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Ok fair point, you got me there, did not see that coming. But you are right, the two are kind of similar in the way they behave. But that link is something I can actually enjoy. That's a thing I enjoy outside of funi.
But loss? It's just a non-joke made funny by people reposting it in new ways. I get it, repetition can be funny if it's done enough times, which it has been. But it does not quite make like it as much as it should
It was a webcomic that took itself too seriously and it was so panned that the mockery of it reverberates even today.
May not be for everybody but it was definitely something to experience at the time. Sometimes the internet has these weird flashes of communal focus (which can be both good and bad) but either way these allusions are all of us nudging each others side with our elbow and winking at the same inside joke when we see it.