I could insert an image each time, but an autoconvert feature such as in Skype would be better.Īnyway, how can I improve Outlook's emoticon support? However, these are of course very old fashioned looking and quite limiting in choice. I know that Outlook supports emoticons as when I type :-) Outlook converts it to and it also does this for :-( and :-|. The Escapist – Webcomics via Archive.This might be a touchy subject for fanatic or business level Outlook users but I wanted to ask this anyway. Encyclopedia Dramatica (via Wayback Machine) – Slackerz CADbortion (via Wayback Machine) – Seriously posted on EEGRA (via Wayback Machine) – Hilarity Comic posted on EEGRA (via Wayback Machine) – Gamer Comic posted on Explosm – Cyanide and Happiness posted on Multiple publications, including Polygon and io9 published articles about the change while also discussing the strip's impact. When the strip's publication had its ten-year anniversary on June 2nd, 2018, Buckley briefly changed the page to show a parody of his own creation which shows the comic's main character breaking the fourth wall (shown below). In the interview, Buckley admitted that he found the meme at times frustrating as he'd misjudged his audience's potential response to the strip at the time of publishing, and at other times he admitted he found the memes "quite amusing." KnowYourMeme published an article about Loss in 2017 calling it "The Internet's Greatest Meme." In 2015, Select All interviewed Buckley about the comic's impact. The comic's long life as a meme has led multiple news organizations to publish articles devoted to the meme. This led the question "Is This Loss?" to become a meme itself. The propagation of these parodies became ubiquitous to the point that people were unsure if any four-panel image they saw online was in fact a "Loss" parody. Similar to how anything with green and purple can be recognized as Daily Dose, any similar-looking four pane comic can be recognized as Loss.Įdits such as these continued to spread throughout the internet over the following decade. Usually, these would attempt to be minimalistic, portraying the characters as lines, dots, or just having four empty panels. Alternative/Minimalist InterpretationsĪlongside the outright mockery of the strip, a trend arose on /v/ which involved taking the Loss strip and representing it in different ways. On July 25th, 2009, YouTuber KennylovesArin uploaded a musical tribute based on the comic accompanied by friends Skraggy and Arin (popular animator known as Egoraptor), with lyrical references to the miscarriage strip. Someone went to the extent of making a random CAD comic generator, subtly mocking that even disjointed, mismatched panels of the comic are still funnier than the originals.Įl Santo (the webcomic overlook), The Bad Webcomic Wiki and others have also mentioned the infamous comic in negative reviews of the webcomic as well. Something Awful users were particularly unkind to the comic, creating mock threads (one of which is over 350 pages long), two entire (now closed) wikis and an interactive graph of the comic. On 4chan, the /v/ board became overrun with parodies to such an extent that moderators began banning people who opened new "Loss" threads. Other notable internet persona to mock the comic included as Ben 'Yahtzee' Croshaw of Zero Punctuation and Shmorky from Something Awful's Flash Tub. The strip marked a significant change in tone from the usually comedic comic, and the poorly-executed drama of the comic spurred Ctrl+Alt+Del's significant anti- fandom to mockery.Īfter the strip was posted, many notable webcomics began parodying the comic and its final panel in particular, including HijiNKS Ensue, Cyanide and Happiness, Bigger then Cheeses, EEGRA hilarity comics, Fanboys, and Slackerz. On June 2nd, 2008, Buckley posted a strip titled "Loss," in which the female lead Lilah suffers a miscarriage.
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