A 'buff' that is actually a loss — a change marketed or framed as an improvement that makes things worse, or a physical transformation that somehow goes in the wrong direction. L buff captures the bitterness of promised improvement that backfires: the game update that supposedly buffs your character but breaks their kit, the diet that promises gains but leaves you depleted, the life upgrade that creates new problems. The contradiction of an 'L' and a 'buff' in the same phrase is the whole joke and the whole point.
They buffed his movement speed but halved his damage — bro took an L buff and doesn't even know it.
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