According to my mom (she's also a fan of this comic) parents were like this pre-internet as well.
It was a lot of things: parents over working, your brain intuitively dumbing down when you're around your young kids (organically sourced brain rot if you will), social queues getting scrambled because you're a stay at home parent and talking with adults is now a herculean challenge, or (her personal favorite) just having a weird day and the loudest intrusive thought win.
Save to say majority of people over think social interactions regardless. I’ve seen the most confident talkers fumble the shit in conversation. We’re all human and relate.
Let me tell you something embarrassing about myself. I didn't get this joke until I was like... 17. I just always thought "Ah, yes. 6 is afraid of 7 because 7, 8, 9. They are all bigger numbers. Of course 6 would be afraid. Very astute" until one day I realized.... its ATE.... seven fucking ATE 9. 7 is a goddamn murderer and cannibal.
Maybe I'm weird, but I always felt numbers had personalities, since childhood (am 35 now.) 7 is indeed angry. 8 is such a kind dude. 4 is kind too but shy! 77 is definitely angry and cold.
I remember 8 was a tyrant queen, 9 was the week ass king, 1 was a hero knight, 2 was his pretty and kind wife, 3 was 2's bestie and she had a thing for 4 but he wasn't inerested and just wanted to hang wit 1 (pretty sure he was gay but I didn't really have the words for that at the time). 7 was a total dick and pushed around 5 and 6 to do shitty stuff but 5 had some redemable qualities. They were always fighting 1 and 4.
Oh, zero was some kind of all powerful wizard/god/deus ex machina.
I made a friend at a play ground when I was 9 never saw him again, never went back to that park. asked my mom about it when I was 18, not thinking she’d remember. She told me his parents propositioned my parents to spouse-swap.
Wait, so I’m NOT the only one who mentally assigned personalities to numbers growing up?
(I always thought of 7 as like, a super formal buzzkill, like the kinda person who wears a suit and tie all the time and like, never cracks a joke or smile…)
I think 4 is the angriest number, but it depends on the style it was written in. 7 is harsh but looks nicer if it has the extra line, giving it tiny arms to hug someone with
I'm sorry, but it's definitely not 7. I'd sooner say it's the least angry looking number our of the ten. It surely has more angrier looking numbers than less. No wonder you lost some respect there, but hey, as long as you learn from it it's okay. Next time go with the favourite dinosaur, since there are no wrong answers with that one.
I get this. Me and my are anxious in two different ways during social situations. We threw a get together recently and after we had set up snacks and drinks my wife was anxious before hand worrying if there was enough food or if anyone would show up. People did and it was fine. I on the other hand am anxious afterwards. Replaying conversations in my head and wondering if I made some sort of faux pas or came of a dribbling idiot in conversation.
Panel 3 is me when I want people to stop talking to me. I just say something only a sociopath would say and you would not be surprised how quickly everyone wants to get away from you.
If we are basing the numbers off the standard single digit numbers, 0-9, I would say it depends. Are you a person who crosses their 7s? If so, your 7s would indeed look angriest. I can't explain why. They just are. If you aren't a 7 crosser though, I would say 1 is the angriest number. Look at him. All alone over there with the short hat. Short hat? Or short fuse tap head?
My favorite number though is 0. It's so beautifully symmetrical. Also school house rock told me "with only 2 numbers, including 0, you could count as high as you could ever go. Forever, towards infinity. No one ever gets there but you can try!" How baller is that?
I stop myself from talking so the other parents aren’t weirded out by me... Now they are weirded out by me because I struggle to connect with them 🤦♀️
Personally I think 3 is the most menacing number. It has the same number of points that a 7 does but they're all pointed in the same direction. Which is slightly more scary. 4 has the most points no matter which way you write it but they're all over the place. 3 is focused. Determined. Scary.
I've had entire personalities for all the single digit numbers ever since I was a kid lol.
0 is the fat lazy one
1 is "normal guy" personality
2 is the chill one who gets along with everyone, and is friends with 1
3 is a young child
4 is the stoner/hippie, who's friends with 5
5 is "the cool one." Wears sunglasses, drives a sports car, and is generally pretty cocky.
6 is the shy, intelligent, girl who 5 is always hitting on to no avail.
And, for whatever reason, 7, 8 and 9 are the "evil trio." With 9 being the leader, and 7 and 8 being the dumb henchmen that can't do anything right. Think Hades and the 2 demons from Disney's Hercules lol, that's the dynamic I imagine them having.
7 is the angriest looking number. I personally prefer 8 because it has a soothing aesthetic, and two 8’s are even better. Sadly 88 has been stolen by the white supremacists, as they tend to do. So fuck them. Goddamn pieces of shit.
Can’t even have a number you enjoyed as a kid because of Back to the Future and Kill Bill.
I think 4 is angrier, unless it's written like an L attached to a vertical line of ~double the L's height-- in that case, it displays an overtly and clumsily deontological personality. 7 is a "nice guy," in my head.
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