Paul Took Me to Dorsia / Woman Comparing Man to Ex-Partners Webcomic

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Paul Took Me to Dorsia or Woman Comparing Man to Ex-Partners is a four-panel webcomic by X / Twitter user @DegeneraC_Watch in which a woman is shown beside her partner in several situations, thinking of how her past partners were better in each, with the third panel showing the two in a restaurant and reading, "Paul took me to Dorsia," which is a reference to American Psycho. The comic, which was purportedly generated with AI, was originally posted to X in April 2024 and was reposted numerous times over the following months, inspiring photoshops or recaption memes that replace the captions and discourse surrounding the comic's contents.

Origin

On April 21st, 2024, X^[1] user @DegeneraC_Watch posted a four-panel webcomic in which a woman is shown next to her partner in a different location in each panel, thinking about how an aspect of a different past partner is better than him. Along with the comic, the user writes, "The more pre-marital partners a person has had, the less special their spouse will be to them when they eventually marry." The post gained around 80 likes in two months (shown below).

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On April 26th, 2024, X^[2] user @lporiginalg reposted the comic, garnering over 81,000 likes and 7,200 reposts in two months. The comic inspired some discourse after it was posted. For example, X^[3] user @Duderichy quote-reposted it, writing, "you can tell a man made this bc women don’t care what you drive," garnering over 69,000 likes in two months (shown below, left).

On May 5th, X^[4] user @BlackRedGuard1 posted, "man yall are gonna be miserable and alone forever letting cartoons made by miserable ass dudes get in your head," garnering over 1,000 likes in a month (shown below, right).

On June 19th, 2024, X^[5] user @WomenBeingAwful reposted the comic, writing, "How do you feel about this? Is it accurate?" garnering over 36,000 likes in five days. That day, Tristan Tate posted an edit of the comic to X,^[6] writing, "Fixed it," replacing the names of the ex-partners with his own name, garnering over 2,800 likes in five days (shown below).

Later that day, X^[7] user @literally_chad posted a version of the meme altering the captions, writing, "Two can play this game, and I've actually spoken to women so mine is [real]," garnering over 950 likes in five days (shown below, left). On June 20th, X^[8] user @AnimeSerbia quote-reposted the comic, writing, "Are we just going to ignore the 'Paul took me to Dorsia' line," garnering over 65,000 likes in four days.

On June 21st, 2024, X^[9] user @ElGranSenglar quote-reposted the comic, writing, "A lot of incel content like this is supposed to push normalish guys who might have difficulties with dating over the edge into outright misogyny imo," garnering over 22,000 likes in three days (shown below, right).