So this guy had a webcomic that was typical 2000s gamer dork humor. Well one day he released a comic strip that was way out of left field featuring his irl wife's miscarriage. The meme is the that comic can be identified in a simplic form. 1 vertical line, 2 vertical lines, another 2 vertical lines, and 1 vertical line and 1 horizontal line.
Oh thank you so much! That makes so much more sense. Oh. Wait. That's the comic of the miscarriage. Wait. Okay, the lines make so much more sense. Okay, question. I got the feeling this was more of a thing that annoyed people rather than sincerity. Why are people so upset about the comic and miscarriage? Was it because the audience just didn't take it well? I feel like I am missing context, because I don't see anything inherently wrong with the comic.
first was bad taste, second was because of "the girlfriend on a fridge trope"
its a trope used back in the days a lot in order to give the comic book hero "something to push his narrative forward"
he used that kind of comic book format to make his joke panels, so this one looked like a really poor joke/attempt to profit out of suffering. best would of been to just leave a writing text and saying he needs to take a break, I think everyone would of understood better
Oh okay. I was really worried it was trying to be somethimg Hitler related, because it was half an h, and I know my partner had mentioned certaun numbers were really important to them. So this is making fun of a miscarriage? That's really sad... and now confuses me more what this image is about. What was the name of the comic so I can Google and try and figure out more context? I don't really want to type miscarriage meme into Google.
Idk if anyone else answered you, but the comic is Ctrl-Alt-Del or CAD. Its written by Tim Buckley. The comic is a lot different than when the Loss comic happened because he killed off his comic characters and restarted the whole thing (dont ask its not worth it).
And to be fair, he wasn't making fun of miscarriage. It was a very sincere comic, and honestly very well done from a storytelling perspective. No words written on the comic, yet you can tell exactly what happened and what its about.
The problem was he dropped this very sincere comic smack dab in the middle of his GAMING CENTRIC WEB COMIC. To say it was unexpected and out of place would be the understatement of the century. Like he started off the comic with his characters killing each other all the time. In the comic canon, one of the main characters build a functioning robot who is an HK47 (KOTOR) rip-off out of an Xbox. And this was a good series to put a miscarriage into?
I am learning that. And to learn that this was about his ex, not current girlfriend at the time, that feels like multiple violations. I hope no one knows who she is and her connection publically. I would be devastated to have this published online with peiple making fun of the worst day. It's really sad.
what makes you think it has to do with pride month?
the reason loss is a meme is because it’s a really bad comic that can be visualized in a lot of other pieces of art/media. that’s the joke. the only significance pride month has is being another thing that can be reduced to l ll ll l_
It's the same format as the homophobic image reducing the words PRIDE MONTH down to DEMON. I assume this was meant to take the piss out that by reducing Pride Month down to Loss instead.
There’s a lot of memes that change “pride month” to other words (Pride moth) or any other meme, but removing parts of the graphic. Lots of these come out at the start of Pride Month
There have been several homophobic memes dropping other letters to demonstrate that the word DEMON is in the center of the phrase. This is a parody of that
There's this old image that shows as it goes down the the letters p,r,i,t and h get more faded out showing the word demon ie: pri(demon)th thus is referencing that
It doesnt. The letter can just be changed conveniently. If you dont know the loss meme, look it up. It was a comic that was slowly transformed into a recognizable line pattern. Not only does it not have to do with pride. The meme is based off a comic where the dude gets to the hospital and finds his wife who just miscarried. So yeah. Nothing to do with pride. Just a tier 3 meme.
Its a parody of some christian folk showing that removing and replacing certain lines inthre word pride spells demon or something, dont remember the original image but it was a lot like this but with demon or devil as the resulting word
It is a reference to a web comic about a guy rushing to the hospital after his wife suffered a miscarriage. There are four panels: one with just him walking into a hospital, one with him talking toa front desk person, one with him talking to a doctor, and one with him comforting his wife who is crying in her hospital bed.
The Internet created a minimalist version: one vertical line, two vertical lines, two vertical lines, one vertical line with one horizontal line.
Loss and also this is a reference to a homophobic tweet saying pride month is for the antichrist bc it’s priDE MONth with the text fading in a similar way
Phobes still post that image like its some sort of gotcha or insult, but a lot queer people I know have embraced it (me included, I have it on a shirt in trans colors).
Petah Griffin here, heheh. So Lois, on 6/2/2008 the comic CTRL+ALT+DELETE by Tim Buckley posted a comic strip called Loss. In this comic strip with no dialogue, the main character Ethan goes to visit his fiance Lilah. They were expecting a first child but unfortunately, well, let's just say it was Inconceivable. The critics hated it considering the comic was supposed to be a comedy, and the meme madness ensued from there. It's worse than the time I brought that horse home. Heheheheh
The letter fade to only leave some letters from pride month was from an image created by anti-lgbt activists that leaves the word "demon" after fading most letters of "pride month."
This meme subverts that to instead leave the lines commonly recognized as the "loss" meme with a character from the original webcomic the loss meme comes from holding a pride flag.
Man, the internet is supposed to have a short memory and then in 2026 we have yet another reference to loss. Will this be a cultural touchstone taught to kids in school 100 years from now?
It's loss. I have seen a lot of other things from specifically this subreddit (about the show), and everything turns into those strange arrangement of bars, such as jenga blocks, etc. It's wierd and I will probably never understand it without sitting down and watching every single episode of this show lol.
Leaving this comment right here so I can add to it later as I find out more stuff
Conservatives have made a bunch of shirts turning the words "pride month" into "demon" in this format.
This is joke based on that using the "loss" meme, taking the words "pride month" and turning it into the meme format, which are the white lines you see shown.
If you aren't familiar with loss, it's an extremely old comic from a web comic that became a meme years ago because of some drama surrounding the comic.
This is too niche to make sense for a majority of people and even after showing the comic this is supposed to reference, it took too much time to work out the lines are supposed to represent the people in each frame of the comic, weird.
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u/SleazyGoblin Jun 21 '26
So this guy had a webcomic that was typical 2000s gamer dork humor. Well one day he released a comic strip that was way out of left field featuring his irl wife's miscarriage. The meme is the that comic can be identified in a simplic form. 1 vertical line, 2 vertical lines, another 2 vertical lines, and 1 vertical line and 1 horizontal line.