What is all the litterally 1984 referance. I don’t wanna look it up because it may be bad.

Edit : I say that because every time i looked up a number from internet i wanted to bleach my eyes for reference 34 and 69

  • AFK BRB Chocolate@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    9 months ago

    Others have mentioned it’s a reference to a novel. It was written in 1948, so the title was just a transposition of the numbers to pick a date some decades in the future.

    There are a giant number of cultural references that came from it, like big brother, thought police, thought crime, double speak, newspeak, and several others.

    Also, many people feel that a number of things in the fictional dystopian setting have come to pass, especially the government essentially gaslighting the people through the media in order to control society. So that’s why you see so many references.