62 points

Calling it a rick roll dealt bonus damage.

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“the youth” 😏

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39 points

If they were under 30 ten years ago

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I still have no idea what the fuck is going on with loss. I’ve seen the comic. I don’t get it.

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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.

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5 points

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.

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27 points

He absolutely did have every right to make that comic. And his audience had every right to respond “Whahahahahahat the fuck was that?”

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6 points

Do you “get” rickrolling? It’s the same thing

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8 points

How old is this? I don’t feel like anyone under 30 would know what loss is.

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I’d agree.

But saying “a part of younger millenials” just wouldn’t have the same impact as a joke

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