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| title = The Ring | | title = The Ring | ||
| image = the_ring.png | | image = the_ring.png | ||
− | | titletext = On the other hand, poor Samara -- transcoded to FLV. No one deserves that. | + | | titletext = On the other hand, poor Samara -- transcoded to FLV. No one deserves that. |
}} | }} | ||
==Explanation== | ==Explanation== | ||
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+ | {{w|The Ring (2002 film)|The Ring}} is a {{w|horror movie}} released in 2002 based off the Japanese movie {{w|Ring (film)|Ringu}}. In it, you watch a video tape. When the tape is done, you would receive a phone call saying you will die in seven days. In the movie, the main character's son watches the tape. In the comic, he one-ups the movie by posting the video on YouTube for everyone to watch. | ||
− | + | {{w|Rickrolling}} is an Internet meme, where someone is lured into clicking on a video link, and the video they actually see is of {{w|Rick Astley}} singing "{{w|Never Gonna Give You Up}}". | |
− | + | The title text refers to the file format used by the {{w|YouTube}} player. Historically YouTube was famous for having extremely poor quality videos because their Internet connections were slower and server storage space was expensive. So, all videos were {{w|transcode}}d into a very low quality {{w|FLV}} (flash video) format. | |
− | + | The girl at the video tape (and the one that would call you) is named Samara. Even though posting it on YouTube was a clever idea, it does force Samara (which would come out of the screen) to become heavily compressed (and perhaps distorted) by the conversion to FLV. | |
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==Transcript== | ==Transcript== | ||
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:Cueball: It's worse than that. | :Cueball: It's worse than that. | ||
− | :[TV is cut from the frame | + | :[TV is cut from the frame] |
:Ponytail: ...You didn't. | :Ponytail: ...You didn't. | ||
:Cueball: Yup. | :Cueball: Yup. | ||
:[Both are now in front of a computer, Ponytail leaning in.] | :[Both are now in front of a computer, Ponytail leaning in.] | ||
− | :Ponytail: Great, | + | :Ponytail: Great, It's got 363,104 views ''already''. |
− | :Cueball: They kept Rickrolling me! | + | :Cueball: They kept Rickrolling me! It was only fair. |
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{{comic discussion}} | {{comic discussion}} | ||
[[Category:Comics featuring Cueball]] | [[Category:Comics featuring Cueball]] | ||
[[Category:Comics featuring Ponytail]] | [[Category:Comics featuring Ponytail]] | ||
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