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You mean like when I used to ask my tween daughter how “the game” was going?
Fuck you.
I lost.
One year I had the baker write on her cake:
Eye
Laws
Dug
Aim
We all crack up watching her meltdown on the video now that she’s older
I didn’t know Satan had a daughter!
That is some top tier trolling, well done!
She doesn’t have a big brother. Lucky for her, I had two little sisters.
It’s early, but WTF are you talking about? What did I miss?
Read it out loud, “I lost the game”.
Yes, ty.
Whats this now? How am i already in the ‘how do you do fellow kids’??
The game has been around for generations
Rules:
- Everyone is playing the game, whether they know it or not.
- When you know (or remember) that you’re playing, then you lose.
Every once in a while, my dad makes sure I lose it, just like how I lost now
The earliest recollection I have about The Game is a friend texting me a chicken with a sign that spelled The Game. I had absolutely no idea what that was supposed to mean so I very eloquently asked him “wtf”. “You lost the game”, he replied. “What game? Dude, what are you talking about?”.
He then explained what the game was and how I had lost it by reading the sign on the chicken, something that I thought, and made sure to tell him, was one of the stupidest things to have come out of the Internet. About an hour later he sent me a screenshot from an old conversation where I originally told him about The Game. I somehow had completely erased it from my memory. I won The Game.
Blocked ^(jk)
Fuck you lmao
:.|:;How long before this is an emoji or otherwise included in Unicode?
Calling it a rick roll dealt bonus damage.
“the youth” 😏
I don’t think you have to be under 30 anymore
I didn’t realise under 30s knew about it.
The oldest under 30 would have been 7 years old when Loss was posted.
I’ve been playing for 30 years.
You have to be over 30 now
If they were under 30 ten years ago
What is this even talking about? Rick roll? Knives? Hieroglyphs? What do they have to do with each other?
Rick roll refers to tricking someone into opening the YouTube video for Rick Ashley’s Never Gonna Give You Up. Knives are used to cut things, and in this case the father was arranging them to look like the loss comic. Without the context, the layout of the knives appears to just be a hieroglyph, which is a symbol used to convey information.
When you bring this all together, you get a dad having fun with his kids by ironically referencing memes he doesn’t understand. Kind of like how grandma used to call every video game console a Nintendo or every Pokémon a pikachu.
In case, you’re not familiar with the Loss comic, it’s this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loss_(Ctrl%2BAlt%2BDel)
TL;DR: It’s an unexpectedly dark comic (hence the psychic damage), and it turned into somewhat of a meme to try to remind people of it, by producing ever more abstract representations of it.
For example, you can post:.|:;here on Lemmy and someone will probably recognize it.The dad is creating such an abstract representation by arranging knives.
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The father used knives to create the Loss shorthand on the countertop. He called it “Rick-rolling” because he knows that word is associated with online trolling. He’s never seen the original Loss comic, so the arrangement of knives on the counter is more akin to hieroglyphics than anything; an arrangement of symbols to convey an idea.
Loss?
Here’s the comic on the left (titled “Loss”) and its shorthand on the right that people sneak into everything to reference it.
The webcomic (called “CTRL-ALT-DEL”) was mostly comedy, but then pivoted out of the blue with this dark, dramatic, wordless strip. The whiplash in tone led to a lot of jokes and people trying to meme it and slip references to it into everything.
Oh wow, I used to read this comic like 15 years ago.
he was arranging the knives to look like loss
There’s a bunch of other words in between those words that you should also read, in order, and then the meaning will be revealed
I still have no idea what the fuck is going on with loss. I’ve seen the comic. I don’t get it.
Out of context Loss is actually pretty good, frankly. The thing is the context it was found in doesn’t deserve it. It came from a sub-boner humor gamer comic that suddenly got really dramatic. The tone whiplash just struck a nerve at the time, which is why the comic came to wide attention.
Then there’s the “is this Loss” meme, which is kind of a prank game where you encode the layout of Loss as abstractly as possible, often with one line, to represent the character walking through the door alone, two lines, one tall and one short to represent him standing and the sitting nurse, two tall lines for him and the doctor standing, and then one vertical and one horizontal line to represent him standing and her lying down. The joke here lies in reminding people of this stupid thing in as abstract and distant a way as possible.
It was a stupid reaction.
Buckley had every right to make that little comic, the amount of backlash for that was completely disproportional even if he had made a terrible comic about killing Skyrim children or something.
A “bad tonal ahift” is nowhere near bad enough to warrant this kind of hate.
He absolutely did have every right to make that comic. And his audience had every right to respond “Whahahahahahat the fuck was that?”
His audience was a bunch of childish crass pussies.
He should have know is audience were that
We should not default to respecting that audience’s reaction.
We also should not default to tonguing the author’s ass.
That was the intended audience for the comic at the time, though.
CAD was very much immature nerd humour (as was the style at the time), and it’d be inevitable that a sudden tonal whiplash to a serious tragedy around a miscarriage, out of seeming nowhere, would be received poorly.
Do you “get” rickrolling? It’s the same thing
Pics or n’est pas le happen
No idea how to parse this. Still a proud non-knower of the loss meme.
You’re not missing out on much. As far as memes go, this one is pretty bad.
As the post says it’s about the same quality as a Rick roll. Take that as you will
I’d argue that the loss meme is unique in that people do their best to make it as abstract as possible.im sure I’ve missed so many loss memes cause there wasn’t a comment of “is this loss?”. There is something fun about the game in it cause I’ve seen some high quality attempts to sneak loss into other things
Given that the author was genuinely inspired by something he lived (it’s never been cleared up for me whether he had a girlfriend experience miscarriage or what), I never really understood the vicious and now eternal mockery. Just goes to show the community…
The meme itself is wonderfully elegant! It’s a reduction of the original comic to its simplest form. The sort of shit that should evolve over the course of centuries gets done in a few weeks in the Internet primordial soup. I could write it thus and I reckon it’s still recognizable : I Ii II I_
Each bar represents a character in the otherwise silent comic. And is usually presented in a two by two pattern to reflect the comic layout. But it’s been deconstructed to much it’d still work as I’ve rendered it above.
I genuinely can’t tell if you’re fucking with me
That was a close one. I almost read that! Closed the tab just in time
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Did it work? Are you crazy now?
How old is this? I don’t feel like anyone under 30 would know what loss is.
That happened.
Nothing ever happens.
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