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[-] aeronmelon@lemmy.world 173 points 2 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@lemmy.world 72 points 2 months ago

The original is still loss.

[-] roguetrick@lemmy.world 40 points 2 months ago

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

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[-] archonet@lemy.lol 151 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

my personal favorite:

although, the scenery one is pretty good, too

[-] Rebels_Droppin@lemmy.world 77 points 2 months ago
[-] cmbabul@lemmy.world 42 points 2 months ago
[-] Slovene@feddit.nl 15 points 2 months ago

Mothermother fuck. Mothermother fuckfuck.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=F5bW8H-kNZs

[-] Holyginz@lemmy.world 39 points 2 months ago

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

[-] OpenHammer6677@lemmy.world 29 points 2 months ago
[-] Eheran@lemmy.world 7 points 2 months ago
[-] Bombastic@sopuli.xyz 16 points 2 months ago

I was also at a loss for words after that

[-] Sonotsugipaa@lemmy.dbzer0.com 12 points 2 months ago

It was illegal, it violated multiple federal ~~:.|:;~~

[-] odigo2020@lemmy.zip 23 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

It's from an old ~~Penny Arcade,~~ Ctrl+Alt+Del, often mocked for its sudden melodramatic tone in an otherwise silly comic series:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loss_(comic)

[-] Blackmist@feddit.uk 45 points 2 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.

[-] tetris11@lemmy.ml 43 points 2 months ago

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@lemmy.world 14 points 2 months ago

Wrong webcomic. Ctrl + Alt + Del is the name.

[-] odigo2020@lemmy.zip 12 points 2 months ago

Well shit, my bad. Fixed, thanks!

[-] redhorsejacket@lemmy.world 10 points 2 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.

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[-] jrgn@lemmy.world 35 points 2 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@sh.itjust.works 26 points 2 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.

[-] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 11 points 2 months ago

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.

[-] captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 9 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

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@lemmy.world 15 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

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.

[-] HawlSera@lemm.ee 10 points 2 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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[-] son_named_bort@lemmy.world 23 points 2 months ago

Did the bank ever get their two dollars back?

[-] recentSloth43@lemmy.world 19 points 2 months ago
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[-] recklessengagement@lemmy.world 22 points 2 months ago

I was like "oh, that's a cute comic" and then I just started fucking wheezing

[-] paddirn@lemmy.world 22 points 2 months ago
[-] peopleproblems@lemmy.world 19 points 2 months ago

Angry? I fucking lost it

[-] callmepk@lemmy.world 19 points 2 months ago

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[-] cRazi_man@lemm.ee 14 points 2 months ago

For all the people asking for an explanation:

https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/loss

[-] Phoenicianpirate@lemm.ee 13 points 2 months ago

I don't get it. Can someone explain it to me?

[-] Pacattack57@lemmy.world 25 points 2 months ago

It’s Loss within a Loss meme. Lossception.

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[-] whelk@lemm.ee 11 points 2 months ago

I laughed, but I wasn't happy about it.

[-] realitista@lemm.ee 9 points 2 months ago

After going down the whole rabbit hole of what this means, I think it's shit.

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