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FenrirIII@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

• Jackcooper@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ 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

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  • slackassassin@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ 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.

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  • nailbar@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

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

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• pineapplelover@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  I still don’t understand how it’s funny

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  • Earflap@reddthat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    I think its more about how Tim Buckley is terrible than anything. It sort of collapsed into its own joke.

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    • slackassassin@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

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

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      • melpomenesclevage@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

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

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  • captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ 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.”

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  • doomcanoe@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Its not “haha” funny, but rather “aha” funny.

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  • Lemminary@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

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

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• lime@feddit.nu ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  i always refer people to this documentary.

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• Agent641@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Saddam meme too.

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