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this post was submitted on 15 Dec 2024
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The father used knives to create the Loss shorthand on the countertop. He called it "Rick-rolling" because he knows that word is associated with online trolling. He's never seen the original Loss comic, so the arrangement of knives on the counter is more akin to hieroglyphics than anything; an arrangement of symbols to convey an idea.
Loss?
Here's the comic on the left (titled "Loss") and its shorthand on the right that people sneak into everything to reference it.
The webcomic (called "CTRL-ALT-DEL") was mostly comedy, but then pivoted out of the blue with this dark, dramatic, wordless strip. The whiplash in tone led to a lot of jokes and people trying to meme it and slip references to it into everything.
Oh wow, I used to read this comic like 15 years ago.