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| Nostalgia Content |
 Title text: Gen-Z got a chunk of the Carboniferous, and now all their memes are about how pathetic and small today's dragonflies are. |
Explanation
This comic is a joke about nostalgia content. In it, a database for creating nostalgia content has accidentally included some Early Devonian features in it. These features, while certainly being old, are far too long ago for anyone to be alive at the time, let alone remember it, hence defying the purpose.
Transcript
- [Cueball is standing, with his arms out, in front of a prototaxite (incorrectly refered to in this comic as a "parataxtite') towering over a mossy landscape. To his right, a Tamagotchi, and milk-caps (refered to in this comic as "pogs"), appear.]
- Cueball: Who else rembembers pogs? Tamagotchis? Vast forests of Parataxites towering over the mossy landscape as armored fish stir in the deep?
- [Caption below the panel:]
- Due to a database error, Millenial nostalgia now includes a portion of the early Devonian.
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