Xennial Memes

Xennial Memes

Quote card over a photo of a rally outside the U.S. Supreme Court building under a gray sky. Text: "To be clear, they don't get to rule on our humanity. They're ruling on their own." KATE SOSIN. A rainbow flag flies above a crowd; a blue sign reads "WE THE PEOPLE MEANS EVERYONE." Four-panel black-and-white comic. Panel 1: a smiling woman holding a phone chats with a person seen from behind; a label reads "Normal Conversation". Panel 2: a wide-eyed, grinning striped-shirt character holds a large yo-yo; label: "The latest obscure thing I'm obsessed with". Panels 3-4: the character grins beside the chat. © Sarah Andersen Four-row expanding brain meme template. Row 1 text: "People who need text and image" beside a dim blue X-ray of a skull with a small brain. Row 2 text: "People who only need text" with an empty panel. Row 3 has an empty text box beside a glowing, radiant brain. Row 4 is blank. Screenshot of a tweet from jaboukie young-white (@jaboukie), with a profile photo of a smiling man with a mustache. The tweet reads: "millennials killed department stores" baby boomers killed the polar bears but right right right my deepest apologies to jc penny. Posted 6/4/17, 10:23 AM from Brooklyn, NY. Reply from c-bassmeow: This is amazing White uppercase text on a black background reads: "STOP BREAKING YOURSELF DOWN INTO BITE SIZED PIECES STAY WHOLE AND LET THEM CHOKE" A black-on-white typed poem titled "How to Avoid Mixing Your Metaphors". It reads: "It's not rocket surgery. First, get all your ducks on the same page. After all, you can't make an omelette without breaking stride. Be sure to watch what you write with a fine-tuned comb. Check and re-check until the cows turn blue. It's as easy as falling off a piece of cake. Don't worry about opening up a whole hill of beans: you… Three-panel Star Trek meme. Top: a Federation starship faces a Borg vessel; text reads "We are the Borg. Surrender your vessel and prepare to be assimilated. Resistance is futile." Middle: Captain Picard in a red uniform says "We will do no such thing. Raise shields and prepare to open fire." Bottom: two crew members face a Borg cube on the viewscreen; text reads "Oh so just because you disagree with us it's okay… Two-panel black-and-white doodle of a person holding papers at a desk, like a news anchor. Left panel: "Next up we will discuss the topic with someone whose job is to be a well researched and respected expert in the area". Right panel: "And in the interest of balance we will also talk to an idiot". Signed "@twisteddoodles". A framed-style poster with a mottled light blue parchment background and dark vignette edges, headed "PRAYER OF ST FRANCIS" between two decorative flourishes. Text: "Lord, make me an instrument of your peace; Where there is hatred, let me sow love; Where there is injury, pardon; Where there is doubt, faith; Where there is despair, hope; Where there is darkness, light; And where there is sadness, joy. O Divine… Text on a pale yellow background: "When I was in 7th grade, our teacher put on a video and told us to take notes. Ten minutes in, she threw the lights on and shouted at Steven Webb Sladki, telling him he wasn't taking notes and he should have been. But the thing was, Steve was taking notes. I saw it. We all saw it. The teacher asked if anyone wanted to stand up for Steve. A few of us choked out some words of… Black text on a off-white textured background: "What's the difference between a kleptomaniac and a literalist? The literalist takes things literally. The kleptomaniac takes things, literally." Text post titled "Things you can say in response to literally anything, when you have nothing else to say:" followed by bullets: As the prophecy foretold. But at what cost? So let it be written; so let it be done. So...it has come to this. That's just what he/she/they would've said. Is this why fate brought us together? And thus, I die. ...just like in my dream... Be that as it may, still may it be as it may be.… A huge dark tidal wave towers over a seaside city of apartment buildings. A white arrow from a box reading "CLIMATE CHANGE" points at the wave. Speech bubbles from the buildings say "Healthcare!", "Immigration!", "Guns!", "Free school!", "Justice!" and "Legal weed!" Photo of a book page titled "A Franciscan Benediction" with red hand-drawn bracket lines in the corners. Text: "May God bless you with discomfort / At easy answers, half-truths, and superficial relationships / So that you may live deep within your heart. May God bless you with anger / At injustice, oppression, and exploitation of people, / So that you may work for justice, freedom and peace. May God bless you with… Hand-drawn iceberg with a small boat beside it. A person on the boat says: "What say you first mate? O ideal days...?" Above water: "This Stuff..." with checkboxes "Level of Effort" and "Complexity". Below: "And... Other Stuff..." with 24 checklist items such as Multi-tasking, Handoffs, Approvals, Meetings, Morale, Compliance. 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".

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