What was the first meme known to humanity? Where did it originate?

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Something Finnish probably

My dick.

Your mom.

Cave paintings then religious iconography.

>>496179
>implying it's not stone tools or fire

>>496182
>implying memes started with humanity

Memes are simply self-replicated signs. Picking bugs out of fur is an ape meme, holwing probably a wolf meme.

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No one's exactly sure why, but rabbits were common motifs in medieval drawings.

>>496209
>No one's exactly sure why
They're a cunt joke you stupid fool

>>496219
wow rude

First memes were probably just advice for not getting killed. Look both ways before crossing the savannah and things like that.

>>496220
Don't shitpost about things you don't know about.

>>496237

Speaking of "hare"y cunts I'd post about your mom but it would be off topic.

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>>496241

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Nowhere near the first but Pompeii has some feel-worthy stuff in it's graffiti. It's even got the Antiquity equivalent of

LONDON
O
N
D
O
N

in it.

http://www.pompeiana.org/Resources/Ancient/Graffiti%20from%20Pompeii.htm

>>496255
always a good read, the world's first squareposter

>>496241
on the contrary anon I'm sure his mother has her prom picture scrawled on a cave somewhere in time and space

>>496255
>II.7 (gladiator barracks); 8792: On April 19th, I made bread

>>496145
The Selfish Meme by Dawkins

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>>496380

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>>496219
What about snails?

>>496525
Top kek

>>496485
Phalluses

>>496525

lol so randum Xd

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kuk_(mythology)

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arrowheads

they don't make arrows better but everyone still made them

OOG HAVE SHORTER STICK THAN BLARG

HAHAHAHA HAHAHAHAHA

>>496145
Fire

>>496777
literally pepe

>>496785
wait what
how can you think of an arrow without an arrow that is supposed to actually hurt enemies instead of just kill birds?

Memes predate humanity.

>>496777
tfw kuk means cock in swedish

>>496777
>also spelled as Kek
top kek

ROMA
O
M
A

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>>496145
Kilroy was here

>>496145
only "real" meme I can think of is about Franz Joseph I Habsburg-Lothringen.

Czechs were calling him "Procházka" which literally translates to "walk".
and its because of article in newspaper from time when Franz Joseph was in Prague and local newspaper
printed picture of him walking on Charles bridge with caption: "Walk on the Bridge" in czech "Procházka na mostě"

since then everyone was calling him "Walk".

Lunar worship/mythological three day resurrection cycles

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probably some prehistoric spurdo cavepainting meme

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>>496157
vesu vesu vesu :D

Probably breathing for humans. Non-essential for survival would probably be some sort of simplistic language, like grunting.

>>496255
>II.2.3 (Bar of Athictus; right of the door); 8442: I screwed the barmaid
It really is amazing how similar we are to people that lived hundreds of years ago

>>497873
Looks like an ordinary flensing knife.

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>>496145
prolly fat-tits, you need something to fap to when the alphas fuck all the women

>>497389
>HOLY

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>>497397
Probably this
If we define a meme as a scripture that is reproduced for no good reason and out of context, then the oldest surviving meme is probably Andre the Giant has a Posse, which exists today under the "OBEY" form.
I think however that drawing a dick on a wall probably has way more ancient roots than this, but there's a lack of physical proof about it, maybe influenced by archeologists' bias.

By Dawkins's definition of meme, first meme would be something rather common and uninteresting like walking on two feet

milhouse

>>498294

Millhouse is NOT a meme.

>be Booga
>le Booga go Googa's party
>Booga's face when everyonega into le ebic wheel of rock
>tfw Booga a patrician with le rare Fire

Post boogas.

>>496145
The first human meme is probably speech.
The first meme ever is cellular reproduction.

>>496145
Using tools.

>>496255
>VI.14.43 (atrium of a House of the Large Brothel); 1520: Blondie has taught me to hate dark-haired girls. I shall hat them, if I can, but I wouldn’t mind loving them. Pompeian Venus Fisica wrote this.
Literally /int/

>>496255
Shitposting transcends all time and race.

>>498162
>all thick
Ancients confirmed high test

>>496485
Snails and their shells represent knights in their fancy armor.

first human meme is the punch

>>499884
yes

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>>496145

/his/ has determined that medieval scribes were the first ebin memesters and that Christian monasteries were the first enclaves of concentrated shitposting.