250: Snopes

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Snopes
The MythBusters are even more sinister.
Title text: The MythBusters are even more sinister.

Explanation

Snopes is a popular website for checking the validity of urban legends. In the comic, an urban legend is introduced about Snopes running a spam operations. Cueball would like to disprove the urban legend, but realizes to do so he would need to quote Snopes.

Such twisted situations actually do occur in real life, most tragically with arson amongst firefighters.

The title text is a suggests that the MythBusters, another group which debunks myths, are even more sinister.

Transcript

Cueball: Another urban legend? You should check out Snopes before sending me this stuff.
Friend: Oops; yeah.
Cueball: Man, Snopes is really great--independent fact-checkers trawling our collective discourse, filtering out misinformation.
Friend: Yeah, but they have their dark side. The couple that runs snopes.com also runs a network of spam servers that start many of those forwarded stories in the first place, ensuring they'll always have business.
Cueball: That's absurd. Plus, it's definitely not true--it was debunked by...
Friend: Yes?
Cueball: ...Oh my God.


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Discussion

First!Unpopular Opinions (talk) 17:19, 23 January 2020 (UTC)

Should it be mentioned that 509: Induced Current is related to the title text? 162.158.62.28 16:42, 23 January 2021 (UTC)