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[kaberett]

item: the global population at 2000 BCE has been estimated, with necessarily large (and indeed unquantified) uncertainties, at between 27M and 72M (wikipedia has references)

item: as of 2020 CE, one estimate of the number of tumblr users was ~29M in the US alone (Statista; tumblr does not release its own statistics)

conclusion: it seems entirely plausible, especially given the migration of Popular Tumblr Posts™ to other social media sites, that more people know about Ea-Nasir today because of tumblr than existed on the planet while he was alive

Comments

[hilarita]

:-D

[rydra_wong]

This is a marvellous thought.

[batrachian]

i read a lovely post positing Ea-Nasir as someone who asked for global fame from a genie, and failed to specify a timeframe.

[fyreharper]

XD

[alexwlchan]

:-O

[fyreharper]

That is amazing :D

[azurelunatic]

And his shitty, shitty copper.

[silveradept]

That's a staggering sort of scale to contemplate. One only wonders what he would have thought of such game, and what poor-quality object he would try to peddle to take advantage of that fame.

[fyreharper]

“You’re the worst copper seller I’ve ever heard of”
“Ah, but you have heard of me”
:p

[silveradept]

🎶 And I am not throwing away in-gots,
I am not throwing away in-gots,
Like my morality, I know they're low quality,
But I'm not throwing away in-gots! 🎶

[sbrackett]

But is it actually poor quality? We just have that other guy's word for it!

[horselizard]

:D