The best memes are buried in 6 layers of irony and meta-references.
I'm just happy you thought it was funny, dear
Submitted 2 months ago by Exusia@lemmy.world to [deleted]
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ArchmageAzor@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Brickhead92@lemmy.world 2 months ago
And accessed via a proxy of 6 VPNs
ayyy@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
What the fuck did you just say about me?
FenrirIII@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Explaining loss humor is impossible
Jackcooper@lemmy.world 2 months 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 2 months 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 2 months ago
At least the ඞmongus generation understands the fun in hiding references everywhere.
pineapplelover@lemm.ee 2 months ago
I still don’t understand how it’s funny
Earflap@reddthat.com 2 months ago
I think its more about how Tim Buckley is terrible than anything. It sort of collapsed into its own joke.
captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 2 months 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.”
doomcanoe@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
Its not “haha” funny, but rather “aha” funny.
Lemminary@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I think it’s more for fun than funny. Like The Game or the 👌.
lime@feddit.nu 2 months ago
i always refer people to this documentary.
Agent641@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Saddam meme too.
Kolanaki@pawb.social 2 months ago
I usually don’t have a hard time explaining referencial humor when it’s, like, an older movie that was super popular in my day to a younger person who hasn’t seen it; but memes are often inexplicable unless you just know.
Lemminary@lemmy.world 2 months ago
:.|:;
Le gasp
tetris11@lemmy.ml 2 months ago
They will find this etched into mountains, and future historians will never know why
ClamDrinker@lemmy.world 2 months ago
You forgot the strikethrough
:.|:;Kolanaki@pawb.social 2 months ago
I thought it looked wrong when I pasted it but couldn’t figure out why lol
Exusia@lemmy.world 2 months ago
“The game”
Zenokh@lemmy.ml 2 months ago
No , why , why would you do that ?!
HonoraryMancunian@lemmy.world 2 months ago
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jia_tan@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 months ago
Ima send this to all the people who love “Roman history”.
Lemminary@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Got you bro !roughromanmemes@lemmy.world
AlecSadler@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
I love it.
ayyy@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
THE NUMBERS, MASON
Shapillon@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I tried explaining to a SO why stappling bread to trees was funny or why “Cat.” was peak humor.
I don’t think I’ve ever seen someone questioning my sanity and theirs by association this clearly in any other conversation.
ivanafterall@lemmy.world 2 months ago
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lime@feddit.nu 2 months ago
.:|:;Shapillon@lemmy.world 2 months ago
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didnt1able@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
Is this loss?
ikidd@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Chuck Testa
Shapillon@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Oh no there’s a bear in my bed!
CaptnNMorgan@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Nope!
2ugly2live@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Honestly, things like that remind me how vast the internet is. There are some things that I think are just ubiquitous that my friend has never heard of before. She had never heard of Creepy Pastas. She had never seen Long Long Man. She didn’t know what an SCP was. I was baffled. Made me think about my own digital world, and what sources I may be completely blind to.
sgbrain7@lemm.ee 2 months ago
dude, I love creepypastas, long long long man AND scp
TheBeege@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Count another in these parts of the internet!
fxdave@lemmy.ml 2 months ago
At least I know what SCP is. I use it sometimes.
CaptnNMorgan@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Neither SCP, nor long long man are ringing any bells for me
JasonDJ@lemmy.zip 2 months ago
Me explaining why anything is the way it is at work…
Well you see…before I started they had this hare-brained idea, and I’ve been trying to fix it every year since.
ligma_centauri@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Literally our lead developer:
“you wouldn’t be so confident in the results if you saw the half-assed code I whipped up for than in a single afternoon five years ago”
red_bull_of_juarez@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
My career has been long enough that in hindsight I’ve been the one with the harebrained idea and I swear it was a good idea at the time!
MelodiousFunk@slrpnk.net 2 months ago
At the time it was the best way to duct tape over someone else’s long-forgotten but recently uncovered cut corner.
And so the cycle continues.
JasonDJ@lemmy.zip 2 months ago
This is the bad thing about finding a good employer…the type you feel okay staying at a long time because they treat you well, the pay is reasonable and the benefits are great.
That’s where I’m at now, and I’m starting to get bit in the ass by my own harebrained ideas, too.
rbos@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
so uh this guy once ordered a pizza with no toppings but only beef on the left side and that’s why I have a 40-year-old man’s face on my shirt with a pizza background.
Monstrosity@lemm.ee 2 months ago
Memes are art.
random_user@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
There are tiers? I must not be an internet person.
elidoz@lemmy.ml 2 months ago
the tiers are just that user’s headcanon, actually memes are on a spectrum of interdependency
Lemminary@lemmy.world 2 months ago
memes are on a spectrum
Autistic memes are lit tho
melpomenesclevage@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
you’re not a person?
TriflingToad@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
Agent641@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Who doesn’t know what a trans person is?
TriflingToad@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
You’d be surprised lol
One of the funniest that shows just how little people know is this, a conversation I heard from someone like a month ago: “[name] is nonbinary, she uses they/them pronouns right?”
for context this is a Gen z person, not even a retired grandma who doesn’t go around queer people at all, there was a group of really fruity folk next to them about dieing for their whole conversation
humanspiral@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
Ceiling cat haz contempt for your puny 7 years of historical warez. Leave Brittany alone with your shallow funnies.
stabby_cicada@slrpnk.net 2 months ago
… Britney. Britney.
Christ, that meme’s old enough to shoot kids in Iraq.
humanspiral@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
Ceiling cat encourages your masturbation to Britney.
Lemminary@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Leave Brittany alone
OG reference right there.
thisbenzingring@lemmy.sdf.org 2 months ago
I often laugh about things that are not always funny haha but sometimes horrible nonsense. So now when I laugh about it, my wife gives me the “do I want to know or not” look and I have an escape route to tell her its not really something funny or something she wouldn’t think is funny
CPMSP@midwest.social 2 months ago
You sonofabitch, I’m in.
LouSlash@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
2meirl4meirl
laranis@lemmy.zip 2 months ago
not an internet person
This phrase confuses me.
affenlehrer@feddit.org 2 months ago
Same with young people and older Internet stuf and often you can’t even show it because it was some flash application on newgrounds or something like that. NEDM, Bob the ball, Sinnlos im Weltraum, Kimbles Homepage, rotten, tubgirl and whatnot
grrgyle@slrpnk.net 2 months ago
This applies to the different social medias too. Like i need a mini briefer before I can understand an Instagram meme
Tungsten5@lemm.ee 2 months ago
This is how my wife views me i think
pennomi@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Especially with niche internet culture like here on Lemmy. Very few people understand the “highly sophisticated” bean memes we’ve got.
Exusia@lemmy.world 2 months ago
“So a guy asking how not to shit for a weekend was funny for a whole month?”
When you put it that way we sound weird!
Live_your_lives@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Wait, there’s actual context behind the bean memes? I’ve been missing out.
TankovayaDiviziya@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I have been around when the bean meme came and I still don’t know how that meme started.
AbsoluteChicagoDog@lemm.ee 2 months ago
Nobody does but we all just pretend
GeneralEmergency@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Someone stole it from Reddit who stole it from Instagram.
turnipjs@lemmy.ml 2 months ago
Or the orb-pocalypse
SeekPie@lemm.ee 2 months ago
Or the jeans era
blind3rdeye@lemm.ee 2 months ago
You mean the memes about the small misshapen orbs?