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[-] [email protected] 43 points 1 year ago

Is the joke that they didn't waste any time arming with the new tech?

[-] [email protected] 142 points 1 year ago

Lol, the joke is just that this is the inverse of how this meme usually works, since counting backwards in BC is forward in time.

[-] [email protected] 24 points 1 year ago

This is so fucking stupid.

And you got me.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

The best jokes always need explaining.

[-] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

My man I think he was making a joke by pretending that the inversion is so obvious he was trying to understand the joke

[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Oh... I see. I was trying to figure out the humor.. I wasn't getting the reference to the other memes at first lol.

[-] [email protected] 30 points 1 year ago

4999BC is 1 year after 5000BC

[-] [email protected] 32 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?

[-] [email protected] 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"

[-] [email protected] 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.

[-] [email protected] 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

[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

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

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

This was more than ten years ago!

[-] [email protected] 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:

[-] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago
[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

This format is hilarious, it should have its on sublemmy

[-] [email protected] 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.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

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

[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

More antimeme than anything

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Yeah, I don't get it...

[-] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago

More Neolithic memes please x

[-] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

The Final Countdown! Ba da da dah! Ba da da da dah! Ba da da dah! Ba da da da dah da dahhhh! It's not a trick Micheal, it's an illusion. Tricks are what whores do for money.

[-] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

I keep coming back to this meme and it's so bad but that makes it so perfect. This is honestly beautiful artwork

[-] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago
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