>>#6, >>#5, >>#4, It's a representation of the character positioning throughout the panels. The most infamous one is the "miscarriage" comic (can't remember the creator) and it gets brought up a lot on here. Each line represents a character placement in a shot, and they're joined together by the shot divider lines.
How come? Heh, upon looking it up, the person playing Moana seems to be appropriately ethnic, called Auli'i Cravalho, but Maui, the big guy, is voiced by Dwayne Johnson. Also Alan Tudyk's voicing someone, but it doesn't say who yet.
Isn't Dwayne Johnson at least distantly Maui? I seem to remember reading something about that, some Facebook post where he talks about his Maui grandmother?
Well the heavy subject matter came out of totally nowhere in what had been a weekly gag webcomic.
People mocked the creator for creating such a terribly clunky tone-shift and the whole event caused him to lose some readership. Some people started making "comics" depicting the 4-panel debacle by recreating the poses of the characters through a variety of methods, from the usage of characters in other media to even posing real-life objects in the characters poses.
Some are actually quite intricate, thought the most popular recently are the "minimalist" versions, often consisting of only a scarce number of lines or dots
the meme itself is known as either "loss edits" stemming from the title of the comic page itself, "Loss", or "CADbortion" since the webcomic itself is Ctrl+Alt+Del, commonly referred to as CAD
The edits became so popular after the release that 4chan mods started banning people for starting loss threads.
Well although I've seen little in way of response from the creator, the mockery directed at him from a variety of popular internet figures has to be less than pleasant.
It's more of a "never live it down" thing than "for future posterity"
It's basically that the fans of CAD (the comic) didn't like this panel because it was so overly dramatic and a complete departure from the usual tone of the comic.