Xennial Memes

Xennial Memes

Gray quote graphic. Text: "The narcissist does not love you. You don't even love the narcissist, because the person you fell in love with (or want to love, if the narcissistic personality in your life is a parent, friend or sibling) does not exist. The person you fell in love with was a mask. It was a reflection of what you wanted and what you are. You essentially fell in love with yourself, because the narcissist… Screenshot of a Tumblr thread. User marcvscicero writes: "writing style: author from the 1800s with a severe love of commas whose sentences last half a page". User fencer-x replies: "I came out here, to this point, to this place, hoping against all hope and despite signs and portends suggesting otherwise that I might, somehow, find myself having a pleasant experience, and yet here I stand, alone against the world,… A small child in a white unicorn costume with a horn and spines crouches with arms out on a grassy lawn, facing a boy in a yellow Star Trek command uniform who points a toy blue and yellow space blaster at them. Top text: "NEVER LET NORMAL". Bottom text: "INTERFERE WITH AWESOME". A flowchart on a faint grid. Top box: "Someone has done a thing". An arrow leads to a diamond: "Are they on our side?". Left arrow to a box "Yes", then to a box "It's fine". Right arrow to a box "No", then to a box "BASTARD". Photo from a safari park: a giraffe's long spotted neck pokes down through the shattered passenger window of a silver car, with glass shards flying. Other animals, a few parked cars and a wooden fence are visible on the grass behind. No text. Hand-lettered 3x3 chart titled "E-MAIL LIKE A BOSS @danidonovan". Each cell has a blue situation, a red X weak phrase, and a green check stronger phrase. 1: "I took a while but you can deal": X "Sorry for the delay", check "Thanks for your patience". Other cells follow similarly. A text-only list of grammar and literary jokes that each begin with something walking into a bar. Examples: "A bar was walked into by the passive voice." "An oxymoron walked into a bar, and the silence was deafening." "A dyslexic walks into a bra." "A hyphenated word and a non-hyphenated word walk into a bar and the bartender nearly chokes on the irony." Tumblr thread. insomniac-arrest: "when girls like horses we call them 'horse girls' and mock them for their bond with giant nightmare leg-finger creatures but if boys like horses we call them 'future cowboys' and 'rugged outdoors men' I'm just saying, I've met a lot more horse girls than horse boys so when the dystopic breakdown of society hits us, it's not going to be roving bands of young men on horseback (they… White text on a black background: "Be the person who breaks the cycle. If you were judged, choose understanding. If you were rejected, choose acceptance. If you were shamed, choose compassion. Be the person you needed when you were hurting, not the person who hurt you. Vow to be better than what broke you—to heal instead of becoming bitter so you can act from your heart, not your pain." Attributed to Lori Deschene. Screenshot of a Facebook post by Susan Galasso Seleen, Aug 15, 2018 at 8:21 AM. It lists: Social Justice Warrior: Wades into the front lines of online and IRL confrontations. Social Justice Barbarian: Punches Nazis. Social Justice Paladin: Activist and crusader. Social Justice Bard: Writes blog posts, protest songs, slam poetry. Social Justice Druid: Knows you can't afford your medication and has something that… Top: three whole eggs on a wooden surface, one dark reddish-brown, one light tan, one white. Bottom: a single fried egg on a black background with three orange yolks. Caption in white capital letters: "RACISM EXPLAINED FOR DUMMIES". A light gray band across a dark gray background holds centered black text: "The poem, the song, the picture, is only water drawn from the well of the people, and it should be given back to them in a cup of beauty so that they may drink - and in drinking understand themselves." A numbered list of eight writing rules in black text on white. 1. Use the time of a total stranger in such a way that he or she will not feel the time was wasted. 2. Give the reader at least one character he or she can root for. 3. Every character should want something, even if it is only a glass of water. 4. Every sentence must do one of two things — reveal character or advance the action. 5. Start as close to the… Aged, creased typewritten memo from the Dallas County Hospital District, Office Memorandum, November 27, 1963, to all employees. It recounts President Kennedy and Governor Connally arriving at Parkland Memorial Hospital on November 22, 1963, and Lee H. Oswald dying there on November 24, 1963. A seven-item list covers what the hospital did in 48 hours and 31 minutes. It closes by praising its people. Signed J.… Plain light pink-gray background with centered black text: "Do not be dismayed by the brokenness of the world. All things break. And all things can be mended. Not with time, as they say, but with intention. So go. Love intentionally, extravagantly, unconditionally. The broken world waits in darkness for the light that is you." Below, the attribution: "L. R. Knost". A white poem card with a handwritten edit. The word "scream" is crossed out and the word "Vote" is written above it in thin hand-drawn letters. The poem reads: "so that one day a hundred years from now another sister will not have to dry her tears wondering where in history she lost her voice." Credit: "—jasmin kaur". Three-panel newspaper comic. A soldier lies face down in shallow green swamp water. Panel 1: "Jesus, can we impeach President Bush now? Al Qaeda must be psyched at his response to Katrina—the guy's looking like he couldn't handle the aftermath of a goddamn snowball fight." Panel 2: "Forty-five percent of Americans still trust Bush "to make the right decisions during a domestic crisis." I think I'll float over and… Illustrated poster on a dark background titled "Types of Captains" with twelve cartoon characters in orange and brown. Labels: Civilized (bald man with teacup), Scruffy Looking (man with blaster), Vengeful (peg-legged man with harpoon), Pirate, Activist, Patriotic, Crunchy, Immortal, Marsupial Loving, Demoted, Wasted, Cancelled. Large web-style diagram of brand logos grouped in boxes with arrows labeled $$$ pointing to ten parent companies: Kraft, Nestlé, Coca-Cola, PepsiCo, P&G, General Mills, Kellogg's, Mars, Johnson & Johnson and Unilever. A large black opening quotation mark above gray bold text: "The reasonable man adapts himself to the world. The unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man." Below, in black: George Bernard Shaw, Maxims for Revolutionists. Chart titled "The Periodic Table of Storytelling" laid out like a periodic table of color-coded boxes, each a TV Tropes trope with an abbreviation, name and popularity number, e.g. Ae An Aesop, Cal Call to Adventure, 4wl The Fourth Wall. Footer: "All these tropes and twenty thousand more are detailed on tvtropes.org". A slide with a dark teal background and a small red tab at the top right. White capital letters read: "THERE IS NO "DIGITAL STRATEGY" ANYMORE, JUST STRATEGY IN A DIGITAL WORLD." Black borders surround the slide. Pixel art equation. Small 8-bit Mario, labeled "Person who's a potential customer", plus a Fire Flower, labeled "Your product", equals Fire Mario throwing a fireball, labeled "Awesome person who can do rad shit!" An orange arrow from the text "This isn't what your business sells." points at the flower. A blue arrow from "This is." points at Fire Mario. Footer: "© 2013 UserOnboard.com" A five-level pyramid diagram titled "The Hierarchy of Innovation". Top: "Technologies of the Self" e.g., self-expression, identity management, pharmaceuticals, personalization, vanity. Next: "Technologies of Leisure" e.g., entertainment, mass media, consumer goods and services, athletics, travel. Next: "Technologies of Prosperity" e.g., systems of manufacturing, transport, energy, finance, communication, education,… Vintage-style poster with a gray Super Nintendo controller illustration on crinkled cream paper. Text below reads "GAMING since 1988". Footer reads "VICTORIABRETON.COM | VBTYPOGRAPHY.ETSY.COM | VICTORIABRETON.TUMBLR.COM". A faint watermark reads "VICTORIABRETON". Bold black sans-serif text on a white background reads "Fuck it," then a black-and-white pen-and-ink illustration of a sailing ship with billowing sails on waves, then "it." The ship stands in for the word "ship." A huge dark flowchart titled "How to Write a Game Story". A green START triangle leads to "Add zombies." and "Do you care about story?", then branches through questions like "Are you pretentious?", "Sweet. Genre?", "Is there a princess, possibly in another castle?", "Aliens?", "Mafia?", and "Cool with cribbing Tolkien?". Endings include "THE END", "NOPE SEQUEL", "Oh. You don't need this chart.", and "Real clever.… White pixelated text on a black background dotted with small yellow pixel stars reads: "EVERYTHING NOT SAVED WILL BE LOST." Photoshopped image of a man in a black pea coat, jeans and cream driving gloves, sitting in a saddle with reins on the back of a giant mallard duck. He looks upward and smiles against a pale gray-green sky. No text. A red quote card with a white opening quotation mark above a white horizontal line. White capital letters read: "VIDEO GAMES FOSTER THE MINDSET THAT ALLOWS CREATIVITY TO GROW." Below a second white line is the attribution "NOLAN BUSHNELL".

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