I mean, he did write about his miscarriage in a webcomic that was just goofy pop-nerd humor up to that point, which is the entire reason it became a meme.
If people are sending the dude loss comics on the anniversary, that's a little fucked up because it's being used as a personal attack. Which is 100% not the case with the typical loss meme.
Tl;dr I don't think the guys needs people white knighting for him every time a loss meme is born.
That's fair. I just know if I made something to commemorate a significant impact in my life and it became a joke for the next decade I'd be pretty upset
I was willing to accept your judgement of "this was never funny" until I got to the rick and morty panel and realized you don't have a clue what funny actually is.
Loss has some of the most original and ingenious variations, that's what I like about it. I've never seen other memes close to it. It's completely different to all the text-over-established-image memes.