Xennial Memes

Xennial Memes

A white square sign mounted on a pinkish granite wall, with a blue sky and tall apartment buildings behind it. The sign reads: "IT'S OKAY TO BE SAD AFTER MAKING THE RIGHT DECISION." Black and white ink illustration of a man in a pinstripe suit lunging dramatically with both arms outstretched toward a tall woman in a long black mermaid-style gown. She stands with her eyes lowered and one hand raised delicately. A signature reads Mallory 2019. Two-panel comparison. Left, text: "Male armor in videogames" above a figure in bulky orange and gold power armor with a red helmet and an arm cannon, as worn by Samus Aran from Metroid. Right, text: "Female armor in videogames" above Link from Breath of the Wild in the teal Gerudo outfit with a face veil, crop top, and baggy purple pants. Infographic poster on a sky background with a Greek temple labeled PLATO, SOCRATES, ARISTOTLE, where three robed philosophers sit on thrones. Around it are icons for fallacies: strawman, false cause, slippery slope, ad hominem, appeal to emotion, tu quoque, burden of proof, bandwagon, black-or-white, anecdotal, and more. Banner: thou shalt not commit logical fallacies. Warhammer 40,000 style battle painting with red armored space marines and green orc-like fighters, edited so Hello Kitty heads replace the faces and Keroppi frogs fill the enemy ranks. Title logo reads "HELLO KITTY 40,000". Caption: "IN THE GRIM FUTURE OF HELLO KITTY THERE IS ONLY WAR" Three-panel comic. A bespectacled man is grabbed by a fanged vampire in a cape in a castle hall, and says, "The moon has no light of its own. It reflects the sunlight." The vampire looks stunned as the moon glows in the window. In the last panel only the man remains, with the vampire's cape and clothes in a pile of dust. Caption: "SCIENCE SAVES LIVES." Signed Perscheid. White handwritten-style text over a misty, dark forest of pine trees. Title: "Rules" for Rebels, Heretics and Mavericks in Organisations. Left column: Don't wait to be told to do something; figure it out for yourself. Challenge everything, and steel yourself for the inevitable cynicism, opposition, rumours, false reporting, innuendos, and slander. Break the rules, not the law. Right column: Take risks as a rule,… A slide with the quote "Games are an identity management tool. Games help us become more of who we really are." - Nick Yee (GDC, 2016). A young girl in a red cape stands with hands on hips; her shadow is a geometric superheroine. Credit: "Illustration by Jason Ratliff". A tall roadside Pizza Ranch sign with a covered wagon logo and yellow lettering on a black background. Below it, a marquee with black letters reads: "YOU CAN BE GRENDEL OR THOR. CHOOSE WISELY". A cloudy sky is behind it. Six Lord of the Rings screenshots of Gimli and Legolas on a boat, captioned in turn: "I have taken my worst wound at this parting, having looked my last upon that which is fairest." "Haugh, henceforth I will call nothing fair unless it be her gift to me." Legolas: "What was it?" "I asked her for one hair from her golden head." "She gave me three." Legolas smiles. Below is a long text post explaining the Silmarils,… 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."

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