About

Thanks To The Miracle Of The World Wide Web refers to a four-panel exploitable comic by webcomic Mr. Lovenstein. In the comic, an optimistic character says "Thanks to the miracle of the world wide web, I can talk to anyone around the globe." He then looks at the computer screen where his response to "Hello World!" reads "Kill yourself," to which he says, "Marvelous." In the variations, what is in the computer screen is altered.

Origin

On September 7th, 2016, Mr. Lovenstein posted the original comic, titled "Hello World" (shown below).

Spread

The comic quickly grew into an exploitable following Mr. Lovenstein's post. On September 14th, 2016, Imgur user karmaboros^[3] uploaded a variation to /r/me_irl referencing the popular Me Too Thanks joke at the time (shown below, left). On September 19th, Imgur user shammalammadingdongditchwizard^[2] uploaded a variation with a screenshot from League of Legends in the exploitable panel (shown below, right).

Future memes tended to follow shammalammadingdongditchwizard's lead, using screenshots of video game chat rooms in the exploitable panel (example shown below, left). However, as the exploitable grew, people began to play with different aspects of the exploitable, altering different sections of the comic for the joke (example shown below, right).

Various Examples

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