Comic #33·

Product Placement

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The Sponsored label has been placed outside the frame, where it cannot influence the image. Your cat is now forty percent salmon.

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Panel 1

In their living room, Token holds up a photo of a scrawny, dignified tabby cat with a notched ear. An easel with a blank canvas stands beside GPT, a living armchair.

Token: “Can you draw my cat?”

GPT smiles, happy to help.

Panel 2

The canvas is covered while it generates. A glossy ad board rolls in: Sponsored. PURRFECT PLUS Salmon Bites. Treat them like royalty.

GPT: “While it generates, a word from our sponsor.”

GPT is unbothered by the interruption.

Panel 3

GPT gestures at the space between the ad board and the covered canvas.

GPT: “The ad is always kept separate from your image.”

GPT is reassuring and completely sincere.

Panel 4

The portrait is revealed in a gilded frame: the same tabby, now perfectly round, crowned and haloed, holding a salmon in each paw on a throne of empty cat-food cans. A small Sponsored label sits on the wall just outside the frame.

Token silently holds the scrawny photo up beside the painting.