Bonus Panel

Transcript
[A man in a suit stands on stage, arms outstretched before a crowd]
Suit: And with AI we won’t need apps anymore. We’ll have a single terminal from which you can find anything you want!
[A man in the crowd shouts back]
Heckler: That used to be called the internet!
[The man on stage shouts, his arms raised in anger. His robot minions rush after the heckler, drones fly after the heckler overhead as the heckler flees]
Suit: Seize him!
[Bonus Panel: The author shouts at the stage]
Author: Bring back Memepool!


I think the difference is the size and how it’s meant to catch your eye compared to a Patreon link. I don’t really have ads on anything I use so its kind of apparent when I come across his comics.
Im not against links in the body or a line or two at the bottom of the image or anything. I just consider all ads bad, I’m surprised this is considered controversial on Lemmy.
Well, I guess a bot that reads tags and drops a comment about merch and the author would be interesting. It’s arguably an ad but since it’s textual and all that.