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[-] [email protected] 86 points 1 year ago

The problem with loss is the impact of it is ...ahem... lost without the context of what an enormous douchebag Tim Buckley was online at that time. Like part of what makes loss so ridiculous is the audacious sanctimonious nature of the comic coming from the internet's least-likable egotist and troll. You can read as many KYM wikis as you want, but if you weren't around to witness what a fucking shitbag Buckley was during that time then you can't really feel the way loss hit when it hit.

[-] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago

I didn't have this context. I always thought it was really heartless how people turned it into a meme. Honestly, it still isn't funny to me. Guess you had to be there.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

I don't believe that's an accurate statement. Ctrl Alt Del had, and apparently still has, some pretty militant critics. It always has. Everything I've been able to find is threads of unrepentant cruelty directed at Tim Buckley with very little context, generally leaning on the loss comic. The obsession is a little weird, to be honest.

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[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

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[-] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Can you share more?

[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Is he not a shit bag anymore?

[-] [email protected] 55 points 1 year ago

as someone learning Chinese, this is top-tier meme

[-] [email protected] 47 points 1 year ago

I've always saw loss as a stupid internet circlejerk but damn do you people get creative with it.

[-] [email protected] 23 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

It was such a dumb comic storyline though.

Like why did he think his "funny"weekly comic about video games suddenly needed a serious storyline?

[-] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago

Something bad affected him personally so naturally the whole world had to know.

[-] [email protected] 23 points 1 year ago

He talked about it like she was totally crazy for being emotional about it and he played it off as "whatever, it happens". The whole thing was very odd.

[-] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

It became "Cope".

[-] [email protected] 43 points 1 year ago

If you don't get it, this is a reference to the webcomic, Loss. https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/loss

[-] [email protected] 62 points 1 year ago

I know today's 10,000 and all that, but if there are people who made it to lemmy without running across loss I'd love to understand how

[-] [email protected] 44 points 1 year ago

It was over 15 years ago now. Younger users may have seen references and not know what it is.

[-] [email protected] 23 points 1 year ago

I still don't get it, been on the internet since 98... Can someone you please explain it to this dumbass.

[-] [email protected] 35 points 1 year ago

There was this popular web comic about video games and geeky shit, and it was mostly funny. Then one day they made this one comic strip about miscarriage called "Loss". It became a meme because most people found it super pretentious for a funny little webcomic to suddenly do this kinda heavy drama with no dialogue like it's some arthouse film.

[-] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

Maybe click on the link they provided ?

[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

I did, and I still don't get it

[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

My brother in christ what do you not get i will help.

[-] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago

I'd never seen this or heard of it till today. And today I'm not sure I understand

[-] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Weird, are you not at least partially a terminally online nerd like the rest of us? I never actually read the comic but it seems like it's impossible to have been on reddit and such for so long without ever running across it.

[-] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

I thought I was. I've been cutting back on it the last couple of years, but still

[-] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago

I only understood this meme very recently.

[-] [email protected] 29 points 1 year ago

I am at a loss on what to say.

[-] [email protected] 25 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

This is fantastic! You should repost this into [email protected]

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[-] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

そうだぜ、ロスだなー。

[-] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Needs more language variants. Korean? Vietnamese?

[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

And a whole parallel development via sumerian -> cuneiform -> Phoenician -> greek -> latin

[-] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

I only took two years of Chinese in high school but this was genuinely how it felt

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