Editing 481: Listen to Yourself
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==Explanation== | ==Explanation== | ||
| − | {{w|YouTube}} is a website for video sharing where anyone can upload and view videos. It is notorious for having some of the most ridiculous, hateful, mean-spirited, nonsensical comments of any mainstream website | + | {{w|YouTube}} is a website for video sharing where anyone can upload and view videos. It is notorious for having some of the most ridiculous, hateful, mean-spirited, nonsensical comments of any mainstream website. |
| − | [[Danish]] tells [[Black Hat]] that her computer virus | + | In the comic, [[Danish]] tells [[Black Hat]] that her computer virus reads a YouTube user's comments back to them before it is submitted. Upon hearing their own ridiculous comments read aloud to them, they will realize the stupidity of it and not submit the comment. YouTube later made this a real feature. |
| − | The title text is in reference to a post left on the Yahoo! Answers website in 2006 by a submitter known as | + | The title text is in reference to a post left on the Yahoo! Answers website in 2006 by a submitter known as “kavya,” who asks “[http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20090213024341AAXmAfL how is babby formed / how girl get pragnent].” The post picked up internet popularity and spawned several flash animations. |
==Transcript== | ==Transcript== | ||
| − | :[Black Hat approaches Danish | + | :[Black Hat approaches Danish tying at a computer.] |
:Black Hat: What are you writing? | :Black Hat: What are you writing? | ||
:Danish: Virus. | :Danish: Virus. | ||
:Black Hat: What's it do? | :Black Hat: What's it do? | ||
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:Danish: When someone tries to post a YouTube comment, it first reads it aloud back to them. | :Danish: When someone tries to post a YouTube comment, it first reads it aloud back to them. | ||
| − | + | :Soon everywhere: | |
| − | :Soon | + | :[Cueball is commenting on YouTube.] |
| − | :[Cueball is commenting on YouTube | ||
:''type type type'' | :''type type type'' | ||
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:[Youtube comment is read back.] | :[Youtube comment is read back.] | ||
| − | + | :Cueball: ...I''m a moron. | |
| − | :Cueball: ...I'm a moron. | + | :[Cueball leaves desk.] |
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| − | :[Cueball leaves desk | ||
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:[Cueball is seen sitting on steps, depressed.] | :[Cueball is seen sitting on steps, depressed.] | ||
| + | :[Cueball has head in hands.] | ||
| + | :Commenter: I... | ||
| + | :Cueball: I didn't know. | ||
| − | + | {{Comic discussion}} | |
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[[Category:Comics featuring Cueball]] | [[Category:Comics featuring Cueball]] | ||
| + | [[Category:Comics featuring Danish]] | ||
[[Category:Comics featuring Black Hat]] | [[Category:Comics featuring Black Hat]] | ||
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[[Category:YouTube]] | [[Category:YouTube]] | ||
