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[–] FuglyDuck@lemmy.world 18 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (3 children)

Molly is MDMA,

It’s apparently burning man and all the problem guys are freaked out by the bears tripping Molly and just staring.

The last pannel, the dude on the left is a Molly bear.

[–] BlueSquid0741@lemmy.sdf.org 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

There’s the missing link. It’s been about 20 years since I knew anyone who took mdma, and back then they called it eckies.

At risk of sounding out of touch, there’s no way I could have known what anything in panel 4 was supposed to mean.

[–] Zorque@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Speaking as a perpetual wallflower who has never been to a rave in my life, I found it understandable. Admittedly I've heard the term "molly" in reference to ecstasy, but you see as guy wide-eyed staring at someone who looks incredibly uncomfortable about it. Seems pretty obvious that's the "molly bear" that uses "prolonged eye contact" to make "uh-ohs" so uncomfortable that they either leave or at least don't come to another one.

[–] BlueSquid0741@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 20 hours ago

Understood the spirit of the comic, not the detail or terminology.

its in portland and he calls it burning man camp so im thinking its something like the old bar camp but instead of being tech its like a side party for folks who attend burning man.

[–] obinice@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

That's a man not a bear though, what does bear mean in this context?

Life is strange haha

[–] Zorque@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

Well, if it's using the term in the same way as the first couple panels, it's a big hairy gay man.