{"id":387,"date":"2024-07-22T11:31:36","date_gmt":"2024-07-22T15:31:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dkc.umw.edu\/showcase\/?p=387"},"modified":"2024-07-22T11:31:36","modified_gmt":"2024-07-22T15:31:36","slug":"losing-ctrl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dkc.umw.edu\/fellows\/2024\/07\/22\/losing-ctrl\/","title":{"rendered":"Losing CTRL"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Creator(s)<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Eugene Hlaing &amp; Liam Kiely<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Project<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/losingctrl.net\">Losing CTRL site<\/a> <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"678\" height=\"831\" src=\"https:\/\/dkc.umw.edu\/fellows\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/07\/losingctrl-1.png\" alt=\"a comic featuring two characters where one character insists they don't do video game violence because as one character puts it, &quot;we're refined&quot;\" class=\"wp-image-395\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Example comic<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">About the Project<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;A reflection of the Two Gamers on a Couch genre through the lens of an archivist revisiting and reuploading the 2008 webcomic \u201cLosing CTRL.\u201d The genre became popular in the early 2000s, characterized by gag-of-the-week webcomics typically featuring two friends shooting the breeze while playing video games. Now considered lost media, Losing CTRL garnered the negative attention of \u201cThe Archivist\u201d and their friends, and turned Nate, our artist, into a niche internet \u201cLOLCOW\u201d \u2014 a target of harassment for public entertainment. Writing both the comic and commentary, we explore the perspectives of an amateur artist during the 2008 election, and the perspective of the archivist on their past relationship.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A reflection of the Two Gamers on a Couch genre through the lens of an archivist revisiting and reuploading the 2008 webcomic \u201cLosing CTRL.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":388,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-387","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-fellowship","category-website"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dkc.umw.edu\/fellows\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dkc.umw.edu\/fellows\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dkc.umw.edu\/fellows\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dkc.umw.edu\/fellows\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dkc.umw.edu\/fellows\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=387"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dkc.umw.edu\/fellows\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dkc.umw.edu\/fellows\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/388"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dkc.umw.edu\/fellows\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dkc.umw.edu\/fellows\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dkc.umw.edu\/fellows\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}