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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

First proper shitpost on this community in ages

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 week ago

I laughed, but I wasn't happy about it.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 week ago

For all the people asking for an explanation:

https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/loss

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I don't get it. Can someone explain it to me?

[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 week ago (1 children)

It’s Loss within a Loss meme. Lossception.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I guess I need to familiarize myself with the loss meme. I have been seeing it around lately.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

It's everywhere. Anytime I see a 4 panel comic, I start looking for signs. It's normally 1 person panel, 2 people, 2 people, 1 stand and 1 lying down. Someone posted how to type it in text the other day.

~~:.|:;~~

It's colon, period, straight line, colon, semicolon >then highlight and strike-through.

[–] [email protected] 34 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I always thought the point of the loss meme was a sort of "sad rickroll". That people thought the comic was so sad, and the joke was to remind people of it and make them sad.

Needless to say, I didn't get it. I thought "people find this really sad I guess". It was just last week I found out that people do not in fact think it is sad, and the point is just to mock the cartoon

[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 week ago (1 children)

It achieved infamy for tonal whiplash. The series it's from is usually irreverent and goofy. so the very heavy subject coming out of nowhere was...not received well.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago (1 children)

The tonal whiplash doesn't end there. I think a lot of it started as g*mers just being immature but then Buckley said his girlfriend needed to "get over it" and tried to groom a minor, so he kinda just burned all bridges on the topic.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Yeah I think overall that Loss being a meme has less to do with the text of the comic itself and more the backlash and the backlash to the backlash. Few people engaging with the Loss meme are actually talking about miscarriages; I did see an example recently called "Loss but it's a red state" which was actually a brilliant bit of political satire. And it's almost a different meme to the one that produced ~~:.|:;~~ which is closer to "you just lost the game."

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

Yeah, no. It was (/is? damn, dude's still going. Good for him.) a comedy/commentary comic mostly about gaming and basically interactions that wouldn't be out of place in a Clarks movie. This was a standalone just a week or so before Loss.

Que super serious miscarriage storyline for "art" reasons.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago

The guy who made it was a talentless egomaniac. He wanted to prove that he was a serious adult who could make serious adult stories, and instead of slowly transitioning into a more serious plot like say El Goonish Shiv or Concession or (not a webcomic, but No Evil)

He just jumped into a miscarriage story and then when people didn't like it.. well the other "Super Adult Story" thing to do is kill off characters, so he killed everyone off and just focused on background characters..

but again instead of slowly building up the background characters and bring them closer to the forefront.... they were just... thrust into the front with no fanfare, no defined personality...

So the already low-tier webcomic sank even lower.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I believe his girlfriend had a miscarriage and that inspired that comic. But it came out of nowhere and didn't fit the comic. If I remember correctly the next strip the guys talked about how tough it is (gf not present) and then if was back to gaming

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 week ago

I mean, the dude also showed his junk to an underage girl. Smart decisions aren't his thing.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Did the bank ever get their two dollars back?

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago
[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago

After going down the whole rabbit hole of what this means, I think it's shit.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

printf "\x20\x7c\x20\x7c\x7c\n\x7c\x7c\x20\x7c\x5f\n"

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)
echo '4pSDIOKVju<+<wr%%!7%!wK4??pWO4?paBCg==' \
   | sed 's|<|KUg|g;s|?|pS§|g;s|§|D4|g;s|%|!z|g;s|!|ilY|g' | base64 -d
[–] [email protected] 68 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

People will dismiss any mention of Loss anymore, but think of how amazing it is that a comic from like 100 years ago is still finding relevance as it gets remixed and reappropriated into a meta "joke" that started as a gut punch one-off from a webcomic from 20 years ago, and it only gets more and more absurd. This might be art.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

FWIW the (not Loss) comic is from the age of Michael Jackson, not the roaring 20s.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 week ago

It wasn't a one off that story arc went on for a while

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

🤦‍♂️

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 week ago

I was like "oh, that's a cute comic" and then I just started fucking wheezing

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago
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