491: Twitter

Explain xkcd: It's 'cause you're dumb.
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If long tooltips / cut you off / then upgrade from / firefox 2 / Burma Shave
Title text: If long tooltips / cut you off / then upgrade from / firefox 2 / Burma Shave

Explanation

This comic is playing off of an old shaving cream product's advertising campaign employed on American highways from 1925 to 1963. These adds used short poems, each line arranged sequentially on a sign along a highway, the last line always being Burma Shave, the name of the shaving cream. Originally these ads only described the product, but others included driving safety messages.

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Transcript

[Cueball is sitting in a caster office chair typing onto a smartphone]
Beep Beep'
Phone: "On Twitter Feeds"
[More typing]
Phone: "An odd regression"
[More Typing]
Phone: "Ancient Memes"
[More Typing]
Phone: "Find new expression"
[More typing]
Phone: "Burma Shave"
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