I think there’s a few elements to it. The biggest part of it is that this comic artist had never done comics in this tone and the artist was already getting memed pretty often for generally “not that funny” jokes.
When this came out, it gave everyone whiplash because, well, who the fuck decided to make a comic about their wife’s miscarriage? I would get it to have a plain text media post or similar, but that was an odd step to take. IMO, that’s not something I’d casually drop in your otherwise innocuous comic strip.
Then the internet did its thing and the rest is history.
Author writes about loss still felt for the death of a potential child years before.
Author flamed for - checks notes - karma whoring for empathy and reflection because that’s not the kind of dancing they want their monkey to do.
Are we seriously penalizing an author for the first time he gets serious about something and reaches out with feelings? What kind of “mama is it time to build the wall?” kind of ‘men-bad’ persecution is this? How DARE he show a moment’s emotional development in his writing?!? It can ONLY be selfish and exploitative because #kneejerk.
It was as severe of a tone shift as a miscarriage in the middle of a Dora the Explorer episode. Also, iirc the artist wasn’t having a personal miscarriage drama in real life, he just suddenly wanted an edgier plot line for his unfunny comic, so people started making fun of him for it.
The creator did go through an unplanned pregnancy and miscarriage with an ex-girlfriend in college. The relationship was toxic according to him and this happened years before loss was published.
I never understood why this is funny. Are miscarriages funny somehow?
I think there’s a few elements to it. The biggest part of it is that this comic artist had never done comics in this tone and the artist was already getting memed pretty often for generally “not that funny” jokes.
When this came out, it gave everyone whiplash because, well, who the fuck decided to make a comic about their wife’s miscarriage? I would get it to have a plain text media post or similar, but that was an odd step to take. IMO, that’s not something I’d casually drop in your otherwise innocuous comic strip.
Then the internet did its thing and the rest is history.
Ah. So
Are we seriously penalizing an author for the first time he gets serious about something and reaches out with feelings? What kind of “mama is it time to build the wall?” kind of ‘men-bad’ persecution is this? How DARE he show a moment’s emotional development in his writing?!? It can ONLY be selfish and exploitative because #kneejerk.
We can be better, people.
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It was as severe of a tone shift as a miscarriage in the middle of a Dora the Explorer episode. Also, iirc the artist wasn’t having a personal miscarriage drama in real life, he just suddenly wanted an edgier plot line for his unfunny comic, so people started making fun of him for it.
Now it’s just a pattern recognition joke.
The creator did go through an unplanned pregnancy and miscarriage with an ex-girlfriend in college. The relationship was toxic according to him and this happened years before loss was published.
TIL, thanks!
It’s not funny in now way, the whole trend was to sneak the Loss pattern into every possible meme, so it was more like a got you Rick rolled.