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==Explanation==
 
==Explanation==
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{{incomplete|Very hasty draft. More needed on the alternative title text suggestions.}}
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Replying to a comment with "woosh" generally indicates that there was a joke, and the 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]].
  
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Replying to a comment with "woosh" generally indicates that there was a joke, and the commenter failed to recognize it (or they prefer not to recognize it, if the joke is rather obscene) — "woosh" is an {{W|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]].
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The title text expands on this idea, with other comments that would cause similar confusion.
  
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"Comment of the year," just like the original bot reply, could be taken two ways but both would likely cause confusion. Either the reader takes the "CotY" at face value, implying that the original comment is extremely significant, or as a sarcastic quip, which would give it basically the same meaning as "woosh", suggesting that the commenter had an unoriginal or ridiculous idea.
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Although it is not specified as one of [[Randall|Randall's]] hobbies it is clearly related to the [[:Category:My Hobby|My Hobby]] series.
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"Are you for real" implies that the commenter (the bot) doesn't believe that the original commenter is serious.
 
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"I'm taking a screenshot so I can remember this moment forever" either adds an implied air of extreme importance, hilarity or significance to a comment, or sarcastically suggests that the comment was unoriginal, useless, or otherwise unimportant. People who read it might assume that there is a hidden joke or meaning somewhere inside the original comment.
 
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So the point of creating such a bot is for spreading massive confusion, where there wouldn't be any in the absence of the bot's comments.
 
  
 
==Transcript==
 
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:::Hairy guy: What am I missing?!!
 
:::Hairy guy: What am I missing?!!
 
:::Hairy guy: Answer me
 
:::Hairy guy: Answer me
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:Nothing creates more confusion than my bot that replies to random Internet comments with "Woosh".
 
:Nothing creates more confusion than my bot that replies to random Internet comments with "Woosh".
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{{comic discussion}}
 
{{comic discussion}}
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[[Category:Computers]]
 
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[[Category:Language]]
 
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[[Category:Social networking]]
 

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