Take away the last panel and it sounds like the author has a crimethink in the back of her head: "is the cure worse than the disease?". Then the last panel is the crimestop: "but I'm much better now; thank you medicine".
Perhaps the circlejerk is a celebration of the crimestop?
That's the only framework I can think of in which the comic and response makes any sense at all.
Take away the last panel and it sounds like the author has a crimethink in the back of her head: "is the cure worse than the disease?". Then the last panel is the crimestop: "but I'm much better now; thank you medicine".
Perhaps the circlejerk is a celebration of the crimestop?
That's the only framework I can think of in which the comic and response makes any sense at all.