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submitted 9 months ago by carotte to c/196

Alt text: Five dices. Top left corner is a three, top right corner is a six, bottom left corner is also a six and bottom right corner is two threes forming a straight angle.

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[-] ramenshaman@lemmy.world 13 points 9 months ago

Can anyone explain to me why Loss became so popular? I never saw it until I joined Lemmy and I've seen a couple dozen posts based on it.

[-] lilsolar@sh.itjust.works 14 points 9 months ago

It's like a comedy cemetery type of meme

[-] DashboTreeFrog@discuss.online 13 points 9 months ago

At this point it's an internet inside joke, and like any niche inside joke, there's a bit of a rush when you recognize it, that you're in on something special. In the beginning it was mostly just mocking the absurd sudden tone shift in the original Ctrl+Alt+Del comic but like a lot of memes it seems to have evolved and now the fun is creating and finding the loss pattern in unique and different ways.

I like it, it's fun

[-] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 11 points 9 months ago

I am almost certain the only reason it ever blew up was because it's a pretty strong comic, alone, but the fact it can be represented by just a few lines such that nearly any 4 images can become a reference to the comic makes it highly memeable.

[-] Xariphon@kbin.social 11 points 9 months ago

It also became memeable and noteworthy because it's it's drastically off tone for the comic strip it came from. Generally a light hearted series and then BAM, have something that in context is utterly brutal.

Nowadays it's so divorced from it's context that it's essentially just a meme.

[-] DAMunzy@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 9 months ago

Google en passant

And all will be revealed.

[-] TheBat@lemmy.world 6 points 9 months ago

That's a chess move. Are you stupid? Go back to asulme.

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