remember when Kylie Jenner tried to file a lawsuit to get the kylie.com url and kylie minogue’s legal team called her a “background reality tv character” LMDSOIGHOUGHUODHG
it’s so funny when some overhyped actor dude behaves in interviews and appearances exactly the way he ‘acts’ in movies/tv shows and people are like “omg 😩 he IS His character” instead of just like.. Realizing he’s not That good an actor lmao
hey hey hey you remember ratatouille? that movie was fuckin wild. in the first 20m a woman points a shotgun at the protagonist and tries to shoot him multiple times, brings down the roof of her own house, and subsequently gasses it. then the rat goes to paris and meets the bastard son of a dead chef and almost dies. again. several times. many times! almost gets locked in an oven. and then drowned. then some shit happens and he controls the bastard son by pulling on his hair. also the bastard chef gets drunk at least once. it’s explicit too like the scheming sous chef brings this 18 y/o or whatever into his office and gets him drunk because he wants the kid to admit that he’s a successful chef because of a tiny hair-pulling rat puppeteer who lives in his hat. and all throughout it the rat is grappling with the ethical conflict of whether stealing is right, and how to reconcile the wasted excesses of capitalism with his belief in private property and self-earned worth, especially when he comes from an impoverished background where stealing was necessary. and the underlying motif is how art isn’t an exclusive club, and how making art accessible to everyone is critical to the expansion and success of art itself, and the importance of honesty in relationships. also the human protagonist’s name is linguini
So, as of today, the 10th anniversary of Loss.jpg, the original image in question was taken down by Tim Buckley. This classic internet Phenom was replaced by this. Found.jpg.
Ghastly, isn’t it? I know the instant reaction of many people on this site, me included, was a strange perturbance. Something was wrong. This felt… off. What does Ethan know? Why is this titled Found.jpg?
I have a theory.
After all these years, has Ethan found us, the viewer?
For 10 years, we have poked fun of the melodrama of Tim Buckey’s Loss Arc, how jarring it was that this lighthearted video game comic attempted to tackle serious issues like a relationship facing a misscarriage. For an entire decade, this four panel comic has been lambasted in about as many ways it possibly could have, in every format it could have, all at the humor of the audience. The consumer. All at the expense of Tim.
Yet now, Ethan stares at us. Bemused.
Ethan, for the first time in 10 years, establishes direct eye-contact with us; destroying the fourth wall that the original strip held together. The safe boundary in which we were able to freely poke fun of Tim Buckley’s most infamous 4 panel comic is now broken.
Is he now gazing at us, the viewer, and judging us for our -own- personal losses? Is he mockingly thriving in the fact that he is just a character in a fictional comic, whilst the loss that each and every one of us feels in every one of our own personal lives hold true, heart-wrenching reality, weight, and concequence?
Ethan broke the chain of ridicule. Just like we laughed at his own losses, his own fictional shortcomings, his own melodramatic tragedy over and over in this memetic, long standing joke, he is now doing the same to us. He meets our eyes, with an all-knowing look in his eyes. A gaze of mocking Frivolity.
Penhales 