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Might have been the case 17 years ago. In the mean time Buckley grew up, became a really decent guy and CAD 2.0 is a really good read.
Thinking that loss is still a relevant critique of Buckley or his work just means you are getting old and haven't updated your prejudices in almost 2 decades.
People posting loss memes almost qualify for an "ok boomer" by now.
Well, by now it's just a self referential meme like all memes. The joke is itself, the context doesn't even matter anymore.
It's still not a joke about miscarriage.
So what now? Is it a joke about bullying some creator for stuff he made half a life ago, or does the context not matter when the context is put like that?
The context is that people recognize the meme. That's basically it. The joke is itself.
But also I don't really care if some artist is annoyed that his early, bad artwork became the butt of a joke. He was in his 20s when he started that comic, let's not pretend like this is bullying a child's comics or something.
So first, the context is everything, then the context doesn't matter, then the context is something else.
That's the history of memes.
So at first, people were making fun of a bad artist with a bad comic. In that context it wasn't edgelord material, he was an adult and he can handle being the butt of a joke.
Then, the meme gained a life of its own (its context was itself) and that old context ceased to matter. It wasn't about the artist anymore, but without context it still wasn't edgelord material.
At no point was the joke edgy because the joke was never about miscarriage.