Considered your approach to the joke, but I don’t think that’s it. “Phones bad” is so prevalent that the author must be aware of it, if they wanted to make a meta joke about a fisher being fished (which is pretty good imo) they would have used literally anything else as the bait. Using a phone and making it blatantly explicit with the speech bubble reduces any subtlety in the cartoon to “phones bad”.

29/12/2025 and boomers are still rehashing the “phones bad” joke. Can’t say they don’t have perseverance.

This is, sadly, the correct answer

Hard disagree. Politicians use Signal themselves for their private group chats.

Thanks for this!

So cool! Thanks for sharing!

This is actually a great joke

Answering to myself in case somebody searches for this issue later: it is indeed buggy. It fixed itself after a couple of days and usually works now. However, some days it doesn’t want to work. Sometimes a force quit from the app resolves this, other times I have to wait for it to come back to the intended behavior by itself.

Voyager 2.14.0 on iOS 17.6