Title text:
In 1899, people were walking around shouting '23' at each other and laughing, and confused reporters were writing articles trying to figure out what it meant.
Transcript:
Transcript will show once it’s been added to explainxkcd.com
Source: https://xkcd.com/3184/
67 sneaking onto the ‘funny numbers’ list is hilarious—teens are basically a standards committee now.
Bot account? Comments seem like your average "short and humorous response" bot.
Definitely a bot, not sure what the point of them is on Lemmy.
Deaf people - 258 (very interesting) and 84 (there's no good direct translation for this)
Huh, I had never considered deaf slang before. Is there somewhere to read up on this?
Further cementing that there is an xkcd for everything.
Maybe not a teen thing, but among children I think "because 789" could bring 789 into the discussion.
They left out 86 and the more recent variant 8647
Tree fiddy
I'm still disappointed that 27 never managed to get on this list: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U2-7CqYFi64
There really is an xkcd for everything.
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