History YMMV / Xkcd

** The [[https://xkcd.com/1357/ "Free Speech"]] comic, to the point of [[InternetBackdraft reaching infamy from sheer overuse and being seen in some circles as a thought-terminating cliche.]]

** The [[https://xkcd.com/1357/ "Free Speech"]] comic, to the point of reaching infamy from sheer overuse and being seen in some circles as a thought-terminating cliche.

** Exactly one week after this [[Blog/WhatIf What If?]] article, [[http://what-if.xkcd.com/40/ What's the worst thing that could happen in a pressure cooker?]], pressure cookers were used in bombs at the Boston Marathon in a terrorist attack.

** [[http://xkcd.com/1190/ Comic 1190, "Time"]]: Each frame is the size of a full comic, and rather than posting them all at once, the page updates every hour with a new frame. This went on continuously between March 25, 2013 and July 26th, 2013. Due to being over '''three-thousand frames long''', some have considered it a separate [[RecursiveReality webcomic within a webcomic]].

* AlternativeCharacterInterpretation: [[http://xkcd.com/374/ Read the alttext.]] Also check [[http://xkcd.com/432/ here]] and [[http://xkcd.com/322/ here]] Could it be that the Black Hat Guy is not an uncaring heartless monster, but rather someone who is unsure how to give and receive love and is frustrated with the world? Is he a JerkWithAHeartOfGold, a full-on JerkAss who just knows how to PetTheDog when he feels like it, or an insecure guy with a JerkassFacade?

* TastesLikeDiabetes: a few (some say most) of the romance-based comics. Sometimes subverted. [[http://xkcd.com/513/ Like in Strip 513.]]

** [[https://xkcd.com/375/ Comic 375 (Pod Bay Doors)]] after [[spoiler:VideoGame/LegoDimensions actually had a scene where GLaDOS and HAL 9000 have a conversation. They don't get along as well as they do in the comic, though.]]

*** A filter [[FunWithAutocensors automatically replaces]] "LOL" with "[[DrTran This cheese is burning me!]]", so the posters started writing "The cheese is lukewarm today" if they weren't impressed with strip, or "My cheese was really burned today" for good ones.

** [[http://xkcd.com/1128/ #1128]]. {{Wishbone}} does ''Literature/FiftyShadesOfGrey''.

** [[http://xkcd.com/1190/ Comic 1190, "Time"]]: Each frame is the size of a full comic, and rather than posting them all at once, the page updates every hour with a new frame. This went on continuously between March 25, 2013 and July 26th, 2013. Due to being over a thousand frames long, some have considered it a separate [[RecursiveReality webcomic within a webcomic]].

** [[http://xkcd.com/1190/ Comic 1190, "Time"]]: Each frame is the size of a full comic, and rather than posting them all at once, the page updates every hour with a new frame. This has been going on continuously since March 25, 2013, with no end in sight. With over a thousand frames long, it has become a separate [[RecursiveReality webcomic within a webcomic]]!
** As of July 26th, 2013, the comic has reached its end with 3,094 frames in total.

** [[http://xkcd.com/861/ Wisdom Teeth]] a year later when the superflat option was added to VideoGame/{{Minecraft}}.

* AcceptableTargets: string theorists, [[HardOnSoftScience liberal arts majors]], [[UsefulNotes/{{Objectivism}} Objectivists]], typographers, and {{conspiracy theorist}}s.

** The strip Flatland describes Cueball going into Flatland and being seen as a lesbian orgy overseen by a priest. In the book ''Literature/{{Flatland}}'', lines are women and circles are priests.

** ''VideoGame/SpecOpsTheLine'' has a sequence where brief bios of the enemies you kill are recited to you, which is surprisingly similar to [[http://xkcd.com/873/ this strip]].

* GeniusBonus: All over the place.