741: Blogging

Explain xkcd: It's 'cause you're dumb.
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Blogging
I'm looking to virally monetize your eyeballs by selling them for transplants.
Title text: I'm looking to virally monetize your eyeballs by selling them for transplants.

Explanation

This comic is a shot at all the typical blogging and social media instruction that is given. As the person on stage indicates, he believes great content is relegated to at least part 3 of the coverage.

The person in the audience, who is representing the normal people, shows that people actually go to blogs for good content and couldn't care less about the other "strategies" the person on the stage is talking about.

Transcript

[A man stands on a stage before a large audience, holding a pointer and using it to highlight something on a :screen behind him. He interacts with a member of the audience after making a point.]

Presenter: The key to making a successful blog is building a relationship with your readers.
Audience Member: I thought it was "make your updates good so people will want to read them."
Presenter: We'll discuss content generation in part three.
Audience Member: Awesome! I _LOVE_ content.


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Discussion

This explanation seems backwards to me. As I see it, on the literal level the audience member is focused only on content, however, they don't actually get any content from Cueball. Instead, a small reporté is build between the two, which makes the audience member happy with whatever arbitrary content Cueball promises.--108.162.238.163 14:10, 28 July 2015 (UTC)

You mean "rapport"? Fixed the explanation172.68.79.81 20:15, 13 November 2016 (UTC)

The viral nature of eyeball harvesting could also be referencing the fact that once your eyes are harvested, you'll be inclined to recruit others to the service, as you now are in need of eyes to transplant! PotatoGod (talk) 01:50, 18 August 2023 (UTC)