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Wow, I'm actually really glad there's an xkcd for this because I do get so tired of videos and articles click-baiting "Dark Matter is nonsense, finally a real alternative" and it's always always always some variant on "maybe gravity is dynamic over distance/time/aether" or "maybe energy gets tired" or some other silly stuff that doesn't fit all the data.
At least invent some whackier new ideas! What happened to universe-long unbounded superstrings? Ultrafast orbiting cosmic mesons create relativity drag on galaxies? Maybe reality is shaped like a bowl of gravity-fruitloops floating in dark energy milk? Give me something fun to work with here, no wonder sci-fi sucks so much now!