The Complaint Tablet to Ea-nasir is an ancient Babylonian clay tablet dating back to 1750 BC inscribed by customer Nanni to merchant Ea-nasir, complaining about Ea-nasir selling him sub-par copper, a practice Ea-nasir was known for. [knowyourmeme, wikipedia]
The entire meme structure can be considered historical too. Well played.
Can anyone explain? Sorry
What does it have to do with jerking?
The term jerk came from this point in history.
"The guy that sold this copper to me was a jerking."
This was mistranslated to:
"The guy that sold this copper to me was a jerk."
Historically at least 1 person has jacked off
(This is also a play on rage comics which often started with "le me doing an action" while also having a general theme of "random = funny")
Big if true
Well it was big, and then it wasn't afterward.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Complaint_tablet_to_Ea-n%C4%81%E1%B9%A3ir
It happens