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4999BC is 1 year after 5000BC

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I get that, but I don’t get the joke. Is the joke that after bows were invented, people started using them?

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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”

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42 points

Oh ok, so it’s a play on an existing meme format. I’m not a memexpert so didn’t understand the joke.

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3 points

My dumbass trying to remember how history works from 10+ 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:

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7 points

Thanks!

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3 points

This format is hilarious, it should have its on sublemmy

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9 points

I think the joke is that people who don’t know how years work would think 4999 BC was before 5000.

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

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More antimeme than anything

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