There. I've evened it out.
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I dont get it, anyone that can explain this one to me? I am completely out of the loop haha
It's a reference to an infamous 4 panel comic strip called "loss". It's one of them ancient memes from 2008. If I remember correctly, the story of the comic is that the dude rushes in to the hospital to find his pregnant wife had just lost their baby or something. If you dumb it down enough and reduce the characters to lines, you end up with
I II
II I--
Aaahhh, i know which comic youre talking about. I didnt know its title was loss. Thanks!
Yeah, if I'm not mistaken it became a meme because it was a strip that was released in a fairly popular humour comic and people found it weird because it had nothing to do with the tone of the rest of the comic
It's an ultra minimalist representation of Loss, but backward
stolen fresh fetus
FUCK
The game?
FUCK!
No, but now I've lost that too.
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FUCK, pretty please 🥺
Loss was first posted in 2008.
Me right now
NOBODY TOLD ME IT WAS DONUT DAY!
Everyday is donut day
It's not his first Loss parody comic.
Yo, that dude took two. Take his donut by force. KILL HIM.
[Insert flipped image here]
Apparently ~~Sopuli/Lemmy/Firefox~~ g-thumb on Linux ~~automatically~~ flips and rotates images using exif data which is stripped when posting ~~to what it thinks is the right side up~~. How annoying.
that's a phone os setting, not the apps. 'autorotate' in android, dunno about iphone.
I'm on desktop lol. Maybe a Linux thing then.
*g-thumb thing
that, or whatever you used to rotate image did so by editing exif orientation data, and that got stripped/lost somewhere along the way when posted, so the image unrotated itself (I guess?)
Afaik Lemmy automatically strips EXIF data from uploaded pictures (which is good for privacy, but bad for people who don't rotate their pictures for real I guess)
oh, yeah i dunno about that. i'd prolly save and rotate in an img viewer app. too much effort tho.
edit: ohhhh you mean trying to post a flipped image rather than just view. i'm a dumbass.
Lemmy strips EXIF data from pictures, which would undo your rotation if not done "for real". (That is done by default because EXIF data could be used to identify users)
Try saving a copy of the rotated image and upload that one? Might help, but that depends on the app you are using.
Using G-thumb, which apparently uses exif data to rotate :|
I wouldn't say that qualifies as "sage wisdom' tbh..
I am so over Loss. A gamer guy discovered emotions and we have to enshrine it endlessly
Might be a misinformed take, but I always saw these as making fun of the original/the artist, not enshrining it. The webcomic as a whole was so-so and fairly innocuous at the time, but Loss represented such an incredibly cruel and tone-deaf shift that it legitimately upset/bewildered a lot of people.
I couldn't say with confidence why people continue to reference it, but maybe helpful as context?
That's a good take, thanks for that ☺️