Xennial Memes

Xennial Memes

Hand-painted ink and watercolor illustration of a green bullfrog against a black background. A speech bubble reads: "YOU ARE NOT ALONE IN THIS ABYSSAL DARKNESS. I AM HERE, AND WE SHALL FACE THE CHASM AS BROTHERS." A small white signature sits in the lower left corner. Twelve-panel comic of an orange robot making fallacious arguments about humans while a calm teal robot names each fallacy. Labels: Hasty Generalization, Red Herring, Slippery Slope, Genetic Fallacy, Circular Argument, Ad Populum, Straw Man, Moral Equivalence, Either/Or, Begging the Claim, Post Hoc Ergo Propter Hoc, Ad Hominem. Logo: Artists for Education. Four-panel comic titled "GOLD". A small knight with a red plume faces a green dragon lounging on a gold pile in a cave. Dragon: "So, you've come to steal my treasure..." Knight: "Actually, I just wanted to ask why you hoard gold... you're basically a giant lizard." Dragon, breathing fire: "Why hoard gold!? Ever since the Fed abolished the gold standard paper currency is worthless!" Final panel, text fading into… A huge flowchart titled "A Quick and Easy to Follow Guide for Dungeons & Dragons (5E Edition)" with a disclaimer: "This guide not intended for actual use." It starts at "START HERE: When I fight, I like to..." and branches through joke questions to class results like Druid, Rogue, Fighter, Monk, Barbarian, Bard, Ranger, Paladin, Cleric, Warlock, Wizard, Sorcerer and Mystic. Four-panel cartoon of people trying to watch a baseball game over a wooden fence. Labels: REALITY, EQUALITY, EQUITY, JUSTICE. Reality: a tall stack of crates under one person, one box for the middle person, and the smallest person with none. Captions follow below. Hand-lettered header: "9 CONVERSATIONAL TRICKS TO MAKE PEOPLE THINK YOU ARE COOL AND ELROND". A long-haired figure in a brown elven robe and cloak stands beside a two-column chart. Columns: "INSTEAD OF SAYING THIS" and "SAY THIS COOL THING". Hello everyone: Strangers from distant lands, friends of old. Who knows?: Nothing is certain. I don't think it's a good idea: There are some who would not deem it wise. Do you… Two US election maps. Top: a county map mostly red with blue clusters along coasts and cities. Red caption text: "When you're not coloring all the places where no-one lives red, suddenly the map doesn't look quite the same, does it?" Bottom: a map of red and blue bubbles sized by population, with large blue bubbles. Four-panel Simpsons screenshot grid. Top left: sign reading "REPUBLICAN CONVENTION INSIDE". Top right: banners reading "WE WANT WHAT'S WORST FOR EVERYONE" and "WE'RE JUST PLAIN EVIL" over a cheering crowd. Bottom left: sign reading "DEMOCRATIC CONVENTION INSIDE". Bottom right: banners reading "WE HATE LIFE AND OURSELVES" and "WE CAN'T GOVERN!" Screenshot of a poem titled "Good Bones" by Maggie Smith, in black serif text on a white background. The poem is about hiding the world's terrors from your children, comparing life to a bad house a realtor calls beautiful because it has good bones. Plastic nursery pots of dry, tan-orange ornamental grass labeled ColorGrass 'Bronco' Carex sit on a wooden table. A small chalkboard sign in blue handwriting reads: "I'M NOT DEAD THIS IS JUST HOW I LOOK". Two stacked photos of the same fjord. Top: a sepia photo of a man in a small rowboat in front of a massive, towering glacier wall. Bottom: a color photo of a person in a red jacket in a gray inflatable boat marked GREENPEACE, with bare mountains and only a thin strip of ice behind. A 3 by 4 grid of simplified newspaper front pages with squiggle text, under the title: TYPES OF "Cancel Culture" Headlines. Headlines: "oh no the consequences of my own actions [cries]"; "I have been canceled send money"; "Jan 6th didn't happen and bringing it up is canceling me"; "Local white man: Black people voting is canceling me"; "Is "no shirt no shoes no service" canceling white people?"; "Republicans say… Black and white Calvin and Hobbes comic panel. A woman with dark hair, seated at a table, says in a speech bubble: "LIFE COULD BE WORSE, CALVIN." Calvin, a spiky-haired boy at the table, shouts back: "LIFE COULD BE A LOT BETTER, TOO!" The word "BETTER" is in italics. Nine-panel black-and-white cartoon titled "A Brief History of Corporate Whining," with caricatured business owners complaining. 1842: "If workers can legally STRIKE, no business will be able to survive!" 1887: "Give BLACKS an entire DOLLAR for a day's labor? Might as well burn my business to the ground!" 1912: "Worker deaths are TRAGIC, but ANTI-SWEATSHOP laws would be the DEATH of industry in America!" 1915: "When… Isometric pixel art of a retro gaming room. Shelves hold game cartridges, Mario mushrooms, Sonic, Link, Pokéballs and Bomberman. Stacked CRT TVs show Mario, with an NES, SNES, PlayStation, Neo Geo and Game Boy. Arcade cabinets, an Atari poster, birthday cakes, a dog, and two men playing. Oval blue and gold heritage plaque with a city crest, in a garden. Text: "THE TORONTO RECURSIVE HISTORY PROJECT OF TORONTO'S RECURSIVE HISTORY. This plaque was commemorated on October 10, 2018, to commemorate its own commemoration. Plaques like this one are an integral part of the campaign to support more plaques like this one. By reading this plaque, you have made a valuable addition to the number of people who… Hand-drawn xkcd-style grid of twelve mock journal pages under the heading "TYPES OF CLIMATE SCIENCE PAPER". Titles: "Here's a bad thing about climate change you hadn't even even thought about"; "We have modeled all future human behaviour with a single equation"; "Maybe we could block the sun?"; "Man, clouds are really complicated"; "Only veganism will save us"; "We have inferred historical temperatures from some… Twelve colored boxes assign D&D classes to friend types. Barbarian: asks for leftovers, big, "Sorry my place is usually cleaner than this". Bard: first to ask for the aux cord, aggressively horny, drums on everything. Cleric, Druid, Fighter, Monk, Paladin, Ranger, Rogue, Sorcerer, Warlock, Wizard follow. Made by @kihublue. Illustration of a Nintendo Switch with a blue left Joy-Con and red right Joy-Con floating in a starry purple night sky with a crescent moon. The screen reads in green handwriting: "HAVING FUN IS NOT A WASTE OF TIME". Artist credit in the corner: @charlotte_legat. Text on a gray page, like a book excerpt: "Was it hard?" I ask. "Letting go?" I nodded. "Not as hard as holding on to something that wasn't real." 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…

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