:.|:;I tried explaining to a SO why stappling bread to trees was funny or why “Cat.” was peak humor.
I don’t think I’ve ever seen someone questioning my sanity and theirs by association this clearly in any other conversation.
Explaining loss humor is impossible
i always refer people to this documentary.
So like, she had a miscarriage and is crying about it and her boyfriend makes it just in time to see the results and uh yeah it’s the funniest thing ever why are you leaving
At least the ඞmongus generation understands the fun in hiding references everywhere.
No, wait, it gets better. Get this. Circle jerk about it for a couple of decades and it gets funnier, oh, OK, still going.
I still don’t understand how it’s funny
At this point we’re like three jokes deep.
The original reaction to the comic was kind of a collective chuckle of “Whahahahat the fuck?” Because the comic was like discount store brand Penny Arcade, irreverent bullshit gamer humor, and then comes the sudden plotline that the girlfriend character has a miscarriage.
Like, Loss itself isn’t bad in and of itself; telling the story of the character’s journey through the hospital with no dialog, it’s competent…but it stood in such contrast to what the comic had been about for so long and the audience just wasn’t on board with it that it became a controversy. And Buckley’s clap back against it and the following drama made it memetic.
At some point, the imagery became so recognizeable even in the abstract that it became a prank to communicate the idea of the comic in as abstract a form as possible, hence the “Is this Loss” meme. Somewhere between rickrolling and “you just lost the game.”
I think it
's(Edit: started out) more about how Tim Buckley is terrible than anything. (Edit: Then from there it) sort of collapsed into its own joke. No one really knows or cares about the context anymore, its become a self-contained meme with no real meaningful connection to Tim, the original comic, or its message now.I think it’s more for fun than funny. Like The Game or the 👌.
Saddam meme too.
I usually don’t have a hard time explaining referencial humor when it’s, like, an older movie that was super popular in my day to a younger person who hasn’t seen it; but memes are often inexplicable unless you just know.
Example:
:.|:;They will find this etched into mountains, and future historians will never know why
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Le gasp
Chuck Testa
Oh no there’s a bear in my bed!
Nope!
Honestly, things like that remind me how vast the internet is. There are some things that I think are just ubiquitous that my friend has never heard of before. She had never heard of Creepy Pastas. She had never seen Long Long Man. She didn’t know what an SCP was. I was baffled. Made me think about my own digital world, and what sources I may be completely blind to.
At least I know what SCP is. I use it sometimes.
Neither SCP, nor long long man are ringing any bells for me
Long long man https://youtu.be/6-1Ue0FFrHY
Is a Japanese commercial series
Oh, thank you. I didn’t know I needed to see this
SCP Foundation is a fictional (I hope) organisation with the mission to Secure, Contain, Protect various anomalies catalogued with numbers (SCP-#) which are thus also referred to as SCPs. These anomaly descriptions are available on https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/
Some of the anomalies are references to other fictional things. If you’re familiar with Slenderman, for instance, you may enjoy SCP-096.
Do you think SCP-049 could “cure” SCP-3008? I can only imagine the types of experiments 049 would come up with in that venture…
Same with young people and older Internet stuf and often you can’t even show it because it was some flash application on newgrounds or something like that. NEDM, Bob the ball, Sinnlos im Weltraum, Kimbles Homepage, rotten, tubgirl and whatnot
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Is this loss?
so uh this guy once ordered a pizza with no toppings but only beef on the left side and that’s why I have a 40-year-old man’s face on my shirt with a pizza background.
Ceiling cat haz contempt for your puny 7 years of historical warez. Leave Brittany alone with your shallow funnies.
… Britney. Britney.
Christ, that meme’s old enough to drop bombs on Yemen.
yeah…
especially if they don’t know what a trans person is
The best memes are buried in 6 layers of irony and meta-references.
And accessed via a proxy of 6 VPNs
What the fuck did you just say about me?
Got some reference material?
Is this loss?
I consider Loss to be common knowledge at this point
Which is why it’s a great meme to bury in six layers of irony and meta-references.
Me explaining why anything is the way it is at work…
Well you see…before I started they had this hare-brained idea, and I’ve been trying to fix it every year since.
My career has been long enough that in hindsight I’ve been the one with the harebrained idea and I swear it was a good idea at the time!
Especially with niche internet culture like here on Lemmy. Very few people understand the “highly sophisticated” bean memes we’ve got.
I have been around when the bean meme came and I still don’t know how that meme started.
Nobody does but we all just pretend
“So a guy asking how not to shit for a weekend was funny for a whole month?”
When you put it that way we sound weird!
Wait, there’s actual context behind the bean memes? I’ve been missing out.
