The entire meme structure can be considered historical too. Well played.
this post was submitted on 25 Apr 2025
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Can anyone explain? Sorry
The Complaint Tablet to Ea-nasir is an ancient Babylonian clay tablet dating back to 1750 BC inscribed by customer Nanni to merchant Ea-nasir, complaining about Ea-nasir selling him sub-par copper, a practice Ea-nasir was known for. [knowyourmeme, wikipedia]
What does it have to do with jerking?
The term jerk came from this point in history.
"The guy that sold this copper to me was a jerking."
This was mistranslated to:
"The guy that sold this copper to me was a jerk."
Historically at least 1 person has jacked off
(This is also a play on rage comics which often started with "le me doing an action" while also having a general theme of "random = funny")
Historically at least 1 person has jacked off
Big if true
Well it was big, and then it wasn't afterward.
It happens