That’s a fair point. I did offset it by using FOSS applications for the editing and posting it on Lemmy.

That’s the joke. Using AI to make the other image is ironic.

The joke is that someone made this comic and it started a wave of old-school memes being posted. The joke is that it’s an AI version of that same comic. It’s supposed to be bad.

if there are no rules then there are no rules

It’s from an ad I got served that says “Do you like to take the alternate route?”