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[-] atx_aquarian@lemmy.world 43 points 9 months ago

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

[-] The_Picard_Maneuver@lemmy.world 143 points 9 months 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.

[-] June@lemm.ee 25 points 9 months ago

This is so fucking stupid.

And you got me.

[-] jaybone@lemmy.world 2 points 9 months ago

The best jokes always need explaining.

[-] AlboTheGuy@feddit.nl 5 points 9 months 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

[-] elboyoloco@lemmy.world 3 points 9 months 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.

[-] eatham@aussie.zone 30 points 9 months ago

4999BC is 1 year after 5000BC

[-] Dave@lemmy.nz 32 points 9 months 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 9 months 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 9 months 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 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months 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 9 months ago

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

[-] JackbyDev@programming.dev 2 points 9 months ago

This was more than ten years ago!

[-] The_Picard_Maneuver@lemmy.world 26 points 9 months 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 9 months ago
[-] electrogamerman@lemmy.world 3 points 9 months ago

This format is hilarious, it should have its on sublemmy

[-] exoplanetary@lemmy.world 9 points 9 months 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 9 months ago

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

[-] MajinBlayze@lemm.ee 1 points 9 months ago

More antimeme than anything

Yeah, I don't get it...

[-] casmael@lemm.ee 15 points 9 months ago

More Neolithic memes please x

[-] cindylouwhovian@lemmy.world 6 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months 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.

[-] K0W4LSK1@lemmy.ml 5 points 9 months ago

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

[-] Godric@lemmy.world 0 points 9 months ago
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