Xennial Memes

Xennial Memes

Comic panel in the style of Tintin. A drooping, bearded man in a blue sweater slumps over a table and says in a speech bubble: "What a year for the games industry, huh?" A blond young man in a tan coat answers in a second bubble: "Captain, it's January". A white dog sips from a beer glass. Black-and-white stick figure comic. A voice from off-panel says, "ARE YOU COMING TO BED?" and a second line says, "WHAT?" A stick figure sits hunched at a desk typing on a computer with a tall monitor and says, "I CAN'T. THIS IS IMPORTANT." Then: "SOMEONE IS WRONG ON THE INTERNET." The word WRONG is underlined. Worf from Star Trek: The Next Generation, in a gold Starfleet uniform with a Klingon sash, holds a bat'leth blade over a green background. Text: "MY BAT'LETH KILLS ALL THE THREATS TO PICARD AND HE'S LIKE YOU'RE BETTER THAN YAR. DAMN RIGHT, I'M BETTER THAN YAR. I COULD TEACH HER BUT SHE DROWNED IN TAR." Crayon-style illustration on a cream background. A caterpillar made of colored circles (lime green head in a black beret, lavender, cow-print, pink and blue segments) sits facing an orange desktop computer with keyboard and mouse. The screen shows a smiling Earth. Text: "i do not care" above; below: "i will write whatever i want and i will post it online". Signed "clarice tudor". A six-panel grid titled "which expander are you?" Each panel shows a TV still of a character with a caption. Top row: "Queen of Space" (-no time for this shit -no time for that shit either -f a s h i o n); "wrenches" (-criminally underrated -fixes everything -emotional labour too); "jon snow" (-does a face -"You know I'm right about this" -ugh fine I guess). Bottom row: "suit up" (-she always protecc -she always… A chess board mid-game with a green arrow showing a white pawn capturing diagonally and a red arrow showing a white pawn blocked by a black pawn ahead. Beside it: "Chess Tip" with a yellow exclamation mark. "While pawns can move forward, they cannot capture pieces moving directly forward. The reason for this is because if they look their opponent in the eye while they kill them, they will see only their own face:… Line chart titled "Price Changes: January 2000 to June 2021. Selected US Consumer Goods and Services, Wages." A horizontal line marks "Overall Inflation (60.1%)". Red labels at top mean "MORE EXPENSIVE"; blue at bottom "MORE AFFORDABLE". Lines from highest to lowest: Hospital Services (about 207%), College Tuition and Fees, College Textbooks, Medical Care Services, Childcare and Nursery School, Average Hourly… Orange spray-painted graffiti on a cracked, peeling wall in an abandoned building, beside a dark doorway. A cat-like face with spiral eyes and an X nose is drawn above the text: "AT THE END OF EVERYTHING HOLD ON TO ANYTHING". Faint black scrawl inside the doorway reads "hes here". A video game loading screen on a mottled brown parchment background. Three horned, reddish creatures pose around it, one a masked head at top right. Text reads: "If you are diseased, people will like you less." and, bottom right, "LOADING". A white and brown ceramic mug on a store shelf. Black block letters on the mug read "THE FUTURE IS". A red-orange clearance sticker over the brown part reads "REDUCED FOR QUICK SALE $2", with small print "Was: 3.99 Save: 1.99". Plain black text on a white background, written as a form letter. It reads: "Dear _________, Thank you for emailing me asking for a comment about 20__ being one of the hottest years in the record. No, this is not surprising — it is exactly in line with predictions. Here is a comment you can use for your story: "Every year for the rest of your life will be one of the hottest in the record. This in turn means that… Slide titled "A Hierarchy of Thinking Styles" with the book cover of Think Again by Adam Grant in the corner. A five-tier colored pyramid, top to bottom: Learner (orange) "I might be wrong!"; Critical thinker (gray) "That might be wrong!"; Contrarian (yellow) "You're all wrong!"; Politician (blue) "They're wrong! We're right!"; Cult leader* (green) "I'm always right!" Footnote: "*Does not apply to my spouse, who… Handwritten-style list titled "Web Development Acronyms: A Convenient Reference List" with acronyms in red and jokey meanings. CSS: Cascading Something Something. HTTP: Hyper Text Thingy Protocol. HTTPS: Hyper Text Thingy Protocol but Special. HTML: Hyper Text (Mumble) Language. DOM: The Domcument. URL: Umm... Resource Locator. JSON: Javascript's Son. PNG: Picture? No... Graphics? SVG: Somekinda Vector, I'm… A huge container ship, with the name EVER GIVEN partly visible on its dark hull, wedged against a dirt canal bank. A small yellow excavator digs at the bank beside the bow. Text on the ship reads "STRUCTURAL PROBLEM". Text on the excavator reads "MAKING DIFFERENT PERSONAL CHOICES". Dark-mode Tumblr post by texnessa quoting Sandi Toksvig: "When I was a student at Cambridge I remember an anthropology professor holding up a picture of a bone with 28 incisions carved in it. 'This is often considered to be man's first attempt at a calendar' she explained. She paused as we dutifully wrote this down. 'My question to you is this – what man needs to mark 28 days? I would suggest to you that this is… Tumblr post by hornedchick: Kurt Vonnegut wrote: "When I was 15, I spent a month working on an archeological dig. I was talking to one of the archeologists one day during our lunch break and he asked those kinds of "getting to know you" questions you ask young people: Do you play sports? What's your favorite subject? And I told him, no I don't play any sports. I do theater, I'm in choir, I play the violin and… Four-panel comic. An orange cartoon dog in a small yellow hat sits on an ice floe in rising water beside a mug on another floe. Panel 2, speech bubble: "THIS IS FINE." Panel 3: dog neck-deep says "THAT'S OKAY. EVERYTHING'S GONNA BE OKAY." Panel 4: only the hat floats, bubbles rising. Infographic titled "IT IS POSSIBLE TO BE..." with nine pairs of overlapping colored circles, each labeled: Capable & Lost; Smiling & Struggling; Kind & Set boundaries; Vulnerable & Powerful; Successful & Traumatized; Extravert & Alone; Valuable & Flawed; Introvert & Reaching out; Loving & Questioning. Credit: @thepresentpsychologist. Manga-style drawing on an orange background: a long-haired woman in a blue sweater shouts a knife from her mouth at a wincing blue-haired man with a knife in his bloody chest. Caption: "I didn't get your homestar runner reference" Pixel-art screenshot from a 16-bit Godzilla video game. A green Godzilla stands between dark and gray skyscrapers under a blue sky. Below, a dialogue box shows a woman with dark hair on a pink background. Text: "Go ahead and destroy the financial district Godzilla. Make the people happy" Caption at top: "In the 90's all you needed is 1,44 MB to destroy the world". Four cartoon panels each show a character holding a floppy disk: a masked armored villain in a silver helmet, a blonde anime girl with twin buns in a sailor outfit, a blue shark in a dark jacket, and a red-haired gargoyle woman. Watermark: @ithumor. Infographic titled "Earth's Atmosphere to scale" showing Florida's outline against a glowing atmosphere. Labels: Low Altitude Satellite 167KM; Blue Origin Space Flight 100KM; Virgin Space Flight 89.2KM; Mt. Everest; Burj Khalifa; Manhattan; Mariana Trench; Habitable Layer for Humans 5KM; layers from Thermosphere to Mantle. Infographic titled "THE 8 SCHOOLS OF MAGIC" with eight sketched panels. Abjuration, protect stuff: The Mom Friend; Never answers their phone; Where did I park my car?; Anxiety; Cinnamon Roll; trying their best. Illusion, make stuff seem like other stuff: The Hippy; Highkey stoned all the time; *stares at wall*; Unreliable AF; "I love everyone", then forgets their name; Hallucinogens. Enchantment, make things do… Photo of a pink standing banner in a convention center hall, in front of a large white V-shaped column. Text: "STAND HERE" "IF YOU DON'T WANT ANYONE TO EXPLAIN" then a white band with a duct-taped banana beside "NFTs (Non-Fungible Tokens)" then "TO YOU, FOR AS LONG AS YOU LIVE" "YOUR REASONS DO NOT MATTER" "YOU DESERVE PEACE ON YOUR OWN TERMS" "LET THEM SHACKLE THEMSELVES TO THE BLOCKCHAIN" "YOURS SHALL BE A SOUL… Excerpt from a report titled "Box 6.2 Carbon footprints of the very wealthy" in two columns about CO2 emissions of the richest people, including the top 1%, 0.1% and 0.01%, and space travel emitting 75 tonnes of carbon per passenger in an 11-minute flight. 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)".

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