Banana for scale
Banana for scale (BFS) is the perfect unit of measurement for all uses ever, one banana for scale is equivalent to 7-8 inches in freedom units and 18-20 cm in the metric system (the average size a banana). It has many variations such as banana for weight (BFW, 118 grams in the metric system and approximately 4,2 ounces in the imperial system, the average weight of a banana) and banana for time (BFT, 12 seconds, why the hell not). There are also other measurement systems inspired by the greatness of banana for scale, such as guitar for temperature (GFT) and double bed for scale (DBFS).
Development[edit | edit source]
Shortly after the invention of the banana by a few bored monkeys, a wildlife photographer called Bahonkadonkadonk Bazonkadonkazonkadonk just happened to be taking photos of random stuff around his house when he noticed all the monkeys in his bathroom and quickly drew the monkeys as stick figures. When he went to weigh the monkeys, he saw that his bathroom scale was gone and a banana was in its place.
“What is this, some kind of banana for scale?”
– Bahonkadonkadonk Bazonkadonkazonkadonk
Thus began the tale of the banana for scale.[Hey, that rhymed!] It quickly became a meme in the monkeyology community when Bazonkadonkazonkadonk published the paper Banana for Scale: Do Monkeys Understand Capitalism? and gained popularity with gamers upon the release of the video game Monkey Music 2: Banana 4 Scale, where players are rewarded with in-game bananas.
Use as a unit of measure[edit | edit source]
When the "Banana for Scale" meme hit TikTok (and much, much later, YouTube Shorts), it became a trend for people to measure things with bananas in videos captioned with #bananaforscale and #bfs. The latter of the two caused problems in the "birds fencing squirrels" fandom.
Reception[edit | edit source]
Bahonkadonkadonk Bazonkadonkazonkadonk criticized the meme, saying
“The younger generation has corrupted what banana for scale truly means. And yes, I am more concerned about this than I am with how monkeys somehow got into my bathroom.”
– Bahonka- I'm not writing this whole name out again. on the "Banana for scale" trend
