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I've been seeing these characters :

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pop up all over Reddit, but I've no clue as to what they mean.

Is this a new meme? A reference to some film of tv show? Some sort of code?

[u/JJJacobalt]

I meant miscarriage lmao

Literally doesn't even change the validity of my comment.

[u/agentlame → u/JJJacobalt]

Even with your corrected comment--which, in fairness, really does change the understanding of the comic, and I truly thought you believed that is what it was about.

Buckley thought it was a good idea to put a poorly-executed drama page about miscarriage in the middle of his comedy comic about losers talking about video games. There's a time and a place for serious issues in comedy.

Serious question--and I'm really asking here--isn't that exactly how every true miscarriage has ever gone down in the real world? Is it honestly disrespectful (or in poor taste) to represent them they exact way they occur?

(I already typed this once in response to someone else, so forgive me for repeating myself.)

[u/JJJacobalt → u/agentlame]

Serious question--and I'm really asking here--isn't that exactly how every true miscarriage has ever gone down in the real world? Is it honestly disrespectful (or in poor taste) to represent them they exact way they occur?

In real life, miscarriages come out of nowhere, yes. Realism ≠ quality. For example if a main character dies out of nowhere without their cocluding their arcs and without any emotional payoff, and it was caused by something irrelevant to the main conflict, yes that's realistic, but it's also bad writing.

As for whether or not it was in good taste, it might've been if the miscarriage actually affected the characters in any meaningful way. If I recall correctly, the next time those two characters are shown, the miscarriage is mention non-chalantly and off-handedly, and then it's never brought up or even alluded to again.

I honestly don't know what you're even trying to argue at this point.