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You really need to (a) have followed the comic fifteen years ago when it was relevant or (b) seen the HBomberGuy recap video to understand it.

But the TL;DR; of the original joke is that the webcomic was this incel tier whiny gamer wall-of-text throw away web comic. But it managed to produce a singular momentary deeply moving piece of real art.

Imagine flipping through Ben Garrison comics for five years and then - literally right after a panel of Joe Biden firing a giant turd labeled TAX HIKES into AOC's mouth, Garrison decides to produce a fully rendered pointelist abstract on par with Starry Night. Or catching Charlie Kirk doing this hypnotic interpretive dance evoking the pain experienced by a young girl falling out of love with her first boyfriend. Or Bill Maher cutting from some panel rant about millennials to do Moonlight Sonata.

It was such an incredible jarring shift in tone and quality, and one that vanished as quickly as it appeared. It wasn't based on any kind of real life event, just a moment of deep personal drama the author felt the need to explore in an otherwise totally superficial piece of navel gazing bullshit.

In some sense, it was self commentary. The idea of a better piece of art, dead before it was even born. Known but not seen or heard or felt, saving in the soul.

One word to describe what could have been.

Loss.

Everything that came after is just jokes referencing the absurd unanticipated masterpiece.