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So this is either something vulgar which I (a person experiencing colorblindness) cannot see, or, there are no shapes in those bubbles at all. I think it's the latter since I can't see shapes in either bubble.
EDIT:
Oh it's that
i iI Ii I_
thing, which I never understood
https://cad-comic.com/comic/loss/
Context: dude made an autobiographical comic more serious in tone than his usual work, and the Internet has been mocking him for it ever since.
None of which makes sense without the context of what a enormous jackass Buckley had famously been in online spaces for YEARS. It's not just that loss was a weirdly serious addition to a silly comic, it's that it perfectly encapsulated the kind of sanctimonious self-important attitude Buckley espoused and instantly turned his shitty online persona into a joke.
I don't know if it is genuinely possible to still appreciate loss the way it was without all of the enormity of that context.
I think Cyanide and Happiness did a good job encapsulating your point and why everyone clowned on it at the time.
And as the image title implies, Tim actually said this.
This is just one example of the kind of shitbag Buckley was notorious for being
Holy shit
I knew the dude was a cunt but fucking wow
Never seen this one before. Thank you so very much.
Even after that, I don't see the connection.
The lines mimic the positions of the people in the panels.
Wow, OK...
I'm with you, but granted we are in Lemmy Shitpost.
It is one of those so stupid it's funny memes.
Wow people have a million things to say about this.
It's really surprising that something so obscure became a meme. What's the first instance of the comic being represented with line segments like that? How did they come to be recognizable?
The original comic was rather popular at the time, and as a result, it became an early meme before mass-scale meme culture had really taken off besides doge memes and "I can haz cheeseburger." So it quickly entered the cultural zeitgeist of the early internet because the kinds of people into memes and gamer culture at the time would've been about the size of the terminally online crowd today.