Xennial Memes

Xennial Memes

Black-and-white Calvin and Hobbes comic panel. Hobbes the tiger crouches in tall grass beside Calvin, a spiky-haired boy. Hobbes's speech bubble: "HOW COME?" Calvin's speech bubble: "I MUST OBEY THE INSCRUTABLE EXHORTATIONS OF MY SOUL." A lit LED billboard at night shows a red Martian desert landscape with white text reading "Mars sucks." and below it "—Earth". The sign reads "Becker Boards.com". Below, an empty street, apartment buildings, and a tall white rocket labeled SpaceX stand in the background. A young woman with curly hair, hoop earrings and a nose ring stands in an outdoor crowd holding a red poster board with handwritten black marker text: "We live in a world where trained cops can panic & act on impulse but untrained civilians must remain calm w/a gun in their face". The last line is underlined. A tweed-covered portable turntable with its lid open sits on a brick sidewalk next to a curb, its power adapter coiled on top. A handwritten paper sign taped to it reads: "DOES NOT WORK BUT COULD BE FUN TO FIX!" At night, a hooded figure in dark clothing crouches in front of a weathered street mural, holding a flaming object that casts an orange glow. The mural, splattered with red paint and white graffiti, reads in black capital letters: "THERE WAS NEVER A GOOD WAR OR A BAD PEACE". Four-panel comic by VectorBelly.com. A reporter in a black top hat and yellow shirt holds a microphone toward a football player in a purple helmet and number 7 jersey. Reporter: "You were sportsing pretty hard out there. A lot of sports happened. Why do you think you lost?" Player: "We sportsed our best and scored points, but the other team was sportsing, too, and they scored even more points." Reporter: "What's… Photo of a cream store sign with an ornate border and three small jam jar drawings. It reads: "WHAT'S THE DIFFERENCE?" "Preserves: Made from cooking the whole fruit" "Jam: Made from cooking mashed fruit" "Butter: Made from cooking strained fruit pulp" "Jelly: Made from cooking fruit juice" Pixel art of a muscular fighter in a white gi, seen from behind, walking down a tree-lined path toward a glowing orange sunset. Below, in pixelated pink and yellow letters: "THE FIGHT IS ALL." Screenshot of a Tumblr post by stimmyabby: "Sometimes people use "respect" to mean "treating someone like a person" and sometimes they use "respect" to mean "treating someone like an authority" and sometimes people who are used to being treated like an authority say "if you won't respect me I won't respect you" and they mean "if you won't treat me like an authority I won't treat you like a person" and they think… Hand-drawn graph with Conviction on the vertical axis and Knowledge on the horizontal axis. A curve rises to an orange peak, Child's Hill, drops into a gray valley, Insecure Canyon, then climbs a wavy teal path, Grown-Up Mountain, along a dotted diagonal. Stick figures mark five points. Labels: 1 Pretty damn sure you know a whole lot and feeling great about it. 2 Questioning whether you actually know that much. 3… Cross-section diagram titled "Great Lakes System Profile" with a very deep, narrow Lake Baikal on the left, elevation 1,494 ft (446 m), depth 5,387 ft (1,642 m), beside the Great Lakes, labeled Superior, Huron, Michigan, Erie, Ontario, St. Lawrence River, Gulf of St. Lawrence, Atlantic Ocean. Close-up of a worksheet. Printed text: "C. Write these words in alphabetical order." Listed words: "1. take", "value", "use", "2. royal". A child's messy handwriting on the lines reads "aekt", "aeluv", "esu", and "alory", each spelling out the letters of the word. Black-and-white comic. A woman with a headband says "We're having a sit-in"; a man shouts "Ugh. Too hippie!" She says "We're blocking traffic"; he: "Too disruptive!" "We're boycotting"; "Too 'cancel culture!'" "We're kneeling during the anthem"; "Too unpatriotic!" "We're organizing a march on"; "Too intimidating!" "We're having a demonstration"; "Too scary!" "We're burning down the city"; "Too violent!" "I wrote a… A 3x3 alignment chart titled "THE TANK ALIGNMENT CHART". Columns: "DOCTRINE PURIST" (A tank is to be used for breakthrough and exploitation into the enemy rear), "DOCTRINE NEUTRAL" (A tank is to be used for assault, exploitation, direct troop support and mobile defence), "DOCTRINE RADICAL" (A tank may be used for anything it is good at). Rows: "STRUCTURE PURIST" (A tank is a heavily armoured ground combat vehicle… Screenshot from an isometric fantasy RPG showing a huge, glittering heap of gold coins and candles in a dungeon treasury beside an ornate treasure chest. A tooltip over the pile reads: "Gold Pile (empty)". Anime-style frame of an elderly man with gray hair and glasses, a blue surgical mask pulled below his nose, glaring down and holding a pair of brown patterned mittens over his mouth. Yellow Japanese subtitle: ロボットシンジで取得 Anime screenshot from Pokémon: Jessie in her white Team Rocket uniform with a red R sits on a brown leather booth beside a sick Meowth wearing a face mask and tucked under a blanket. James stands at right. Subtitle: "Health must come first, or else evil can't prosper." Line chart of social movement stages. Headers: Steady State; Build-up of Stress in the System; Seen as a General Problem; Resolution. Stages: 1 Business-as-usual, 2 Normal Channels Fail, 3 Conditions Ripen, 4 Take Off!, 5 Activist "Failure", 6 Win Majority of Public, 7 Success!, 8 Moving On. Three curves labeled Public Awareness of Problem, Public Opposition to Powerholder Policies, Public Support for Movement… A still from The Mandalorian: a man in a dark robe, seen from behind, faces a blue holographic projection of a helmeted Mandalorian in armor above a glowing console. Top text: "FUCK AROUND". Bottom text: "AND FIND OUT". An imgflip.com watermark is in the corner. Newspaper clipping listing crimes by amount stolen: "Stealing a million—Genius. Stealing $500,000—Sagacity. Stealing $100,000—Shrewdness. Stealing $50,000—Misfortune. Stealing $25,000—Irregularity. Stealing $10,000—Misappropriation. Stealing $5,000—Speculation. Stealing $2,500—Embezzlement. Stealing $1,250—Swindling. Stealing $100—Larceny. Stealing $10—Theft. Stealing a ham—War on society." Caption: "Appeal to… Hand-drawn chart titled "The Cube Rule of Food", subtitled "For identifying dishes based on starch locations". Six cube sketches with starch faces shaded teal: 1 Toast (bottom face), 2 Sandwich (top and bottom), 3 Taco (three sides), 4 Sushi (all but top and one side), 5 Soup/Salad w/ Bread Bowl (open top), 6 Calzone (all faces). A 3-by-4 grid of twelve black-and-white Calvin and Hobbes panels of Calvin, numbered 1 to 12, under the heading "How are you feeling on this Calvin scale?" Calvin goes from calm in a winter hat (1), to grinning, wide-eyed, plotting, sulking, caped and snarling, and running in panic, to a furious scowl (12). A nighttime front yard with a giant inflatable Star Wars AT-AT walker strung with colorful Christmas lights. A long strand of white lights trails from its head like a tow cable to a glowing Santa in a sleigh near the house porch. No text. A hand-drawn style graph titled "Caley Unified Theory of Legal Realism". Y-axis: "Dipshittery of Underlying Legal Argument" with arrow "argument more dipshitty". X-axis: "Political Constraints (likelihood of mass protest)" with arrow "protests more likely". A diagonal line is labeled "50/50 probability of conservative justices ruling for conservative policy outcomes". Above it: oval "conservatives lose here"; below… Light blue illustration of a smiling cartoon girl in a winter hat and scarf ice skating with arms out. Her skate trail becomes looping calligraphy that reads "Fuck off". Signed "@YOYOHA" in the bottom right. Black-and-white portrait of a young man in a dark suit and striped tie, captioned "— Robert F. Kennedy". Beside it is the quote: "The gross national product does not allow for the health of our children, the quality of their education, or the joy of their play. It does not include the beauty of our poetry or the strength of our marriages; the intelligence of our public debate or the integrity of our public… Bar chart titled "Internet Users in the World" with blue bars for each year from 1993 to 2015. The y-axis is labeled 0, 1,000,000,000, 2,000,000,000, 3,000,000,000 and 4,000,000,000. The bars start near zero in 1993 and climb to about 3.4 billion by 2015. Phone screenshot of wired.com at 09:35. Headline: "How the Web Became Unreadable", mostly hidden behind a popup. Popup: "We Care About Your Privacy", a data and cookies consent notice, "List of Partners (vendors)", button "I Accept", link "Show Purposes". Below: "SUBSCRIBE", "Already a subscriber? Sign-In". Screenshot of a website called The Soapbox with a purple header. The headline reads "Liberals Are Losing the Journalism Wars". The subhead reads "As major media outlets erect paywalls, conservative publishers are flooding the country with free, right-wing propaganda paid for by Republicans." A yellow pop-up covers the page with three dots, two filled and one empty, and a close X. It reads "This is the last of your… Comic-style illustration of the Trojan Horse being welcomed through a castle gate by two men while a figure watches from the tower. Text on the horse's head: "Funny edginess". On its belly, over armored soldiers: "Literally nazism". Above the gate: "Mentally fragile young men and politically confused people". Over the two men: "Totally apolitical web stars".

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