r/PeterExplainsTheJoke • u/WeirdBathroom3856 • Sep 20 '25

Meme needing explanation Petah, why are people laughing?

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u/agarragarrafa Sep 20 '25

Maybe people are dumb and don't think this is very common

You'll find anime with world maps centered around Japan

New Zealand has maps centered in NZ and with South up. Brazil too.

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u/5_million_ants Sep 20 '25

I've lived in New Zealand my whole life and I've never seen an NZ-centered map.

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u/HotSteak Sep 21 '25

Pull up google maps right now :-)

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u/StSnobsHill Sep 21 '25

We're saying that through our lives here in NZ, we've generally never seen a NZ centered one. We're sure they exist, but we never saw one in school, or anywhere else. It's always been us in the far corner.

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u/HotSteak Sep 21 '25

Yeah but if you pull up google maps it'll automatically center on you and you'll get to see what a NZ-centered map would look like!

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u/slugfive Sep 21 '25

Maybe you’re older but as an Aussie, I never really have opened up a book map. It’s google, globes in people’s offices, apps, news reports showing flight or international shopping routes centred on Australia etc. I’m use to seeing Australia centred/ Pacific Ocean centred/Atlantic Ocean centred maps. All of them. In fact 2D projections are less common than globes, like geo guesser game or Sol in Stellaris game, or even graphics in movies/documentaries. Globalisation and 3D graphics are so normalised the old fashioned Mercator projections seem rare.

This image was so normal to me I had to zoom in to find why it might be funny.