You'd be amazed at how seriously people can take things like date formats sometimes.
We should count from the beginning of time.
Kurtzgesagt has a really great video about the subject: https://youtu.be/czgOWmtGVGs
There's also a timeline in HE that covers many major historical events: https://docs.wixstatic.com/ugd/71a711_295e365a6ec64d6ca7f87e...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anno_Mundi
1. Pick an epoch date so far in the past that nothing of interest could possibly have taken place before it.
2. ???
3. Profit!
The two problems with this idea are, first, that everyone argues about the exact value of the epoch; and second, that something always ends up having happened before that.
You can also invert the scheme, to get the Before Present system. This has the same two problems (s/before/after/).
While I don't believe the Kurzgesagt staff endorse genocide and cannibalism, I think they may not have clearly thought out the implications of their choice of terminology.
Premack's timeline that you link does not make the same error, calling it the "Holocene Era", as Emiliani did.