Alright, nerds, just so we're clear, that was more than 15 years ago. Assuming this is current, which it probably isn't, that "53yo" dad was in his late 30s at the time, could very much have been posting about it when it happened. Given the current average age for having kids, "bumblebeebats" was probably wearing diapers by the time the Internet got to the point of entirely abstracting it to shapes. There is a longer period of time between loss.jpg and now than between the first rickroll and loss.jpg.

If it makes you feel any better, all of this is hurting me just as bad as it's hurting you.

[–] halykthered@lemmy.ml 51 points 6 months ago (1 children)

It's wild to me that ctl+alt+del is relevant today at all. I used to read webcomics in high school all the time, CAD included. Loss was definitely eye opening, it was a real moment of "wasn't this comic about video games?" But then it was forgotten about for so long. It's a marvel to me that random moment in such a dated comic got meme'd on this hard.

[–] tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip 14 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Aren't all (or almost all) memes famous randomly though? No one expected a sort of doofy photo of a teen to be famous for years for having bad luck, for example.

[–] halykthered@lemmy.ml 5 points 6 months ago

Very true! I guess I just never expected a random webcomic I stopped reading years ago to ever be relevant again haha.

[–] lazzerot@startrek.website 19 points 6 months ago (1 children)

It looks to be past-this-year-april-recent since the icon next to the username was a thing tumblr did for April Fools this year.

(Sorry old man)

[–] MudMan@fedia.io 18 points 6 months ago

Even better. There's a solid chance Bumble wasn't even born when loss.jpg happened.

What a life.