史上最早的梗，来自于1921年的漫画？

When this comic was posted to Twitter, it caused excitement as people began to wonder if it was the first meme - a format-dependent joke, typically of a picture with a caption or subtitle - ever published.

这个漫画被发布到推特后引起了兴奋，人们开始揣测它是否是史上第一个公开发表的模因（“梗”） - 一个与格式有关的笑话，典型的带有字幕或副标题的图片。

But we’ve found a version of the joke using the same format printed at least a year earlier in either 1919 or 1920.

但是我们发现了另一个笑话版本，它使用一样的格式，但至少比这个早一年发表，发表时间为1919年或1920年。

Both draw from the same template of the ’Expectations vs. Reality’ joke, which contrasts two pictures side-by-side with an obvious discrepancy between them.

两者都采用了“期望与现实”笑话的相同模板，这两个笑话并排对比，两张图片之间存在明显的差异。

It was subsequently reposted with new captions such as "you/the guy she tells you not to worry about", referencing yet another contemporary template meme.

随后的转发中使用了新的文字说明，如“这是你/这是她叫你不要担心的人”，这又套用了另一个当代模板模因。

Some users created their own takes on the format using other memes such as ’If You Don’t Love Me / Can’t Handle Me’.

一些用户使用其他梗如“如果你不爱我/拿我没办”来创建他们自己的格式。

The comic was found in a 1921 edition of satirical magazine The Judge, published by the University of Iowa.

该漫画被发现于1921年的爱荷华大学出版的讽刺杂志The Judge中。

Within The Judge, the comic is then credited to a different magazine - the Wisconsin Octopus, published at the University of Wisconsin between 1919 and 1959.

在The Judge中，该漫画鸣谢了另一本杂志 - 1919年至1959年在威斯康星大学出版的Wisconsin Octopus（威斯康星州章鱼）。

By looking through the University of Wisconsin-Madison Libraries, we were able to view a few early editions of the Wisconsin Octopus magazine, and found this is not the first time the ’Expectations vs. Reality’-format joke appeared in print.

通过浏览威斯康星大学麦迪逊图书馆，我们可以查看Wisconsin Octopus杂志的一些早期版本，并发现这不是第一次出现“期望与现实”格式的笑话。

According to the definition, a single image cannot be a meme. It has to be copied and spread with variations to the original image.

根据定义，单个图像不能成为模因。它必须被复制并以原始图像的变体而传播。

So on its own, the 1921 comic is not a meme. But coupled with the comic from either 1919 or 1920, it begins to fit the definition, as the two comics are variations on the same style - using two panels and captions to set-up an expectation and contrast it with reality.

所以就其本身而言，1921年的漫画并不是模因。但加上从1919年或1920年的漫画，它开始符合其定义，因为这两个漫画是同一风格的变体 - 使用两个面板和图片说明来设置期望与现实对比。

While we can’t say with certainty that this is the first meme by that definition, we can say that because it was copied and spread with variations this cartoon was genuinely part of a pre-internet ’Expectations vs. Reality’ meme.

虽然我们不能肯定地说这是第一个符合定义的模因，但我们可以这样说，因为它被复制并且以变体形式而传播，这个漫画真的是前互联网时期的“期望与现实”模因的一部分。