• DamarcusArt
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    11 months ago

    Damn, depicting yourself as the chad and your opponents as the soyjack is so much older than the internet.

    There’s probably like, some ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs where Ramses depicts himself as the chad Pharaoh and like…the Nubians or whoever as virgins and soyjacks.

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      11 months ago

      Nearly every single one in fact, one of the staple techniques was to depict important people as bigger, nonimportant as smaller and enemies a wretched and cowering. For example, famous stela of Narmer, the very first pharaoh living over 5000 years ago:

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        Damn, I came to make a joke, now I’m learning some cool things!