Xennial Memes

Xennial Memes

A black yard sign on a grassy lawn by a tree-lined sidewalk, with a Made in USA badge in the corner. Colorful text reads: "IN THIS HOUSE, WE BELIEVE" "THIS IS THE MOST IMPORTANT ELECTION OF OUR LIFETIMES" "CAN YOU CHIP IN $7" "84 MORE DONORS NEEDED IN {STATE}" "WE WON'T GO BACK" "{NAME}, ARE YOU WITH US?" "ACTBLUE EXPRESS". Faint watermark: eBay Nova Merch. Business Insider infographic titled "20 Cognitive Biases That Screw Up Your Decisions": a grid of 20 illustrated cards, from 1. Anchoring bias to 20. Zero-risk bias, each with a short definition and an icon. A sources list runs along the bottom. Comic panel of a cartoon dog in an orange bowler hat holding a red fire extinguisher and spraying a small stream of water at flames engulfing a table and mug in a green room. Caption: "IT'S NOT FINE, AND YOU HAVE A RESPONSIBILITY TO ACT." The word NOT is underlined. A dark poster with a man's face, a man with swept-back hair and a mustache, built from tiny words in a typographic portrait; phrases like "the truth" are visible. Below, white text: "My brain is only a receiver, in the Universe there is a core from which we obtain knowledge, strength and inspiration. I have not penetrated into the secrets of this core, but I know that it exists." Red text: "- Nikola Tesla". Facebook post from WikiHow Image Macros, posted 1d ago. A WikiHow-style drawing of a brown-haired man in a green sweater talking to a blond man in a gray shirt. Text over them: "let's start a business where we restrict something humans require to live and then sell it" Scanned newspaper op-ed with the headline "2nd Amendment has been distorted". A pull quote says the Second Amendment does not guarantee every person the unfettered constitutional right to have a machine gun, by Warren E. Burger for The Associated Press. A photo of an older white-haired man in a suit is captioned "Warren Burger", beside a "Bill of Rights 1791-1991" logo. Three columns of article text follow. A page from a book with a poem in black serif type on cream paper. Title in italics: Ghosting. By Andrea Cohen. The poem reads: How cavalier people are— with language and with silence. Any ghost will tell you— the last thing we mean to do is leave you. Two-panel Simpsons meme. Top: Bart looks worried beside an inset heat map of the western US glowing red and orange, captioned "THIS IS THE HOTTEST SUMMER OF MY LIFE". Bottom: Homer points a finger at Bart, captioned "THIS IS THE COLDEST SUMMER OF THE REST OF YOUR LIFE". Watermark: @QueerSatan. Photo of a printed page listing nine rules in handwritten-style headings with typed capital text. Rule 1. The Road Runner cannot harm the Coyote except by going "Beep-Beep!" Rule 2. No outside force can harm the Coyote - only his own ineptitude or the failure of the Acme products. Rule 3. The Coyote could stop anytime - if he were not a fanatic. (Repeat: "A fanatic is one who redoubles his effort when he has… Four-panel black-and-white comic with blue Internet Explorer logos. Panel 1: Grim Reaper reaches toward the logo, which wears a halo; text: "IT'S TIME TO GO". Panel 2: the Reaper's hand reaches out as the logo floats away. Panel 3: text: "LET'S GO". Panel 4: Reaper confused, "? ? ?"; "Internet Explorer is not responding". Screenshot of a tweet from Alex Blechman (@AlexBlechman), whose profile picture is a cartoon Spider-Man lying on the floor. Text: "Sci-Fi Author: In my book I invented the Torment Nexus as a cautionary tale" "Tech Company: At long last, we have created the Torment Nexus from classic sci-fi novel Don't Create The Torment Nexus" 5:49 p.m. · 08 Nov. 21 · Twitter Web App Handwritten checklist on lined paper titled "Isolation Well-Being". Checkboxes: Shower. Medication. Drink water. Clean one thing / space. Tend something growing / living. Be mindfully present to... a sound or song; a sensory feeling; something you see; a spiritual practice. Reach out to a human outside your home. Do one thing to get your heart rate up. Do one thing you'll be glad you did later. Do one thing just… Screenshot of a Tumblr post titled "Why Did God Create Atheists?" retelling a Chassidic story in which a Master says atheists teach true compassion, because they help others out of an inner sense of morality, not religious command. The Master says to imagine there is no God who can help, and say "I will help you." Replies from razairazerci, naamahdarling and obsessedwithamedot praise it. Tumblr post from whereismywizardhat titled "Final Fantasy In A Nutshell", a bulleted list. FF I: Four Heroes Break A Time Loop. FF II: Star Wars Where The Emperor Dies And Then Comes Back As The Devil And Then Dies Again And Then Comes Back As God And Then Gets Killed By Obi-wan. FF III: Four Orphans Fight A Man Who Threw A Hissy Fit Over His Inheritance. FF IV: Star Wars But The Emperor Is A Space Ghost On The… Screenshot of a Tumblr thread. venuskissed: "my singing voice is good for showers and mornings in the kitchen and drunken nights and lullabies for babies who need sleep and im okay with this". venuskissed: "i think it's silly to be ashamed of your art because it's not in a museum and of your voice because it's not selling out stadiums. there will always be people who enjoy and appreciate what you can do."… 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".

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