Xennial Memes

Xennial Memes

NES-style dialogue box, white pixel text on black: OH FUCK WHAT A HORRIBLE NIGHT TO HAVE A CURSE. WHAT A COMPLETE DOGSHIT ASS NIGHT FOR A CURSE. GOD WHAT A FUCKING NIGHT, MY DUDE. FOR A CURSE I MEAN. FUCK THIS. Photo of a book page. Header in italics: Marjorie Saiser. Poem title: IF I CARRY MY FATHER. Text: I hope it is a little more / than color of hair / or the dimple or cheekbones / if he's ever here in the space I inhabit / the room I walk in / the boundaries and peripheries / I hope it's some kindness he believed in / living on in cell or bone / maybe some word or action / will float close to the surface / within my… White text on a dark background: "is that ham processed? If it's processed I don't want it" Ma'am, that is an eleven pound whole slab of deli ham. It has no bones, fat, or connective tissue. It is an amalgamation of the meat of several pigs, emulsified, liquefied, strained, and ultimately inexorably joined in an unholy meat obelisk. God had no hand in the creation of this abhorrence. The fact that this ham monolith… Photo of a book page. It reads: "John Bogle, the Vanguard founder who passed away in 2019, once told a story about money that highlights something we don't think about enough: At a party given by a billionaire on Shelter Island, Kurt Vonnegut informs his pal, Joseph Heller, that their host, a hedge fund manager, had made more money in a single day than Heller had earned from his wildly popular novel Catch-22 over… Brown park sign with white text mounted on a wooden post, with trees and weeds behind it. It reads: "126 Persons Have Drowned In This Lake. Wearing Lifejackets 2. Not Wearing Lifejackets 124." The numbers are on removable tiles. Video game screenshot of a red and blue armored character standing before a huge glowing cyan sphere in a sci-fi chamber. A dialogue box reads: "ADAM" and "You are faced with overwhelming power. Accept your helplessness." Photo of a printed book page with a pink highlighter mark at the top edge. The text reads: "My romances were all pleasant and brief. I cannot say why brief, except to state the obvious: that I do not have much in me that might encourage a woman to make long habit of my company. Simmon, for example, had a great deal to offer. He was a gemstone in the rough. Not stunning at first glance, but with a great deal of… Store shelf photo of three $3.00 mugs. A white mug reads "SHE HER" in colorful striped letters. A green mug reads "THEY" and "THEM" in two labeled boxes. A yellow mug shows a graduation cap and reads "COOL HAT". Shelf tags read "Room Essntls They Them Mug 3.00" and "RE One Day Mug 3.00". Top text reads: "Do not go gentle into that good night. Rage, rage against the dying of the light." Below is a photo of a white sign on a dark green door that reads: "REFUSE TO BE STORED IN BLACK PLASTIC SACKS AND PLACED IN THE CONTAINERS PROVIDED". Photo of a bus ad strip under a light. Left side, black with a Volkswagen logo: "A car powered on & designed by a team Experience driving on". Right side, white with the KFC logo: "free range chickens of hand picked potatoes Mushrooms & Coke." Movie still of a bald man with an earpiece wire, a bruised face and a stern look, with a man in dark sunglasses and a suit leaning in behind him. Caption on the bald man: "WE SHOULD DESTROY THE MATRIX." Caption on the other man: "YET YOU PARTICIPATE IN THE MATRIX. CURIOUS. I AM VERY INTELLIGENT." Hand-lettered infographic by @twisteddoodles titled "HOW TO DO A SCIENCE" in yellow letters. "A. THEORY" arrow "B. EXPERIMENT" arrow "C. RESULT". "USE A TO WORK OUT B TO GENERATE C". "IF C DOESN'T SUPPORT A ADJUST B AND REPEAT". "IF C CONTINUES TO NOT SUPPORT A AFTER MANY B ADJUSTMENTS QUESTION THE VALIDITY OF A AFTER QUESTIONING...." Then: "i) The research you based this whole MESS on" "ii) Your ability as a… Top text: "And so, Dr. Baloo finds himself leaping from life to life, hoping each time that his next leap... will be the leap home." Below are three cartoon stills of bears: Baloo in a pilot's cap flying a plane with Kit Cloudkicker from TaleSpin; the bear Little John beside Robin Hood the fox in Disney's Robin Hood; and Baloo dancing with Mowgli in The Jungle Book. Credit: @Dope-A-Meme Cartoon of a person with light hair slumped face-down on a table, exhausted, while a huge bucket dumps a stream of lemons onto them. A hand juicer and piles of lemons sit on the table, and rows of jars, jugs and bottles of lemonade fill the right side. Signature: Will Santino. Two men in sunglasses stand outdoors in front of a white building, each holding a cardboard sign overhead. The younger man in a black jacket holds a sign reading "Don't deploy to production on fridays". The older man in a tan suit and green tie holds a sign reading "This Dude Gets It, Folks". A wooden plaque laser-engraved with text and a carved Surprised Pikachu face. Text: "Management: "Don't use the laser engraver for non-work related purposes." Me: Uses laser engraver for non-work related purpose. Management:" Below is a carved Pikachu with an open mouth. Two-panel comic. Top: a hand hovers over two red buttons. Left label: "Desire to be recognized among peers". Right label: "I do not wish to be perceived". Bottom: a sweating red-haired man in a red shirt wipes his brow with a cloth. Credit: JAKE-CLARK.TUMBLR Dark-mode tweet from Sebastián Ramírez, @tiangolo, with a small profile photo of a smiling bearded man. Text: "I saw a job post the other day. 👔 It required 4+ years of experience in FastAPI. 🤦 I couldn't apply as I only have 1.5+ years of experience since I created that thing. 😅 Maybe it's time to re-evaluate that "years of experience = skill level". ♻️" Photo of an old newspaper, The Rodney & Otamatea Times, Waitemata & Kaipara Gazette, Warkworth, Wednesday, August 14, 1912, with the date circled in red. Price 10s per annum in advance, 3d per copy. Section: Science Notes and News. Headline: Coal Consumption Affecting Climate. The furnaces of the world are now burning about 2,000,000,000 tons of coal a year. When this is burned, uniting with oxygen, it adds about… 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.

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