Xennial Memes

Xennial Memes

Two-panel meme on a dark gray background. Left: an angry red cartoon face with clenched teeth above the text "DEBATE ME DEBATE ME DEBATE ME IF YOU CARE ABOUT TRUTH". Right: an anime-style person with brown hair and a black mask and hoodie, looking away, below the text "There is nothing to be gained from entering resentful relations with hostile online strangers. It changes no hearts and wastes energy that could be… Overhead photo on a light wood surface: fourteen burnt matches with blackened heads in a row on the left, seven unused red-headed matches in a row on the right, and one unused red-headed match set lower, between the two groups. The image has no text. Photo of an open book on a magenta fuzzy surface. The running header reads "wild spirit, soft hear" (cut off). The poem reads: "sweet girl, it wasn't that you weren't enough, it's your energy... it asks others to rise up, and not everyone is willing to go where they would grow". Black text on a white background: "When Nazi Germany invaded Denmark in World War II, the Hungarian chemist George de Hevesy dissolved the gold Nobel Prizes of Max von Laue and James Franck in aqua regia to prevent the Nazis from stealing them. He placed the resulting solution on a shelf in his laboratory at the Niels Bohr Institute. After the war, he returned to find the solution undisturbed and precipitated the… Black banner with white text: "“The year is almost over. We’re in the home stretch.” The home stretch:" Below it, a film still of two golden winged sphinx statues kneeling face to face in a dark rocky cave, with a glowing passage between them. Screenshot of a tweet on a dark blue background from Max Kennerly, @MaxKennerly, verified account, with a small profile photo of a smiling man in a suit. Text: "A notable aspect of private health insurance is the absence of any reason for it to exist. It does not contain costs, expand coverage, or expedite care—it makes those all worse. Its sole function is to profit as a rent-seeking middleman between patients and… Photo of a book page with a poem. Italic header: "Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer". Title: "HOPE". Poem: "Hope has holes in its pockets. It leaves little crumb trails so that we, when anxious, can follow it. Hope's secret: it doesn't know the destination—it knows only that all roads begin with one foot in front of the other." A photographed book page with a black square bullet and the italic title "Above Everything". The poem reads: "I wished for death often / but now that I am at its door / I have changed my mind about the world. / It should go on; it is beautiful, / even as a dream, filled with water and seed, / plants and animals, others like myself, / ships and buildings and messages / filling the air—a beauty, / if ever I have seen… Cartoon by Tom Gauld of two grassy hills facing each other across a river, each with castle towers and a sailing ship. Left heading: "OUR BLESSED Marxism". Right heading: "THEIR BARBAROUS Marxism". Left labels: "our scientific plan for socialism", "our class-centered analysis", "our dialectical nimbleness", "our incisive video essayists". Right labels: "their unrealistic idealism", "their harmful class… Black-and-white photo of young protesters sitting and standing outside a columned building. A girl in a headband and denim overalls squints in front, while a girl behind her grimaces. A large handmade sign reads: "WE'LL BE LESS ACTIVIST IF YOU BE LESS SHIT". Partial signs nearby read "WHAT ABOUT", "FUT" and "FO". Cartoon still from Aqua Teen Hunger Force on a tennis court. Meatwad, a brown meatball in a striped headband, looks up nervously. Master Shake, a tilted cup with a pink bendy straw, frowns down at him. Caption: "I AM 30 OR 40 YEARS OLD AND I DO NOT NEED THIS." Photo of a printed book page, number 103. Text: "52. You are not compelled to form any opinion about this matter before you, nor to disturb your peace of mind at all. Things in themselves have no power to extort a verdict from you." Purple slanted text added over it: "Marcus Aurelius has already released you from the obligation to have a take" A young man in a red T-shirt sits on a scooter on a city street, wearing a yellow, gray and black modular motorcycle helmet with the chin bar flipped on top of his head, so his face sits inside the chin bar. Top text: "IT IS NOT POSSIBLE FOR THE USER TO FUCK THIS UP". Bottom text: "THE USER IN QUESTION". Stencil street art on a weathered wall. Black text reads "IF YOU REPEAT A LIE OFTEN ENOUGH, IT BECOMES TRUTH" with "TRUTH" struck through in red. Below it, red handwritten "POLITICS" is painted by a stenciled girl reaching up with a paintbrush. A dark, black-and-white photo of a muscular, bearded man with slicked-back hair and a stern, intense expression, shirtless and lit from above. White text with a black outline reads: "your past mistakes are there to guide you not to define you". Four-panel comic by Bors. Panel 1: A woman looks at her phone and says, "MY GAWD THESE TRUMP PEOPLE ARE RACIST." A man in a red MAGA cap points at her and says, "THAT ATTITUDE IS WHAT'S PUSHING ME TO BE RACIST!" Panel 2: She says, "SAY WHAT?" He says, "MIGHT AS WELL! YOU SAY I'M A NAZI SO, FINE, I'LL BE A NAZI IF THAT MAKES YOU HAPPY." Panel 3: She says, "IT... DOESN'T." He holds up a Waffen SS uniform: "I BOUGHT… A giant deflated inflatable Mario lies face-down on a concrete warehouse floor, his red cap and white glove crumpled, in front of a row of dark, unpowered vintage arcade cabinets and pinball machines along a gray wall. No text is visible. Pop-art comic panel of a blue-gloved hand pressing a big red button labeled "DESTROY" on a colorful control panel. Orange labels read "RANGE" and "500 YARDS". A speech bubble says: "THIS SHOULD TAKE CARE OF THE IGNORANT CLODS!" A glossy gold 3D-printed trophy sits on a gray office desk beside a keyboard and monitor. The trophy's pieces are visibly misaligned. The plaque on its base reads "World's Best CSS Developer", and the word "Developer" spills off the plaque onto the desk. Cartoon panel from The Simpsons: a yellow hand holds a blue self-help booklet with black text reading "SO YOU'VE DECIDED TO BECOME ISOLATED AND WEIRD." Below the text, a small picture shows a cartoon boy peering through a window. Two-panel meme in a retro blue-background educational illustration style. Top: two smiling people in cream suits shake hands. Left caption: "Hi I'm a political scientist". Right caption: "Oh I have opinions about politics". Bottom: the same handshake, but the left person holds a hand saw behind their back. Digital drawing of a chubby brown frog-like creature with pointed ears, a dark brown hair-like mane, speckled cheeks and small orange eyes, crouching on a pink background. Handwritten text at upper left reads: "its wednesday, istik". Faint watermark: "mintcrows". Black-and-white pen-and-ink cartoon. A shaggy cavewoman with hands on hips shouts in a speech bubble: "WHEN ARE YOU GOING TO STOP WASTING YOUR TIME WITH THAT SCIENCE FICTION NONSENSE AND START DEALING WITH REALITY?!" Beside a campfire, a hunched caveman paints a cart with a spoked wheel hitched to a donkey on the cave wall. Cartoon of Cobra Commander from G.I. Joe, in a blue uniform with a white face mask and blue hood, sitting on a large throne with a cobra-shaped back. Caption at top: "Everyone you meet is fighting a battle you don't know about. Attack them. Now they're fighting two battles" A smiling young woman with short dark bangs and a teal headband glances at the camera while pointing at a big red button on a beige industrial control panel. She wears a rainbow wristwatch. The panel reads: "ESCHATRON 9000". Warning: "DO NOT OPERATE THE ESCHATRON 9000 UNLESS YOU'RE REALLY, REALLY SERIOUS ABOUT DESTROYING THE WORLD". Labels: "MAYHEM", "TEMPERATURE" with a display reading 113, "DESTRUCTION",… Dark-mode screenshot of a tweet from jared a. loggins, @loggins__, with a small profile photo of a man in a dark shirt with crossed arms. Text: "Solidarity is not something I do for you because you might do it for me when the time comes. No, that's called patronage. Solidarity is building collective power on the premise that something which has happened to you should happen to nobody." Posted 7:42 PM · 5/14/21 ·… Plain text on a white background, in a serif font: "Extreme fandom may serve as a security blanket for the socially inept, who use its extreme structure as a substitute for social skills. If you are Luke Skywalker and she is Princess Leia, you already know what to say to each other, which is so much safer than having to ad-lib it. Your fannish obsession is your beard. If you know absolutely all the trivia about… Vintage comic panel with a yellow background. A smiling girl with a black bowl haircut, a white bow and a red plaid dress holds an open book labeled "MAGIC". A crack in the wall behind her shows pink bricks. Her speech bubble reads: "I'D GIVE ANYTHING FOR SUCH POWER". A pink-to-red sign mounted on a dark stone wall below a red brick wall, above a white-framed window. White text reads: "THE "GUNS DON'T KILL PEOPLE" PEOPLE SURE SEEM TO THINK A BOOK CAN MAKE YOU GAY." Small text at bottom right: "@NoahGarfinkel". Black serif text on a white background reads: "Queer people don't grow up as ourselves, we grow up playing a version of ourselves that sacrifices authenticity to minimise humiliation & prejudice. The massive task of our adult lives is to unpick which parts of ourselves are truly us & which parts we've created to protect us." —ALEXANDER LEON

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