• @aeronmelon
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    1734 months ago

    The original, for anyone who wants the wholesome:

    Nancy comic strip. Nancy goes into a bank advertising loans and asks the banker for a two dollar loan. When the banker asks for the loan is for, Nancy says that the circus is in town. The banker is surprised by this news and in the last panel both Nancy and the banker are eating ice cream at the circus together.

    • @Ultraviolet
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      724 months ago

      The original is still loss.

      • ✺roguetrick✺
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        404 months ago

        You’re right, the clown and his nose is the final panel.

    • @psycho_driver
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      -124 months ago

      Unless the old banker is hoping to diddle the heroine after the show.

  • @Holyginz
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    394 months ago

    Sorry, I’m a dumb dumb. Can someone explain?

      • @[email protected]
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        454 months ago

        Imagine going through that in real life, eventually sitting down to make a heartfelt comic about it, and then the entire internet takes the piss.

        If anything that just makes it even funnier.

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          The initial reaction was good, but through later interaction with the artist it became clear that it was a one off thing, unrelated to the canon of the series, and unrelated to anything happening in his life. His overall hostility to questions about it turned people to the idea that he did it to steal undeserved pathos from his audience. Thus, he became a clown.

          • @redhorsejacket
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            104 months ago

            All good! You were in the ballpark, certainly. I read CAD, but not Penny Arcade, and I was there when Loss was uploaded, so the distinction is clear to me.

  • @jrgn
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    354 months ago

    I always thought the point of the loss meme was a sort of “sad rickroll”. That people thought the comic was so sad, and the joke was to remind people of it and make them sad.

    Needless to say, I didn’t get it. I thought “people find this really sad I guess”. It was just last week I found out that people do not in fact think it is sad, and the point is just to mock the cartoon

    • Captain Aggravated
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      264 months ago

      It achieved infamy for tonal whiplash. The series it’s from is usually irreverent and goofy. so the very heavy subject coming out of nowhere was…not received well.

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        The tonal whiplash doesn’t end there. I think a lot of it started as g*mers just being immature but then Buckley said his girlfriend needed to “get over it” and tried to groom a minor, so he kinda just burned all bridges on the topic.

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          Yeah I think overall that Loss being a meme has less to do with the text of the comic itself and more the backlash and the backlash to the backlash. Few people engaging with the Loss meme are actually talking about miscarriages; I did see an example recently called “Loss but it’s a red state” which was actually a brilliant bit of political satire. And it’s almost a different meme to the one that produced :.|:; which is closer to “you just lost the game.”

    • @turmacar
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      Yeah, no. It was (/is? damn, dude’s still going. Good for him.) a comedy/commentary comic mostly about gaming and basically interactions that wouldn’t be out of place in a Clarks movie. This was a standalone just a week or so before Loss.

      Que super serious miscarriage storyline for “art” reasons.

      • Queen HawlSera
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        104 months ago

        The guy who made it was a talentless egomaniac. He wanted to prove that he was a serious adult who could make serious adult stories, and instead of slowly transitioning into a more serious plot like say El Goonish Shiv or Concession or (not a webcomic, but No Evil)

        He just jumped into a miscarriage story and then when people didn’t like it… well the other “Super Adult Story” thing to do is kill off characters, so he killed everyone off and just focused on background characters…

        but again instead of slowly building up the background characters and bring them closer to the forefront… they were just… thrust into the front with no fanfare, no defined personality…

        So the already low-tier webcomic sank even lower.

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        I believe his girlfriend had a miscarriage and that inspired that comic. But it came out of nowhere and didn’t fit the comic. If I remember correctly the next strip the guys talked about how tough it is (gf not present) and then if was back to gaming

        • @EnderMB
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          124 months ago

          I mean, the dude also showed his junk to an underage girl. Smart decisions aren’t his thing.

  • @recklessengagement
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    224 months ago

    I was like “oh, that’s a cute comic” and then I just started fucking wheezing

  • @callmepk
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    194 months ago

    𓁲 | 𓁆 𓀻 —————- 𓁇 𓁅 |𓀣 𓀿

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      𓁲 | 𓁆 𓀻

      —————-

      𓁇 𓁅 | 𓀣 𓀿

      I had to fix it

    • @Aqarius
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      34 months ago

      Double new lines, it eats single ones.

    • @Pacattack57
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      254 months ago

      It’s Loss within a Loss meme. Lossception.

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        34 months ago

        I guess I need to familiarize myself with the loss meme. I have been seeing it around lately.

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          It’s everywhere. Anytime I see a 4 panel comic, I start looking for signs. It’s normally 1 person panel, 2 people, 2 people, 1 stand and 1 lying down. Someone posted how to type it in text the other day.

          :.|:;

          It’s colon, period, straight line, colon, semicolon >then highlight and strike-through.