Fear

This is a famous satirical webcomic (often called the “Look at the Invisible Threat” or “Fear of the Unseen” comic) that mocks how fear works in modern society, especially in politics and media.
Here’s the full sequence and what it means:

A man in a movie theater points at three tiny, harmless dots floating in the air and looks terrified.
The screen goes blurry — nothing is visible.
The man starts screaming and panicking, grabbing a younger people and shouting about the danger.
Everyone in the theater stares in horror at the screen that still shows absolutely nothing.
The man keeps pointing at tiny specks barely visible to the naked eye.
The movie ends (“-END-“), but the audience is now completely traumatized.
Later, outside, the man is still hysterically pointing at the sky yelling “FEAR!!”
He drags random people to rooftops still screaming about the invisible danger.
Final panel: ghostly screaming faces float in the darkness labeled “UNSEEN THREAT.”

The message (satirical but sharp):
People can be manipulated into extreme, irrational fear by being told something terrifying is there — even when there’s little or no visible evidence. Once the fear takes hold, they’ll keep seeing threats everywhere, spread the panic to others, and remain terrified long after the original “stimulus” is gone.
It’s commonly used to criticize fear-based propaganda, moral panics, overblown terrorism alerts, certain conspiracy theories, or media-driven hysteria where the actual threat is minuscule or imaginary, but the emotional reaction becomes massive and self-perpetuating.
In short: “If you scare people about an invisible enemy, they’ll stay afraid forever — even when there’s nothing there.”

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