I know how this might sound, but for the first two paragraphs I thought this was a shitpostWell, no offense, but if you know how something is going to sound when you type it out, you always have the option of re-thinking, re-phrasing, clarifying.
I know the xkcd comic you speak of, but I think 95% of people mentioning it in any given situation only mention it because their logic units made a connection between "new thing" and that comic they've seen a couple of times, not because it particularly makes sense to mention that comic in the given scenario. It's an overused thing, and I don't really like what it would imply in this situation