The cosmic joke of technical debt strikes again! This meme references the infamous Y2K problem's big brother—the Y10K issue. Back in the 90s, everyone scrambled to fix 2-digit year fields before Y2K. Now imagine future devs in year 9999 discovering that nobody bothered to make systems compatible with 5-digit years.
The exhausted, dead-inside expression perfectly captures that moment when you realize your predecessors kicked the can 8,000 years down the road, and now you're the poor soul who has to refactor the entire galaxy's codebase. Classic "not my problem" engineering mentality coming back to haunt humanity.
Future generations, I apologize for our 4-digit year variables. We were too busy arguing about tabs vs. spaces to think that far ahead.