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Why is it called “Loss” though? Because the character implied lost a baby or something?
Comment by Relevant-Movie1132 at 16/06/2023 at 21:57 UTC
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Yeah, the guy's lover had a miscarriage.
Comment by LeahIsAwake at 07/01/2024 at 06:59 UTC*
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Ctrl Alt Del was one of the biggest webcomics of the mid to late 2000s. The protagonist is Ethan, the guy in the first strip. Ethan is a gamer and plays into a lot of the early 2000s stereotypes — lazy, vaguely stupid, bad at adulting, etc. Most of the humor revolved around conflicts between him and his roommate, Lucas, who is also a gamer, and usually plays the foil to Ethan’s antics.
The strip got popular and moved more towards longer story arcs. Lilah was introduced pretty early on in the strip, and some of the humor revolved around Ethan crushing on her. As the writers started writing longer arches, they Ethan and Lilah started dating. Then Lilah got pregnant. Again, everything was still pretty lighthearted and humorous at this time. Then Ethan got a call and rushed to the hospital. This was the next strip.
This was the first strip that didn’t have any dialogue. It was the first strip where shit got real. It hit people like a ton of bricks. Again, this was a very popular webcomic that was very lighthearted. Minus children being traumatized, it would be like if Bugs Bunny got a call from Daffy Duck because he needs support as he’d just been diagnosed with stage 4 cancer. It hit a lot of fans hard, not the least because it came so much out of left field.
So of course it got memed.
Edit: typo
Comment by Boukish at 26/07/2023 at 02:25 UTC
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"Loss" is the literal name of that panel in the webcomic. Each page had a title, basically.
Comment by _TheSingularity_ at 22/01/2024 at 19:11 UTC
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Yeah, funny how the whole "meme-explaining post" failed miserably in explaining a simple thing: they lost a baby...
Why put this explanation, better add more confusing shit: Pride month... Yeah dude, I really hope people are actually clear in communication, otherwise everything will go to shits. It's that trend: I know what that lady does on the bed and it's not just some flu or any other fucking reason someone goes to a hospital. But you're so dumb and don't know, hahaha (points finger). This is the Internet nowadays it seems