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[–] FenrirIII@lemmy.world 40 points 2 days ago (4 children)

Explaining loss humor is impossible

[–] Jackcooper@lemmy.world 47 points 2 days ago (2 children)

So like, she had a miscarriage and is crying about it and her boyfriend makes it just in time to see the results and uh yeah it's the funniest thing ever why are you leaving

[–] slackassassin@sh.itjust.works 16 points 2 days ago

No, wait, it gets better. Get this. Circle jerk about it for a couple of decades and it gets funnier, oh, OK, still going.

[–] nailbar@sopuli.xyz 7 points 2 days ago

At least the ඞmongus generation understands the fun in hiding references everywhere.

[–] lime@feddit.nu 6 points 2 days ago

i always refer people to this documentary.

[–] pineapplelover@lemm.ee 17 points 2 days ago (4 children)

I still don't understand how it's funny

[–] captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 10 points 2 days ago (1 children)

At this point we're like three jokes deep.

The original reaction to the comic was kind of a collective chuckle of "Whahahahat the fuck?" Because the comic was like discount store brand Penny Arcade, irreverent bullshit gamer humor, and then comes the sudden plotline that the girlfriend character has a miscarriage.

Like, Loss itself isn't bad in and of itself; telling the story of the character's journey through the hospital with no dialog, it's competent...but it stood in such contrast to what the comic had been about for so long and the audience just wasn't on board with it that it became a controversy. And Buckley's clap back against it and the following drama made it memetic.

At some point, the imagery became so recognizeable even in the abstract that it became a prank to communicate the idea of the comic in as abstract a form as possible, hence the "Is this Loss" meme. Somewhere between rickrolling and "you just lost the game."

[–] Zenokh@lemmy.ml 1 points 20 hours ago

Damn , Loss-torian over here , tnx for the good read

[–] Earflap@reddthat.com 18 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

I think it ~~'s~~ (Edit: started out) more about how Tim Buckley is terrible than anything. (Edit: Then from there it) sort of collapsed into its own joke. No one really knows or cares about the context anymore, its become a self-contained meme with no real meaningful connection to Tim, the original comic, or its message now.

[–] slackassassin@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I think it's more about how people on the internet are terrible than anything. It sort of collapsed.

[–] melpomenesclevage@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I think the joke is terrible people being terrible to terrible people when a genuinely terrible thing happens in their lives.

[–] slackassassin@sh.itjust.works 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

As long as everyone is terrible, I'm in.

[–] melpomenesclevage@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

if only there were more staggeringly interesting queer women with red/green colorblindness who held this opinion.

[–] Earflap@reddthat.com 5 points 2 days ago (2 children)
[–] melpomenesclevage@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[–] Earflap@reddthat.com 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

im saying one needs to not be able to see red flags to date me.

[–] slackassassin@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

I think it's about that dress that was definitely blue.

[–] melpomenesclevage@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

more a vexilology thing. i have a type. there are requirements.

[–] slackassassin@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

I've heard of a red flag, but this is ridiculous.

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[–] melpomenesclevage@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

okay, you explain why someone who can tell the difference would get close to me!

your explanation cannot involve wizards or icepicks, and they have to be conscious.

[–] slackassassin@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

your explanation cannot involve wizards or icepicks, and they have to be conscious.

[–] melpomenesclevage@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

also they have to know im there. no hiding me in the walls or something. most of the relationships I tried to start that way never got off the ground; longest one lasted three months.

[–] slackassassin@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I've heard of edging, but this is ridiculous.

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[–] doomcanoe@sh.itjust.works 7 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Its not "haha!" funny, but rather "aha!" funny.

[–] Lemminary@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago

I think it's more for fun than funny. Like The Game or the 👌.

[–] Agent641@lemmy.world 6 points 2 days ago

Saddam meme too.