Is the joke that they didn't waste any time arming with the new tech?
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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.
This is so fucking stupid.
And you got me.
The best jokes always need explaining.
My man I think he was making a joke by pretending that the inversion is so obvious he was trying to understand the joke
The inversion is obvious... Well then again, maybe not for most Americans lol
Oh... I see. I was trying to figure out the humor.. I wasn't getting the reference to the other memes at first lol.
4999BC is 1 year after 5000BC
I get that, but I don't get the joke. Is the joke that after bows were invented, people started using them?
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"
Oh ok, so it's a play on an existing meme format. I'm not a memexpert so didn't understand the joke.
I've also never seen an original of the format this is from, glad I wasn't the only one confused
My dumbass trying to remember how history works from 10+ years ago
This was more than ten years ago!
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:
Thanks!
This format is hilarious, it should have its on sublemmy
I think the joke is that people who don’t know how years work would think 4999 BC was before 5000.
I think he is trying to use c/memes as r/technicallythetruth.
More antimeme than anything
Yeah, I don't get it...
More Neolithic memes please x
The Final Countdown! Ba da da dah! Ba da da da dah! Ba da da dah! Ba da da da dah da dahhhh! It's not a trick Micheal, it's an illusion. Tricks are what whores do for money.
I understand everything but don't find it funny
It was funnier when I didn't understand it.
Lmao
I keep coming back to this meme and it's so bad but that makes it so perfect. This is honestly beautiful artwork
Using the dates correctly and soldiers trying to throw arrows like spears without the bow would have been funny and still confused those who don't understand how BC dates work.
People on ships before the bow was invented:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=3m5qxZm_JqM&pp=ygUSdGhlIGZyb250IGZlbGwgb2Zm