1627: Woosh
| Woosh |
 Title text: It also occasionally replies with 'Comment of the year', 'Are you for real', and 'I'm taking a screenshot so I can remember this moment forever'. |
Explanation
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This explanation may be incomplete or incorrect: Very hasty draft If you can address this issue, please edit the page! Thanks. |
Replying to a comment with "woosh" generally indicates that there was a joke, and their comment failed to recognize it -- "woosh" is onomatopoeia for the joke metaphorically "flying over their head". A bot replying to comments with "woosh" at random would be very confusing, as people would search for the nonexistent joke they missed. This is similar to 559: No Pun Intended.
The title text expands on this idea, with other comments that would cause similar confusion.
Transcript
[Online comment thread]
Person 1: This video looks fake to me.
Bot: Woosh
Person 1: Huh? Everyone's acting like it's real!
Person 1: If it's a joke lots of people aren't getting it.
Person 1: What am I missing?!!
Person 1: Answer me
[Below the frame] Nothing creates more confusion than my bot that replies to random Internet comments with "Woosh".
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Looking for a joke that isn't there sounds a lot like xkcd.com/559. 162.158.2.140 05:43, 8 January 2016 (UTC)
- Woooosh! 108.162.245.181 05:48, 8 January 2016 (UTC)
- Woosh { 108.162.245.131 (talk) (please sign your comments with ~~~~)
- Woof (Guess my bot still needs some work) 162.158.153.131 08:41, 8 January 2016 (UTC)
- woof (i just gave up on it when it said woof. maybe woofbots are the next generation) -- Squishmallow fan (talk) 20:57, 20 April 2024 (please sign your comments with ~~~~)
If it was a joke video that was never meant to be real to begin with and the commenter didn't realize this, then woosh would actually make sense Figvh (talk)
- Woosh173.245.56.65 10:32, 8 January 2016 (UTC)
Probably in reaction to a video [1] that gained notoriety this week and raised a big discussion whether is was spontaneous or enacted. Duartix (talk) 11:16, 8 January 2016 (UTC)
Of course bots that auto-reply to comments can have problems of their own. Let Reddit's lolpenisbot be a cautionary tale.162.158.152.203 21:26, 8 January 2016 (UTC)
- Woosh 141.101.98.38 17:52, 9 January 2016 (UTC)
- Woosh 141.101.98.38 17:52, 9 January 2016 (UTC)
- Woosh 141.101.98.38 17:52, 9 January 2016 (UTC)
- Woosh 141.101.98.38 17:52, 9 January 2016 (UTC)
This comic seems to promote the same behaviour that he criticizes in xkcd.com/481, xkcd.com/810, xkcd.com/1258, and i'm sure others. I've seen a great deal of 'wooshing' in the past couple days, hopefully this disservice to the internet doesn't last.--162.158.152.131 11:12, 9 January 2016 (UTC)
- Woosh Spongebog (talk) 21:29, 9 January 2016 (UTC)
- Are you for real?199.27.133.41 23:31, 10 January 2016 (UTC)
- I'm taking a screenshot so I can remember this moment forever. 108.162.238.76 05:10, 15 January 2016 (UTC)
- Comment of the year Trogdor147 (talk) 01:39, 27 June 2023 (UTC)
- I'm taking a screenshot so I can remember this moment forever. 108.162.238.76 05:10, 15 January 2016 (UTC)
- Are you for real?199.27.133.41 23:31, 10 January 2016 (UTC)
https://www.reddit.com/r/xkcdwooshbot/ It now exists. Might we add this as a note on the article? Wolf9400
- Maybe in a trivia section? -Pennpenn 108.162.250.162 00:22, 14 January 2016 (UTC)
Wait, isn't this exactly the reason why explainxkcd.com exists? To look for non-existent hidden jokes in xkcd. 108.162.214.149 10:44, 20 January 2016 (UTC)
- Comment of the year.108.162.216.34 20:00, 28 November 2019 (UTC)
- Woosh 162.158.62.119 16:37, 14 July 2020 (UTC)
I think I've found something even more amazing that "woosh" that can confuse people WAY more. Ever heard of 0x10c? Try typing that on a social network like Candid and see what happens. People get so confused. xD --JayRulesXKCD what's up? 17:15, 10 February 2017 (UTC)
- 0x10c108.162.242.21 14:28, 1 November 2019 (UTC)
