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[Caption above the panel:] The Internet has always had loud dumb people, but I've never seen anything quite as bad as the people who comment on YouTube videos. [Below shows a still of a 44-second video of Moon landing. An astronaut is seen at the center of the still with an Apollo lunar lander at the background.] [Below the video shows a list of comments, top to bottom:] Comments & Responses [The name of the commenters and the time when the comment was posted is shown above each comment in a gray background.] rocckir (48 minutes ago) this is so obviously faked its unbilevable, why r people so gullible??? morons (reply) (mark as spam) bigmike133 (35 minutes ago) ive seen the space shuttle ass hole it definetly landed on the moon do some research... (reply) (mark as spam) GunPistolMan (22 minutes ago) if it was real why is their gravity? americans r fucken sheep (reply) (mark as spam) crackmonkey74 (17 minutes ago) u dont think we went to the moon why not tell louis armstrong to his face (reply) (mark as spam) simpleplan2009 (5 minutes ago) it was a soundstage on mars (reply) (mark as spam)
In July 2009, a restored video showing Neil Armstrong's first moonwalk was uploaded to YouTube. User Michael Huang copied to that video's comments section all the sentences in this comic. Then, after some other users took some of his comments seriously, he later added another comment stating, "This entire comment chain is from the famous webcomic, xkcd." The comments are copied verbatim, including typos and grammar errors. The only mistake is in the first comment: Michael Huang included only one question mark when the comic has three of them.

This comic is pointing out the fact that many of the comments on YouTube videos are insipid and poorly informed, being pointless arguments over some minor topic or factually incorrect position ( conspiracy ). At the time of this comic, YouTube was fairly new, and the comic's observation about the inanity of YouTube comments was novel. Since then, this observation has become a widely accepted truism about the Internet. In this case, the Moon landing hoaxers are at the receiving end of Randall 's pen.
The reputation of YouTube comment threads as cesspools of abject stupidity and blatant trolling is revisited in 301: Limerick and 481: Listen to Yourself .
The username CrackMonkey74 appears again in 406: Venting and 574: Swine Flu .
The title text is the first reference to Sheeple , which appeared a few more times in xkcd comics.
[Caption above the panel:] The Internet has always had loud dumb people, but I've never seen anything quite as bad as the people who comment on YouTube videos. [Below shows a still of a 44-second video of Moon landing. An astronaut is seen at the center of the still with an Apollo lunar lander at the background.] [Below the video shows a list of comments, top to bottom:] Comments & Responses [The name of the commenters and the time when the comment was posted is shown above each comment in a gray background.] rocckir (48 minutes ago) this is so obviously faked its unbilevable, why r people so gullible??? morons (reply) (mark as spam) bigmike133 (35 minutes ago) ive seen the space shuttle ass hole it definetly landed on the moon do some research... (reply) (mark as spam) GunPistolMan (22 minutes ago) if it was real why is their gravity? americans r fucken sheep (reply) (mark as spam) crackmonkey74 (17 minutes ago) u dont think we went to the moon why not tell louis armstrong to his face (reply) (mark as spam) simpleplan2009 (5 minutes ago) it was a soundstage on mars (reply) (mark as spam)
In July 2009, a restored video showing Neil Armstrong's first moonwalk was uploaded to YouTube. User Michael Huang copied to that video's comments section all the sentences in this comic. Then, after some other users took some of his comments seriously, he later added another comment stating, "This entire comment chain is from the famous webcomic, xkcd." The comments are copied verbatim, including typos and grammar errors. The only mistake is in the first comment: Michael Huang included only one question mark when the comic has three of them.
