Getting tired of the loss resurgence but this was inspired. Kudos my friend
this post was submitted on 29 Nov 2023
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I will never be tired of it... Maybe...
Loss resurgence?
Edit: nevermind. I got it now.
Is there an angry upvote on Lemmy yet?
The internet has proven to be very clever with its "loss" memes. I keep seeing innovative and/or fun applications of it before I ever feel they're getting stale.
i'm at a loss for words
I don’t understand this.
There's a comic, titled "Loss", which is infamous, because it's incredibly fucking depressive. People don't enjoy being reminded of it. And so, of course, it has become an internet culture / meme thing to do precisely that, but in a sneaky way.
In particular, the comic has 4 panels and an arrangement of characters in a certain, recognizable pattern. So, over time, it's been reduced ad absurdum to just this pattern.
Well, and in the meme above, it becomes apparent that it's replicating the Loss pattern, when that fourth panel has the DNA flipped on its side. So, the joke is that we have the pattern-seeking brain for recognizing Loss.
If I recall correctly, it's not infamous for being super depressing but because it used to be a light hearted web comic (CTRL+ALT+DEL) about nerds doing nerd stuff and then the author decided to go into this weird dramatic arch of an ongoing love story that just didn't really fit into the whole thing. The "Loss" strip was the overly dramatic peak of this arch and I think at this point people were already making fun of it. While the topic certainly is pretty depressing, it was more the fact that this whole thing was rather cringeworthy and over the top that started the whole meme.
I was a youngin' when this happened, and I loved webcomics so I was paying attention to the scene. I hated CAD though.
Everything you said is right, and I want to add my own perspective.
The author took his uninspired joke strip where there was no plot, gave the main character (the self-insert) a girlfriend (and keep in mind, the self-insert was your typical no-personality nerd main character), and started to make a plot arch out of it. The girlfriend got pregnant, and this is drama. And instead of having any of the characters grow into people with personalities, he gave that girlfriend character a miscarriage. So he could get back to his no-plot video game joke strip.
It felt very much like those sit-com episodes where everything has to be wrapped up in a half hour, and nobody can learn anything because the show will go to syndicated reruns and be played out of order.
Miscarriages are stressful, emotional events, and he turned it into a disposable plot point. The girlfriend character had no real character development. She was a cardboard cutout introduced to be a girlfriend, and her suffering was used to neatly wrap this plot up for the strip.
It was loathsome. Just awful, unfunny obtuse nonsense written by a man with no ability to self reflect, and no intellectual curiosity about how other people think and feel.
Exactly lol
I had always wondered how Loss became such a meme. The comic itself was rather uninspired and lame, and it was odd to me when the internet made it take off...although the memes about it tend to be mildly entertaining. Knowing the context behind it helps a lot.
And so, of course, it has become an internet culture / meme thing to do precisely that, but in a sneaky way.
MFW I realize that Loss is just Rick-rolling the latest generation.
Loss is from 2008, Rick Rolling started the year before. They're about the same age.
I think a good way to introduce people to the loss format is to show them the original vs the two-stick version, and then show the derivatives. It's golden and still makes me laugh!
There's a comic, titled "Loss",
Sonofa...
Loss
Loss is just this generation's "The Game", change my mind.
The fuck, I lost, AGAIN!
That's twice now, today.
I was unprepared. I lost The Game too.
Unlike the game, loss has no escape
I do not care what the creator of The Game says, he lost ownership of it years ago, society decides when it's over and it's not, so you just lost the game...
Rack em up again boys!
OMG thank you. I'm free. I'm finally free!!
No. The evils of The Game and Loss live as long as one terminally uncreative person repeats it.
Only a Great Purge will save us.
Goddammit. This comment makes me realize how uncreative the internet is at this point and how much I'm wasting my fucking time going through the same goddamn tired jokes all the time. I truly have lost the game, as all of us have. See you all tomorrow as we repeat the same tired jokes.
What was the game?
I really like this one, because there's two jokes in it. One is that our pattern seeking brain allowed us to study evolution, our genome, etc. And the other is the Loss pattern meme, which I didn't even notice at first.
Thank you!
You're welcome!
Damn you.
fossilesque@mander.xyz did you just post two loss memes back to back?
thank
Fight me.
In response to this comment, I went to find the previous post, then came back here to say, noice.
FUCK 🤦♂️
While pattern-seeking will indeed help you to avoid predators (and connect imagery to extremely over-memed webcomics), it's also useful for so much more!
it's also useful for so much more!
Like seeing ghosts when you tune an old TV to static!
And seeing Jesus in a tortilla!
They're not the only one filled with rage.
I hate you~but~ ~not~ ~really~
Not bad
We didn't lose a chromosome. Two of our ancestors' chromosomes fused to make human chromosome 2.