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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 163 points 2 weeks ago

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

[-] Donjuanme@lemmy.world 83 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 29 points 2 weeks ago

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

[-] Kernal64@sh.itjust.works 18 points 2 weeks ago

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

[-] anomnom@sh.itjust.works 7 points 2 weeks ago

I think we might be getting old.

[-] PabloSexcrowbar@piefed.social 1 points 2 weeks ago

Nah, I'm gonna blame JPEG

[-] makyo@lemmy.world 11 points 2 weeks ago

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

[-] Kernal64@sh.itjust.works 9 points 2 weeks ago

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

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