I still don’t understand how it’s funny
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FenrirIII@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Explaining loss humor is impossible
pineapplelover@lemm.ee 1 month ago
Earflap@reddthat.com 1 month ago
I think its more about how Tim Buckley is terrible than anything. It sort of collapsed into its own joke.
slackassassin@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
I think it’s more about how people on the internet are terrible than anything. It sort of collapsed.
melpomenesclevage@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 month ago
I think the joke is terrible people being terrible to terrible people when a genuinely terrible thing happens in their lives.
captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
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 month ago
Damn , Loss-torian over here , tnx for the good read
doomcanoe@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
Its not “haha” funny, but rather “aha” funny.
Lemminary@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I think it’s more for fun than funny. Like The Game or the 👌.
lime@feddit.nu 1 month ago
i always refer people to this documentary.
Agent641@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Saddam meme too.
Jackcooper@lemmy.world 1 month ago
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 1 month 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 1 month ago
At least the ඞmongus generation understands the fun in hiding references everywhere.