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xkcd #3172: Fifteen Years (imgs.xkcd.com)

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xkcd #3172: Fifteen Years

Title text:

"Want to feel old?" "Yes."

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Source: https://xkcd.com/3172/

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[–] Kernal64@sh.itjust.works 167 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

I'm not crying, you're crying! Shut up!

[–] Donjuanme@lemmy.world 86 points 2 weeks ago

I'm crying, and I'm not ashamed of it.

I have a para-social relationship with an Internet cartoonist and his life partner, that part I'm kinda ashamed of, but the tears are genuine happiness, and have I really been following him for over 15 years? There's some sadness in those tears, but they're covered by the happy ones

[–] pinball_wizard@lemmy.zip 31 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Back in my day, webcomics weren't all fuzzy like reading through tears!

[–] Kernal64@sh.itjust.works 20 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Same! Who's responsible for this degradation in image quality?!

[–] anomnom@sh.itjust.works 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I think we might be getting old.

[–] PabloSexcrowbar@piefed.social 2 points 1 week ago

Nah, I'm gonna blame JPEG

[–] makyo@lemmy.world 11 points 1 week ago (1 children)

XKCD has a few of these tear jerkers that rank as some of my favorite all time strips

[–] Kernal64@sh.itjust.works 9 points 1 week ago

For all the popularity they have for their comedic and science strips, they also put out some really good emotional ones.