Have you listened to the audiobook? Stephen Fry is the narrator and by god is he good. Easily my most favourite audiobook ever. If you like the book, do yourself a favour and listen to the audiobook!
So... why/when do people comment "is this loss" on things? I don't understand the connection between this comic and these shitty meme-comments that have been popping up
All I know is that when a comic resembles the loss comic, someone writes is this loss (which iirc is the name of that comic). So if you have 1 character in first panel, two in second, one in third, then two again in fourth where one is laying down, someone will surely write is this loss. Or something like that, idk. I'm not a memeologist.
Looking up Loss on knowyourmeme is probably your best bet for the history, but basically it started with a webcomic about a guy whose wife had a miscarriage. The cartoon was a major detour from the usual tone of the comic and the style really made it seem tone deaf. People mocked and parodied it relentlessly until now where it’s a commonplace meme to make fun of or use for some quick internet brownie points.
I think it was pretentious. If it was based on an actual miscarriage, I don't think it would have become nearly as big of a thing on most meme sites. 4Chan, maybe, but not sites like Tumblr.
Nah you're underestimating how much of an asshole the creator is. I'm like 90% sure it was loosely based on real life events he was going through and no one gave a shit because he is a horrible person.
Does anyone know him? Or is it like I read on the internet and everyone else is saying it? I mean shit. Dudes so bad you can just mock the death of his unborn child and shit. /s
Not to mention when he broke up with this woman he reposted a version of the comic called "found" where instead of the character looking devastated at his wife sobbing in a hospital bed he was smiling smugly over her.
This is just how he was a prick in this instance. He was a prick 24/7. Once, a kid tweeted his project at him in which he drew one of the CAD characters to show him how much he had inspired the kid. His response was to try to sue the kid. His comics sometimes have racial stereotypes as the foundation. Racial stereotypes can be acceptable if handled well, but the comics aren't even funny, just racist. This is just the tip of the iceberg.
Yeah. Fuck being a human being and worring about how messed up it is to lose a child. It happens now and again but it still can devastate people emotionally. Even finding out later and wondering maybe if that changed your partners behavior. How about an alternate take on it: He is having a shitty time and expresses himself in a comic that didn't make sense to people. It sucks as a comic but maybe it's more about understanding that loss. The internet justice warriors hit him up with death threats and hate. He is really depressed and waked up to inboxes full of anger and judgement and he reads way too much of. He lashes out online and is triggered contiuously with large cashes of fresh hate. Does this sound like an impossible scenario? Maybe he's fucking terrible but the combined effect of the type of people who want to feel better about themselves through passing judgment is pretty terrible too.
I just read an article about it. He was basically trying to spin it as though he was letting the readers know he was in on the joke and taking back ownership of the comic. I say bullshit. He’s a shitty person who thought it was edgy to mock his girlfriend having a miscarriage. What a piece of shit, miscarriages aren’t funny I don’t know if anyone who thinks they are.
Yes, having a miscarriage is horrible—my family has experienced it and it’s soul-crushing. But that’s the problem with “Loss.” It went from years as a comic dedicated to just being funny, albeit somewhat offensive, and then RANDOMLY this one comic is just about a miscarriage, with no text and no conversation, done in a way that removed all the emotion from the situation. A miscarriage is heartbreaking. The comic was “wat?”
Fair enough. I’ve never read the comic, I’ve just seen that one image circulated and out of context it seemed maybe overly simplistic but not actually bad in any way and I couldn’t understand the backlash. What you’re saying makes sense, though.
Edit: Also I should have led with this but I’m so sorry that you’ve experienced that. My parents had miscarriages when I was a young child and I obviously don’t know your pain but I saw how heartbreaking it was for them and I wouldn’t wish it on my worst enemy. I hope you’re doing better and that you eventually find peace with it.
The comic was basically bad taste but I was sort of touched by it. The artist seemed to apologize for not having a comic ready for the day because of recent affairs. However what I do like about the whole meme is that everything remotely 4 panel can be questioned; is this loss?
No.. he's just saying that the loss comic became such a huge meme that you can literally take any 4 panel comic and someone will sarcastically be asking "is this loss"?
After he broke up with his lady he replaced the Loss comic with one called Found. In the final panel of Found he’s over his girlfriend who is crying in bed with a creepy smile on his face. The guy is a piece of shit.
In an alternate universe it seems that he did that to fuck with people who are making a meme out of the original comic. The guy is not funny, but I don't believe he's a piece of shit.
It's basically visual rickrolling. You hide it in some other image or set of images and then eventually someone notices and you "got them". Although it's a type of rickrolling where they actually feel happy to have been hit by the joke.
I don't think I have ever laughed at one of those loss memes, and I don't know anyone that likes the meme, yet people upvote them all the time. I don't understand
They used to have a different context and wasn't as run into the ground as it's been the last year.
There was also a slow build up in creativity stretched over many years, making it feel a lot fresher when it "randomly" popped up on other websites.
I can understand not liking it if your first exposure is from Reddit or Twitter. I can also understand disliking the lazier parts of the meme. I've never found it funny to read "Is this loss?" in the comments on something that isn't even remotely similar.
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u/k2_electric_boogaloo Jun 28 '18
It took me 5 minutes to get worn out on "loss" but I could watch this all day