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Hofmaimaier@feddit.org to Antique Memes Roadshow@lemmy.world · 5 months ago

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  • Tomtits@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    It’s always loss

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      …and/or DNS

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        and/or your mom.

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          And/or the bus driver

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    Explain, please.

    • Hofmaimaier@feddit.orgOP
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      Loss memes.

      • DagwoodIII@piefed.social
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        Well, that was a dive down a rabbithole.

        Thanks for the explanation.

        I thought it was some kind of computer code or a type of puzzle.

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        I never understood why this is funny. Are miscarriages funny somehow?

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          I think there’s a few elements to it. The biggest part of it is that this comic artist had never done comics in this tone and the artist was already getting memed pretty often for generally “not that funny” jokes.

          When this came out, it gave everyone whiplash because, well, who the fuck decided to make a comic about their wife’s miscarriage? I would get it to have a plain text media post or similar, but that was an odd step to take. IMO, that’s not something I’d casually drop in your otherwise innocuous comic strip.

          Then the internet did its thing and the rest is history.

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            deleted by creator

        • Hofmaimaier@feddit.orgOP
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          It’s not funny in now way, the whole trend was to sneak the Loss pattern into every possible meme, so it was more like a got you Rick rolled.

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            It’s… wait for it… it’s “6 7”!!

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          It was as severe of a tone shift as a miscarriage in the middle of a Dora the Explorer episode. Also, iirc the artist wasn’t having a personal miscarriage drama in real life, he just suddenly wanted an edgier plot line for his unfunny comic, so people started making fun of him for it.

          Now it’s just a pattern recognition joke.

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            The creator did go through an unplanned pregnancy and miscarriage with an ex-girlfriend in college. The relationship was toxic according to him and this happened years before loss was published.

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              TIL, thanks!

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            Wrong wrong wrong.

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          IMO it was never funny, it was actually pretty damned awful. The actual original piece was art and beat the shit out of the heart-strings. As it made it’s rounds for being profound in a comic, people got tired of seeing it immediately as it was so fucking sad and not funny. The internet turned it into a rick-roll, a goatse. When people got made with it they turned it into a puzzle, so that once you figured it out, you’d be angry and trigger a bit. It’s a troll.

          This comic piece at the head of this post is a touch better than most. no one would come to the rescue when she asked for help, but posting the loss meme people would parachute in for, which is mostly what’s happening all over this thread… soooo… it is what it is, the original was probably best described as touching and sad, the response to it was assanine and the meta responses to it, while calling it out in new and fashionable ways, are still triggering.

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    ?

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      Pretty sure it’s Loss.

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        Loss of what? Still don’t get it.

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          https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/loss

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            Ok, she made a reference to this particular meme. Still don’t get the joke. Why out of a sudden all started to arrive?

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              Loss memes never have any sense, just try to not roll you eyes too hard and move on.

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              Original was about her offering sex or something. This edit is purposefully a bit absurd

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              People on the Internet get really excited to post “is this loss” when they notice it in a meme. So that seems to be the reference here.

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              6-7

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                42

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                  Funny how 42 gets no downvotes, but 6-7 does.

                  They are, effectively, the same in a sociological sense, just from different generations.

                  Juvenoia here we are!

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          Loss of control

          (Guitar solo)

          Aw ha!

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    Jack Shephard was the doctor that delivered the news? Wow, deep lore

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    Why does this look like AI slop? Look at the text in the first panel (“idioc Maroot … Kim”?) and the inconsistencies of the protagonist.

    Edit: Jeebus Crisp. I wasn’t claiming that it was AI slop. Cool it with the downvotes. 🙄

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      The artist goes by “Kim” and he wrote in the corner “Idee: Margot,” because his wife Margot came up with the idea for the cartoon. They are Belgian, not AI.

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        “They are Belgian, not AI.” Going to have to start incorporating this into my speech.

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        To be fair, something in that corner with “Idee: Margot” has changed between the original and this meme.

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      It’s not. Here’s an article about it and the original https://www.lambiek.net/artists/d/duchateau_kim.htm

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      It is a very old cartoon. I can’t explain the text though.

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        It’s actually from 2016, apparently (if the article is correct). The style makes it look old though

        https://www.lambiek.net/artists/d/duchateau_kim.htm

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          For some people nine years is old

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            No

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