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[–] grue@lemmy.world 44 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (3 children)

https://cad-comic.com/comic/loss/

Context: dude made an autobiographical comic more serious in tone than his usual work, and the Internet has been mocking him for it ever since.

[–] Vespair@lemm.ee 45 points 3 months ago (2 children)

None of which makes sense without the context of what a enormous jackass Buckley had famously been in online spaces for YEARS. It's not just that loss was a weirdly serious addition to a silly comic, it's that it perfectly encapsulated the kind of sanctimonious self-important attitude Buckley espoused and instantly turned his shitty online persona into a joke.

I don't know if it is genuinely possible to still appreciate loss the way it was without all of the enormity of that context.

[–] criss_cross@lemmy.world 24 points 3 months ago (3 children)

I think Cyanide and Happiness did a good job encapsulating your point and why everyone clowned on it at the time.

https://explosm.net/comics/dave-tim-actually-said-this

[–] Vespair@lemm.ee 9 points 3 months ago

And as the image title implies, Tim actually said this.

This is just one example of the kind of shitbag Buckley was notorious for being

[–] shuzuko@midwest.social 8 points 3 months ago

Holy shit

I knew the dude was a cunt but fucking wow

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

Never seen this one before. Thank you so very much.

[–] atro_city@fedia.io 7 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Even after that, I don't see the connection.

[–] KillerTofu@lemmy.world 11 points 3 months ago (1 children)

The lines mimic the positions of the people in the panels.

[–] atro_city@fedia.io 8 points 3 months ago (2 children)
[–] octopus_ink@lemmy.ml 11 points 3 months ago

I'm with you, but granted we are in Lemmy Shitpost.

[–] snooggums@midwest.social 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

It is one of those so stupid it's funny memes.

[–] sentient_loom@sh.itjust.works 2 points 3 months ago

Wow people have a million things to say about this.

[–] sentient_loom@sh.itjust.works 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

It's really surprising that something so obscure became a meme. What's the first instance of the comic being represented with line segments like that? How did they come to be recognizable?

The original comic was rather popular at the time, and as a result, it became an early meme before mass-scale meme culture had really taken off besides doge memes and "I can haz cheeseburger." So it quickly entered the cultural zeitgeist of the early internet because the kinds of people into memes and gamer culture at the time would've been about the size of the terminally online crowd today.