Xennial Memes

Xennial Memes

Black serif text on a plain white background reads: "Not everyone deserved to know me, to touch the pieces I so freely offered before I knew that knowing me is a privilege; my time, my heart, my trust. But I don't regret it. Maybe they needed those pieces of me. Maybe they learned something. I know I did." Below it: "Stephanie Bennett-Henry". Four-panel comic of a crow labeled "FROM SOFTWARE" doing stand-up on a stool. Panel 1: the crow says "poisonous swamps" into a mic. Panel 2: a heckler shouts "BOOO! GET BETTER MATERIAL!" Panel 3: the sweating crow says "...". Panel 4: its note cards read "annoying dog enemies", "shitty item "lore"", "POISON SWAMP" three times, "BERSERK REFERENCE", "MOONLIGHT GREATSWORD", "POISON SWAMP". Hand-lettered sketchnote on a dark starry background titled "The Sci-Fi Feedback Loop" with "#Applied SciFi". Lists Applied Sci-Fi ASU, Sloan Foundation, and speakers Kevin Bankston, Michael G. Bennett, Tim Chang, Cory Doctorow, Malka Older, Sherryl Vint. Topics: Prediction, Utopia/Dystopia, Longtermism, Stevenson's outsized influence. Black-and-white World War II photo of a soldier in a helmet carrying a donkey across a grassy field, with other soldiers in the distance. Caption: "This picture from World War II, a soldier carrying a donkey. It is not that the soldier loves donkeys or has some sort of perversion. What's happening is that the field is mined and that if the donkey was free to wonder as it pleased, it would likely detonate a charge… A chalkboard sandwich sign in front of bookshelves. Text: "Romeo & Juliet is not a love story. IT'S A THREE-DAY RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN A 13-YEAR-OLD AND A 17-YEAR-OLD THAT RESULTED IN SIX DEATHS. Sincerely, EVERYONE WHO ACTUALLY READ IT" Color pen-and-ink cartoon of a heavyset man with a mustache in a red cap, blue shirt and black tactical vest, with a rifle slung over his shoulder. His speech bubble reads: "I use toxic masculinity to deny my bi-curios thoughts, hide my low self-esteem, shame, and lack of interpersonal skills. My greatest fear is that the absence of an external enemy to direct my frustration will lead me down a path of… Stick figure chart titled "500 GENERATIONS (25 years per generation)": a grid of black stick figures with a few colored ones. Top-left green figure: "11,000 BC all humans everywhere are hunter-gatherers"; "no matter what your ethnicity or family history, your great^497 grandmother was a gatherer in a hunter-gatherer tribe". Other colored figures: great^217 grandmother "was around when written history began";… Two-panel comic. Left panel, headed "Product Features", shows an elaborate gray multi-level cat tree with perches, platforms and a hammock. Right panel, headed "User Needs", shows a cat peeking out of a plain open cardboard box. Credit in corner: "_yes_but". Hand-drawn cluster of nine staring eyeballs in gray looping rings on a yellow legal pad page. Speech bubble: "It looks like you are afraid. Be not afraid." Two buttons: "I am afraid" and "I am not afraid". Six-panel black-and-white comic by Simpson. Panel 1, caption: "I still run into some people who think like this:" A bearded man in sunglasses with a ponytail raises a finger and says, "As liberals, we must be polite to EVERYONE and give equal credence to ALL views." Panel 2, a young man in glasses reads a paper: "Here's a piece where a right-winger is calling for the New York Times to be firebombed." The sunglasses… Comic panel of a shirtless, muscular long-haired man in blue underwear crouched on a wooden floor littered with trash and cups, a green couch behind him. Yellow caption: "WEEK TWELVE." Narration box: "The garbage is home to me. I thrive in it. It strengthens me." Vintage comic panel of Captain America in his blue costume and cowl, holding a striped star shield, landing a punch on a dark-haired man in a brown uniform with a swastika armband, with a bright impact burst. Caption: "SMASHING THRU... CAPTAIN AMERICA CAME FACE TO FACE WITH HITLER..." A map labeled "U.S.A." is at lower left. Vintage comic poster: Superman stands among diverse schoolchildren. His speech bubble reads "...AND REMEMBER, BOYS AND GIRLS, YOUR SCHOOL—LIKE OUR COUNTRY—IS MADE UP OF AMERICANS OF MANY DIFFERENT RACES, RELIGIONS AND NATIONAL ORIGINS. SO..." Caption: "...if YOU hear anybody talk against a schoolmate or anyone else because of his religion, race or national origin—don't wait: tell him THAT KIND OF TALK IS… Anonymous imageboard post titled "test", dated 09/27/20(Sun)08:35:11 No.139903097, with an 83 KB JPG thumbnail of a bald man in headphones speaking into a microphone. Text: "Joe Rogan is like some barbarian Khan from the steppes that took an interest in intellectual things and his show is basically him bringing slightly nervous scholars and magicians to come before him to explain how the world works "glasses man,… Infographic titled "ORGANIZING MODEL VS SERVICE MODEL" from The NewsGuild of New York, Local 31003, CWA. An intro paragraph says a democratic, member-led union is essential to a more vibrant, equitable media industry and rejects the "service model" in favor of organizing model principles. A two-column table compares the two models on attitude toward employer, grievance handling, bargaining, stewards, and bottomline. Collage-style postcard with a yellow border. A small child in a red bandana screams with an open mouth at a shaggy brown pony or horse, whose mouth is also open, near a terracotta water tub. Pasted captions read "Life is good." and "Everyone just overreacts." Handwritten in the corner: "Even me." Top text reads: "Alien is a movie where nobody listens to the smart woman, and then they all die except for the smart woman and her cat. Four stars." Below, a curly-haired woman in a gray flight jumpsuit with a shoulder patch holds an orange tabby cat in a grimy industrial spaceship corridor. A red wall-mounted shelf holding a blue propane torch cylinder with a brass nozzle on the left and a red fire extinguisher with an instructions label on the right. A white label along the front edge reads: "More Fire Less Fire". A circular color-coded wheel chart titled "The Wheel of Guys" with four quadrants. Blue: dad, daddy, sir, Projects, Straight, gay/bi, Garage, Life of the Mind, stolen valor, military. Green: bro, Trad, sports, optimization, wife guy, Ted Talk Guy, tech bro, lifting, playing, watching. Purple/red: nerd, Twitter, Gamer, comics, shit poster, reply guy, MMORPG, living room console, marvel, manga. Orange: hipster, west… Black and cream illustration of two fish facing each other against a dark speckled background, with bubbles around them. The upper fish's speech bubble reads "SWIM IN LOVE". The lower fish's speech bubble reads "DON'T DROWN IN IT." The artist's signature "titsay" is written near the upper fish's tail. Long Tumblr thread. User skaldish says he is bothered by the idea that men can only be non-romantically intimate in war-like or competitive settings. He says that as a transman he is shocked at being seen as a potential predator and feels isolated, lacking the camaraderie men have with each other. He mourns a privilege he never knew he had. A reply from azaloset asks him to share his insights. His answer says cis… Photo of a printed page with a dark gray background. Yellow heading: "What is a contronym?" Text: "Single words that have two contradictory meanings (they are their own opposites) are known as contronyms, and they are quite rare. Here are ten of them:" List: 1. apology: a statement of contrition for an action, or a defence of one. 2. bolt: to secure, or to flee. 3. bound: heading to a destination, or restrained… Black and white illustration of a city skyline at night. Two spotlights shine into the sky. The left one projects a black bat symbol. The right one projects the handwritten words: "no Worries if not!!" Screenshot of a text article with an orange email signup box in the middle. It reads: "We are falling on our face because we are jumping very high right now. We are trying to do something that does not work in theory. To be a country of all the world, a country made up of all the countries, a country without a center of identity, without a default idea of what a human being is or looks like, without a shared… 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:…

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