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 Title text: The MythBusters are even more sinister. |
Explanation
Snopes is a popular website for checking the validity of urban legends. In the comic, an urban legend is introduced about Snopes running a spam operations. The one character would like to disprove the urban legend, but realizes to do so he would need to quote Snopes.
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- Another urban legend? You should check out Snopes before sending me this stuff.
- Oops; yeah.
- Man, Snopes is really great--independent fact-checkers trawling our collective discourse, filtering out misinformation.
- Yeah, but they have their dark side. The couple that runs snopes.com also runs a network of spam servers that start many of those forwarded stories in the first place, ensuring they'll always have business.
- That's absurd. Plus, it's definitely not true--it was debunked by...
- Yes?
- ... Oh my God.
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First!Unpopular Opinions (talk) 17:19, 23 January 2020 (UTC)
Should it be mentioned that 509: Induced Current is related to the title text? 162.158.62.28 16:42, 23 January 2021 (UTC)
Oh my god is right. Z1mp0st0rz (talk) 20:15, 11 April 2024 (UTC) Add comment
