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This was never funny. I hate how the Internet just grabs some random stupid thing and then won't shut up about it for years.
Downvote to your hearts content idc
I'll take "the literal definition of a meme, which is coincidentally also the name of the sub I am currently commenting on" for $800, Alex.
Yeah it's a little different when it's about a fuckin miscarriage.
It's like the Green Day song Wake Me Up When September Ends
It was a song about remembering his father's death. Then every October his Twitter was flooded with messages telling him to wake up September is over.
I can only imagine how annoyed the creator of the original comic feels seeing this devastating moment used as a joke for years after
I mean, he did write about his miscarriage in a webcomic that was just goofy pop-nerd humor up to that point, which is the entire reason it became a meme.
If people are sending the dude loss comics on the anniversary, that's a little fucked up because it's being used as a personal attack. Which is 100% not the case with the typical loss meme.
Tl;dr I don't think the guys needs people white knighting for him every time a loss meme is born.
That's fair. I just know if I made something to commemorate a significant impact in my life and it became a joke for the next decade I'd be pretty upset