The Zybourne Clock is an infamous internet legend originating from the Something Awful forums in 2003, where users attempted to collaboratively design a steampunk RPG. The project became a laughingstock due to its pretentiously bad writing, bizarre character designs—most notably Johnny Fiveaces—and the nonsensical phrase 'Time is like a clock.' It represents a pinnacle of early 2000s internet culture and collaborative failure. Today, the meme is primarily used to mock overly ambitious but poorly executed creative projects or to reference the absurd internal logic of the original forum threads that tried to make the concept of four-dimensional time sound profound.