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In Order To Be Born Copypasta or Ancestral Mathematics is a copypasta about how many ancestors a modern person needed to be born today. The copypasta originated from a 2019 post by Lyrical Zen and became increasingly popularized in 2022 after an extra line was added to the end reading, "and you want to be a femboy slut."

Origin

On August 12th, 2019, Lyrical Zen^[1] published an article titled "Ancestral Mathematics" detailing how many ancestors a modern-day person needs in order to be born today. They provided a text graphic to demonstrate this (shown below). The infographic was posted to the Red Rising Magazine Facebook^[2] page on August 20th, 2020, garnering over 3,200 shares in two years.

On July 27th, 2022, TikToker^[3] @colin.reich23 posted a video where he copy-pastes the phrase over footage of him sitting, garnering over 500,000 views in a month (shown below).

On August 2nd, iFunny^[4] user monstergirls_galore posted a screenshot from Discord of a user copy-pasting the text with an additional line at the end reading, "and you want to be a femboy slut," garnering over 300 smiles in a month (shown below).

Spread

On August 11th, 2022, another iFunny^[5] user posted a voice-over version of the meme. On August 16th, it was then posted to the /r/HolUp^[6] subreddit, garnering over 21,900 upvotes in two weeks. On August 17th, the meme was posted to /r/discord_irl,^[7] garnering over 1,800 upvotes in two weeks. On August 18th, it was posted by Twitter^[8] gimmick account @Discorrdpain, garnering over 40,000 likes in a similar timeframe. On August 19th, it was then added to /r/copypasta,^[9] garnering over 50 upvotes in three weeks. On August 29th, YouTuber Vanegood posted a voice-over version of the copypasta, garnering over 185,000 views in two days (shown below).

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