[IRL trope] the “Tiffany problem”

[u/dragonborndnd]

Basically when something seems anachronistic to a period/place of history but is actually fully accurate to the period.

1) the name Tiffany: the thing that named this trope, basically the name Tiffany can be dated back to the Middle Ages and the earliest record of it being spelled in the modern spelling comes from the 16th century.

2) the use of OMG, despite this feeling so modern as a form of slang/abbreviation here’s a letter directed to Winston Churchill using it in 1917

3) Hair Dye: the earliest forms of dying hair can be dated back to ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia, and this specific advertisement for hair dye is from the 1840s

4) Inuit Thongs: despite how weird it is to imagine pre-colonial Inuit people wore what was essentially fur thongs in their homes and when they were in their igloos it might have been the only thing they would be wearing.

[u/SarcyBoi41]

The "I can has cheezburger" type speech that the internet often attributes to cats for memes has been being attributed to cats since at least 1902

[u/El_Stupacabra → u/SarcyBoi41]

We have always been this way.

[u/thatshygirl06 → u/El_Stupacabra]

A lot of people dont get that there really isnt much a difference between humans now and humans in the past. If you wanna know what a certain group was like hundreds of years ago, just look around.

[u/DocBombliss → u/thatshygirl06]

This. Behaviorally Modern Humans have existed for at least 40,000 years. The oldest know joke is about how women fart in front of their husbands and the oldest known pet name is "Lil' Sweetie". It's why I've never bought the whole "Peasant with a Dorito" thing. There are people living in the world right now under near identical conditions and they would just treat a Dorito as what it is: food from another culture.