thought: aliens who are fascinated by humans because of how quickly their culture happens, as new words get picked up and metaphors invented left and right
this originated with thinking about how ubiquitous the term "spoons" in the mh sense has become when it's probably younger than we are
@Felthry (2003, according to Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spoon_theory )
@Felthry I'm not even sure if it predates the 2010s
Definitely not before 2000 though.