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Cyanide and Happiness

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Hello fellow Cyanide and Happiness fans!

Cyanide & Happiness (C&H) is a webcomic created by Rob DenBleyker, Kris Wilson, Dave McElfatrick and Matt Melvin. The comic has been running since 2005 and is published on the website explosm.net along with animated shorts in the same style. Matt Melvin left C&H in 2014, and several other people have contributed to the comic and to the animated shorts

Read more: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyanide_%26_Happiness

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@[email protected] started this community and wrote:

About this community and how I post the comics… Many moons ago, I would ask my Dad to save the newspaper for me everyday so I could read my favorite comic strips. Of course these days you can read your favorite comics online instead of a newspaper, but I love the nostalgia of reading the daily comics. Anyway, one of my favorite current comics is Cyanide and Happiness and I will be posting the daily release from their website (https://explosm.net/) and a an extra or two randoms.

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

The intentional stutter on the g in generation, as well as being present in some other words and verses, is meant as a kind of self - referential mocking of what someone hopped up on amphetamines sounds like.

It would be a fairly obvious and humorous reference to what many concert and festival goers would be used to. Stuttering and slurred speech were/are common effects of significant usage of the kinds of drugs they'd all be familiar with.

https://faroutmagazine.co.uk/roger-daltrey-stutter-the-who-song-my-generation/

The Who’s manager at the time was insistent that Daltrey mimic Hooker’s stammering vocal. “Kit Lambert came up to me and said ‘STUTTER!’,” Daltrey recalled. “I said ‘What?’ He said, ‘Stutter the words.”

When the singer asked for Lambert’s reasoning as to why he should act out his speech condition in a song, Lambert explained, “It makes it sound like you’re pilled”. He was referring to the trend among the mod subculture with which The Who identified in the 1960s to get hyped up on amphetamine pills before a night out. Daltrey joked that he was already on the pills and followed his manager’s orders.

On its face, without stuttering, the lyrics read as a rebellious screed of the optimistic youth against a corrupt and unfulfilling system.

But the intentional stuttering and slurring makes the whole thing into a tongue in cheek, semi self aware critique of the prevalence of massive drug use amongst the people purporting these ideals, making the song to sound more like a mockery of, or perhaps lament of drug addicts with no productive life who are just coming up with an ideological excuse/explanation for their lifestyle.