Hi, I'm Dami, and I'm a webcomic artist. You may recognize me from some of my viral content hits, like 'Hotline Bling Girl' and 'Dogs are good.' What's that? You've never seen these comics before in your life? What's that? I should stop using The Verge as a platform for shameless self-promotion? Fair, but I already wrote these sentences out, and my keyboard is broken so I can't backspace.

If you are a normal human person who uses the internet to look at funny pictures, you may have noticed some disturbing similarities among the comics that popped up on your feed today. Panel after panel featured the exact same joke: a character falling victim to the ol' water-bucket-over-the-door prank in a very unoriginal April Fools' Day goof.

How could such a thing have happened? Have webcomic artists lost all respect for themselves and their craft and given into rampant plagiarism? As a comics insider, I have the inside scoop on what really happened on the inside. So hit me with the questions!

Okay brilliant insider, who really started all of this?

Alex Norris of Dorris McComics came up with the idea and shared it with a very secret Facebook group of webcomic artists who were brought together by friendship and a shared love of being validated by likes and made-up points. He drew out this sketch of his vision and artists were free to create their own interpretations of it:

So you're telling me that comic artists aren't actually mad at each other for idea theft and joke robbery?

.@PearShapedComic Hi, I’m not sure if you know this, but your comic looks awfully similar to one I posted earlier today. Could we discuss? — Olivia (@oliviawalch) April 1, 2016

so...a bunch of comics are stealing my jokes rn pic.twitter.com/QZrHSnfVhZ — ExtraFabulousComics (@extrafabulous) April 1, 2016

I thought I had friends before tonight — Jeremy Kaye (@upandoutcomic) April 1, 2016

Nope! We planned all of this!

I don't know, this looks pretty convincing.

To clear things up, I wrote the April Fools comic a long time ago. Here's the original idea with newspaper for proof pic.twitter.com/JjGaeNyqoM — Reza Farazmand (@PDLComics) April 1, 2016

Oh wow. Yeah, this looks pretty real, can't argue with that.

More artists have been getting in on the fun throughout the day, but here's a growing list of the comics that participated! And don't forget to read these amazing comics on the other 364 days of the year, too.