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Just British Things Minecraft Meme

This meme uses the popular "Nobody: / [Group]:" format to make a sarcastic joke about British colonial history. The top text reads "Nobody-" and then "The British-", followed by a screenshot from the game Minecraft showing a tiny, remote, completely uninhabited island in the middle of the ocean that has nothing but a few stalks of sugar cane growing on it, which already has a Union Jack (British national flag) planted on it. The joke references the widespread historical stereotype that British colonizers would claim any random, even tiny and unproductive, piece of land they encountered across the world unprompted, with no one asking them to do so.
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Overview

This meme uses the popular "Nobody: / [Group]:" format to make a sarcastic joke about British colonial history. The top text reads "Nobody-" and then "The British-", followed by a screenshot from the game Minecraft showing a tiny, remote, completely uninhabited island in the middle of the ocean that has nothing but a few stalks of sugar cane growing on it, which already has a Union Jack (British national flag) planted on it. The joke references the widespread historical stereotype that British colonizers would claim any random, even tiny and unproductive, piece of land they encountered across the world unprompted, with no one asking them to do so.

Origin notes

This meme was originally shared on Reddit, in meme-focused subreddits, under the original title "Just British Things". It combines a screenshot captured from the video game Minecraft with a common meme text format to create a historical joke that went viral in online communities focused on history memes and gaming memes.

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