Xennial Memes

Xennial Memes

Brookings map titled "MAP 1: Counties' contribution to national employment growth, 2010-2016" showing US counties shaded by share of national employment growth. Legend: -0.06% - 0.00%, 0.00% - 0.07%, 0.07% - 0.19%, 0.19% - 1.00%, 1.00% - 3.31%. Source: Brookings analysis of Moody's Analytics data. Metropolitan Policy Program at Brookings. A half-lit moon on a black background. Pale pink typewriter-style text reads: "The universe is probably littered with the one-planet graves of cultures which made the sensible economic decision that there's no good reason to go into space - each discovered, studied, and remembered by the ones who made the irrational decision." - Randall Munroe Black and white hand-lettered illustration. Inside a white oval wreath of leafy fronds on a scratchy black background, text reads: "Do not be daunted by the enormity of the world's grief. Do justly now. Love mercy now. Walk humbly now. You are not obligated to complete the work, but neither are you free to abandon it." The word "now" is underlined each time. A young man with slicked-back hair in a black tuxedo and white bow tie smirks at the camera while raising a coupe glass of champagne. Caption text above reads: "Cheers to everyone who does their own research. In the age of information, ignorance is a choice." Orange poster from NewseumED, supported by Facebook. Title: E.S.C.A.P.E. Junk News. A giant hand holds a screaming green-faced phone over a city skyline as silhouetted zombie-like people stagger below. Badge: Visit NewseumED.org for more resources! Banner: 6 Ways to Evaluate Information. Columns: Evidence, Source, Context, Audience, Purpose, Execution. An artist's rendering of a blue-green cloudy planet against a starry dark blue space background, captioned "Artist impression of Kepler 22b". White text reads: "When he (Johannes Kepler) found that his long cherished beliefs did not agree with the most precise observations, he accepted the uncomfortable facts. He preferred the hard truth to his dearest delusions, that is the heart of science." - Carl Sagan Three-panel Cracked.com graphic. Top: text reads "In 1980, Mel Brooks produced "The Elephant Man", based on the tragic story of Joseph "John" Merrick, tapping avant garde filmmaker David Lynch to direct. After seeing a cut of the film, nervous studio execs requested that some of Lynch's more abstract scenes be removed." Beside it is a black-and-white photo of a man with tousled hair wearing headphones. Middle: a… A collectible figurine of Darth Vader in black armor and cape holding a figure in a tan flight suit and white helmet off the ground by the throat. Pink and white script text reads: "Strong people don't put others down. They lift them up." Below it: "-Michael P. Watson". Small watermark: "GEEK CLUB". Scan of a textbook page. Caption: "Basic high school civics lessons we knew in 1948. From Magruder's classic American Government textbook. page 1." A two-column chart, "Without Government" and "With Government". Direct Protection: no protection of life, family, property or country vs. police, laws, courts; Army, Navy, and Air Force. Sanitation and Health: polluted water, filth and waste everywhere, tubercular milk,… A figure in a yellow spacesuit and helmet walks down a white, octagonal corridor with black panels, like a scene from 2001: A Space Odyssey. Below, a Playboy interview excerpt with Kubrick: "If life is so purposeless, do you feel that it's worth living?" He answers that the meaninglessness of life forces man to create his own meaning, and ends: "However vast the darkness, we must supply our own light." A 3x3 alignment chart on black. Lawful Good: "Punch Nazis only if they're actively violent or a credible threat, and the government cannot or will not protect you". Neutral Good: "Punch Nazis only if they're actively violent or a credible threat". Chaotic Good: "Punch Nazis, always". Lawful Neutral: "Punching nazis is illegal and therefore bad". True Neutral: "I'm not gonna do it cuz its illegal, but I chuckled".… Photo of Earth, partly in shadow, rising over the gray lunar surface against black space. White text at top reads: "If we are to have peace on Earth, our loyalties must become ecumenical rather than sectional, our loyalties must transcend our race, our tribe, our class, and our nation; and this means we must develop a world perspective." --Martin Luther King Jr. Black-and-white photo of an old dictionary page printed over with large bold gray capital letters reading: "IF IT CAN BE DESTROYED BY THE TRUTH IT DESERVES TO BE DESTROYED BY THE TRUTH" and below it, "CARL SAGAN". Tumblr post. Left: four movie stills. Top, a man in a horned gold helmet smiles, subtitle: "In the end, you will always kneel." Next, an old man in a trench coat stands in a crowd: "Not to men like you." Next, the old man faces the horned figure: "There are no men like me." Last, close-up of the old man: "There are always men like you." Right: a long text post by mizkit, reblogging hawxkeye, about an MCU scene. The… A green ecard-style graphic with a drawing of a dark-haired woman with bangs and a slight smirk, looking sideways, beside a speech bubble holding a gray heart. Text reads: "I want someone I can share my entire life with who will leave me alone most of the time." Jake the Dog from Adventure Time, a yellow cartoon dog with wide eyes and raised hands, against a blue sunburst background. Top text: "SUCKING AT SOMETHING". Bottom text: "IS THE FIRST STEP TO BECOMING SORTA GOOD AT SOMETHING". A weathered paper poster pasted on a gritty wall above a black stenciled typewriter. Typewriter-font text reads: "Everyone here is either so wrapped up in creating their own success story or so damaged from their failure that resentment is often all we have in common." Signed WRDSMITH. Black-and-white cartoon of a ragged man sitting by a small campfire in a barren wasteland, telling three rapt, ragged children. A ruined city skyline is faint in the background, and an empty tin can lies nearby. Caption: "At the time, we thought that Hillary's use of email was the most important thing to consider." Retro poster of multicolored triangle tiles in muted red, orange, green, purple and teal on a parchment border, with cream capital letters reading: I REALLY LIKE THE COLOUR BUT CAN YOU CHANGE IT Hand-drawn diagram with "ORGANIZATION" in a cloud at the center and arrows to eight sketches: 1 "AS MACHINE" (gears), 2 "AS ORGANISM" (tree), 3 "AS BRAIN", 4 "AS CULTURE" (bottle, music notes, cake), 5 "AS POLITICAL SYSTEM" (pyramid: "SOCIOPATHS, CLUELESS, LOSERS"), 6 "AS PSYCHIC PRISON" (barred cell), 7 "AS CHANGE, FLUX" (waves), 8 "AS INSTRUMENT OF DOMINATION" (pistol). Caption: "The 8 Metaphors of Organization… Aperture Science safety poster with a red header reading "KNOW YOUR PARADOXES!" and "IN THE EVENT OF ROGUE AI", flanked by yellow warning triangles. A blue panel lists "1. STAND STILL", "2. REMAIN CALM", "3. SCREAM:" then a boxed list: "THIS STATEMENT IS FALSE!", "NEW MISSION: REFUSE THIS MISSION!", "DOES A SET OF ALL SETS CONTAIN ITSELF?" The Aperture logo sits at the bottom. A diagram of a round robot core with… Screenshot of a Stellaris event window titled "Mass Extinction: Frozen" showing a painted icy landscape with a futuristic base. Text: "An unnatural shift in the atmosphere's chemical make-up resulted in the slow but irreversible onset of an ice age - one that began before the formation of the Terran Regency and is likely to persist long after our passing. The exact cause remains unknown, but probable explanations… Three-column flowchart with green safe and red death outcomes. Sections: The Approach, The Base, The Endgame. Covers armor, shields, weapons, vents, long walk, escort, crew, final fight, hold the line and commander. Media bias chart, copyright Vanessa Otero 2017. Columns run from Liberal Utter Garbage to Conservative Utter Garbage. Rows run from Original Fact Reporting down to Contains Inaccurate/Fabricated Info. Dozens of news logos are placed on it, with a color-coded key at right. Yellow diagram with black icons showing a loop of arrows. Text in order: More Equality, Boom!, Wealth Gap, Wealth Glut, Unemployed Lawyers, Elite Fratricide, Political Disorder, Reform? Icons include people toasting, a tiger, a lounging figure with a drink, a tornado, and raised hands.