The old, legendary memes that started the entire meme culture. Original memes, but older. The foundation of all meme.
Guy 1: dude i just found a meme
Guy 2: what was it?
Guy 1: Kilroy was here, it was scrabbled in my locker
Guy 2: you just found a historic meme, my friend
This kind of innocence is when someone, generally of a younger age or uneducated, is not aware of jokes and references of historical events, and/or is surprised when they find out about it.
This can also be used to define someone that jokes about tragic historical events and/or support these "ideologies" without really knowing what they are about.
py: yo sav check this sus shit out
*shows sav a roblox group that fetishises the a*yan race*
sav: i don't understand
laz: yoooo what the fuck
py: sav, do not lose your intellectual historical innocence
laz: for your own good
sav: uhh what
A person who does not believe in history; i.e. One would need a time machine to convince this person that something really happened
Guy 1: Man, I hate having to memorize dates of the Civil War. And how does Ms. Johnson know that these events happened on these specific days?
Guy 2: Since when are you a historical atheist?