One of the earliest jokes we have translated is Sumerian, and nobody has been able to really discern the meaning of it, or why it’s funny
“A dog walked into a tavern and said, ‘I can’t see a thing. I’ll open this one.’”
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ImplyingImplications@lemmy.ca 11 months ago
It’s funny to think that future people will have no idea what these jokes will mean, but we’ve translated 2000 year old Roman dick jokes. Future historians will just say the same of us as we do about the Romans. “They created amazing technology that shaped the world we live in today…and they were really horny.”
Kolanaki@yiffit.net 11 months ago
r3df0x@7.62x54r.ru 11 months ago
It’s a joke, but memes tend to be incredibly dependent on multiple layers of meta and references to other cultural events and memes.
Unless they somehow manage to lose a huge amount of context, I’m sure they’ll be able to figure out what memes mean.
Delphia@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I just imagine someone in silver robes rapidly hovering through a Tron hallway because they just made the archaeological find of the century… a complete archive of knowyourmeme.com