Xennial Memes

Xennial Memes

Two diagrams. Left, titled "Imposter Syndrome": a huge yellow circle labeled "What I think others know" with a small green circle inside labeled "What I know". Right, titled "Reality": a green center circle labeled "What I know" surrounded by overlapping yellow circles labeled "What others know". Retro rubber-hose style cartoon of a smiling syringe with a gold-toothed grin, big eyes, gloves and sneakers, shrugging with both hands up in front of a red circle. Droplets spray from its needle. Its speech bubble reads: "FUCK IT, DIE THEN." Signed "ARF". A white sticker on a metal pole shows a black-and-white outline of a skull. Text reads: "YOU'RE NOT THE PUNISHER. YOU'RE A WHITE SUPREMACIST WHO DIDN'T READ THE COMICS". Blue flyers are on the pole and the wooden pole beside it. Colorful circular infographic titled "WHEEL OF POWER/PRIVILEGE". Center reads "POWER", outer ring reads "MARGINALIZED". Categories: Citizenship (Citizen, Documented, Undocumented), Skin colour (White, Different shades, Dark), Formal Education (Post-secondary, High school education, Elementary education), Ability (Able-bodied, Some disability, Significant disability), Sexuality (Heterosexual, Gay men, Lesbian, Bi,… Circular chart of concentric rings, blue and red, titled "Northern Hemisphere Summer Temperatures (750 to 2020)". Center is year 750, outer edge 2020. A white bar labels "750", "Medieval Period", "Little Ice Age", "2020". Outer rings turn deep red. Caption: "data: Anchukaitis et al. 2017 (reconstruction), HadCRUT4 (observations)". Facebook-style post by Karl Smallwood, 2 hours ago, with a small profile photo. Text: "While playing Rollercoaster Tycoon one time, I remember that I was tasked with the mission of getting a higher approval rating than the park next door. Rather than make my park better, I instead built a rollercoaster that launched people at 100mph into my rival's park. Since technically those people died in my rival's park, their… A screenshot of a reCAPTCHA box with an unchecked checkbox labeled "I'm not a robot" and the reCAPTCHA logo. Below it, bold text reads: "Select all images where if you were to add a decrescendo it would add to the musicality of the piece without being interpreted as an overly heavy-handed metaphor within the context of the thematic material." Beneath are tiles of dense sheet music. Colorful illustrated poster of the Great Underground Empire from the text adventure Zork. At top, a gray house sits on a yellow plateau beside a mailbox and gnarled trees, with block letters spelling ZORK on the ground. Below, cavern ruins with a domed building, columns, bats, a troll with an axe, a white bear, and cloaked adventurers. Two rows of ten rounded squares on a white background. Under the text "How surprised I am:" only the first square is filled red and the other nine are gray. A faint watermark reads "@kejames". Under the text "How disgusted I am:" all ten squares are filled red. Two stacked movie stills of a young woman with wavy light brown hair talking earnestly to a bearded man seen from behind in a booth. Top caption: "You think it's cool to hate things. It's not. It's boring." Bottom caption: "Talk about what you love and keep quiet about what you don't." A tweet-style caption reads: "if you've ever had to change out one of these just know i respect u and i hope u had a good day". Below it is a photo of a brown cardboard box labeled "5 Gallons" with a Coca-Cola label, the kind that holds soda fountain syrup. Top: black-and-white still of a snarling man with a raised hand at a window while others crowd behind him. Bottom: color photo of a shouting crowd inside a building, some in hats. Caption: "You've become a mob and a mob doesn't have any brains... we're an ugly race of people." Rod Serling Twilight Zone: "The Shelter" Three-panel hand-drawn comic with red frames on gray. Panel 1: a head with a tangled red scribble above a frowning face, next to a smiling friend. Caption: "problem big!" Panel 2: the scribble becomes a small bubble drifting to the friend. Caption: "tell friend problem" Panel 3: the friend listens with an open mouth and the other head smiles. Caption: "problem has to get small to fit in ear, feel better" Animated-style drawing of a chemistry setup. A green flask labeled "Ignorance" sits on a stand over a burner flame, with the label "Fear" and an arrow pointing to the flame. A tube from the flask drips into a test tube of yellow-green liquid labeled "Hate" with an arrow. Caption: "Animated by +Dunken K Bliths". MakeAGIF.com watermark. A wooden rolling library ladder in a bookstore, with a taped-on sign showing Belle from Beauty and the Beast in her blue dress, arm outstretched, sliding on a ladder in a library, covered by a red prohibition circle. A white sign on a rung reads "DO NOT CLIMB! please". Shelves of books, including Bridgerton novels, surround it. Scan of a magazine page headed "Essay by Kurt Vonnegut" with the title "On Writing Science Fiction" and a black label reading "Sept. 5, 1965". The essay runs in three columns of small print. In the middle is a stylized illustration of a scowling mustached man with spiky black hair against a red shape. Credit reads "Illustration by Christoph Niemann". 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.

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