You Went Above the Line

YOU WENT ABOVE THE LINE

A three-panel sequence shows a brick building wall with pink paint and the message “YOU WENT ABOVE THE LINE,” followed by a worker pressure-washing it, while the pink-painted wall remains afterward. The joke is that cleaning the wall removes the surrounding grime but fails to remove the graffiti or message, making the cleanup look pointless. It is used as a reaction to ineffective attempts to fix or erase something. EN: A three-panel sequence shows a brick building wall with pink paint and the message “YOU WENT ABOVE THE LINE,” followed by a worker pressure-washing it, while the pink-painted wall remains afterward. The joke is that cleaning the wall removes the surrounding grime but fails to remove the graffiti or message, making the cleanup look pointless. It is used as a reaction to ineffective attempts to fix or erase something.

• @afrosidemoon / 59662 2023-09-26