Soo… Some characters are not valid in URLs (or not used for other reasons) and must be replaced. In this case, the + is percent-encoded to %2B, which renders Loss_(Ctrl+Alt+Del) as Loss_(Ctrl%2BAlt%2BDel), which is a perfectly fine URL (cut off the front for clarity).

Hower, something on the client (OS, browser) then seems to look at that URL and think that the percent sign cannot be there and encodes that again to yield Loss_(Ctrl%252BAlt%252BDel).

When Wikipedia looks at this and tries to figure out the page to load, it de-encodes that string back to Loss_(Ctrl%2BAlt%2BDel) and seems to stub its toe on the %2B, if @SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world is to be believed.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Percent-encoding

[-] MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 week ago

Fine on Voyager and Firefox Android here.

[-] Flagstaff@programming.dev 3 points 1 week ago

I think you should mention the Lemmy browser as well; I had no problem using Summit + Waterfox just now.

[-] Bougie_Birdie@piefed.blahaj.zone 19 points 1 week ago

https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/loss

You take a four panel comic, have one line stand up, two panels with two lines standing up, and one panel with two lines perpendicular to each other. Congratulations! It's a joke about miscarriage

[-] Landslide7648@discuss.tchncs.de 8 points 1 week ago

It’s not a joke about miscarriage. It’s a meme about miscarriage.

[-] AgentRocket@feddit.org 9 points 1 week ago

IMO it's not about miscarriage, but about a crudely drawn, supposedly funny webcomic about gaming trying (and failing) to be impactful and emotional.

[-] captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 week ago

Loss is a meme about miscarriage in the same way that Press F To Pay Respects is a meme about dead and wounded soldiers.

Loss, as an episode of Ctrl-Alt-Del, was like running a sweeps week episode of General Hospital in the middle of a Jackass marathon. The audience of Jackass fans you've attracted are going to phone in to ask just what the cunting heck you think you're doing.

[-] NachBarcelona@piefed.social 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

It's not "a joke about miscarriage" 😂😂 Brudi...

[-] TrickDacy@lemmy.world 10 points 1 week ago

It's history's most boring meme, Loss. Why is it significant? Well some dude posted a webcomic without realizing how cringy it was. Now people will post references about it until the heat death of the universe because apparently something about how severely uninteresting and insignificant it was is thrilling. Or something.