• Notyou
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    1 month ago

    I like to think about that stuff when I’m watching a documentary and historians are like “We don’t know what this item was used for. Maybe religious? Or a rite of passage?” I was thinking maybe it was like the beanie babies of it’s day and some of them survived.

    Now with everything being a meme and a reference within a reference. If only part of the internet survives somehow. It might be more confusing to decipher than the Rosetta Stone. Just think about that old Donnie Darko website, loss memes about loss, eating beans, skibidi toilet, and maybe throw in a few goatse, and emulator pages. Maybe some fanfic of Roswell, Buffy, or your show of choice. I think if that was all that survived, then I would like to hear what historians would think of us.

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      1 month ago

      Also, the future historians will know what killed us. So they’ll say: “Despite their world ending around them due to [ climate change / economic inequality / lack of water / microplastics / … ], they remained obsessed with cartoons and their anuses.”

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        Haha. That is true. We are probably going to be a cautionary tale. Hopefully someone will learn from our mistakes.