What makes the Ea-Nasir meme so popular? The internet loves a trickster. Plenty of memes connect Ea-Nasir to contemporary scammers like Joe Exotic, Jack Sparrow, and the Monty Python dead parrot vendor. - ThreadSky

gabemoshenska.bsky.social • 2 days ago

What makes the Ea-Nasir meme so popular? The internet loves a trickster. Plenty of memes connect Ea-Nasir to contemporary scammers like Joe Exotic, Jack Sparrow, and the Monty Python dead parrot vendor.

1 / 2

Comments

gabemoshenska.bsky.social•2 days ago

In March 2021 commodity traders Mercuria Energy Trading were defrauded in a deal to buy 10,000 tons of low-grade copper: they’d been sold rocks painted to look like copper. A Turkish firm were blamed, but Ea-Nasir fans knew the truth:

gabemoshenska.bsky.social•2 days ago

There’s a fascination with making a connection with a known, named, flawed human being over such a distance of time. It makes the ancient world seem… real.

He's even made it into XKCD: https://xkcd.com/2758/

jayreding.bsky.social•2 days ago

Someone even turned that into a real song, and it’s really quite good!

https://youtu.be/c3233lSZ76k?si=FY_tID6rN2O1ZpfI

gabemoshenska.bsky.social•2 days ago

Also, less pleasantly, the ‘scamming middle-eastern merchant’ aspect chimes with orientalist prejudices and anti-Arab racism. Edward Said wrote: "In the films and television the Arab is associated either with lechery or bloodthirsty dishonesty … essentially sadistic, treacherous, low."

gabemoshenska.bsky.social•2 days ago

Whether or not you ship Nanni and Ea-Nasir, the complaint tablet meme is a great case study in digital public archaeology and the modern reception of the ancient world.

tanngrisnir.bsky.social•22 hours ago

📌

treestram.bsky.social•2 days ago

pessoinhadepelucia.bsky.social•1 day ago

📌

scandinavian101.bsky.social•2 days ago

Im sorry, but where is the promised erotic fanfiction??

gabemoshenska.bsky.social•2 days ago

Head over to AO3 and search, I am NOT linking here

gabemoshenska.bsky.social•2 days ago

To find out more, search Ea-Nasir merch on Etsy, Ea-Nasir fic on AO3, check out KnowYourMeme, read my article on museum memes (see below) and my longer paper on the Complaint Tablet meme when it comes out later this year. Thanks for reading! https://journals.uclpress.co.uk/ai/article/id/3125/

achilleselbow.bsky.social•2 days ago

I was completely unaware of this awesome thing until now! This is, uh, awesome!

radlein.bsky.social•2 days ago

I was delighted to discover that Ea-nāṣir has finally made it into the latest "Civilization" game

iona.bsky.social•2 days ago

Thank you for this important meme history thread, which is of far greater quality than the copper sold by Ea-Nasir.

hokutoandy.bsky.social•7 hours ago

Love when star wars prequels came out that everyone assumed the flying blue owner of Darth Vader's mom was Italian jew or Arab depending on what movies they watched beforehand.

jodami.bsky.social•2 days ago

The best thing about the Mercuria Copper Fraud was that they couldn’t even claim on the Turkish company’s seller insurance, as six of the seven insurance contracts were fake.

Comments

Posting Rules

Reply