Xitter Tanks

Is it just me getting unreasonably irritated when the artist captions the things they're depicting, as if we're either too dumb to understand or they suck at making subtle references?

It's a political comics thing that has its roots in England around ~~250~~ 300 years ago. The comic is meant simultaneously to be funny (and therefore disarming) and legitimate political propaganda. To ensure that the political propaganda message is not lost on the masses they label everything to make sure their message most clearly gets across.
For example, see this political cartoon from 1903. Panama_canal_cartoon_1903.jpg
- That's actually cool to know, though I dislike the practice, they kinda look like previous century memes lol
  For example, see this political cartoon from 1903.
  That was lost on me either way, but I guess it's just my lack of knowledge on US's history 👀
These sorts of comics have been captioned like this for decades. I'm not sure if they were ever not captioned.
- If anything I think they were even more obvious back then... The Troll would have had "Troll" written on their laptop and so on...
- Decades indeed. Thomas Nast made his first cartoon in like 1860 or something.
- I've seen some done in the 1800s. Captioned.
  At this point it's a staple of the genre.
That's just the way political comics goes. It's expected and common. It's not a web comic, bruh; there's a tradition to maintain.
- Well, I guess so, wasn't expeting a whole culture around these
- Not all political comics are like that though, the best ones don't need the labelling.
This reminds me of a Ben Garrison cartoon. Way too heavy handed.
It's just you
Ben Garrison does the same thing. It's pretty common
- Damn, now that's one that goes overboard!
- Well, his audience seems to pretty obviously need things spelled out for them. In very, very short words.

Makes sense to me .... a seat small enough for a little asshole and a bowl big enough for someone who produces a lot of shit
That's because they had to put the Elon's Twitter sign. Which is why I am not big fan of this kind of old school satire. It's a little on the nose Everything has to have signs, subtitles and arrows so even the dumbest people can understand them. While I understand the need for that, it makes the jokes fall flat for me.
hold up
I've actually seen that kinda shit IRL in public restrooms pretty frequently.

Ah yes, they're standing in x-crement.

Xitter.. pronounced like shitter.

Not enough labels
- Also it would have to get everything wrong with complete confidence.
- Yeah, who's the man and the toilet and the child holding the sign?

they forgot the saudi king sitting on a throne of dead migrant bodies

This post is difamation against goblins.

I think that's a troll....
but agreed.
Also where's the crowd of khaki-wearing nazis?
- Supposed to be a troll I think, but that blatantly a goblin
  Also the military cosplay guy has a swastika on his arm.
yes.

Truly a shitpost.

Nah this is just accurately stating the actual status of X as a metaphor, I like it.

Lol i recently heard someone refer to tweets as xcrements now. Fits perfectly with this

𝕏itter

BRRRR skibidi bop bop bop yes yes

Xitter, Jesus, you guys are amazing.

Shitter would have worked too
- That’s why you pronounce the X the Chinese way!

Who’s the guy on the right supposed to be?

4chan edgelord convinced that his shit don't stink made this possible.

Ah yes my (least) favorite! Political comics!

Errrrhmmmm, it’s X, actually

But Xitter will make Elon fanboys mad, so it's worth the misspelling.

Unlike the label free work of Ben Garrison.
- To be fair, you have to have a very high IQ to understand Ben Garrison. The humour is extremely subtle, and without a solid grasp of political philosophy most of the jokes will go over a typical reader's head. There's also Ben's perennialist outlook, which is deftly woven into his characterisation- his personal philosophy draws heavily from Nouvelle Droite literature, for instance. The fans understand this stuff; they have the intellectual capacity to truly appreciate the depths of these jokes, to realise that they're not just funny- they say something deep about LIFE. As a consequence people who dislike Ben Garrison truly ARE idiots- of course they wouldn't appreciate, for instance, the humour in Ben's antimodernist catchphrase "Wubba Lubba Dub Dub," which itself is a cryptic reference to Solzhenitsyn's Russian epic Gulag Archipelago. I'm smirking right now just imagining one of those addlepated simpletons scratching their heads in confusion as Ben's genius wit unfolds itself on their phone screens. What fools.. how I pity them. 😂
  And yes, by the way, i DO have a Trump tattoo. And no, you cannot see it. It's for the ladies' eyes only- and even then they have to demonstrate that they're within 5 IQ points of my own (preferably lower) beforehand. Nothin personnel kid 😎