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[Nancy sees a sign posted on a bank window which reads: Visit our loan department]
[Nancy stands before a bank clerk]
Nancy: I’d like to borrow two dollars
Clerk: For what?
[Nancy speaking to the clerk]
Nancy: The circus is in town
Clerk: It is?
[Nancy and the clerk sit in a crowd at the circus enjoying ice cream while they watch the show. It’s loss. The comic was loss all along.]
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Just kidding, it’s also loss.
Ernie Bushmiller would be SO confused by this if he went to the future and saw it.
Can I get a brief rundown of the meme? This has all gone over my head and a quick google search isn’t really giving me a good explanation.
In addition to the below, here’s a visual explanation:
The author made an edit years later acknowledging its meme status:
It should really have been titled “Gain” rather than “Found”, but whatever.
The meme is called Loss. There was a webcomic of… Questionable quality that was generally supposed to be humorous. At a certain point the author’s wife had a miscarriage and he made a webcomic that portrays him entering the hospital, speaking to a receptionist, speaking to a doctor then walking in to find his wife in the bed in the last panel. It has been memed since then, and abstracted to various shapes ( | || || |_ ) following the general visual lines present in the original comic