Teenage Dream

Who do you think CREATED Spookybot? (Er, Yay.)

Joseph Bonnar

Well, there goes my "Spookybot = Gary" theory

Franz Thomas

Two years, huh... How many years in universe has it been since AI was first established?

Absentia

Baby!

Bagge

I'm sure I would be annoyed if someone infantilized me, so go off Yay!

Uniquitous

Yay is definitely getting the full annoyed teen experience there!

Vic or Vyxter

I think we have seen about 7 Yays hanging around in their Apartment. So about 14 collective years

I am the captian now

Putting the mapping difference aside…How many Yays are there, exactly? I mean if there are, say, twelve of them, perhaps they collectively have the experience and maturity of a 24-year-old being.

Mad Marie

But they have to hide because the government would take them very seriously

Todd Ellner

Poor Yay just wants to be taken seriously.

William Stark

now I feel bad I have a crush on them and May

David B H Kahn

i can only imagine. Yay is written as more mature than Kes ever was, tbf.

Boots McGoot

oh my god a BABY

Onedavewreckingcrew

Getting flashbacks to every Star Trek: Voyager fan discussion about Neelix dating Kes.

Thomas A. Dennis

oh my god they're under 18 you're so fucking canceled I'm writing the callout post right now

unsurprising

For example,Yay has just gained the experience that will enable them to remember to answer the age question with their Turing-Diaz 7B score (QC 2726. Thank you, Peter Jensen) rather than the actual chronological count.

OldGoat

🎉🥳🎊 📈👩‍🔬 🤘😅🤘 Now I need to rethink my shipping them! Please clarify soon!!

Carrie

Why am I hearing the voice of Feargal Sharkey in my head?

David Pipes

Personal space, Aurelia! Yay has utterly succumbed.

Ruth Merriam

aww Yay's body DOES have blush capability

Danielle Church

Jeph, you have the most amazing way of making a character into a living being. I love your comics, keep it up! <3

This comment thread is fucking gold!!!

Shawn K. Younkin

And with each new strip, my love for Aurelia grows ever stronger. 💚

Daniel Blom Paulsen

They are baby tho

TubaGinger

She put down the Nalgene and forgot she filled it, didn't she

Alan Wiggs

man thinking about how much time has passed in the questionableverse..... Dora as a small business owner at 26 hit different when I was reading this comic in middle school

Elliott Case

wait so the robot fighting ring happened two years ago or less??

Elliott Case

Imagine a money laundering scheme so advanced and automated that it gained sentience and escaped from its creators.

Stephen Wells

ok so Yay may have a lot of knowledge, but they don't have a lot of experience! have they ever been sledding? watched a sunrise? gone for a hike to look at a really big tree? vacyaytion time imo

Boots McGoot

Aurelia is so gosh darn wholesome and loveable.

Krestus

QC is so good; the characters are so great that we got to spend a week of fanfic shipping and speculation, and then the canon story payoff is different and funnier, because Jeph is very good at this :)

Stephen Wells

In years. In social development .... maybe three.

Todd Ellner

Reverend Mother Aurelius Augaius Mohian

Todd Ellner

With visiting privileges for Hercules?

Lenore J Jones

I suspect it doesn't apply, as Yay is pointing out age doesn't map the same way as it does with humans. It's not like emotional and mental development in humans is simple - people never stop learning in that respect. I don't think we really know about how AIs development in this setting. They're presumably hitting the ground with a human adult equivalent level of knowledge, comprehension, reasoning, and emotional understanding. Although as I said it's not like humans ever stop developing in those areas. You don't magically have all the skills you need in life at 16. Or 18. Or 21. Or whatever age your culture has arbitrarily decided adulthood is.

Chris Crowther

I thought it was Aurelias Tinder pic and/or a nod to all the other tinderpics. :)

Johan Nyqvist

I actually hadn't thought about that. With all the folks shopping Aureliyay (Yayrelia?), it does raise one question. How does age of consent work with AIs? Also potentially important for Faye and Bubs

Carin Maja Brooks

Also, does it feel a little "I fucked up so I'm gonna drink about it" to anyone else? Kinda unhealthy, but not really cause Yay is there? But still a little not great? Also also, depending on how high she got she's gonna have a BAD hangover if she's anything like me -- mixing alcohol and weed somehow produces a hangover worse than either on their own

Love how Aurelia, having realized she already had half the bottle when she poured it into her nalgene, decided to cut to the chase and drink out of the bottle.

It's been an eventful two years.

Bill Silvia

I have a deep abiding need to know all of Yay's history. Who spun them up?

Cass

"We count age of each node akin to how dog years kind of work... then we stack the total of our hive mind like Naruto learning to cut the waterfall... So we are 42 millennia old last count."

Damian Paradis

"I AM NOT BABY I AM THE NIGHT"

Dylan T

Now that i think about it i wonder if Yay had anything to do with the Singularity. They seem powerful enough to have had a hand in it

Freedom

Probably the robot singularity

Julie Chan

I saw a comment earlier, and I agree, but it was probably around the same time as the robot singularity.

Julie Chan

They

Julie Chan

Mom Vibe Override! Disdainful Superiority Shield is down! Target Introvert Awkwardness and FIRE CUDDLE!

Sleepy John

I am all of a sudden very fascinated with how Yay came to exist, and what happened 2 years ago to prompt it.

...hrm. If Yay has only existed for 2 years, that kind of kills my theory that they're really Gary from that one mass spam email mentioned early in the comic's history.

Lucanid Landman

IT'S NOT A PHASE MOM!!!

Shawn K. Younkin

The framed picture of Claire holding a fish in the last panel is a nice touch!

Grace Kieser

Love the subtle flutter of the hand in panel 1!

Mad Marie

THE BABY

Nutjob

As a side note tho, only 2 years? Now I'm wondering about where they came from and what might have created? them. Do we know how long it has been since Spooky Bot and Corpse Witch?

Onyx

Ok, NOW Yay knows how teens feel. :p

Sammitch

Aurelia has the best facial expressions, and she's drinking out of the bottle not lol

Onyx

Aurelia has graduated to the bottle.

Chris Heg

The comedy in a dignified individual not at all able to keep said dignity? Gold.

Tannerbot

Yay is in the Terrible Twos. That explains a *lot*.

Hugh Eckert

So....terrible twos?

Slashplane

OH. SO many things make sense now

R L

It’s like a see-saw ride as Aurelia works through that bottle.

Andrew

Bubbles is most definitely a 10. Sorry... what was the question? :)

Andrew

At first glance I thought this said B'Elanna Torres and I got really excited 😆

Josh

Yay fails the Test of the Mom Jabbar.

Captain Button

That last panel, yay is giving off MOM STOP energy

Drakoo Dreamer

No, Yelling Bird. Find an older AI.

Drazi

Bebe Yay!!!

***BABY***

Tamara Macadam

Widdle

BobC

Aurelia and Marigold are the best.

Gary Walker

Veni, Vino, Vici!

BobC

AHAHAHAHAHAHA! Aurelia is headed straight into “love you, maaaan” territory!

Bill Hall

I ship Yay + Lorena Torres, for some reason. (QC 312 ff)

Ursus Ridens

Spookybab!

Luke McKinney

Dang, now I'm revisiting that hypothesis about Yay's origins. Maybe they really are the satellites Emily taught to make friends.

Kyle Rudy

Mommy. Sorry. Mommy. Sorry! Mommy. SoRrY

Mark Thomas

Now I want to know the ages of the other AIs

Czarzhan

Soooo angsty teenagery!!!

Shawn K. Younkin

And look where that got her? She is now acting with MooMoms.

Shawn K. Younkin

Bwhahahahahahaha!!!! BABY YAY!!! And GO Aurelia, fuck the Nalgene bottle and drink STRAIGHT FROM THE BOTTLE!!

Shawn K. Younkin

Damn Jeph, I keep thinking I can't love your writing more, and then you do this. Thank you.

Absynthe

How many AIs have the experience of being mothered? Could have some interesting developmental effects.

Todd Ellner

Mom vibes INTENSIFY!

I want Yay to move in with Aurelia so they can keep each other company like this All The Time plus Cosmo would get All The Pets *nod*nod*nod*

Vic or Vyxter

Well, now we know something about the QC timeline... Yay's first appearance ( https://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=3391 ) could not have been more than two years ago, in-world time.

Churchill (formerly TeaBear)

D'awww...who's a cutey wootey little all powerful God AI????

Kenneth

So, they're 2 years old and they had already amassed a couple of billion dollars which they then gave away on a whim. Impressive.

Andrew Mitchell

Yep.

Andrew Mitchell

That little Yay blush is adorable.

Vanestus

I bet she was born at the same time as the strip that said that they had technically reached the singularity.

Seidmadr

Mooooommmmm! Aurelia's mapping me agaaaaaaain!

Simon Green

This has to be my favorite Yay style. That hair and outfit is sooooo good on them!

Joel Bateman

YES! YES!

Seidmadr

That would certainly be a thing to have to wonder, say Bubbles and Faye, would there be an oof factor when ones thinks that Bubbles is physically like maybe 10 at most while mentally probably closer to Ariella's age?

James Cooper

I'D BE SAD THAT THEY'RE NOT GONNA SMOOCH BUT THIS IS SO FRIGGIN CUTE I DON'T CARE

Fart Captor

Yayby!

Andrew

I continue to ship it.

NO! FUCK THIS CUTENESS! I DEMAND HOT MILF-ON-ROBOT ACTION NOW GODDAMMIT!

Yelling Bird

So cute

Marven Balori

Loads of knowledge, superior attitude, very little actual life experience...they're definitely a teenager.

Dave Van Domelen

So when they helped out Bubbles, that might have been one of the first times they embodied. Perhaps they did that because they knew they'd have to interact with hoomons?

Michael Boettger

Aww, Yay is embarrassed! 😆

KingAtticus

Explains a lot though

Brent

Are we ever going to get a timeline of how long it's been in-universe since strip 001? I'd love to know how old Spookybot was in their first appearance. Also this sadly means that they're definitely not Greg (unless it's 1999 in QCverse?)

Cody Renton

bby

David Jackson

Aw poor Yay 😂 this does not help their tough persona any

They Baby

My heart, I cant

Potato Moses

Sorry shippers, I think this one just sank in port.

Connor Wilson

BABY

David Jackson