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A meme is an idea, behavior, or style that spreads by means of imitation from person to person within a culture and often carries symbolic meaning representing a particular phenomenon or theme.

An Internet meme or meme, is a cultural item that is spread via the Internet, often through social media platforms. The name is by the concept of memes proposed by Richard Dawkins in 1972. Internet memes can take various forms, such as images, videos, GIFs, and various other viral sensations.


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[–] [email protected] 15 points 4 days ago
[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I there's a loss in signal during game play, you lose the game

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago
[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 days ago

Oh that's why that plug often lost connection

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 days ago
[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 days ago

I love loss memes, keep em coming

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 days ago

I hate you.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 4 days ago

It's loss isn't it....

[–] [email protected] 64 points 4 days ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 47 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

Also in the larger pin array

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 days ago
[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 days ago

DVI-L chef's kiss

[–] [email protected] 62 points 5 days ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I have even more questions now

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago

We hope answers can be found

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 days ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Zoom in on the left hand end of the connector.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago (1 children)

DVI-L? I feel stupid that I’m missing something obvious!

[–] [email protected] 30 points 5 days ago (1 children)

I appreciate the quality of this image. The joke would've been conoletely loss if it had been a shitty jpeg

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 days ago

Just wait for a couple of more reposts

[–] [email protected] 16 points 5 days ago (3 children)

This cant be

This is AI generated for sure

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Nanoraptor's photoshop

Edit: who the @@@ follows me around downvoting me, especially when it's simply correct answers

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 days ago

I dunno, it could be, but at some point it becomes easier to just photoshop something than to try and talk an AI into replicating some hyper-specific arrangement of tiny elements of a picture.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 5 days ago

Yep. The warbled surface defects are a dead giveaway

[–] [email protected] 9 points 5 days ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 19 points 5 days ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 9 points 5 days ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 17 points 5 days ago (3 children)

I didn't get it either, so I tried googling "Loss".

I think it's to do with this thing. Specifically the alignment of the little pins in the DVI port seem to be the same as for the "minimalist version of Loss" thing mentioned there on the wiki.

I have a hazy recollection of that comic from way back yonder, and it causing some sort of a hassle. Apparently the minimalist version is some meme, now? Or always has been?

[–] [email protected] 10 points 4 days ago

Thank you for this context. I was truly at a loss.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Wow, I'm impressed you've been able to avoid Loss for so long.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago

I never really followed ctrl+alt+del, which is prolly part of the reason. Only heard about the drama that specific comic strip caused second hand.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I've also never seen it before now ...

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago

Me neither. I'm not sure how that makes me feel.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Yep, this. In a couple places on the image at least. Thank you for connecting the lines and dots.

To answer your question, the loss meme started almost immediately after the original comic was released. It ebbs and flows in popularity, but seems to be something the internet can't let go of. Lemmy has a particular fetish for it.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I imagine that it is a particular crowd that is present on lemmy that holds on to this one, as I have not seen a Loss meme since 2011. Probably older americans working in tech is my best guess; especially those who consumed web comics from back in the day.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago

Fair. I certainly had to resurrect WTH loss meant when I joined Lemmy. I was more thinking the Venn diagram of people still clinging to Loss, and people on Lemmy is probably not a perfect circle. But who knows.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 days ago

It's about Loss mate. ( I have no idea either. )

[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

deep inhale ... slow exhale Give me strength.

[–] [email protected] 50 points 5 days ago (1 children)

they even did it twice to drive the point home....jeez

[–] [email protected] 13 points 5 days ago

Took a bit for the first, missed the other one. Damn.

[–] [email protected] 31 points 5 days ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 days ago

Yeah I got it when I realized there's no such thing as DVI-L haha

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 days ago

Ah ty for the clue

[–] [email protected] 46 points 5 days ago
[–] [email protected] 146 points 5 days ago (1 children)

And here I thought DVI offered lossless signal transmission

[–] [email protected] 26 points 4 days ago

Well done now get out