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[-] eatham@aussie.zone 30 points 1 year ago

4999BC is 1 year after 5000BC

[-] Dave@lemmy.nz 31 points 1 year ago

I get that, but I don't get the joke. Is the joke that after bows were invented, people started using them?

[-] JackbyDev@programming.dev 47 points 1 year ago

The joke is that the format of this is normally

  • Thing began in X
  • People in X - 1

So when you first see it you're like "haha, but wait that's a bow..." then you remember "ah yes, it's BC"

[-] Dave@lemmy.nz 42 points 1 year ago

Oh ok, so it's a play on an existing meme format. I'm not a memexpert so didn't understand the joke.

[-] Geriatrickid@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I've also never seen an original of the format this is from, glad I wasn't the only one confused

[-] tdawg@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

My dumbass trying to remember how history works from 10+ years ago

[-] JackbyDev@programming.dev 2 points 1 year ago

This was more than ten years ago!

[-] The_Picard_Maneuver@lemmy.world 26 points 1 year ago

It's a meta meme, playing off of the format that usually has people doing something silly before the time something was invented. But it's backwards because it's BC.

Examples:

[-] Dave@lemmy.nz 7 points 1 year ago
[-] electrogamerman@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

This format is hilarious, it should have its on sublemmy

[-] exoplanetary@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago

I think the joke is that people who don’t know how years work would think 4999 BC was before 5000.

[-] EvokerKing@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

I think he is trying to use c/memes as r/technicallythetruth.

[-] MajinBlayze@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

More antimeme than anything

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