All I see, All I say, All I am

Prime example of the internet eating itself. It does this about once or twice every couple of years:

“xkcd is a prime example of the idea that if you can’t make a funny comic, you can at least shamelessly appeal to the interests of your fanbase, which consists of pasty-facedliberal basement-dwellers and mathophiles. Long devoid of anything resembling humor, xkcd instead relies on its pseudo-intelligence to mask its lack of funny. So when a comic is made up and Munroe realizes it’s a pile of dogshit, the problem is circumvented by putting the comic under a radical sign, or drawing a couple hearts on it, or throwing in a bunch of shit about computer programming, so that the legions of nerdy fans will have something to relate to. Any attempt to expose this or argue that xkcd is anything other than a circlejerk of unfunny nerds basking in their own pseudo-intellectualism will result in the classic failed rebuttal, “xkcd is too intelligent for you. You just don’t get the subtle humor and intricate jokes.”