IMHO
IMHO
[Cueball, Megan, and Ponytail stand together, talking.] Cueball: I thought the "H" in "IMHO" was "humble," but Buzzfeed ran a poll and "honest" won. Megan: That can't be true. Their readers are messing with us.
[Cueball and Megan look at Ponytail.] Ponytail: Are you sure? I always used it to mean "honest." Megan: ...What?!
[Close up of Cueball holding a phone. A box with usage of "IMHO" and "TBH" from Google Trends shows "TBH" suddenly rising in 2011, with a second spike in 2014.] Cueball: It was definitely "humble" in the 1990s. Cueball: Maybe people who picked it up after the rise of "TBH" in 2011 interpreted it as "honest" and used it that way.
[Cueball, Megan, and Ponytail as before.] Megan: I can't get over this. What other wrong opinions do you have? Megan: The "G" in "G-I-F"? Ponytail: Silent.
[Close up of Ponytail, with Megan talking from offscreen.] Megan: The "S" in "SMDH"? Ponytail: "Swallowing." Megan: The "G" in "OMG"? Ponytail: "Giantess" or "genitals."
[Cueball, Megan, and Ponytail as before.] Megan: The Dress? Ponytail: Black and white. Megan: Is the database language "sequel" or "ess cue ell"? Ponytail: I've always said "squill."
Cueball: Okay, the big one: how many spaces after a period? Ponytail: None; I use tabs. Cueball: OMG. Megan: Yeah, mine too.

The conversation begins with a reference to the controversy between whether IMHO stands for "in my honest opinion" or "in my humble opinion". Some older Internet users, including Cueball, use the H to mean "humble", which Cueball references as being the norm in the 1990s. However, many younger Internet users, including, apparently, Ponytail, use it to mean "honest", which became the norm after another SMS abbreviation, TBH (to be honest) became popular c. 2011 [1] . However, the joke veers into absurdity with Ponytail sharing her unusual opinions on other Internet controversies, including:
Before the 20th century, it was common typographical practice to use an em-space (or other similar wide-space) between sentences.  In the 1930s, common practice was to use smaller inter-sentence spacing, and by the 1950s, inter-sentence spaces were the same size as inter-word spaces.  Although modern style guides all insist on single-spacing between sentences, many people prefer to include two spaces, possibly out of habit from typewriter usage (which commonly used two spaces to mimic the 19th century typographic standards).  (See also: 1285: Third Way .) Tabs vs. Spaces also refer to the programmers' debate on how to indent code correctly.
In the last panel, Cueball exclaims "OMG" (meaning "Oh, my God") to which Megan replies "Yeah, mine too", taking the meaning as "Oh, my genitals" from the 5th panel. This leads to the title text "TMI" (too much information). The pun on periods (typographical and menstruation) might also explain the reaction.
In the title text, another incorrect belief Ponytail has is believing TMI to be "tantalizing meat info," as opposed to too much information. (Remarkably, this makes sense in the context of Megan's comment about her genitals.)
The comic also obliquely references the mistaken opinion that Website polling is an accurate measure of anything; selection bias (among many other problems) renders them almost useless for measuring the general population.
Etymology of IMHO
ESR's Jargon File (later known as The New Hacker's Dictionary) has an entry of "IMHO" . It's also seen in variant forms such as IMNSHO (In My Not-So-Humble Opinion) and IMAO (In My Arrogant Opinion).
And it has been added into the Jargon File v2.1 in January 1990 , the first version under Eric S. Raymond. Maybe the acronym "IMHO" was invented by science fiction fans in frequent discussions and used on the Usenet which started in 1980. It was in common usage as "humble" in APA (Amateur Press Association) publications during the 1980s, and possibly earlier.
[Cueball, Megan, and Ponytail stand together, talking.] Cueball: I thought the "H" in "IMHO" was "humble," but Buzzfeed ran a poll and "honest" won. Megan: That can't be true. Their readers are messing with us.
[Cueball and Megan look at Ponytail.] Ponytail: Are you sure? I always used it to mean "honest." Megan: ...What?!
[Close up of Cueball holding a phone. A box with usage of "IMHO" and "TBH" from Google Trends shows "TBH" suddenly rising in 2011, with a second spike in 2014.] Cueball: It was definitely "humble" in the 1990s. Cueball: Maybe people who picked it up after the rise of "TBH" in 2011 interpreted it as "honest" and used it that way.
[Cueball, Megan, and Ponytail as before.] Megan: I can't get over this. What other wrong opinions do you have? Megan: The "G" in "G-I-F"? Ponytail: Silent.
[Close up of Ponytail, with Megan talking from offscreen.] Megan: The "S" in "SMDH"? Ponytail: "Swallowing." Megan: The "G" in "OMG"? Ponytail: "Giantess" or "genitals."
[Cueball, Megan, and Ponytail as before.] Megan: The Dress? Ponytail: Black and white. Megan: Is the database language "sequel" or "ess cue ell"? Ponytail: I've always said "squill."
Cueball: Okay, the big one: how many spaces after a period? Ponytail: None; I use tabs. Cueball: OMG. Megan: Yeah, mine too.
