This Is Why Your Earbuds Are Always Tangled

There's a secret chemistry brewing in your backpack â€" and it's not the drippings of your diet coke bottle mixing with stray aspirin pills.

Your earbuds are wrapped up in a torrid love affair, tangling together only to be ripped apart at your whim.

In this comic, artist Maria Scrivan imagines a quiet moment between the two lovebirds.

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   1. Will Ferrell

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   2. Amy Poehler

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   3. Louis C.K.

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   4. Chelsea Peretti

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   5. Rob Delaney

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   6. Mindy Kaling

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   7. Lucille Ball

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   8. Jerry Seinfeld

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   9. Chris Rock

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    10. Tina Fey

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    11. George Burns

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    12. Rob Delaney

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