own granddaughter at this stage would be, “Make sure to add a prominent art gallery and a few well connected politicians and possibly some news outlets to your contact list, take another one and hit send again!”
You go girl!
i want the photo. may be the bug can sent the photo to europe users?
@ Effie Ray:
Pretty sure she’s like 15, but yeah, same idea
@ Sarusig:
It’s probably an “evil app developer” looking for nude selfies. Unfortunately since Larissa is underage Snappic is now guilty of trafficking in child porn.
Damnit. I wish I used snappic now…. what? Blackmail material of course.. ~whistles innocently~
Well… This escalated quickly…
Yep. Immortality is yours, Larissa….
Oops…
Oh, wow, geeze. Poor girl. 😡
She REALLY doesn’t seem at all concerned about what she’s done. No panic in her expression or body language. Just stating facts in a very ‘oops, oh well’ manner.
The can crush: Today’s strip’s answer to the spittake.
In loosely-related news: New day, Coke’s again okay.
Vandroiy wrote:
Yeah, the dangers of sending nude pictures of yourself is a product of people thinking you should not do so. People would not harass a girl who’s nude pictures has been passed around if there wasn’t some idea that what she did is wrong and neither would she get prosecuted.
I wonder what would have happened to the girl in your story if instead of her choosing to pass around the pictures, they had been leaked and passed around against her will.
“People who feel that it is pornographic should probably seek mental health counseling, because you are literally saying you find that this arouses you.”
That’s like saying that saying a movie is violent means you like violence, or that saying a dish might make people feel sick means that you feel sick. Doesn’t really make a whole lot of sense.
Vandroiy wrote:
When I was in High School, one of my Female classmates wore Just a Raincoat to school one day. She did it because of a Bet with another girl.
Don’t know All the terms of the bet, but the one that got her in trouble was that she had to Flash at least Once in each Class.
She got away with it in the first 3 classes. Sorta.
About halfway through the 4th class, the door opened and she was calle into hte hallway.
Through the window, we all saw her Flash the Dean.
She wasn’t seen again that day.
And the Raincoat was Never seen again.
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*collapses* Ok, it’s 3:40 AM I finished looking at every comic from 2012, I missed my chance to participate in Smash bros. online tourneys and if I eat a snack now it’ll keep me up until 6AM but still DONE *jumps into bed*
Richard would never have programmed an app where this was possible, even if he got specs for it.
He would have come up with a query ‘Do you really want to send you pic to (n) people?’ with n being the current number of users involved and the thing would then have crashed because the n was to large.?
If you define porn as “a medium (text, image, video, audio, …) created to sexually exite ” , this is it. Larissa wanted to give Landon a trill. Some people might define porn differently (so as to be able to watch stuff that sexually excites and be sure it is not porn or because their definition involves ideas about the often truly horrible situations in which a lot of for sale porn showing real people – i.e. not animated porn- is created). Nudity in itself has nothing to do with porn.
That said:At least 90% of porn out on the net, even animated stuff that did not involve anyone having to undergo what is shown, makes me want to (at least) punch creators and consumers alike.
Back to the main topic:
Though Larissa herself doesn’t care too much about the image being out there and seen by lots of people, she is aware of the fact that this will have repercussions.
If people where usually decent, anyone receiving the image would just delete it because it’s obvious they are not the intended recipient. If pigs could fly…
I dont mean to be nit picky or rude, but i’ve noticed a few ways to have avoided this in the first place.
1: dont take a picture like that,
2: Dont install something like this.
3:(hardest) If you miss, dont take it off, just drag your finger to the wanted option.
4: At least TRY! To cover it up. I mean, there should be a post take-down.
Zacolyn wrote:
The sad part is, this is so true, it may be the most true thing in the world we live in.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=zUB0pGiS0DQ perfect song for her to listen to. The title basically says enough. But if you listen to the words instead of the beat, it describes her actions ???
@ Jerry:
Dude Larisa would be in trouble in Kansas for a lot more than that……
She can’t be the only one. The only people who will conceivably find it are people who explicitly check through the thousand of spam messages they received in one day.
…..THIS IS BAD.
@ dyingdemon:
you do realise she is not legal? There must be a lot of pedos in your area
I’m expecting Benson and Stabler to show up next week.
I like that Sandra is having a relatively relaxed reaction to all this.
Plot twist! The nude picture is not the one she took, but a baby picture.
@ OMGWTH:
If you get excited by a nude photo of kids, you’re a pedo, and nude photos of children are porn
Snappic gets shut down…
Larisa is disappointed that the most destructive act she’s ever committed did not
involve getting to use fire….yet! ^_-
Vandroiy wrote:
You must have been from the rich part of town, I don’t remember anyone my age back then
that could afford the film or developing to do that. :$_$
To paraphrase Eyegore (from _Young Frankenstein_):
“She’s going to be very popular!”
@ Sondash128:
What about cupid? He’s usually depicted as a naked baby. Should we burn all churches that include him to the ground?
@ OMGWTH:
*Slow Clap*