• Mouette
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    37
    arrow-down
    2
    ·
    1 year ago

    I can’t help but hate this meme so much. I feel like it’s just a poor dude who shared a legit sad thing and now everyone is making fun of him

    • drcobaltjedi@programming.dev
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      43
      arrow-down
      1
      ·
      1 year ago

      The biggest problem I think people have with loss is it is a huge tonal and emotional shift from the rest of the comic series.

      The guy is a really annoying tone deaf weirdo who only cares about games for the longest time. A lot of the punchlines ib the comics were “violence”. Finally gets a GF, and treats her kinda poorly on the comic, and then bam loss comes out. It feels a bit like whiplash and is trying to be serious and sad when it never was serious or sad, but “”““zany””“” and non consiquential.

      • Uniquitous@lemmy.one
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        22
        ·
        1 year ago

        Sometimes a comic artist just has a moment where they take it way off the rails. Remember the time Garfield woke up all alone in the house? Haha fat kitty lasagna mondays amirite? Oh wait a sec, let’s have some existential fucking terror for a moment.

      • Mouette
        link
        fedilink
        arrow-up
        16
        ·
        1 year ago

        I learnt about it way later after it happened through some random website that explains memes. Maybe it made sense at the time but when you come to it without a lot of context it just hit as sad.

        • drcobaltjedi@programming.dev
          link
          fedilink
          arrow-up
          19
          arrow-down
          1
          ·
          1 year ago

          In a vaccum and without context, loss is, IMO, good and sad. Wordlessly explaining the dudes panic and his shared greif with his SO quite well.

          Unfortunately for this particular comic, there is a lot context that makes it feel very weird, tone deaf, and uncomfortable.

    • I Cast Fist@programming.dev
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      1
      ·
      1 year ago

      Personally, I think he should’ve just made a full text post instead of a 4 panel comic. The complete break from norm in that case wouldn’t elicit such a wild reaction and would probably be taken more seriously