Wait, there's actual context behind the bean memes? I've been missing out.

Someone stole it from Reddit who stole it from Instagram.

Or the jeans era

What the fuck did you just say about me?

Is this loss?

No, wait, it gets better. Get this. Circle jerk about it for a couple of decades and it gets funnier, oh, OK, still going.

At least the ඞmongus generation understands the fun in hiding references everywhere.

I think it 's (Edit: started out) more about how Tim Buckley is terrible than anything. (Edit: Then from there it) sort of collapsed into its own joke. No one really knows or cares about the context anymore, its become a self-contained meme with no real meaningful connection to Tim, the original comic, or its message now.

At this point we're like three jokes deep.

The original reaction to the comic was kind of a collective chuckle of "Whahahahat the fuck?" Because the comic was like discount store brand Penny Arcade, irreverent bullshit gamer humor, and then comes the sudden plotline that the girlfriend character has a miscarriage.

Like, Loss itself isn't bad in and of itself; telling the story of the character's journey through the hospital with no dialog, it's competent...but it stood in such contrast to what the comic had been about for so long and the audience just wasn't on board with it that it became a controversy. And Buckley's clap back against it and the following drama made it memetic.

At some point, the imagery became so recognizeable even in the abstract that it became a prank to communicate the idea of the comic in as abstract a form as possible, hence the "Is this Loss" meme. Somewhere between rickrolling and "you just lost the game."

I think it's more for fun than funny. Like The Game or the 👌.

I thought it looked wrong when I pasted it but couldn't figure out why lol

No , why , why would you do that ?!

Got you bro [email protected]

Nope!

Count another in these parts of the internet!

Neither SCP, nor long long man are ringing any bells for me

At the time it was the best way to duct tape over someone else's long-forgotten but recently uncovered cut corner.

And so the cycle continues.

This is the bad thing about finding a good employer...the type you feel okay staying at a long time because they treat you well, the pay is reasonable and the benefits are great.

That's where I'm at now, and I'm starting to get bit in the ass by my own harebrained ideas, too.

memes are on a spectrum

Autistic memes are lit tho

Ceiling cat encourages your masturbation to Britney.

I get to be useful!

Ceiling cat is a reference to possibly the earliest generation of memes. They mostly involved cats. Ceiling cat was a popular one of a cat poking its had down through a hole in a ceiling, captioned "ceiling cat is watching you masturbate" or something similar. The odd grammar/spelling is of the same Era, where these cat memes would be spoken in the "voice" of a cat. The most famous example is "I can haz cheezburger"

Leaving Britney alone is a reference to an early Era of YouTube video, where an actor bawling at the camera ranted about how people were being too mean to Britney Spears, a famous pop star. It was hotly debate whether the contents of the video were genuine or acting. Remember, this was before Snopes, even.

I think that was everything?

You'd be surprised lol

One of the funniest that shows just how little people know is this, a conversation I heard from someone like a month ago: "[name] is nonbinary, she uses they/them pronouns right?"
for context this is a Gen z person, not even a retired grandma who doesn't go around queer people at all, there was a group of really fruity folk next to them about dieing for their whole conversation

Chronically. But clinically works too.

Me being clinically online:

As does ruffle, a browser extension that adds an alternative open source runtime for flash in the modern age