Xennial Memes

Xennial Memes

A blurry, purple-tinted photo looking through a dark stone archway at a brick alley with another arch beyond. Overlaid text reads: "SOME PEOPLE NEVER GO crazy; WHAT HORRIBLE LIVES THEY MUST LEAD." Small credit text reads "BUKOWSKI". A script watermark in the top right reads "Ardi graphis". Pixel art screenshot from The Legend of Zelda on NES: on a black cave background, an old man in a red robe stands between two flickering fires above a sword. White text at the top reads: "IT'S DANGEROUS TO GO ALONE! TAKE THIS." Top caption: "Finally someone tells it like it is. Way too many people have forgotten how awesome NASA is." Two photos show a red Russian Space Pen package printed with a rocket, and a joke text: "When NASA first started sending astronauts into space, they realized that the ball-point pen would not work at zero gravity. A million dollar investment and two years of tests resulted in a pen that could write in space,… Tumblr screenshot. Top panel: a painting of Jesus beside a man in a suit pointing at it. Caption: "I would like to read to you what The Jesus said about homosexuality..." Second panel: the man holds a Bible. Caption: "I'd like to, but he never said anything about it." Below, a Tumblr reblog chain from mediapathic and nextyearsgirl follows. Its long text argues that Old Testament laws were for the Hebrews to atone… Grid of eighteen minimalist posters, each with a simple icon and a name: Marie Curie, Sally Ride, Rachel Carson, Jane Goodall, Rosalind Franklin, Grace Hopper, Ada Lovelace, Dorothy Hodgkin, Elizabeth Blackwell, Jocelyn Bell Burnell, Barbara McClintock, Lise Meitner, Shirley Ann Jackson, Chien-Shiung Wu, Kalpana Chawla, Alice Ball, Flossie Wong-Staal, Maryam Mirzakhani. Comic panel on a tan background. A small figure in a space helmet and a big gray rocket-shaped jetpack blasts off in a cloud of black smoke, pointing and saying in a speech bubble: "YOU'RE ALL JUST JEALOUS OF MY JETPACK." An arrow labels the figure "SCIENCE FICTION." Below, three drawn figures, one with a pipe, one bald with round glasses, one with a bun, say "TUT TUT." An arrow labels them "PROPER LITERATURE." Infographic titled "Find & Cure Common Writing Flaws", subtitle "A guide for editors". A three-column table: Problem, Symptoms, Treatment. Writing too long: Prose meanders and bores the reader. Suggest what to cut; reorganize what remains. (4). Buried lede: Partway in, you spot the main point. Cut opening paragraphs; move main idea up; rewrite title. (5). Passive voice: It's not clear who's doing what. Rewrite… Movie still in a bowling alley: a long-haired bearded man in a gray cardigan sits with his foot up, a heavy man in tinted glasses and a vest holds a cigarette, and a younger man in an orange shirt listens. Caption: "Forget it, Donny, you're out of your element!" Color-highlighted text attributed to Gary Provost. Text: "This sentence has five words. Here are five more words. Five-word sentences are fine. But several together become monotonous. Listen to what is happening. The writing is getting boring. The sound of it drones. It's like a stuck record. The ear demands some variety." Next paragraph: "Now listen. I vary the sentence length, and I create music. Music. The… A 3x3 alignment chart on a black background, each square a portrait of a game industry figure with a quote. LAWFUL GOOD: "A delayed game is eventually good, a bad game is bad forever." NEUTRAL GOOD: "I get about 10,000 emails each time we release a game, and while I can't respond to all of them, I do read all of them." CHAOTIC GOOD: "As long as there's at least one publisher out there who is interested in… Six-panel Doonesbury comic by GB Trudeau. A man in glasses on a bed asks a translator: "Tell me, honey--since you're the only translator in China who can still understand the Chairman, how faithfully do you actually carry out his wishes?" She replies: "Well, sir, he changes his mind a lot, and although his word is absolute law, I have to account for that. For instance, last Monday, he told me to have the Great Wall… A grid of twelve parody O'Reilly book covers, each with an animal engraving and a colored title box. Titles: Copying and Pasting from Stack Overflow; Googling the Error Message; Trying Stuff Until it Works; Writing Code that Nobody Else Can Read; The Guy Who Wrote This Is Gone; Blaming the User; Forgetting How Your Own Code Works; Changing Stuff and Seeing What Happens; Vague Understanding of Computer Science;… Tumblr post screenshot. User sapper-in-the-wire: "people today with access to more raw information than any other period: the earth is flat" and "german artilleryman in 1916, who barely washes his own ass: I need to account for the curvature and rotation of the earth when plotting my firing plans". Reblog by thefloatingstone: "Eratosthenes, an Egyptian, in 3750 BC when fucking mammoths hadn't even gone extinct yet:… Newspaper clipping headed "Letter of the Week" with the title "What is wrong with you?" Jonna Ramey of Salt Lake City, a 67-year-old white woman, says her WWII-serving parents fought fascism, tells white supremacists to put down their Tiki torches and get involved in real work, and says all Americans stand against hatred and bigotry. Two side-by-side photos under the heading "NOTICE THE DIFFERENCE". Left: a man in a dark suit places a blue-ribboned medal on a short-haired woman in a red jacket, captioned "TALK SHOW HOST". Right: a man places a medal on a gray-haired older man in a dark jacket, captioned "VIETNAM WAR HERO". Below, typewriter-style text reads: "You know what? I do see the difference! The guy on the left is awarding Ellen with the… A 5x5 grid of photos. Column headings across the top: DEVELOPERS, DESIGNERS, PROJECT MANAGERS, QA, SYSADMINS. Row labels down the left: SEEN BY DEVELOPERS, SEEN BY DESIGNERS, SEEN BY PROJECT MANAGERS, SEEN BY QA, SEEN BY SYSADMINS. Each cell shows a stock or pop-culture photo, such as a scientist, a toddler with paintbrushes, a man in a black turtleneck, a prisoner behind bars, and a cartoon man flipping the bird. Photo of a Heathrow airport departures screen with a TIE fighter logo and Star Wars-style "DEPARTURES" title. Columns: Time, Destination, Flight, Information. 09:30 Tatooine R2D2 On Time. 10:15 Kamino BOBA Delayed: Delayed a long, long time in a galaxy far, far away. 11:20 Hoth C3P0 Delayed: Awaiting clearance of snow from runway at destination. 11:40 Jakku BB8 Delayed: Flights to Jakku are delayed due to sand… Tumblr post by pigonsandgunpowder reblogged from shatterfly, source iamthedukeofurl, dated December 11th 2014. Titled "A Guide to Roleplaying Systems". Each system answers a player asking "Can I do the thing?" Mutants and Masterminds: Yes. GURPS: forms in triplicate. D&D: only as a Dream Elf, or play a Wizard. Call of Cthulhu: you REALLY don't want to. FATE: bullshit the GM. 7th Sea: if dramatic. Shadowrun: bathtub… Screenshot of a Tumblr post by user 21stgoddamncentury. Text: "If your job can be taken by a hypothetical unskilled, non-English-speaking illegal immigrant or outsourced worker, I'm going to give you some bad advice." "I'm going to give you the same bad advice you gave millennials: stop whining, you're not entitled to anything and nobody owes you a job." "I'm going to give you the same bad advice you gave minimum… White text on a dark navy background reads: "The United States has become a place where entertainers and professional athletes are mistaken for people of importance." Below it, in a smaller script font: "— Robert A. Heinlein —". Brookings map titled "MAP 1: Counties' contribution to national employment growth, 2010-2016" showing US counties shaded by share of national employment growth. Legend: -0.06% - 0.00%, 0.00% - 0.07%, 0.07% - 0.19%, 0.19% - 1.00%, 1.00% - 3.31%. Source: Brookings analysis of Moody's Analytics data. Metropolitan Policy Program at Brookings. A half-lit moon on a black background. Pale pink typewriter-style text reads: "The universe is probably littered with the one-planet graves of cultures which made the sensible economic decision that there's no good reason to go into space - each discovered, studied, and remembered by the ones who made the irrational decision." - Randall Munroe Black and white hand-lettered illustration. Inside a white oval wreath of leafy fronds on a scratchy black background, text reads: "Do not be daunted by the enormity of the world's grief. Do justly now. Love mercy now. Walk humbly now. You are not obligated to complete the work, but neither are you free to abandon it." The word "now" is underlined each time. A young man with slicked-back hair in a black tuxedo and white bow tie smirks at the camera while raising a coupe glass of champagne. Caption text above reads: "Cheers to everyone who does their own research. In the age of information, ignorance is a choice." Orange poster from NewseumED, supported by Facebook. Title: E.S.C.A.P.E. Junk News. A giant hand holds a screaming green-faced phone over a city skyline as silhouetted zombie-like people stagger below. Badge: Visit NewseumED.org for more resources! Banner: 6 Ways to Evaluate Information. Columns: Evidence, Source, Context, Audience, Purpose, Execution. An artist's rendering of a blue-green cloudy planet against a starry dark blue space background, captioned "Artist impression of Kepler 22b". White text reads: "When he (Johannes Kepler) found that his long cherished beliefs did not agree with the most precise observations, he accepted the uncomfortable facts. He preferred the hard truth to his dearest delusions, that is the heart of science." - Carl Sagan Three-panel Cracked.com graphic. Top: text reads "In 1980, Mel Brooks produced "The Elephant Man", based on the tragic story of Joseph "John" Merrick, tapping avant garde filmmaker David Lynch to direct. After seeing a cut of the film, nervous studio execs requested that some of Lynch's more abstract scenes be removed." Beside it is a black-and-white photo of a man with tousled hair wearing headphones. Middle: a… A collectible figurine of Darth Vader in black armor and cape holding a figure in a tan flight suit and white helmet off the ground by the throat. Pink and white script text reads: "Strong people don't put others down. They lift them up." Below it: "-Michael P. Watson". Small watermark: "GEEK CLUB". Scan of a textbook page. Caption: "Basic high school civics lessons we knew in 1948. From Magruder's classic American Government textbook. page 1." A two-column chart, "Without Government" and "With Government". Direct Protection: no protection of life, family, property or country vs. police, laws, courts; Army, Navy, and Air Force. Sanitation and Health: polluted water, filth and waste everywhere, tubercular milk,… A figure in a yellow spacesuit and helmet walks down a white, octagonal corridor with black panels, like a scene from 2001: A Space Odyssey. Below, a Playboy interview excerpt with Kubrick: "If life is so purposeless, do you feel that it's worth living?" He answers that the meaninglessness of life forces man to create his own meaning, and ends: "However vast the darkness, we must supply our own light."

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