Jokes on you i can only see the 4th panel
I could truly only make out D, and I still already knew.
8=======D~~~~~~
Me when I find out I’m loosing my vision
Did it use to be tight?
I hope op stubs his toe after stepping on a Lego.
I see all the circles in the circles
I read ctrl,alt,del in like 2007 or so. Why is this suddenly popular again?!
It isn’t suddenly popular again. Loss memes have been continuously popular the whole time.
It must be me than. I hadn t seen it in ages before coming to lemmy.
Congratulations on not being terminally online!
No reason, just that memes follow demographics of the space. Lemmy is probably full of people who were in their late teens-through-twenties in 2007, so to that group, it remains a funny nostalgic callback.
And I’ll just predict that in 15-20 years Skibidi toilet and all the GenZ/Alpha memes will dominate middle-age spaces.
😡
it took me a minute
I’m at a loss
Me too! I’m glad the image is in a lossless format though
This is very funny, but the image is a jpg :(
Weird, it shows as a png for me 🤔
Shows as a png for me too.
Weird. Maybe my client downloads all images as jpegs
If you zoom in though, it’s definitely an image
So this is either something vulgar which I (a person experiencing colorblindness) cannot see, or, there are no shapes in those bubbles at all. I think it’s the latter since I can’t see shapes in either bubble.
EDIT:
Oh it’s that
i iI Ii I_
thing, which I never understood
https://cad-comic.com/comic/loss/
Context: dude made an autobiographical comic more serious in tone than his usual work, and the Internet has been mocking him for it ever since.
Even after that, I don’t see the connection.
The lines mimic the positions of the people in the panels.
Wow, OK…
It is one of those so stupid it’s funny memes.
Wow people have a million things to say about this.
I’m with you, but granted we are in Lemmy Shitpost.
None of which makes sense without the context of what a enormous jackass Buckley had famously been in online spaces for YEARS. It’s not just that loss was a weirdly serious addition to a silly comic, it’s that it perfectly encapsulated the kind of sanctimonious self-important attitude Buckley espoused and instantly turned his shitty online persona into a joke.
I don’t know if it is genuinely possible to still appreciate loss the way it was without all of the enormity of that context.
I used to feel this way but ultimately, what happened was tragic, even if it happened years prior. He expressed it publicly and some folks probably felt “seen” at the time. That’s a good thing. Talking about/hearing stories of trauma and loss and grief can be very empowering for folks who have experienced their own.
Like don’t get me wrong: yes he was (is?) all those things you described. No he was not a model messenger for this story. But that was a serious loss and I think at some point folks need to recognize that we’re all human and maybe we shouldn’t attack someone working through the loss of their child. Even if we feel they don’t deserve to express themselves that way.
Maybe I’m missing elements of the story but I guess I’ve just never been able to square why it needed to be this ruthlessly mocked. It’s been like 15 years.
I see your point and don’t entirely disagree, I’ll just its hard to feel bad about somebody suffering the consequences of their own actions (not the miscarriage obviously, but the reaction to it).
You don’t really get to complain about feeling alone when you’re the one that burned all the bridges that lead to your house, imo.
Maybe so but I’d still help them.
“10 percent of any population is cruel, no matter what, and 10 percent is merciful, no matter what, and the remaining 80 percent can be moved in either direction.” -Susan Sontag
Thank you for being part of the merciful 10%.
I’d say that is too generous of praise but thank you. I try to be part of the merciful 10% for sure. Never heard of this before but I really like it
Man, at this point some sociology student could probably write a dissertation just on the cultural context of this comic alone. Both the stuff you’re talking about regarding de-stigmatizing talking about trauma (and miscarriage in particular), and the way the comic itself has been meme-ified and distilled down to representations as abstract as “
.:|:;”I’d watch a 1-2 hour yt essay on this
Same
I think Cyanide and Happiness did a good job encapsulating your point and why everyone clowned on it at the time.
And as the image title implies, Tim actually said this.
This is just one example of the kind of shitbag Buckley was notorious for being
Never seen this one before. Thank you so very much.
Holy shit
I knew the dude was a cunt but fucking wow
It’s really surprising that something so obscure became a meme. What’s the first instance of the comic being represented with line segments like that? How did they come to be recognizable?
The original comic was rather popular at the time, and as a result, it became an early meme before mass-scale meme culture had really taken off besides doge memes and “I can haz cheeseburger.” So it quickly entered the cultural zeitgeist of the early internet because the kinds of people into memes and gamer culture at the time would’ve been about the size of the terminally online crowd today.
For fucks sake
I want to hate this, but it’s actually a clever bit. Take my upvote.
I can only see the last, I take the L and leave
Can someone help me out here? I’m lost.
The circles have Roman numerals. A is 1, B is 2, C is 2 again and D is 1 plus a hidden Saddam Hussein.
ah, I see, a meme buried within a meme.
Well your in luck, because this is loss
What a loss 😐
