Age of Empires Logic

About

Age of Empires Logic is an advice animal-style image macro series used to poke fun at flawed or outdated video game logics and graphic limitiations that are found in the real-time strategy game franchise Age of Empires _.

Origin

Precursor

On January 31st, 2011, Awkward Zombie released a webcomic titled "Great Wololo Of China (Part1)"^[1] which pokes fun at the villager's poor artificial intelligence (AI) in Age of Empires II_. On February 7th that same year, the second part of "Great Wololo Of China"^[2] was released.

On February 10th, 2011, the earliest known image macro poking fun at Age of Empire's flawed logics was submitted to Meme Generator.^[3] Based on an advice animal-style cutout image of one of the kings featured on the cover box of Age of Empires II: The Age of Kings. The series has since accumulated more than 10,600 derivatives over the span of four years.

Spread

On December 20th, 2011, FunnyJunk user ifunnyninja submitted an image titled "Age of Empires" which gained over 50.600 views and 1.896 upvotes in 3 years.^[6] On November 3rd, 2013, FunnyJunk user submitted an image titled "Age of Empires" which gained over 64.000 views.^[7]

On an unregistered date, an anonymous 9GAG user submitted an image titled "Age of Empires II" which gained over 47.000 upvotes.^[4] On another unregistered date, an anonymous 9gag user submitted image titled "Age of Empires" which gained over 20.500 upvotes.^[5]

Official Acknowledgement

In April 2013, Ensemble Studios released a remastered version of Age of Empires II: HD Edition on the online video game marketplace Steam, which included a collectible trading card ("King of Memes") resembling the advice animal template image in a tribute to the image macro series.^[8]

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