Like yeah ok, for the first 5 five times one sees it, it's like haha, lol, there it is! But, these do get old really fast for me.
For me it's now more like -wow. So that is literally the entire joke? Like oof, I guess they really wannted to be funny.-
EDIT: Updated the funi image to actually be what I wanted it to be... Took me a while, sorry.
It’s not funny on its own. It’s funny because it’s an inside joke we all share.
The community mockery and allusion to the original is what makes the entire phenomenon.
Kind of like this pop up book on Amazon is a “isthisloss” in 3d.
https://www.amazon.com/Is-This-Art---4-Panel-Popup/dp/B07X66DCLM
It’s clever because it’s unexpected even if we all know what it is
I clicked three times, thinking amazon was redirecting me or showing an ad or something.
Damn you.
Szeth what in the FUCK is that link. My dumb ass clicked on it because it looked like an Amazon link but I got a pop-up and some permission request and dude what the fuck.
~~Big doubt that's a legit link.~~ DRM is just scary lol
It’s a link to Amazon digital product. Specifically Rick Astley “The Best Of Me” album with Never Gonna Give You Up.
The “description” of the product doesn’t matter as long as the product code is the same.
A trick I saw used a couple times on Reddit a few years back
Oh, okay. Thank you for explaining. I was a little freaked out.
Had that worked on me instead, it would have been pretty funny.
The permission request was probably just Firefox asking if Amazon Music is allowed to play DRM-controlled content (so music), so nothing inherently bad.
Ok fair point, you got me there, did not see that coming. But you are right, the two are kind of similar in the way they behave. But that link is something I can actually enjoy. That's a thing I enjoy outside of funi.
But loss? It's just a non-joke made funny by people reposting it in new ways. I get it, repetition can be funny if it's done enough times, which it has been. But it does not quite make like it as much as it should
It was a webcomic that took itself too seriously and it was so panned that the mockery of it reverberates even today.
May not be for everybody but it was definitely something to experience at the time. Sometimes the internet has these weird flashes of communal focus (which can be both good and bad) but either way these allusions are all of us nudging each others side with our elbow and winking at the same inside joke when we see it.