--- title: Another Caption That Works for Every New Yorker Cartoon description: “What a misunderstanding” has been supplanted by the caption for our tech-obsessed times canonical: https://time.com/4046328/new-yorker-linkedin-caption/ author: Denver Nicks article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-09-23T15:37:02.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:25:07.381Z og:title: Another Caption That Works for Every New Yorker Cartoon og:description: “What a misunderstanding” has been supplanted by the caption for our tech-obsessed times og:url: https://time.com/4046328/new-yorker-linkedin-caption/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Another Caption That Works for Every New Yorker Cartoon twitter:description: “What a misunderstanding” has been supplanted by the caption for our tech-obsessed times twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # This Genius Figured Out the Perfect Caption For Every _New Yorker_ Cartoon > Sponsored content. 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Every edition is assembled by TIME editors rather than generated automatically.  by [Denver Nicks](https://time.com/author/denver-nicks/)  ## Denver Nicks Sep 23, 2015 3:37 PM UTC  by [Denver Nicks](https://time.com/author/denver-nicks/)  ## Denver Nicks Sep 23, 2015 3:37 PM UTC Film critic Roger Ebert famously claimed to have entered nearly every _New Yorker_ cartoon caption contest since its inception before he [finally](http://newsfeed.time.com/2011/09/14/the-great-uniter-even-celebrities-fail-to-win-the-new-yorkers-caption-contest/) came up with one that passed muster. He may have had better luck just repeatedly trying out this caption, discovered by New York-based designer and apparent cartoon genius Frank Chimero. It seems to work for every cartoon in these hyperconnected times of ours. > [](https://twitter.com/frank%5Fchimero/status/646389331947614209) > [](https://twitter.com/frank%5Fchimero/status/646391288930148353) > [](https://twitter.com/frank%5Fchimero/status/646390063283208192) Chimero’s isn’t the first universal caption—as pointed out by [the _Atlantic_](http://www.theatlantic.com/notes/2015/09/a-new-universal-new-yorker-cartoon-caption-id-like-to-add-you-to-my-professional-network-linkedin/406783/), there are two blogs dedicated to applying two other universal captions to every cartoon: “What a misunderstanding,” and “Christ, what an a\*\*hole.” Chimero has officially entered his caption in the _New Yorker_‘s caption contest this week. > [](https://twitter.com/frank%5Fchimero/status/646675369395888128) Fingers crossed. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4046328/new-yorker-linkedin-caption/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4046328/new-yorker-linkedin-caption/"},"headline":"This Genius Figured Out the Perfect Caption For Every New Yorker Cartoon","datePublished":"2015-09-23T15:37:02.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:25:07.381Z","description":"“What a misunderstanding” has been supplanted by the caption for our tech-obsessed times","url":"https://time.com/4046328/new-yorker-linkedin-caption/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Tech","Cartoons","LinkedIn"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Denver Nicks","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/denver-nicks/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4046328/new-yorker-linkedin-caption/","name":"This Genius Figured Out the Perfect Caption For Every New Yorker Cartoon"}}]}] ```