Xennial Memes

Xennial Memes

Black text on white: five stanzas of song lyrics beginning "I'm singing this song for my sister Sinead," with a repeated chorus: "And maybe she's crazy and maybe she ain't, but so was Picasso and so were the saints." Photo of a printed page in black capital letters that reads: "A COMPUTER CAN NEVER BE HELD ACCOUNTABLE" followed by "THEREFORE A COMPUTER MUST NEVER MAKE A MANAGEMENT DECISION". Faint mirrored text from the reverse side shows through the paper. White serif text on a plain black background reads: "Rebellion is when you look society in the face and say, I understand who you want me to be but I am going to show you who I actually am." Attributed below: "-Anthony Anaxagorou" Instagram post from user aunt_evil. Bold distressed text reads "THIS IS NOT A CHRISTIAN NATION" with "NOT" in red. Below it is a map of the United States filled with the American flag. Beneath the map: "IT'S A NATION IN WHICH YOU ARE FREE TO BE CHRISTIAN". Top text reads: "How to be good at talking. 1. Polite greeting 2. Name 3. Relevant personal link 4. Manage expectations". Below, a close-up of a dark-haired man with a mustache and intense eyes. Caption: "Hello. My name is Inigo Montoya. You killed my father. Prepare to die." Numbers 1-4 mark each part. "@lifehack.ers" Plain black serif text on a white background, three numbered verses. 12. Harmful beings are everywhere like space itself. Impossible it is that all should be suppressed. But let this angry mind alone be overthrown, And it's as though all foes had been subdued. 13. To cover all the earth with sheets of leather— Where could such amounts of skin be found? But with the leather soles of just my shoes It is as though I… A screenshot from the Kirby anime: pink Kirby stands on a blue tiled floor with an angry, scowling expression. White caption text with a black outline at the bottom reads: "fuck". Black serif text on a white background. Bold title: "Letter to the Person Who Carved His Initials into the Oldest Living Longleaf Pine in North America". The poem reads: "Tell me what it's like to live without curiosity, without awe. To sail on clear water, rolling your eyes at the kelp reefs swaying beneath you, ignoring the flicker of mermaid scales in the mist, looking at the world and feeling only boredom. To… Photo of a book page numbered 9 between red and black rules. The poem reads: "Fill your bowl to the brim and it will spill. Keep sharpening your knife and it will blunt. Chase after money and security and your heart will never unclench. Care about people's approval and you will be their prisoner. Do your work, then step back. The only path to serenity." Faint mirrored text shows through from the reverse side. Black serif text on a white background. Title: "Sentimental Moment Or Why Did The Baguette Cross The Road?" Byline: "Robert Hershon". Poem: "Don't fill up on bread / I say absent-mindedly / The servings here are huge // My son, whose hair may be / receding a bit, says / Did you really just / say that to me? // What he doesn't know / is that when we're walking / together, when we get / to the curb / I sometimes… Screenshot of a poem page. Title: "I Am Learning to Abandon the World" by Linda Pastan. Poem text: "I am learning to abandon the world before it can abandon me. Already I have given up the moon and snow, closing my shades against the claims of white. And the world has taken my father, my friends. I have given up melodic lines of hills, moving to a flat, tuneless landscape. And every night I give my body up limb by… Dark-mode Reddit thread screenshot. HotConsideration30, 4h: "The incest states should not dictate policy" (44 points). Reply by T33CH33R, 4h: "Hey, but they are number one in or ...". youarebadatyourjob, 4h: "Strawman argument." (-61). Llarys, 3h: "Ok then, let's be pragmatic about it. The poorest states should not dictate spending policies for the rest of us. The states with the highest maternal, and infant,… A light blue sticker on a gray metal pole with hand-lettered black text: "There are girls with dicks, guys with vaginas, and transphobes without teeth." A circled anarchist A combined with a transgender symbol appears at the left and right ends. Close-up of Smaug, a brown scaly dragon with glowing amber eyes and a heap of gold coins beneath its jaw. White text box: "This is Smaug, the dragon from The Hobbit. Smaug famously stole a mountain full of gold. So full that he sleeps buried under gold. We're talking literal tons and tons of gold by weight. Forbes ranks Smaug as the second wealthiest fictional character. He had been first, but the price of gold… Black serif text on a white background. Title: "For Someone Who Used AI to Write a Poem". Poem: "Now I let it pass back into darkness. I hear you. I know this life is hard now. I know your days are precious on this earth. But what are you trying to be free of? The living? The miraculous task of it? Love is for the ones who love the work." Signed "—Joseph Fasano". A black hanging shop sign with a white border, suspended from a metal bracket outside a building. White capital letters read: "I'M NOT INTERESTED IN COMPETING WITH ANYONE. I HOPE WE ALL MAKE IT." A blue sign partly reading "Hump" and "Sloo" is visible at the lower right. A vintage engraving-style illustration of a small dark bird with a pale breast walking along a wavy shoreline. Below it, in ornate decorative lettering, the text reads: "I AM GOING TO SOLVE THIS PROBLEM WITH WEED" and a smaller gray credit, "@EFFINBIRDS". Cartoon illustration of a red pyramid-shaped metronome with its pendulum arm swinging, red arrows showing motion. Text on the left reads "a better world is possible". Text on the right reads "we're so fucked". The base of the metronome is labeled "me". Illustration of a fluffy reddish-brown highland calf with closed eyes and a pink nose, curled up in green grass among purple thistle flowers. Text above reads: "I don't need to qualify my existence. I am allowed to take up space." Signed "The Latest Kate" at bottom left. Caption at top reads: "When you incorporate all the feedback from every critique." Below is a photo of a single pizza crust topped half with a whole roasted chicken, shredded cheese, tomatoes and an olive, and half with chocolate sprinkles and colorful candy lentils. Six-panel black-and-white comic in three Before/After rows. Row 1 Before: "GREAT, WITH ALL THESE WOMEN IN THE WORKPLACE, WE NEED TO TAKE SEXUAL HARASSMENT TRAINING AND BE ALL "PC"." After: "ANYONE ELSE THINK THIS COMPANY IS GETTING A LITTLE TOO WOKE?" Row 2 Before: "WHY ARE THERE SO MANY BLACK PEOPLE IN THIS MOVIE?" After: "JEEZ, WHY IS HOLLYWOOD SO WOKE THESE DAYS?" Row 3 Before: "I DON'T WANT NO QUEERS AROUND MY… 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".

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