Xennial Memes

Xennial Memes

A cream-colored web page headed "Why wasn't this page found?" with the line "We asked some leading economists." Below, two columns list economic theories, each with a satirical explanation of a missing page: Stagflation, General economics, Liquidity traps, Pareto inefficiency, Supply and demand, Classical economics, Keynesian economics, Malthusianism, Neo-Malthusianism, Marxism, Laissez Faire Capitalism,… Black-and-white photo of a man with shaggy hair in a black turtleneck, seated on a stool in a cluttered studio. Behind him, four large airbrushed paintings show biomechanical domed structures with skulls and faces on rails. No text. White text on a black background: "In the 1980s, A&W tried to compete with the Mcdonald's Quarter Pounder by selling a 1/3 pound burger at a lower cost. The product failed, because most customers thought the 1/4 pound was bigger." Then, after a gap: "This is why I don't argue online." Two-panel stick figure doodle. Top, "What we think works: Brainstorming": four people at an oval table say "Blah", "I agree!" and "What he said!" while one says in a thought bubble "Can't get a word in..." and "Yikes!" Bottom, "What actually works: Brainwriting": Step One "Generate ideas independently", Step Two "Regroup to evaluate and discuss". @researchdoodles. Evidence: four cited studies. Cartoon illustration of a red emergency box mounted on a brick wall, like a fire alarm. Yellow text on top reads "IN EVENT OF A CAPITALIST CRISIS BREAK GLASS". Behind the glass pane is a hammer and sickle. A watermark on the right reads "I MEMEHEROES.COM". Scanned typewritten page headed "General Interference with Organizations and Production" listing sabotage tactics, with several lines highlighted in yellow. Highlighted: "Talk as frequently as possible and at great length." "Bring up irrelevant issues as frequently as possible." "Haggle over precise wordings" "Refer back to matters decided upon" "Be worried about the propriety of any decision". Logo: Corporate… Screenshot of a transcript attributed to Ezra Klein. It recounts Larry Kramer's analogy: a boat built from a blueprint must be repaired over time, and insisting 200 years later that all repairs follow only the original blueprint gives a boat that sinks. It ends by saying originalism is disrespectful to the Founding Fathers. Screenshot of a poem titled "Obligations 2" by Layli Long Soldier, in black text on white, with short phrases spaced across centered lines. As we / embrace resist / the future the present the past / we work we struggle we begin we fail / to understand to find to unbraid to accept to question / the grief the grief the grief the grief / we shift we wield we bury / into light as ash / across our faces A parody of the Gadsden flag on a yellow background: a coiled rattlesnake on a patch of grass with a cartoonish, goofy face, googly eyes, buck teeth, and a pirate-style tricorn hat. Black text beneath reads: "DONT READ TO ME". A clear plastic cup holds a pink fruit smoothie on a wooden table, with red boba pearls in the bottom. A cute face is printed on the cup: two tall blue oval eyes with white highlights, round pink cheeks, and a small red mouth. A small Nintendo Switch logo sits near the base. Hand-drawn green snake with a red tongue shown in three browser windows. A wide window holds a very long, stretched-out snake. Caption: "if a snake was responsive would it be" "like this" "or" "like this?" Below, a tall narrow window holds an S-curved snake and a small window holds a short snake. Screenshot from an EGA computer game with a title bar reading "So You Want To Be A Hero [score 32 of 500]". A blond hero in a purple cape stands on a forest path in psychedelic pink, orange, blue and teal. A text box reads: "Wow! That was pretty wild! It's probably not a good idea to eat too many more of these mushrooms, though." Vintage romance comic panel tinted blue and green. A woman with long hair and glasses sits in a window frame, eyes closed, hand raised. Behind her a short-haired woman writes at a desk. Speech bubble: "THIS SHIT SUCKS, AND IT SUCKS HAVING TO EXPLAIN WHY IT SUCKS AND IT SUCKS THAT ASSHOLES WILL ARGUE IT DOESN'T SUCK." Side text: "ThisIsntHappiness.com" Dark-mode Twitter screenshot. Erin Ryan (@morninggloria, 5d): "If Octavia Butler were alive, she could write a book called Well Well Well that only had one page of text, and that text could read "As per my previous work"" with 73 replies, 3,475 retweets, 23.6K likes. Reply from William McCarthy (@wamccart): "The Parable of I F***ing Told You So" by Octavia Butler, with the swear word partly covered by a red bar.… Screenshot of a three-part Tumblr thread. User teaboot: "Okay, new rule: if you regularly consume the blood and flesh of a demigod in a room full of chanting elders you're not allowed to call other religions primitive and evil". User candididlyautistic: "This is oddly specific and leaves some very interesting questions unanswered." User uirgiliana: "Catholicism sure does sound weird when you put it that way." Five-row chart of Dragon Quest character portraits. Top text: "someone: i'd die for you". Row labels: "then perish", "you will", "please don't", "cool", and "i'd die for you first". Each row holds six to eight anime-style heroes, villagers, and warriors. Four-panel screenshot of an interview with a man in a black shirt, joined by a woman in a cream top in panels two and four. Game consoles sit on shelves behind them. Subtitles: "In summer it's hot outside, so you stay at home playing video games." "In winter it's cold outside, so you stay at home playing video games." "In spring there's pollen everywhere, so you stay at home playing video games." "In autumn it's… Infographic titled "You *could* win just 11 counties and still win the presidency*." Text explains a Cook Political Report editor's tweet that Biden won 17% of counties, then says a candidate could win just 11 counties (0.4%), lose the popular vote by over 100 million, and still win. Party A: 270 Electoral College Votes, 63,818,530 Votes. Party B: 268 Electoral College Votes, 165,099,667 Votes. A dark US county map… A cutout photo of a smiling green tree frog wearing a red cowboy hat with dark stitching and holding a coiled rope whip, on a light blue background with yellow and red borders. Text at top reads: "I simply do not vibe with the law." A small "@FROGWITCH" watermark sits on the whip. Clippy, the Microsoft Office paperclip assistant with googly eyes, stands on a sheet of paper below a green speech bubble that reads: "Look at you, hacker, a pathetic creature of meat and bone, panting and sweating as you run through my corridors. How can you challenge a perfect, immortal machine?" 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".

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