listen I know this barely has to do with anything but I simply can't not share this random fact

Did you know that this image everyone uses as a clip art for colonialism is called "Rhodes Colossus" and it was originally drawn for an 1892 satirical article about British colonialist Cecil Rhodes who planned to lay down railroad and telegraph lines across Africa, from Cape to Cairo (insanely hard task at the time).

The joke was that colonizers viewed themselves as gods and had a satirical verse about Cecil (who was a major asshole in case you weren't sure). But as often goes satire transcended itself and became the image for colonialism.