1627: Woosh

Explain xkcd: It's 'cause you're dumb.
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Woosh
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'.
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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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.

Although it is not specified as one of Randall's hobies it is clearly related to the My Hobby series.

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
[Caption below the frame:]
Nothing creates more confusion than my bot that replies to random Internet comments with "Woosh".


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Discussion

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)

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)

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)

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)