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This phenomenon is explained by a Google engineer [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oIkhgagvrjI on YouTube]. | This phenomenon is explained by a Google engineer [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oIkhgagvrjI on YouTube]. | ||
[[Special:Contributions/62.245.198.190|62.245.198.190]] 08:17, 12 June 2013 (UTC) | [[Special:Contributions/62.245.198.190|62.245.198.190]] 08:17, 12 June 2013 (UTC) | ||
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I think the first panel is poking fun at the complete irrelevance of merit in videos going viral (i.e. a kid crying about a celebrity or a horrible song that only got recorded because the "artist's" parents were rich). You could say it seems that merit makes a video ''less'' likely to go viral, but then you'd have to think about how a small percentage of the videos are worthy of virality, and you see that that percentage within the category of viral videos is proportionate. But, that said, a conspiracy by a dark cabal would answer more questions about this phenomenon more adequately than the commonly quoted, "people are stupid," so I think the first panel is a reference to this. Hence the, "We decree that this video meets our standards and should go viral." The explanation given above really only starts in the second panel. Plus, it wouldn't be the first time xkcd referenced and made fun of conspiracy theories.[[Special:Contributions/173.25.45.105|173.25.45.105]] 14:01, 12 June 2013 (UTC) | I think the first panel is poking fun at the complete irrelevance of merit in videos going viral (i.e. a kid crying about a celebrity or a horrible song that only got recorded because the "artist's" parents were rich). You could say it seems that merit makes a video ''less'' likely to go viral, but then you'd have to think about how a small percentage of the videos are worthy of virality, and you see that that percentage within the category of viral videos is proportionate. But, that said, a conspiracy by a dark cabal would answer more questions about this phenomenon more adequately than the commonly quoted, "people are stupid," so I think the first panel is a reference to this. Hence the, "We decree that this video meets our standards and should go viral." The explanation given above really only starts in the second panel. Plus, it wouldn't be the first time xkcd referenced and made fun of conspiracy theories.[[Special:Contributions/173.25.45.105|173.25.45.105]] 14:01, 12 June 2013 (UTC) | ||
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