Xennial Memes

Xennial Memes

Acrylic painting of a headless-looking figure in a red shirt and blue jeans sitting cross-legged, reading a large black book with yellow edges. A pale beam of light falls from above, and a black ink-like skull creature with white eyes drops into it. Red letters at the bottom read: AHHHH Black and gold portrait of an older person with glasses and a turtleneck above white text on black: "Choose your leaders with wisdom and forethought. To be led by a coward is to be controlled by all that the coward fears. To be led by a fool is to be led by the opportunists who control the fool. To be led by a thief is to offer up your most precious treasures to be stolen. To be led by a liar is to ask to be told… Top-down photo of bright white snow with the imprint of a bird's outstretched wings pressed around a dark central hole. Feather lines fan out along both wings, and blue shadows trace the wing edges. No text appears in the image. White text on a black background beside a large white Punisher skull logo. Text: "YOU'RE NOT THE PUNISHER. YOU'RE A WHITE SUPREMACIST WHO DIDN'T READ THE COMICS." Five-panel black-and-white comic. Panel 1: a woman in colonial-style clothing says, "BLACK PEOPLE ARE INFERIOR!" Panel 2: a bearded man in a suit says, "I JUST DON'T LIKE BLACK PEOPLE." Panel 3: a man in a bowler hat says, "BLACK PEOPLE ARE OKAY, BUT THEY SHOULD STICK TO THEIR OWN KIND." Panel 4: a man in sunglasses and suit says, "WHY ARE THERE SO MANY BLACK PEOPLE IN THIS NEIGHBORHOOD?" Panel 5: a man in a polo… Black serif text on a white background reads: "I knew that I was dying. something in me said, go ahead, die, sleep, become as them, accept. then something else in me said, no, save the tiniest bit. it needn't be much, just a spark. a spark can set a whole forest on fire. just a spark. save it. - Charles Bukowski". At the bottom: "#DONTGIVEUPWORLD". Vintage romance comic panel. A smiling dark-haired woman in a teal top peeks around a red curtain toward a red-haired man seen in close profile at left. Her speech bubble reads: "I'M GOING TO TAKE THIS TOO FAR, YOU SHOULD COME WITH ME." A vertical credit reads "This isn't happiness.com". A tweet screenshot from Johnny Akzam, @JohnnyAkzam, with a verified badge and a small photo of a smiling bald man, laid over a Monopoly board. Text: "Reminder: Monopoly ends when no one can afford to live on the board anymore. At that point, everything becomes worthless. The money means nothing. The hotels sit abandoned. The only thing left is to restart the game and do it again. It's unsustainable. It's what we're… Screenshot of a blog-style article. Title: "How I defeated Fascism With the Power of Love" by Luigi. "Chapter 1: The Power of Love" reads: "The first step in my journey was realizing that it is impossible to defeat fascism with the power of love." Next heading: "Chapter 2: The Power of Incredible Violence". Black-and-white Far Side cartoon of a rock band on stage, the guitarists tossing a bottle and objects into the air, while a crowd in front reaches up. In the foreground a technician's hand turns a mixing board with knobs labeled Channel, Midrange, Reverb, Suck, Treble, Bass and Mic. Caption: Raymond's last day as the band's sound technician Six-panel comic. A scowling man says in a speech bubble, "TRANSIT ISN'T PROFITABLE". He looks up at glowing stars, and a blonde angel descends and hands him a slip of paper. He holds it, and the paper reads "NEITHER ARE HIGHWAYS". Imgflip.com watermark at the bottom. Bizarro comic by Dan Piraro. A man in a sweater bends over, hand on his back, scowling at a young girl holding a newspaper in a living room. His speech bubble reads: "How about if your generation spends less time studying how my generation destroyed the environment, and more time figuring out a magical solution?!" A 3 by 3 alignment chart titled "content alignment chart". Columns: DOCTRINE PURIST, "An article is a written composition in prose, usually nonfiction, on a specific topic, forming an independent part of a book or other publication"; DOCTRINE NEUTRAL, "an article is content that addresses a specific topic as part of a larger body of work"; DOCTRINE RADICAL, "An article has words that communicate a message". Rows:… Black-and-white comic panel by Singer. Headline: "PUBLIC TRANSIT WASTES MONEY. IT ALWAYS HAS TO BE SUBSIDIZED!" Labels: "Pollution subsidized by health care premiums"; "Parking subsidized by business & taxes"; "Subsidized police, fire & paramedics for 4 million accidents per year"; "Local, state & federal taxes subsidize streets & highways."; "Costs of cars, gas, maintenance & insurance "subsidized" by car owners."… Illustration of Plato's Allegory of the Cave. Caption at top: "The problem of US politics, as Plato's Allegory of the Cave". Shackled figures labeled "Voters" watch shadows on the wall as people carry figures past a fire labeled "Media". Below, two text columns about Democrats and Republicans. 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."

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