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Chat, is this true? (mander.xyz)
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[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 days ago (1 children)

The post in the screen shot is dated February 14, 2025 though?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 days ago (2 children)

How did I miss that?!

My timeline is incorrect then. Since the post from sassymetischick.bsky predates the wiki edit, it is more likely that the wiki edit was made in response to this meme, and not the other way around. This pretty invalidates what I said above...

I still can't find any evidence of this being an actual trend, but I no longer have a good guess about the origin.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Could that just be a timezone difference?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

I think the difference in time is too big. Also, in the talk page's archive it is stated that the wikipedia was updated because of this meme, and not the other way around. This is from the talk page:

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 days ago

Looking through the archived history of the talk page, I can confirm that the claim on the wiki page is derived from the viral post, and not the other way around: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Gulf_of_Mexico/Archive_3#Chalchiuhtlicueyecatl