Are Ya Winning, Son?

The setup is timeless: a father peeks into his son's room to check on him, asking the eternal question of concerned dads everywhere. What he finds varies—usually something the son desperately wishes he hadn't seen.

The comic format emerged around 2018, drawn in a deliberately crude MS Paint style that somehow made it funnier. Dad's simple question meets whatever degenerate, cursed, or inexplicable content the son was actually consuming. The joke works because every internet user has had that moment of panic when someone walks in at the wrong time.

What elevates it beyond a simple "caught in the act" gag is the father's earnest concern. He just wants to connect. He just wants to know if his son is winning. The answer is usually no, and often in ways that can't be explained to a parent.

Six years later, the format keeps evolving. New cursed content, new contexts, same concerned dad. As long as people are doing inexplicable things on the internet, fathers will be asking if they're winning. The answer remains complicated.