Editing 920: YouTube Parties

Jump to: navigation, search

Warning: You are not logged in. Your IP address will be publicly visible if you make any edits. If you log in or create an account, your edits will be attributed to your username, along with other benefits.

The edit can be undone. Please check the comparison below to verify that this is what you want to do, and then save the changes below to finish undoing the edit.
Latest revision Your text
Line 4: Line 4:
 
| title    = YouTube Parties
 
| title    = YouTube Parties
 
| image    = youtube_parties.png
 
| image    = youtube_parties.png
−
| titletext = This reminds me of that video where... no? How have you not seen that? Oh man, let me find it. No, it's ok, we can go back to your video later.
+
| titletext = This reminds me of that video where ... no? How have you not seen that? Oh man, let me find it. No, it's ok, we can go back to your video later.
 
}}
 
}}
  
 
==Explanation==
 
==Explanation==
−
A {{w|YouTube}} party is when a group of people show each other YouTube videos. The problem with YouTube parties is that no one pays attention to the video that's playing; instead, each person is thinking of the video that they personally want to play next.
+
{{incomplete|Not comprehensive or especially informative.}}
−
 
+
A {{w|YouTube}} party is when a group of people show eachother YouTube videos. The problem with YouTube parties is that no one pays attention to the video that's playing; instead, they're thinking of the video they should watch next. The title text shows one of the people in the party remembering of another video they find more interesting and trying to put it on so the party can see it, the joke being that the other people are just as disinterested and really just want the party to watch their video.
−
You can see analogous behavior at any get-together where couples (parents) are telling stories about their kids. Nobody cares about anybody else's kid; they are just waiting (not even listening) until they get the chance to talk about their own offspring.
 
−
 
 
−
The joke seems to be that everybody is doing this, but it is unclear whether they realize it. They each seem to be under the delusion that the others will be fascinated by "their" video (or child's accomplishments), even though the evidence strongly suggests otherwise. Possibly they don't care about that either; they just want an audience, even an unwilling one.
 
−
 
 
−
This may be defensible where kids are involved, because the parents could reasonably feel that the accomplishments of their children reflect well on themselves. However, the people in the YouTube party didn't create the videos, they just found them. Which makes their behavior (or perhaps YouTube parties in general) even more inane and pointless.
 
−
 
 
−
The title text reiterates this point. The speaker is reminded of another video that is so superior to the one currently playing that we should find it and watch it immediately. We can always go back to the current video later (if anybody still remembers, that is; and according to the comic above no one will ''want'' to remember it).
 
  
 
==Transcript==
 
==Transcript==
−
:[Cueball and a group consisting of three Cueballs and one Ponytail are standing in a dark room around a table. The group and Cueball are illuminated by a laptop on the table.]
+
:[Cueball is standing by a laptop, showing a video to a group with drinks.]
−
:[Caption above the panel:]
 
 
:The problem with YouTube parties:
 
:The problem with YouTube parties:
 
:Cueball (thinking): This video is blowing their ''MINDS.''
 
:Cueball (thinking): This video is blowing their ''MINDS.''
Line 29: Line 21:
 
[[Category:Comics featuring Ponytail]]
 
[[Category:Comics featuring Ponytail]]
 
[[Category:YouTube]]
 
[[Category:YouTube]]
−
[[Category:Multiple Cueballs]]
 

Please note that all contributions to explain xkcd may be edited, altered, or removed by other contributors. If you do not want your writing to be edited mercilessly, then do not submit it here.
You are also promising us that you wrote this yourself, or copied it from a public domain or similar free resource (see explain xkcd:Copyrights for details). Do not submit copyrighted work without permission!

To protect the wiki against automated edit spam, we kindly ask you to solve the following CAPTCHA:

Cancel | Editing help (opens in new window)

Templates used on this page:

Retrieved from "https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/920:_YouTube_Parties"