Comment on Uranium 🤤

frunch@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

• accideath@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

  It‘s not original. The joke originated in xkcd 821 (Five Minute Comics Pt. 3), however it was a little different still. The wording (besides the slur) stems from xkcd creator Randall Munroe‘s book What if?.

  If you compare the image to actual xkcds, you’ll notice, that the font is different.

  Also, I found a picture of the comic from the book on pinterest.

  Can’t have people think xkcds could be this tasteless.

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  • MeatsOfRage@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

    Weird, why would someone rewrite a joke to land on the same punchline

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    • accideath@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

      I mean, the first rewrite (by Munroe himself) was probably just turning a 5min doodle into a clean, more streamlined comic.

      The n-word one probably just to be edgy.

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      • Lemjukes@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

        Edgy = racist but a coward about it

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  • frunch@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

    Ahhh thanks for the clarification! I should have known ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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• Railing5132@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

  I can’t remember the # of the original, but I’m certain that’s not what it said. Randall wouldn’t use that, and that’s not his font.

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  • Kusimulkku@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

    It seems to be from his “What If” book and it wasn’t “nigga” but “dude”

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    • Railing5132@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

      Confirmed. The one ‘reference’ book I have on my desk. Page 3. The font and line layout is completely changed. The last sentence reads: “and the wolf was like, “dude.””

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• LemmyKnowsBest@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

  It looks like a generic XKCD

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