Is This Loss? refers to a controversial strip from the gaming webcomic Ctrl+Alt+Del by Tim Buckley, published in 2008. Titled 'Loss,' the comic took a sudden, dramatic turn from its usual humor to depict the main character discovering his partner had suffered a miscarriage. Due to the jarring shift in tone, the internet began mocking the comic's layout, eventually abstracting the characters into a simple pattern of lines: | || || |_. This minimalist representation turned 'Loss' into one of the internet's longest-running 'hidden in plain sight' jokes, where creators hide the four-panel structure in everyday images, architecture, or abstract art to surprise unsuspecting viewers.