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.

  • ramenshaman@lemmy.world
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    8 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.

    • DashboTreeFrog@discuss.online
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      8 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

    • 🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 ℹ️@yiffit.net
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      8 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
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        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.