One of those things that’s fun about doing this for so long is you get to see the passage of time expressed with little time capsules of the moment when you go back and look through old posts.
If you recognized the original comic, congratulations, you are a Draw Play Unc. It is remarkable how quaint and foreboding it feels now. I made it during that first year of daily fantasy sports becoming widespread. Back when they were still pretending it was just a game and not gambling. Remember that? When they even paid some employees to stand in front of a courthouse and chant “game of skill”? How things change.
Not only did those apps take off, the concept of sports betting was also legalized, and everything turned into a casino. Every ad break is now Insurance, Car, Beer, AI, and Gambling. I couldn’t have even foreseen the rise of shit like Kalshi or Polymarket and the concept of betting on everything. Not as a legal app available to kids at least. The world we are in right now feels so bleak to the old me who was just annoyed at the frequency of the Draftkings ads a decade ago. We didn’t know how simple it was.
Makes me terrified for the 2036 version of this.
Since I know I’ll probably get a few questions: the OG is a reference to my old football crew in college and everything in the image you likely don’t understand is an in-joke for us.
