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[–] aeronmelon@lemmy.world 63 points 4 weeks ago

Can’t even nail down the decade.

[–] Stovetop@lemmy.world 36 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] Metz@lemmy.world 9 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] Stovetop@lemmy.world 23 points 4 weeks ago (3 children)

He sent dick pics to an underaged girl, held a charity drive and used the proceeds to buy himself a fancier drawing tablet, and he treats his fans like garbage.

Not to mention Loss, which is now a meme of its own, because what better way to express the severity of a situation as traumatic as miscarriage than through a silly webcomic?

[–] skulblaka@sh.itjust.works 30 points 4 weeks ago

I mean, for someone whose primary way of expressing themselves to the world is via webcomics, I think that drawing a webcomic about your trauma is a reasonable response to the grief. Everyone grieves in their own way, and Loss in particular was a stand out because it's so very different to the rest of CAD. There's no dialogue. There's no silly joke. It is obvious to the reader that something awful has happened here. Using art to cope with grief is a tradition as old as art.

The rest of it though, yeah, fuck Tim Buckley. I just don't really agree with the internet-wide dunking that the original Loss comic was given. It was obvious to me at the time that the man was grieving, and I kind of feel bad that that expression of genuine grief was turned into a meme that people still joke about 16 years later.

[–] Kichae@lemmy.ca 4 points 4 weeks ago

Thanks (and thank you @Metz@lemmy.world for asking). I was hittin' Google trying to figure out why this was a sentiment, other than just because CAD, and it was just returning what I already knew: CAD is BAD.

[–] scops@reddthat.com 4 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

You beat me to it, because I was looking for evidence to support the dick pics thing. I can't find any source I would be comfortable vouching for. Just a grain of salt there.

[–] Notyou@sopuli.xyz 1 points 4 weeks ago

I don't need to see his dick pic.

[–] thatKamGuy@sh.itjust.works 18 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world 12 points 4 weeks ago

Nope, but this is: ~~:.|:;~~

[–] nick@midwest.social 13 points 4 weeks ago

B^U

Fuck tim Buckley.

[–] four@lemmy.zip 5 points 4 weeks ago

Skyrim'o'clock