• ___@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    3 days ago

    If anyone needs a more comprehensive explanation:

    • This comic became a popular meme many years ago
    • Those memes evolved to include overly simplified illustrations, like depicting the characters in each panel as lines like I Iı II I_
    • That last panel simplified looks kind of like the letter L
    • L in Roman numerals is 50
    • Turning back into digits, you get 1 2 2 50
    • boonhet@sopuli.xyz
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      3 days ago

      I didn’t even need to think of the roman numerals to get that it’s loss somehow

      It just made sense immediately because of the format