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[–] atx_aquarian@lemmy.world 43 points 1 year ago (3 children)

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

[–] The_Picard_Maneuver@lemmy.world 142 points 1 year ago (3 children)

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 1 year ago (1 children)

This is so fucking stupid.

And you got me.

[–] jaybone@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

The best jokes always need explaining.

[–] AlboTheGuy@feddit.nl 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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 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.

[–] eatham@aussie.zone 30 points 1 year ago (1 children)

4999BC is 1 year after 5000BC

[–] Dave@lemmy.nz 32 points 1 year ago (4 children)

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 (2 children)

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 (2 children)

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 (1 children)

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 (2 children)

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 (1 children)

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

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

More antimeme than anything