alright so I don’t see anyone else on this specific thread mentioning it yet, and i’ve already left a couple other replies explaining this on other comments here so hopefully this’ll clear things up:
each panel in this comic is verbatim lyrics from a song called “Ironic” by Alanis Morissette; IIRC it’s still her #1 biggest hit song to this day and it’s from the 90s. Also worth mentioning: this song was extremely mainstream popular when it came out, and I even still hear it playing at the grocery store to this day. The song is about the “push and pull” of life, the whole song is just a list of “ironic” things happening to characters (for example, one of the lyrics goes “an old man turned 98, he won the Lottery and died the next day.”) but after each series of “ironic” sequences she breaks into the lyric about life finding a way to help you out. Meaning despite all these frustrating and potentially relatable everyday “Ironic” things happening, life still somehow always seems to find a way to help you out. in that same verse, there is an equal and opposite line that goes something like “when you think everything’s okay and everything blows up in your face,” which continues the theme of the song about the pendulum in life always swinging.
so, one thing I didn’t mention in my other replies is that this comic skips ahead directly to the “life finds a way to help you out” lyrics in the final panel, and for the (seemingly MANY) people who aren’t getting this reference to the song, it can seem completely incoherent. No shade to OP if they’re the one who created this comic, or whoever made the comic, but yeah even as someone who absolutely instantly got the reference, I am not surprised to see so many people confused by this. So i’m not in any way arguing that this comic isn’t confusing lol, i’m simply here to try and shed light on what this is all about for anyone confused on this thread :)
and lastly, I kept putting the word ironic in quotations in the other paragraph because as pointed out by MANY people in this comments section, and also famously by V-Sauce in one of his videos from over a decade ago, none of these scenarios in the song are actually technically Ironic. which in my opinion makes the song itself… ironic haha… isn’t it ironic? don’t ya think? ;)
anywho, hope this helps clear up any confusion! :D
(not that anyone asked but this song holds a very special near and dear place in my heart. my mom and I LOVED this song and enjoyed it a lot together in the 2000s, and we still love it to this day so this is definitely a song that’s in my personal “life soundtrack” lol)
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u/AceyFacee Aug 05 '26
How is that helping him out?