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100 Men vs Gorilla Ancestor Win Meme

This meme responds to the common internet hypothetical debate asking if 100 men could win a fight against 1 gorilla. The top text poses the debate question, then states "Literally our ancestors", followed by an image of a prehistoric cave painting that depicts a small group of early human ancestors hunting a massive woolly mammoth, an animal far larger and more powerful than a single gorilla. The joke illustrates that prehistoric humans regularly successfully hunted animals much stronger than gorillas, so 100 modern humans would easily win the hypothetical fight against one gorilla.
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100 men vs 1 gorilla who would win !?
Literally our ancestors

Overview

This meme responds to the common internet hypothetical debate asking if 100 men could win a fight against 1 gorilla. The top text poses the debate question, then states "Literally our ancestors", followed by an image of a prehistoric cave painting that depicts a small group of early human ancestors hunting a massive woolly mammoth, an animal far larger and more powerful than a single gorilla. The joke illustrates that prehistoric humans regularly successfully hunted animals much stronger than gorillas, so 100 modern humans would easily win the hypothetical fight against one gorilla.

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This meme was sourced from the Reddit Meme RSS feed, originally posted with the title "Ancient stuff". It repurposes imagery of prehistoric cave art depicting mammoth hunting to respond to a popular repeated internet debate topic, and is commonly shared across social media platforms like Reddit, Twitter/X, and Instagram in relation to the 100 men vs gorilla debate.

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