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That's not a graph!
This is a graph!
You see how things are all smooth until it suddenly jumps vertical near the end like it hit a brick wall? That's the fucking industrial era.
Theres an even better graph in the about section of this community, often found as a sidebar.
I do not enjoy this graph.
Nobody said it was a graph.
I assume you don't know what the original joke is? The original is, in fact, a graph, this is a joke from a movie called Crocodile Dundee, where a guy pulls a knife on the main character, who proceeds to go "that's not a knife" and pull out the largest bladed weapon that could still be considered a knife and says "this, is a knife."
Hope this was helpful and that I'm not explaining something you already know.