3116: Echo Chamber - Revision history

1234231587678 at 20:09, 13 September 2025

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2A02:6EA0:E606:2640:0:0:0:11: If the echo chamber is "almost as bad as" the fishing expedition, then the fishing expedition was worse than the echo chamber.

2025-09-06T03:02:55Z

If the echo chamber is "almost as bad as" the fishing expedition, then the fishing expedition was worse than the echo chamber.

Mathmaster: /* Explanation */

2025-08-27T22:43:27Z

‎Explanation

71.46.92.136: Undo revision 384942 by 2001:67C:2628:647:32:704:0:357 (talk)

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Undo revision 384942 by 2001:67C:2628:647:32:704:0:357 (talk)

2001:67C:2628:647:32:704:0:357 at 18:01, 24 August 2025

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CalibansCreations: /* Explanation */

2025-08-12T16:15:04Z

‎Explanation

FaviFake: jeez it's not that complicated

2025-08-12T06:51:00Z

jeez it's not that complicated

82.132.236.41: /* Trivia */

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‎Trivia

Sophocrat: added Trivia section about the faint grey letters behind the caption

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added Trivia section about the faint grey letters behind the caption

Xurkitree10: /* Transcript */

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‎Transcript

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 ==Transcript==
-:[Cueball is sitting on a chair with his hands covering his ears. He is in a circular room with a phone on a stand. All words coming out of the phone are repeated everywhere, getting larger and less opaque]
+:[Cueball is sitting on a chair with his hands covering his ears. He is in a circular room with a phone on a stand in front of him. All words coming out of the phone are repeated everywhere, getting larger and less opaque]
 :Phone: Here's Mittens falling into the laundry hamper for the <u>third</u> time today!

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 [[Cueball]] appears to have confused the two and built a physical chamber designed to echo back the sound of videos he is watching on social media. Unsurprisingly to the reader, but apparently not to Cueball, this turns out to be very annoying. Specifically, he appears to be watching cat videos, which are stereotypical social media content, but not usually the kind that produces accusations of 'echo chambers'. The "Mittens" mentioned in the audio is a stereotypical cat name.
-Similarly, the "partisan fishing expedition" referenced in the title text has differing metaphorical and real-life interpretations. A metaphorical "fishing expedition" is an investigation begun on flimsy or no evidence to try to find unsavory or incriminating behavior. When such an investigation is motivated by political considerations in favor of one particular political party, it may be referred to as a "partisan fishing expedition". A "purely partisan fishing expedition" would involve a trip to catch actual fish where all the people on the fishing trip were either {{w|partisan (politics)|committed members of one political party}}, {{w|partisan (military)|members of domestic irregular military forces}}, or possibly one where such people were the intended catch. Alternatively, it could be a {{w|spearfishing}} expedition, as a {{w|partisan (weapon)|partisan}} is a type of polearm. It is unclear what strange mashup of the above Cueball found himself involved in, but at the very least it turned out to be deeply unsatisfying, if not actually dangerous, though a better experience than the echo chamber.
+Similarly, the "partisan fishing expedition" referenced in the title text has differing metaphorical and real-life interpretations. A metaphorical "fishing expedition" is an investigation begun on flimsy or no evidence to try to find unsavory or incriminating behavior. When such an investigation is motivated by political considerations in favor of one particular political party, it may be referred to as a "partisan fishing expedition". A "purely partisan fishing expedition" would involve a trip to catch actual fish where all the people on the fishing trip were either {{w|partisan (politics)|committed members of one political party}}, {{w|partisan (military)|members of domestic irregular military forces}}, or possibly one where such people were the intended catch. Alternatively, it could be a {{w|spearfishing}} expedition, as a {{w|partisan (weapon)|partisan}} is a type of polearm. It is unclear what strange mashup of the above Cueball found himself involved in, but at the very least it turned out to be deeply unsatisfying, if not actually dangerous, and a worse experience than the echo chamber.
 ==Transcript==

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 ==Explanation==
-An {{w|echo chamber}} is a structure designed to maximise acoustic reverberation, and therefore echoes. In cultural terms, and particularly with social media, a ''metaphorical'' {{w|Echo chamber (media)|echo chamber}} reverberates the opinions of a group of individuals so that those individuals perceive those opinions as being the social norm.  This has resulted in {{w|political polarisation}} and to conspiracy theories such as {{w|Pizzagate conspiracy theory|Pizzagate}}.
+A literal {{w|echo chamber}} is a structure designed to maximise acoustic reverberation, and therefore echoes. In cultural terms, and particularly with social media, a ''metaphorical'' {{w|Echo chamber (media)|echo chamber}} reverberates the opinions of a group of individuals so that those individuals perceive those opinions as being the social norm, and don't receive opinions from opposing groups.  This has resulted in {{w|political polarisation}} and to conspiracy theories such as {{w|Pizzagate conspiracy theory|Pizzagate}}.
 [[Cueball]] appears to have confused the two and built a physical chamber designed to echo back the sound of videos he is watching on social media. Unsurprisingly to the reader, but apparently not to Cueball, this turns out to be very annoying. Specifically, he appears to be watching cat videos, which are stereotypical social media content, but not usually the kind that produces accusations of 'echo chambers'. The "Mittens" mentioned in the audio is a stereotypical cat name.

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 ==Explanation==
-{{notice2|<big><big><big><big><big><big><big><big><big><big><big><big>CRAPPED{{:{{PAGENAME}}}}}}
+An {{w|echo chamber}} is a structure designed to maximise acoustic reverberation, and therefore echoes. In cultural terms, and particularly with social media, a ''metaphorical'' {{w|Echo chamber (media)|echo chamber}} reverberates the opinions of a group of individuals so that those individuals perceive those opinions as being the social norm.  This has resulted in {{w|political polarisation}} and to conspiracy theories such as {{w|Pizzagate conspiracy theory|Pizzagate}}.
 [[Cueball]] appears to have confused the two and built a physical chamber designed to echo back the sound of videos he is watching on social media. Unsurprisingly to the reader, but apparently not to Cueball, this turns out to be very annoying. Specifically, he appears to be watching cat videos, which are stereotypical social media content, but not usually the kind that produces accusations of 'echo chambers'. The "Mittens" mentioned in the audio is a stereotypical cat name.

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 ==Explanation==
-An {{w|echo chamber}} is a structure designed to maximise acoustic reverberation, and therefore echoes. In cultural terms, and particularly with social media, a ''metaphorical'' {{w|Echo chamber (media)|echo chamber}} reverberates the opinions of a group of individuals so that those individuals perceive those opinions as being the social norm.  This has resulted in {{w|political polarisation}} and to conspiracy theories such as {{w|Pizzagate conspiracy theory|Pizzagate}}.
+{{notice2|<big><big><big><big><big><big><big><big><big><big><big><big>CRAPPED{{:{{PAGENAME}}}}}}
 [[Cueball]] appears to have confused the two and built a physical chamber designed to echo back the sound of videos he is watching on social media. Unsurprisingly to the reader, but apparently not to Cueball, this turns out to be very annoying. Specifically, he appears to be watching cat videos, which are stereotypical social media content, but not usually the kind that produces accusations of 'echo chambers'. The "Mittens" mentioned in the audio is a stereotypical cat name.

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 ==Trivia==
-Faint grey letters can be seen behind the letters of the comic caption. This is presumably a remnant of the drafting process Randall commonly uses in his comics, although this is usually more obvious when the original spacing and layout is significantly different, unlike this example which seems to have been solidified almost exactly the same as this possible original tracing. It could also be an entirely intentional artefact, as depicting further subtle "echoes".
+Faint grey letters can be seen behind the letters of the comic caption. This is presumably a remnant of the drafting process Randall commonly uses in his comics left there by mistake, although it could be an intentional artefact, as depicting further subtle "echoes".
 {{comic discussion}}<noinclude>
 [[Category:Comics featuring Cueball]]

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 :[Caption below panel:]
 :Now that I've built one, I finally get why people complain about social media echo chambers.
 {{comic discussion}}<noinclude>
 [[Category:Comics featuring Cueball]]

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