Xennial Memes

Xennial Memes

A woman with long hair, seen from behind in a robe, stands smoking at a tall window with red curtains, in a purple and pink tinted photo. Text at top left: "I miss what used to be," Text at right: "even though I later found out it never was" A spiral galaxy glowing against black space, with a thin white arrow pointing to a spot on one outer arm. The caption reads: "You are here, Paying taxes and Living in Fear." Watercolor cartoon of giant upright dominoes in a line. The first, in trans flag colors, reads "TRANS RIGHTS" and is tipping while small people strain to hold it up. The next dominoes read "GAY RIGHTS, FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION", "WOMEN'S RIGHTS, FREE LOVE", "FREE SPEECH, DEMOCRACY", "FREEDOM OF RELIGION, MODERNITY", then a faded "LITERACY". Caption: "UNITED WE STAND ★ DIVIDED WE FALL". Signed "Alfred 2024". A black-outline triangle on a white background with the heading "Millennial Dating" above it. The top corner is labeled "Emotionally stable", the bottom left "Likes the same music", and the bottom right "Good at sex". In the center it says "CHOOSE TWO". Two bearded people in winter jackets, one in a yellow hooded raincoat with a raised fist, hold a huge cardboard banner outside a stone government building. Trans flag colored letters read: "RESPECT MY TRANS HOMIES" then in black: "OR I'M GONNA IDENTIFY AS A FUCKING PROBLEM". Part of a face is in the corner. Sticker on brushed metal showing a white rat with a spiked collar holding a black flag, riding a black winged creature in front of a red sun, with three black crows flying around. Text: "WHAT IS MORAL IS OFTEN ILLEGAL" and "MAKE ANARCHY A THREAT AGAIN". A hand holds open a hardcover book with yellow-highlighted text on the left page: "The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn." —ALVIN TOFFLER. The right page shows "Part IV, Limitless Methods" and a Venn diagram labeled Methods. A slightly blurry photo of a book page with a faint chromatic glitch effect. Centered text in a Comic Sans-style font reads: "A narcissist will try to destroy your life with lies before you can destroy theirs with the truth." Vintage-style propaganda poster on yellow. A man in a fedora and purple suit drives a car while a white-outlined ghostly figure in a military uniform with an iron cross sits in the back seat. Text: "When you ride TESLA you ride with Hitler !" and "Join Public Transportation TODAY !" Top: a woman with her hair pulled back, wearing a dark jacket, turns a knob on a rack of audio gear. Text: "MAJOR ADVANCES IN TECHNOLOGY. This Day In 1997: Jodie Foster translated an alien signal from the Vega Star System to build an interstellar space traveling machine by adjusting reverb settings on her trusty Eventide DSP4000 Ultra-Harmonizer." Below is a photo of an Eventide DSP4000 Ultra-Harmonizer rack unit. A worn, taped, cracked piece of old brownish card with a thick black rectangular border. Printed text reads: "YOUR STORY HAS TOUCHED MY HEART. Never before have I met anyone with more troubles than you. Please accept this token of my sincere sympathy." Photo of a book page, numbered 270. Title: "To Be Alive". Poem: "To be alive: not just the carcass / But the spark. / That's crudely put, but… // If we're not supposed to dance, / Why all this music?" Signed "GREGORY ORR". A blonde woman with glasses in a red t-shirt sits surrounded by enormous towering piles of books, reading a large open book. Top text: "SOME PEOPLE PREFER PLAYING VIDEO GAMES." Bottom text: "OTHERS PREFER STARING AT MARKED SLICES OF TREES AND HALLUCINATE VIVIDLY FOR HOURS ON END." A photo of a white marquee sign with black letters, taken through a smudged window, in front of green trees. It reads: "WHATEVER YOU DO TODAY DO IT WITH THE CONFIDENCE OF A 4 YEAR OLD IN A BAT MAN T SHIRT". The "4" is red. Black-and-white Peanuts comic panel. A girl with dark hair stands with her back partly turned, listening to a boy in a striped shirt who shouts with sweat drops flying off his head. His speech bubble reads: "PEOPLE DO NOT SEEM TO REALISE THAT THEIR OPINION OF THE WORLD IS ALSO A CONFESSION OF THEIR CHARACTER." 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".

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