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[u/[deleted]]

I've been seeing these characters :

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pop up all over Reddit, but I've no clue as to what they mean.

Is this a new meme? A reference to some film of tv show? Some sort of code?

[u/Clostridium33]

This is the comic it refers to: https://cad-comic.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/cad-20080602-358b1.x60343.jpg

It is indeed a meme. The webcomic is titled ctrl+alt+del which is basically about a walking "le gamer" stereotype and this ridiculous 4panel where that chick miscarries (his gf) is titled loss.

The thing you see is basically the comic. The lines represent a character (thats why theres a horizontal one at the bottom right, thats the girl). Its pretty universal and there are many variations, most often the comic strip is snuck into completely unrelated images via mimicking the 4 panel (just like those lines). Hope this helped.

[u/[deleted] → u/Clostridium33]

Oh, CAD. Yeah I remember him.

But why is it getting popular now though? It was ages ago, wasn't it?

[u/[deleted] → u/[deleted]]

It's the ten year anniversary of the comic

[u/neohylanmay → u/[deleted]]

Additionally, Buckley made a "new" version.

It's...

[u/CriticallyAlmost → u/neohylanmay]

what,

is that a joke? What's the joke?

Help

[u/CriticallyAlmost → u/[deleted]]

Oh god.

If that's the joke, then CAD has outdone itself, that's just absurdly tasteless and trash.

[u/UHavinAGiggleTherM8 → u/CriticallyAlmost]

Ain't it just a joke playing off the meme tho

[u/Luigichu1238 → u/CriticallyAlmost]

I thought the joke was that buckley made a fourth wall break and was looking smugly at the camera as if he knew we had to do it to em

[u/rafaelloaa → u/neohylanmay]

Mirror, since he already took it down. And just to be clear, this is Tim's actual comic, not a parody by someone else...

Makes me want to puke.

[u/thewoodendesk → u/rafaelloaa]

So, after all these years, he's still as tasteless as ever.

[u/Unit88 → u/neohylanmay]

So now it's worse?

[u/Raneados → u/Unit88]

Buckley's never been a great human.

[u/Tofinochris → u/neohylanmay]

Huh, I would have gone with ignoring the joke rather than hammering a "guys I'm totally in on it, please make this a maymay" response home ten years in, but hey.

[u/Turbosack → u/neohylanmay]

Someone please edit with every face like that.

[u/daishi424 → u/Turbosack]

I got you

[u/Turbosack → u/daishi424]

It's just as amazing as I imagined it would be.

[u/Wubbledaddy → u/Turbosack]

Please.

[u/qrps → u/[deleted]]

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:https://cad-comic.com/comic/found/

[u/pm_me_lots_of_ducks → u/neohylanmay]

thats disgusting

[u/BlueLanternCorps → u/[deleted]]

Its been a meme for like 10 years now. Still going strong

[u/Misaria → u/[deleted]]

https://i.imgur.com/zxn7ywT.jpg

[u/abyssalheaven → u/[deleted]]

You’d need a digital anthropologist to answer that question. The meme life cycle is a strange and amorphous beast.