The Classic Loss Meme Explained

In 2008, webcomic Ctrl+Alt+Del published a strip where the protagonist's girlfriend miscarried. The internet hated it so much that the strip eventually got reduced to four lines and a corner: | || || |_. That shape went on to seed an entire genre of pattern-recognition memes, and seventeen years later, people are still finding it hidden in Among Us crewmates, Geometry Dash levels, and FlightReacts screenshots. This is the story of how a webcomic about grief became the internet's most-cited meme, how its creator eventually leaned in, and how an anti-fandom on 4chan accidentally invented the "Losslike."▶ FRANKIE FEYYouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@FrankieFeyInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/frankie.fey/TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@frankie.feyX / Twitter: https://x.com/frankiefey