am I 16 years too late for this

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Here you go. knowyourmeme.com is an excellent site for questions like this!

Sooooo, I'm guessing the authors wife had a miscarriage, he made a strip about it and got mocked to hell and back? Wut?

I believe it was because it was such a weird and dramatic shift in tone from the regular CAD content, which was not all that great to begin with. You probably had to be there (I wasn't).

Hbomberguy did a video on it that explains it well I think: https://youtu.be/TebCHHCw9rY

Xkcd did something similar but afaik nobody made a big deal about it, only that Randall kept the depressed tone for quite a long time, after which people started to complain