Xennial Memes

Xennial Memes

Photo of a white sign on a counter with Chinese characters above red English text reading "Please wait patiently for the failure of the system." A blue banner behind it partly reads "nport Expo". A paper in the foreground reads "Novatel". Screenshot of a poem titled "Why Are Your Poems so Dark?" by Linda Pastan. Text: Isn't the moon dark too, most of the time? And doesn't the white page seem unfinished without the dark stain of alphabets? When God demanded light, he didn't banish darkness. Instead he invented ebony and crows and that small mole on your left cheekbone. Or did you mean to ask "Why are you sad so often?" Ask the moon. Ask what it has… Two street cross-section diagrams. Top, labeled 1980: Golf Mk 1, typical family car of the day, 1610 wide, two hatchbacks parked tight to the kerb, a cyclist drawn in red, and a Golf GTI facing front. Width 7920 (26' 0"). Bottom, labeled 2022: Range Rover, 2220, two SUVs, a red cyclist squeezed between them. Black text on a white background. Title: "Two-Headed Calf" by Laura Gilpin. "Tomorrow when the farm boys find this freak of nature, they will wrap his body in newspaper and carry him to the museum. But tonight he is alive and in the north field with his mother. It is a perfect summer evening: the moon rising over the orchard, the wind in the grass. And as he stares into the sky, there are twice as many stars as… Dark-mode tweet from thomas_violence, with a profile photo of a man in glasses, a collared shirt and tie. Above it: "Starfish Who Thinks He Can "Be A Real Writer" and 13 others liked". Tweet: "often times i look at the skills and knowledge i've cultivated and feel like that moment when you play an RPG for the first time and realise you've built your character all wrong after finally figuring out how the game… A comic panel from Watchmen: a nude, blue, glowing figure stands on the right on a pink, red-lit Martian landscape, arm extended toward a glowing sphere. Text on the sphere reads "you have to take MY wild interpretation of your post very seriously!!!!!" Large text beside the figure reads "no". 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…

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