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> Maybe I missed something but I don’t know what you’re quoting or paraphrasing.

They're quoting the image's title text. Every xkcd comic has one. On desktop you can see it by hovering over the image. On mobile you generally can't see it. You can go to the mobile subdomain (https://m.xkcd.com/3172// and tap on the image, then it pops up underneath.

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Ah yeah sorry I was on my phone and don’t usually use the mobile site. The rest of my point stands though. Maybe I’m too close to it but it seems like an odd response. The pains of aging are far preferable to dying of cancer at a relatively young age.

Firefox for Android, for one, shows the alt text at the top of the context menu that pops up when you long press an image.

If it's too long, it gets truncated, though.

You can tap on a truncated alt text to extend it.

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