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 :[Stephenie Meyer is shown sitting facing right and chatting at her computer. She get's a reply from the screen. It looks like she actually speaks the lines of text to someone, but she only types it in via the keyboard. This becomes clear in the next panel where the pimpled boy she talks to obviously types his reply on the keyboard. Across the top border of the frame is a smaller frame with a caption:]
-:Hours Later:
+:Hours later:
 :Stephenie Meyer (typing): Hi, it's Stephenie Meyer. Fine, you don't like my books. But please leave us alone.
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 :Stephenie Meyer (from computer): Okay. Just remember, I gave you a chance. <code>*Disconnected*</code>.
-:[A page from a book is shown lying slanted across the panel. Some of the text is thus cut off at the edges of the frame. The first eight lines can be read clearly, even though the last letter in both the 2nd and sixth line is partly cut-off. Below that there are four incomplete lines, where only the visible part will be transcribed, but a good guess at the missing text is written in square brackets. Across the top border of the frame is a smaller frame with a caption:]
+:[A page from a book is shown lying slanted across the panel. Some of the text is thus cut off at the edges of the frame. The first eight lines can be read clearly, even though the last letter in both the 2nd and sixth line is partly cut off. Below that there are four incomplete lines, where only the visible part will be transcribed, but a good guess at the missing text is written in square brackets. Across the top border of the frame is a smaller frame with a caption:]
-:Six Months Later:
+:Six months later:
 :Vampires! Book VI
-:Edward ran a pale hand
+:Edward ran a pale hand through his perfect golden-bronze hair, then signed on to 4chan.org, the darkest place on the internet, where all his vampire compatriots  spent their time.
-:through his perfect golden-
+:Suddenly, there was [a] [sha]rp knock at the d[oor] [?] swept in [?] [?r?]ing [?]
 :[Another list of post comments alongside pictures on the same website as in the first panel.  The first picture shows a man with black hair and a woman with long hair standing with their backs against each other (probably Edward and Bella from the books). The second picture is just a white frame with the text Dawnz. The third picture shows a person from the chest and up. The person has black hair and black clothes, with some kind of collar. The fourth and last picture shows two chess piece a large one in front of the other. The picture is shown completely but the text message seems to be more than two lines long, but only the top two lines are shown. Across the top border of the frame is a smaller frame with a caption:]
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 :[Back to the boy with lots of pimples now sitting resigned at his computer without typing.]
-:Hairy: Oh... Oh God.
+:Pimpled boy: Oh... oh God.
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 {{w|Stephenie Meyer}} is the author of the {{w|Twilight (novel series)|Twilight novels}}, a series of young adult {{w|vampire}} novels. The series was highly successful with a large base of (largely teenaged and young adult) fans, but also has a huge number of detractors.
-{{w|4chan}}, is an {{w|imageboard}} with the feature to post anonymously. Due to its anonymity, the site has become notorious as a gathering point for {{w|troll (internet)|trolls}} (as well as a number of other unsavory groups).
+{{w|4chan}}, is an {{w|imageboard}} with the feature to post anonymously. Due to its anonymity and lack of content restrictions that most other sites have, the site became notorious as a gathering point for {{w|troll (internet)|trolls}} (as well as a number of other unsavory groups).
-This strip depicts a fictional conflict between Meyer and a group of 4chan users. 4chan is used to coordinate an attack on a Twilight board, likely blanketing the forum with verbal attacks, offensive language, and other posts designed to offend and upset fans of the series. Stephenie Meyer intervenes, asking them to stop, but a representative 4chan user, accustomed to anonymous trolling having no consequences, laughs off her request. In response, Meyer writes 4chan into her next novel, presenting it as a haven for vampires. As she presumably intends, this draws huge numbers of ''Twilight'' fans into the forum, crowding out other users and likely rendering it unusable (or at least less usable) to its original user base.
+This strip depicts a fictional conflict between Meyer and a group of 4chan users. 4chan is used to coordinate an attack on a Twilight board, likely blanketing the forum with verbal attacks, offensive language, and other posts designed to offend and upset fans of the series. Stephenie Meyer intervenes, asking them on 4chan to stop, but a representative 4chan user responds "Show us your tits", a command stereotypically directed by 4chan's denizens at users believed to be female. Accustomed to anonymous trolling having no consequences, the user mocks her request.
 The title text refers to {{w|Walt Kelly}}'s famous {{w|Pogo_(comic_strip)#.22We_have_met_the_enemy_and_he_is_us..22|saying}}. Kelly used it to refer to all of mankind, whereas here it refers to the users of 4chan, by bringing on the enemy of their forum themselves.

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 == Explanation ==
-{{w|Stephenie Meyer}} is the author of the {{w|Twilight (novel series)|Twilight novels}}, a series of {{w|vampire}} novels popular with young teens. It is a love it or hate it type of novel, with a large following and a large portion of haters as well.
+{{w|Stephenie Meyer}} is the author of the {{w|Twilight (novel series)|Twilight novels}}, a series of young adult {{w|vampire}} novels. The series was highly successful with a large base of (largely teenaged and young adult) fans, but also has a huge number of detractors.
-In the comic, {{w|4chan}}, an {{w|imageboard}}, is featured. Imageboards such as 4chan have the feature to post anonymously. The users of 4chan launch an attack on a Twilight board and Stephenie Meyer asks them to stop. When they refuse, Meyer writes 4chan into her next novel, thereby drawing in a large number of fans of her novel as a counter-attack to what 4chan ran on the Twilight forum. This results in what the original 4chan users consider a ruined imageboard.
+{{w|4chan}}, is an {{w|imageboard}} with the feature to post anonymously. Due to its anonymity, the site has become notorious as a gathering point for {{w|troll (internet)|trolls}} (as well as a number of other unsavory groups).
-The title of the comic is drawn from the internet slang term {{w|troll (internet)|troll}}, which refers to actively attempting to get a rise out of a forum. In this instance, 4chan attempted to troll a Twilight board and Meyer acted against the troll, making her a "slayer" of them. Obviously the pimpled boy she chats with is very dismayed by this result, as there are now so many more vampire-book-fans than computer geeks on 4chan, and they cannot get through with any of their funny/evil plans anymore. There may also be a reference to the famous {{w|vampire slayer}} known as {{w|Buffy the Vampire Slayer|Buffy}}, seeing that Stephenie's main character vampires do not need to be slain, but she then turns on those who tries to do so in real life on the message board.
+This strip depicts a fictional conflict between Meyer and a group of 4chan users. 4chan is used to coordinate an attack on a Twilight board, likely blanketing the forum with verbal attacks, offensive language, and other posts designed to offend and upset fans of the series. Stephenie Meyer intervenes, asking them to stop, but a representative 4chan user, accustomed to anonymous trolling having no consequences, laughs off her request. In response, Meyer writes 4chan into her next novel, presenting it as a haven for vampires. As she presumably intends, this draws huge numbers of ''Twilight'' fans into the forum, crowding out other users and likely rendering it unusable (or at least less usable) to its original user base.
 The title text refers to {{w|Walt Kelly}}'s famous {{w|Pogo_(comic_strip)#.22We_have_met_the_enemy_and_he_is_us..22|saying}}. Kelly used it to refer to all of mankind, whereas here it refers to the users of 4chan, by bringing on the enemy of their forum themselves.

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	The title text refers to {{w\|Walt Kelly}}'s famous {{w\|Pogo_(comic_strip)#.22We_have_met_the_enemy_and_he_is_us..22\|saying}}. Kelly used it to refer to all of mankind, whereas here it refers to the users of 4chan, by bringing on the enemy of their forum themselves.		The title text refers to {{w\|Walt Kelly}}'s famous {{w\|Pogo_(comic_strip)#.22We_have_met_the_enemy_and_he_is_us..22\|saying}}. Kelly used it to refer to all of mankind, whereas here it refers to the users of 4chan, by bringing on the enemy of their forum themselves.
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		+	From ''[[xkcd: volume 0]]'':
		+	{{quote\|Some 4channers wrote in to complain I was violating [https://www.4chan.org/rules rules] 1 and 2. Some 4channers are a little slow on the uptake.}}

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 :LOL face picture: Lol angsty teens.
-:[Stephenie Meyer is shown sitting facing right and chatting at her computer. She get's a reply from the screen. It looks like she actually speaks the lines of text to someone, but she only types it in via the keyboard. This becomes clear in in the next panel where the pimpled boy she talks to obviously types his reply on the keyboard. Across the top border of the frame is a smaller frame with a caption:]
+:[Stephenie Meyer is shown sitting facing right and chatting at her computer. She get's a reply from the screen. It looks like she actually speaks the lines of text to someone, but she only types it in via the keyboard. This becomes clear in the next panel where the pimpled boy she talks to obviously types his reply on the keyboard. Across the top border of the frame is a smaller frame with a caption:]
 :Hours Later:

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 }}
-== Keemstar ==
+== Explanation ==
->NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO YOU CAN'T JUST EXPLOIT NfgfdGGER CATTLE GdfsYIM SUBdfsMANS PAYING THEM DIRT LOW WAGES AND WORKING THEM TO THE BONE NEARLY DRIVING TO SUICIDE ALL TO BUY YOURSELF A NICE MANSION AND A YACHT!!!!! THAT'S LE BAD AND IMMORAL!!!! YOU CAN'T JUST IMPORT MILLIONS OF REdfsTAfdsED BROWN SUdfsBHdfsMANdfS TO PLUMMET THE WAGES AND MANIPULATE HOUSE PRICES SO THAT EVERYONE REMAINS A RENTKdfsEK TILL THE END OF THEIR DAYS!!!! YOU CAN'T JUST OUTSOURCE JOBS TO SMELLY PretdsgfJEETS WORKING FOR 1$/HOUR IN INdfsDdfsA AND AUTOMATE THE REST!!!!!! YOU CAN'T BRAINWASH DsdffdsdfK MONGOLOIDS INTO CARING ONLY ABOUT THE CURRENT THING ALL THE WHILE MAKING THEM POORER AND UNHAPPIER AND ENRICHING YOURSELF!!!! THAT'S... THAT'S LE BAD!!!!!!!!! YOU CAN'T TURN SOULLESS GOdfsdfsM SUBfsdfsdAN CATTLE NdfsdfsdfsRS BARELY DESERVING OF LIFE INTO OBESE UNHEALTHY GOLEMS ADDICTED TO PdfsOGRAPHY SOCIAL MEDIA AND CORN SYRUP FAST FOOD WITH MICROPLASTICS AND TdsfNY HORMONES!!!!!!!!!!!!!! YOU CAN'T JUST DUMP MILLIONS OF TONNS OF TOXIC POLLUTANTS INTO THE AIR AND WATER KILLING OFF ALL WILDLIFE AND CAUSING CLIMATE CHANGE AND THEN LOCK UP EVERYONE IN THE PODS AND FORCE THEM TO EAT BUGS BECAUSE OF IT!!!!!!!!!! YOU CAN'T JUST BRAINWASH WOMEN INTO BECOMING EGOMANIACAL WdsfdsfS ONLY SLEEPING WITH TOP 1% GIGACHADS, YOU CAN'T JUST TURN MOST OF MEN INTO LOSER INCELS READY TO BLOW UP SCHOOLS WITH OTHER CATTLE SdfsHUMANS!!!!!!!!THAT'S LE EVIL!!!!!!!!!!
+{{w|Stephenie Meyer}} is the author of the {{w|Twilight (novel series)|Twilight novels}}, a series of {{w|vampire}} novels popular with young teens. It is a love it or hate it type of novel, with a large following and a large portion of haters as well.
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 == Explanation ==
-The worst fear of edgy /pol/faced rightoids is being mocked as impotent.
+{{w|Stephenie Meyer}} is the author of the {{w|Twilight (novel series)|Twilight novels}}, a series of {{w|vampire}} novels popular with young teens. It is a love it or hate it type of novel, with a large following and a large portion of haters as well.
-It's okay to be ugly, undesirable, even a cdsfm-guzzling didfsaper-sdfscat bottom-furry. As long as - deep down - they're feared.
+In the comic, {{w|4chan}}, an {{w|imageboard}}, is featured. Imageboards such as 4chan have the feature to post anonymously. The users of 4chan launch an attack on a Twilight board and Stephenie Meyer asks them to stop. When they refuse, Meyer writes 4chan into her next novel, thereby drawing in a large number of fans of her novel as a counter-attack to what 4chan ran on the Twilight forum. This results in what the original 4chan users consider a ruined imageboard.
-Liberals of course play right into this by portraying rightoids (including /pol/faced mass shooters) as a terrifying unstoppable evil that should be feared by the masses. Something they get off to. Every. Time.
+The title of the comic is drawn from the internet slang term {{w|troll (internet)|troll}}, which refers to actively attempting to get a rise out of a forum. In this instance, 4chan attempted to troll a Twilight board and Meyer acted against the troll, making her a "slayer" of them. Obviously the pimpled boy she chats with is very dismayed by this result, as there are now so many more vampire-book-fans than computer geeks on 4chan, and they cannot get through with any of their funny/evil plans anymore. There may also be a reference to the famous {{w|vampire slayer}} known as {{w|Buffy the Vampire Slayer|Buffy}}, seeing that Stephenie's main character vampires do not need to be slain, but she then turns on those who tries to do so in real life on the message board.
-/pol/ has been mocked for years, going back to the 7+1chan days. So far nothing stuck. Leaders exposed as ziondfssts and pedodfsles? Nothing. Furfdsries and Nazis in drag? Nothing. Hypocrisy? Statistics? Actually existing white genocide by rightoids? Nothing.
+The pictures used on the two panels showing the 4chan imageboard tells a lot about their users. It is unclear what the text page refers to. And also what it is that [[Cueball]] is standing next to. But a black hat, as shown in the third picture is typical for an internet troll (see the xkcd version of [[Black Hat]]), and also the guy saying {{w|LOL}} is already laughing out loud at you before you read his text. He also LOL's in his comment about the angsty teens that reads the books, and whom he looks forward to trolling.
-The /pol/face though made them melt down within 24 hours. To be the point they've spend days spamming with thousands of IPs to prove how "not mad" they are. (Mind that they've never done this before)
+In the second 4chan panel all four images relate to ''Twilight''. The first picture most likely depicts {{w|Edward Cullen}} and {{w|Bella Swan}} (from the movies) standing with their backs against each other. This person enjoys being anonymous.
-And before you say "words words words" or "da left cant meeem" here's a TLDR: You're impotent, inadequate, powerless. And deep down you know it.
+The title text refers to {{w|Walt Kelly}}'s famous {{w|Pogo_(comic_strip)#.22We_have_met_the_enemy_and_he_is_us..22|saying}}. Kelly used it to refer to all of mankind, whereas here it refers to the users of 4chan, by bringing on the enemy of their forum themselves.
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