This is the stupidest XKCD comic I can remember seeing.
Trying to control how language changes is futile, you can't stop it, no one can. David Morgan Mar made a really good post about this that I can't find at the moment, but if I or someone else can, >this< will link to it.
The word "eyeball" was invented by Shakespeare, along with a couple hundred other words. "Eyeball" is also a portmanteau, and like "bromance", there's a word that describes the same concept, i.e.: eye. The only difference between the two words (aside from the meaning, spelling, and pronunciation) is that "bromance" is modern slang, and "eyeball" has been used so much that we now accept it as a real word.
Also, if this was the Wikipedia article for "Bromance", the title wouldn't be "Friendship", it'd still be "Bromance".
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