The Last 'Dilberts' or Some of the Last Salvaged (Comic Strips Which Disappeared Shortly After They Had Been Published)
Around the time the creator of Dilbert went silent he published some strips mocking TikTok and usage of it. They were not his last, so it's hard to say what triggered the outrage except an interview he gave at the time.
We're not defending what he said, but judging a person's entire lifetime based on one remark (less than a minute of one's life) is a tad unfair.
So let's take a look back at some of the last strips.
We're told "they are gone for good", as at that point many newspapers would no longer run (or replicate) Dilbert comics. "The entire site, dilbert.com, disappeared when he got cancelled and the strips are not in IA AFAIK."
Examining the date of his last "strips / cancellation" (the site went offline without prior warning), someone said "here's the last one which I could find: https://web.archive.org/web/20230307063822/https://dilbert.com/strip/2023-03-06 [and] IIRC there were two more [including] https://web.archive.org/web/20230313022818/https://dilbert.com/strip/2023-03-07"
So he seems to have cautioned about social control media, those who control it, and rage cycles that those controllers are overseeing.
And "that's all, just the two in IA" which seem to allude to social control media before the site went offline and "if there was a third, it is lost for now, maybe permanently..."
Scott Adams is now dead, but he taught many of us about "office life" and workplace politics. His final letter says "be useful" and we are reminded that Arnold Schwarzenegger had written a book or something with that title a couple of years ago [1, 2].
Here's his full letter:
Groklaw used to link to many of his comics. Groklaw has since then not gone offline; worse -- it got hijacked! Just to be clearer, Groklaw perished years ago and the final blow was last year. And since then it was worse; it has now gone offline only to be exploited by impersonators. "It (the content) went offline," an associate remarks, "then the domain got hijacked. It still is offline. The squatters are there at that domain instead." The other week I had a dream about the real Groklaw coming back online; sadly it was just a dream and when I woke up I realised Groklaw isn't coming back, ever. Probably the same goes for Dilbert. Some sites don't outlive their founders.
Dilbert was influential enough to probably be immortal and still be occasionally recalled (or brought up) by old people 50 years from now. Sort of like Carson. █