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Oatmeal's tactic to go viral was simple: create a good looking comic and express an extreme view, one that moves you psychologically and you think, "wow is that
by madiator 14y ago
Oatmeal's tactic to go viral was simple: create a good looking comic and express an extreme view, one that moves you psychologically and you think, "wow is that true? I didn't know that and I bet none of my friends do". Well played Oatmeal.
- Agathos 14y agoA good cartoon is better propaganda than a pure-text rant. It's been true for centuries.
- vermontdevil 14y agoI believe Oatmeal likes to draw comics to generate traffic from Reddit. Not always but seems to be that way. Since Tesla is well-loved on Reddit, it's logical he would do this to get all the clicks.
- mcantelon 14y agoOatmeal reminds me of Coding Horror: usually unoriginal, but adept at packaging content in a way that generates widespread appeal.
- ArcticCelt 14y agoExtreme view in the outside world but very common view in the tech geek culture. I've seen countless of times this rambling about Edison evilness vs Tesla misunderstood semi god status. The Oatmeal always run with something already popular to the crowd that frequent reddit and the likes.