The problem with loss is the impact of it is …ahem… lost without the context of what an enormous douchebag Tim Buckley was online at that time. Like part of what makes loss so ridiculous is the audacious sanctimonious nature of the comic coming from the internet’s least-likable egotist and troll. You can read as many KYM wikis as you want, but if you weren’t around to witness what a fucking shitbag Buckley was during that time then you can’t really feel the way loss hit when it hit.
I didn’t have this context. I always thought it was really heartless how people turned it into a meme. Honestly, it still isn’t funny to me. Guess you had to be there.
I don’t believe that’s an accurate statement. Ctrl Alt Del had, and apparently still has, some pretty militant critics. It always has. Everything I’ve been able to find is threads of unrepentant cruelty directed at Tim Buckley with very little context, generally leaning on the loss comic. The obsession is a little weird, to be honest.
Also, B^U
Now i have to watch Hbomb again
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Is he not a shit bag anymore?
He’s just not relevant to Internet culture anymore.
as someone learning Chinese, this is top-tier meme
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Japanese kanji are from China. While reading is obviously different they share many characteristics. Just like our alphabet hasn’t been invented in England even though we’re using it to write English
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It includes 3 other scripts in addition to kanji.
So? It also includes Simplified Hanzi which only has relation to the People’s Republic of China and Singapore.
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Oracle Bone, Bronze, Seal, Traditional and Simplified Hanzi are all Chinese. Only Kanji is Japanese and only by proxy, so this meme is like 70% Chinese and 30% Japanese. You would know that if you learned Japanese.
If you don’t get it, this is a reference to the webcomic, Loss. https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/loss
I know today’s 10,000 and all that, but if there are people who made it to lemmy without running across loss I’d love to understand how
It was over 15 years ago now. Younger users may have seen references and not know what it is.
I still don’t get it, been on the internet since 98… Can someone you please explain it to this dumbass.
There was this popular web comic about video games and geeky shit, and it was mostly funny. Then one day they made this one comic strip about miscarriage called “Loss”. It became a meme because most people found it super pretentious for a funny little webcomic to suddenly do this kinda heavy drama with no dialogue like it’s some arthouse film.
Maybe click on the link they provided ?
I did, and I still don’t get it
My brother in christ what do you not get i will help.
I don’t understand the original comic
I’d never seen this or heard of it till today. And today I’m not sure I understand
Weird, are you not at least partially a terminally online nerd like the rest of us? I never actually read the comic but it seems like it’s impossible to have been on reddit and such for so long without ever running across it.
I thought I was. I’ve been cutting back on it the last couple of years, but still
I only understood this meme very recently.
I am at a loss on what to say.
This is fantastic! You should repost this into [email protected]
Needs more language variants. Korean? Vietnamese?
And a whole parallel development via sumerian -> cuneiform -> Phoenician -> greek -> latin
はい、ロスだよ。
そうだぜ、ロスだなー。
I only took two years of Chinese in high school but this was genuinely how it felt
