My guess why this comic is confusing people here is simply due to the fact that the Lemmy community is primarily made up of middle aged straight men, many of whom have probably dealt with bitter divorce and find the base concept of this comic impossible to relate to.
This comment has similar vibes to a boomer in the 80s saying that the Internet is useless and full of nothing but nerds arguing on forums, and he doesn’t see that changing.
Someone linked the fact check article higher up the comment chain.
You guys clearly forgot how hard it was to get up that rope in gym class.
Until you can use things like banking apps on them they will never be mainstream sadly.