The before
In an Asian country somewhere there were many tribes. They were peaceful and minded their own business, chillin' out together and doing trading and stuff. There were however, two powerful tribe leaders that stood out among the rest, their followers trailing behind them, listening out for their glorious words that they rarely uttered. Their names? They had none, but legends say that these immortal beings were dubbed as 2i_dank_memes and 2h_memes. These legendary beings had been the first to conquer these lands and had risen as the two powers as more tribe leaders started following their example, bringing their group of followers with them and settling in this land.
Not before long, the settlers started calling themselves RI meme pages, wanting to call their group of brethren by one name and separating themselves from the petpictures and interestingfacts and all the others who were strangers and foreigners to them. Of course, good sweet trade deals could be made with them and silently the RI meme pages followed their example, each one of the tribes wanting to be as famous as them.
However, in a group, disagreements always happened. For centuries, 1h_memes and 1i_dank_memes held a silent grudge between each other, pondering and arguing about which was the better.
Flashback doo doo doo doo
It was a dark and stormy night when one figure(or two?) stumbled into the land of the empty, a desolate forgotten area of the world. He(they?) gathered his(their?) equipment and set to building up the land. Nobody knows who was first. Nobody knew when they arrived or how they got there, but when the clouds cleared, there they were. The two meme pages had occupied the land of the empty and had set about building up their account with their first ever memes. And thus it started.
Flashback end doo doo doo doo
For now, the tribes all lived happily together, abeit with some competition as more potential followers stumbled onto their land. The smaller tribes were starting to learn the dark arts of memes while the more successful tribes started learning more aggressive stances like the art of roasting and the art of shitposting. More small tribes had been streaming in for the past few days and as the land became fuller, so did the competition become stronger. The gap of tribes increased as the names of their leaders were established. Break offs happened as the politics grew more complex, 1i_meme_conductor breaking off from 1i_dank_memes into a rogue counterpart. More names appeared. 1j.2018 and saturated_saltsolution appeared seemingly out of nowhere, but what was more amazing was the appearance of ancient memepages from the horizon, such as succiniccacid and filiaemeliorisayeeevi. They soon settled in.
They said that there were legends of even greater tribes, tribes that stretched over time and space, tribes that swarmed around their great leader, that mastered all the arts, even the light and dark ones. They were all powerful, and yet none had seen them.
Quietly, the RI meme pages posted and waited, their great overlord Mr Chan Poh Meng calmly ruling over them.
One day, the names changed and all the ones became twos
One day, Chan Poh Meng disappeared.
That day, the rumbling of a thousand chariots passed over the entire valley, the sound of a million voices shouting with one sound. The mystical Year Ones.
Oh crap.
Auspicium Melioris Aevi.