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The Picard Maneuver@lemmy.world to Memes@lemmy.ml · 2 years ago

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The Picard Maneuver@lemmy.world to Memes@lemmy.ml · 2 years ago
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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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        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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          I’ve also never seen an original of the format this is from, glad I wasn’t the only one confused

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          It’s all good

      • DreamButt@lemmy.world
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        My dumbass trying to remember how history works from 10+ years ago

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          This was more than ten years ago!

    • The Picard Maneuver@lemmy.worldOP
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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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        Thanks!

      • electrogamerman@lemmy.world
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        This 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.

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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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