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Loss (sub.wetshaving.social)

submitted 2 months ago by weird@sub.wetshaving.social to c/memes@lemmy.world

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[–] Davel23@fedia.io 202 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Mitosis, in case anyone's wondering.

[–] Zachariah@lemmy.world 107 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Loss, in case anyone's wondering.

[–] weird@sub.wetshaving.social 26 points 2 months ago (1 children)

No!

[–] Iheartcheese@lemmy.world 8 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Yes.

[–] Klear@lemmy.world 7 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Dear lord!

[–] P1k1e@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

It's too much how can we escape the Loss!!??!??!??!

[–] GratefullyGodless@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

But, then don't we have a loss of the loss, which means recursive losses of losses?

[–] P1k1e@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH GASP AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

[–] can@sh.itjust.works 25 points 2 months ago (1 children)

My toes if anyone is still wondering.

[–] BillibusMaximus@sh.itjust.works 63 points 2 months ago (1 children)

My toes, Sis.

[–] can@sh.itjust.works 26 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Dammit, thank you. I was thinking "toeses" like gollum might say. See, here I was thinking my comment was probably pointless.

[–] GojuRyu@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

To be fair, that was also what I was thinking, it wasn’t until the “sis” part was mentioned that it dawned on me.

[–] Oka@sopuli.xyz 24 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I thought your sister's name was Chondria?

[–] ArtVandelay@lemmy.world 11 points 2 months ago

She's a real powerhouse

[–] ObviouslyNotBanana@lemmy.world 19 points 2 months ago

[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 17 points 2 months ago (2 children)

My toe, sis!

[–] BambiDiego@lemmy.world 8 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

I'm a smart moron, I went with "My toesies."

Truly I'm in loss.

[–] kamen@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

~~Same~~ Samesies.

[–] Mexigore@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

Yes thats the joke

[+] Linktank@lemmy.today -15 points 2 months ago (3 children)

The loss meme has to be one of the least funny things to exist. Edgelord material.

[–] dfyx@lemmy.helios42.de 81 points 2 months ago (3 children)

At this point it feels like the loss meme is completely divorced from its original meaning and more a „where can I fit it in“ like running Doom on a pregnancy test or Bad Apple on Christmas lights.

[–] aeronmelon@lemmy.world 21 points 2 months ago (2 children)

What about running Doom on Bad Apple or a pregnancy test on Christmas lights?

[–] ChicoSuave@lemmy.world 10 points 2 months ago

Gender reveal lights?

[–] Robust_Mirror@aussie.zone 3 points 2 months ago

Yes! The tree lights up green if you're pregnant and red if you're not. It can flash between them while you're waiting, and sometimes it will randomly hold just a tiny bit longer to keep suspense high.

[–] psx_crab@lemmy.zip 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

It is, people do this to mock the artist for something he does iirc.

[–] dfyx@lemmy.helios42.de 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I wouldn't be surprised if there was a whole generation for whom loss is the "hide some lines in your posts" meme and who have never even seen the original comic let alone know who Tim Buckley is.

[–] can@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 month ago

And you don't see the beauty in that?

[–] criss_cross@lemmy.world -3 points 2 months ago

100% agreed. It was funny back when CAD was relevant the meme made sense.

Now there’s so many people riffing on it without understanding why it was a joke in the first place.

At least with Doom there’s engineering fun to be had. Modern loss just sucks.

[–] can@sh.itjust.works 13 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Loss is ...edgy?

[–] someguy3@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Depends how old you are.

[–] queermunist@lemmy.ml 10 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

You might have missed the joke?

The joke isn't that miscarriage is funny. That's edgelord material.

The joke is that B^Uckley is a hack writer and hack artist and his comics aren't funny and look like shit. It's making fun of him.

[–] squaresinger@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Might have been the case 17 years ago. In the mean time Buckley grew up, became a really decent guy and CAD 2.0 is a really good read.

Thinking that loss is still a relevant critique of Buckley or his work just means you are getting old and haven't updated your prejudices in almost 2 decades.

People posting loss memes almost qualify for an "ok boomer" by now.

[–] queermunist@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Well, by now it's just a self referential meme like all memes. The joke is itself, the context doesn't even matter anymore.

It's still not a joke about miscarriage.

[–] squaresinger@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

So what now? Is it a joke about bullying some creator for stuff he made half a life ago, or does the context not matter when the context is put like that?

[–] queermunist@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

The context is that people recognize the meme. That's basically it. The joke is itself.

But also I don't really care if some artist is annoyed that his early, bad artwork became the butt of a joke. He was in his 20s when he started that comic, let's not pretend like this is bullying a child's comics or something.

[–] squaresinger@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

So first, the context is everything, then the context doesn't matter, then the context is something else.

[–] queermunist@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 months ago

That's the history of memes.

So at first, people were making fun of a bad artist with a bad comic. In that context it wasn't edgelord material, he was an adult and he can handle being the butt of a joke.

Then, the meme gained a life of its own (its context was itself) and that old context ceased to matter. It wasn't about the artist anymore, but without context it still wasn't edgelord material.

At no point was the joke edgy because the joke was never about miscarriage.