Line #22 Trivia/Xkcd


1	* [[ReferencedBy/{{XKCD}} Referenced By]]
2	!Listed Trivia:
3	* AuthorPhobia: Randall's alleged fear of velociraptors, PlayedForLaughs.
4	* ColbertBump: Courtesy of [[http://www.slate.com/blogs/bad_astronomy/2013/08/19/xkcd_and_exoplanets_randall_munroe_names_names.html Slate]]. Boingboing linking to the "sudo" strip is what really made the comic popular.
5	* CreatorBreakdown:
6	** In 2010 Munroe's fiancee discovered she had cancer. Coincidentally, [[http://xkcd.com/1048/ quite a few comics]] he wrote afterward touch on the subject. At one point, he explained that the comics were, obviously, drawn from from things he was thinking and learning about, and right then cancer was looming large in his life.
7	** To a lesser extent, a number of strips from late 2015 seem to focus on a particularly nasty cold Munroe came down with.
8	* CreatorWorship: A literal case. Randall Munroe, the creator of the comic, is referred to as Great Lord Randall and is something like a god for the fans.
9	* {{Defictionalization}}:
10	** wetriffs.com, mentioned in [[http://xkcd.com/305/ a spoof of]] RuleThirtyFour, was briefly made a real website, though it has since shut down.
11	** [[http://bobcatinabox.com/ There now exists]] a service to do [[http://xkcd.com/576/ exactly this.]] And it's even called [[http://xkcd.com/325/ Bobcat In A Box]].
12	* DistancedFromCurrentEvents: "No One Was Hurt", originally uploaded on July 6th, 2022, was taken down shortly thereafter. While no explanation was officially given, [[https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/No_One_Was_Hurt explain xkcd]] suggests that it may have been in response to a wave of shootings across the USA during Independence Day celebrations, which would make a comic titled "No One Was Hurt" seem [[HarsherInHindsight somewhat distasteful]].
13	* LifeImitatesArt: It's happened a few times.
14	** After the strip [[http://xkcd.com/481/ proposed a virus]] that forces Website/YouTube users to listen to their comment read back to them by a computerized voice before they can post it, Website/YouTube implemented an auto-reader feature into the site. It eventually was removed.
15	** The day after [[http://xkcd.com/541/ this strip]] ran, claiming that Randall has been banned from a number of conferences for making stupid presentations, including [=PyCon=], the [=PyCon=] blog jokingly confirmed that he (and any stick figures, [[JerkAss particularly wearing hats]]) [[http://pycon.blogspot.com/2009/02/randall-munroe.html were indeed banned]].
16	** In [[http://xkcd.com/1337/ "Hack"]], the characters gain control of ISEE-3, an unused but still-working satellite. Not long after, a crowd-funded group of astronomers [[http://blog.xkcd.com/2014/05/30/isee-3/ did this for real]]!
17	* MilestoneCelebration: [[http://www.xkcd.com/1000/ Only 24 Comics left till the real milestone!]]
18	* MutuallyFictional: A really subtle one with ''Webcomic/QuestionableContent'' and ''Webcomic/{{xkcd}}''. Marigold wears an xkcd shirt [[http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1625 here]], and [[http://xkcd.com/574/ this]] xkcd comic shows one of Hannelore's Twitter posts.
19	* RecycledScript: [[https://xkcd.com/973/ This]] 2011 strip is about people complaning about the "MTV Generation" as if it means "kids today" even though it hasn't been accurate for decades. [[https://xkcd.com/2165/ This]] 2019 strip is the same joke for "Millennials" being used for college-age, even though the older millennials have their own kids in college now.
20	* ScheduleSlip: When no comic hit the site on Friday, 4/1/06, this was written on the front page:
21	-->The xkcd April 1st [2016] comic is currently experiencing technical difficulties.
22	-->Status update: Please stand by.
23	-->Status update: This is fine. Everything is fine.
24	-->Status update: Everything is on fire.
25	-->Status update: Searching for calendar systems in which Saturday is April 1st.
26	-->''(The next day...)''
27	-->The Friday xkcd comic is currently experiencing technical difficulties [Editor's note: Everything is on fire] and has been delayed until Sunday night.
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29	!Miscellaneous trivia and information
30	* [[http://xkcd.com/954/ 954: Chin-Up Bar]] takes place on a 70-meter long escalator, described as the "longest in the country" -- this appears to be a reference to the escalator at [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wheaton_(WMATA_station) Wheaton Metro Station]] in the Washington, DC Metro system. At the time of publishing (September 2011), this was, in fact, the longest single-span escalator in the Western hemisphere.

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