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> they meant dog

> which is a placeholder for

... exactly. It's a placeholder; not literal.

It's a placeholder because if the New Yorker had run a comic that said "On the Internet, nobody knows you're a black man," that wouldn't have been funny at all.



Definitely no hints to that in the cartoon at all. None... none at all... >.> <.< >.>

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/f/f8/Internet_dog....




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