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Is the joke that they didn't waste any time arming with the new tech?
45 0 ReplyLol, the joke is just that this is the inverse of how this meme usually works, since counting backwards in BC is forward in time.
131 0 ReplyThis is so fucking stupid.
And you got me.
21 0 ReplyMy man I think he was making a joke by pretending that the inversion is so obvious he was trying to understand the joke
5 0 ReplyOh... I see. I was trying to figure out the humor.. I wasn't getting the reference to the other memes at first lol.
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4999BC is 1 year after 5000BC
28 0 ReplyI get that, but I don't get the joke. Is the joke that after bows were invented, people started using them?
31 0 ReplyThe 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"
44 0 ReplyOh ok, so it's a play on an existing meme format. I'm not a memexpert so didn't understand the joke.
39 0 ReplyI've also never seen an original of the format this is from, glad I wasn't the only one confused
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My dumbass trying to remember how history works from 10+ years ago
3 0 ReplyThis was more than ten years ago!
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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:
25 0 ReplyThanks!
7 0 ReplyThis format is hilarious, it should have its on sublemmy
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I think the joke is that people who don’t know how years work would think 4999 BC was before 5000.
8 0 ReplyI think he is trying to use c/memes as r/technicallythetruth.
4 0 ReplyMore antimeme than anything
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Yeah, I don't get it...
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