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The title text escalates the joke by placing a commenter in 1954, decades before YouTube existed. This absurd anachronism implies that the time traveler’s last jump went so badly that it altered the timeline enough for YouTube to exist in the mid-20th century. Rather than questioning the impossibility of the situation, the time traveler treats it casually, blaming themself for breaking history. | The title text escalates the joke by placing a commenter in 1954, decades before YouTube existed. This absurd anachronism implies that the time traveler’s last jump went so badly that it altered the timeline enough for YouTube to exist in the mid-20th century. Rather than questioning the impossibility of the situation, the time traveler treats it casually, blaming themself for breaking history. | ||
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Revision as of 23:02, 31 December 2025
| Anyone Else Here |
 Title text: Anyone else watching this Youtube video in 1954? If so, my last trip definitely messed with the timeline. |
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This comic jokes about a familiar pattern in YouTube comment sections: people often leave comments announcing the year they are watching a video. These comments serve no practical purpose, but are nonetheless a harmless compliment implying the video is "timeless" and a memory worth revisiting.
The comic reframes this behavior as the actions of confused time travelers. Since YouTube comments frequently include statements like “Anyone else here in 2017?” or “Watching this in 2025,” the strip humorously suggests that people displaced in time use comment sections to confirm what year they’ve landed in.
The title text escalates the joke by placing a commenter in 1954, decades before YouTube existed. This absurd anachronism implies that the time traveler’s last jump went so badly that it altered the timeline enough for YouTube to exist in the mid-20th century. Rather than questioning the impossibility of the situation, the time traveler treats it casually, blaming themself for breaking history.
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Anyone here in 2050? King Pando (talk) 22:20, 31 December 2050 (UTC)
- No, I read this in 2025 and 2026 CE but 2050 CE is future many feel pass soon. 2001:4C4E:1C04:B100:A502:D45A:628D:1A70 14:11, 1 January 2026 (UTC)
oh that's what that type of comment's about Treeplate (talk)
Anybody reading this in 2525? Is man still alive? Did woman survive?Lordpishky (talk) 22:28, 31 December 2025 (UTC)
- Did they fall in love? --Aaron of Mpls (talk) 22:46, 31 December 2025 (UTC)
- What did they find?Lordpishky (talk) 02:03, 1 January 2026 (UTC)
- That is what I wonder for more than 20 years, now.--95.117.6.0 15:46, 1 January 2026 (UTC)
- They found 2526 books about string theory and 2929 about evolution, most of which were from the 21st century. They may also have found possible garden path sentences like the previous one. They also found that evolution is much slower than depicted there. 2001:4C4E:1C04:B100:A502:D45A:628D:1A70 13:56, 1 January 2026 (UTC)
- What did they find?Lordpishky (talk) 02:03, 1 January 2026 (UTC)
- Also, nobody has read this then (or even in 2100). It is 2026. 2001:4C4E:1C04:B100:A502:D45A:628D:1A70 14:02, 1 January 2026 (UTC)
Any read this 1000000 BC? Do Kroog make fire? --User 8496351 (talk) 22:46, 31 December 1000001 BC (UTC)
- No. Even 1 BC (also known as BCE) is long before the Internet. In fact, the same is true for 1900 AD (also known as CE). 2001:4C4E:1C04:B100:A502:D45A:628D:1A70 14:02, 1 January 2026 (UTC)
I'm here from exactly two years in your future. Well, perhaps not your future because... ah... best not say, just in case. 92.23.2.208 16:17, 1 January 2028 (UTC)
Why does the end of the explanation appear to have been written by AI? Am I going crazy or does that look like how ChatGPT would describe xkcd? CreatorOfWorlds (talk) 22:52, 31 December 2025 (UTC)
I wonder is that the comments never appear in chronological order is part of this joke.--95.117.6.0 15:46, 1 January 2026 (UTC)
"Anyone else here?" vs. "Anyone else now?". It's always fun overanalyzing why *this* point in space-time is a here or now, while *that* point in space-time is a there or then. 84.233.216.138 00:31, 1 January 2026 (UTC)
I’m surprised there’s no “Anyone here in 2026?” yet 50.239.67.6 05:58, 1 January 2026 (UTC)
I've travelled [1] all the way from the year 2025 to say: happy new year! 185.36.194.156 02:31, 1 January 2026 (UTC)
Anybody else get a wave of Déjà vu from this? 134.231.105.61 05:36, 1 January 2026 (UTC)
I think the explanation discounting it as a "trick" is disingenuous. It would be like calling a forum user creating a new topic "engagement farming". 64.114.211.52 06:41, 1 January 2026 (UTC)
Time travel
I don’t actually understand how this benefits time travelers. Why are they seeking others? What messages do they exchange and how?
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