Xennial Memes

Xennial Memes

Screenshot from the SNES game Chrono Trigger. A dialogue box reads: "Robo: A...friend? Me, a robot? You called me your friend?" Below it, the gold robot Robo stands in a dark blue forest facing a green-capped adventurer. Footer: "Posted in r/chronotrigger by u/igorskyflyer". Reddit logo. Reddit post from the pics community. A man in a gray hoodie raises one hand in a street crowd, holding a cardboard sign hand-lettered in red and blue: "HANDS OFF WORKING COBOL CODE". Behind him a banner reads "Breakfast & Lunch INDOOR / OUTDOOR SEATING". Stacked bar chart titled "Generation lead". Subtitle: "Distribution of childhood blood lead levels (µg/dL) by age in the United States, 2015". Color legend runs from blue at 5 through 10, 15, 20, 25 to red at 30. A bracket labeled "Gen. X" spans roughly ages 35 to 50, where the bars show red, orange and yellow high lead levels. Younger and older ages are mostly blue. X-axis: "AGE IN 2015". Source: McFarland, Hauer… Cartoon Union soldier in a blue uniform and cap tips back a huge blue jug labeled "REBEL TEARS", with a Confederate-style flag logo on it. Behind him, a painting shows a burning city and Union troops marching under American flags. Screenshot from the 1980s Transformers cartoon: Optimus Prime, a giant red and blue robot, raises a fist under a stormy sky above two construction workers in yellow hard hats. Yellow subtitle text reads: "Tariffs not only impose immense economic costs but also fail to achieve their primary policy aims and foster political dysfunction along the way." Quote graphic with a gray watercolor city skyline behind a pale box of black text: "I see men assassinated around me every day. I walk through rooms of the dead, streets of the dead, cities of the dead; men without eyes, men without voices; men with manufactured feelings and standard reactions; men with newspaper brains, television souls and high school ideas." Attributed to Charles Bukowski. Cartoon of a green frog swimming in blue water with a dark red scorpion on its back. Top text: "But now we shall both surely drown", said the Frog. Bottom text: "lol" said the Scorpion, "lmao". Vintage pulp-style painting of a man in a gray suit holding the hand of a blonde woman in a slip, a cigarette at her red lips. The man says, "I LOVE HOW SELF AWARE YOU ARE." She replies, "THANKS, IT'S RUINING MY LIFE." White serif text on a black background, a quotation from Robert Bolt's A Man for All Seasons. William Roper: "So, now you give the Devil the benefit of law!" Sir Thomas More: "Yes! What would you do? Cut a great road through the law to get after the Devil?" Roper: "Yes, I'd cut down every law in England to do that!" More: "Oh? And when the last law was down, and the Devil turned 'round on you, where would you hide,… Block of italic text on a white background: "We talk a great deal about patriotism. What do we mean by patriotism in the context of our times? I venture to suggest that what we mean is a sense of national responsibility which will enable America to remain master of her power -- to walk with it in serenity and wisdom, with self-respect and the respect of all mankind; a patriotism that puts country ahead of self; a… White background with bold text. Black text reads "even one" followed by a small black circle containing a white swastika. Large red text reads "NAZI". Below it, black text reads "is too many". Two-panel meme. Top panel headline: "VIRTUE SIGNALING". A cutout photo of a smiling young man's face with brown hair is captioned "I AM A PROUD RACIST". Beside it, a drawn bearded blond man in profile (Yes Chad style) is captioned "YOU SHOULD BE FIRED". Bottom panel headline: "VICE SIGNALING", with the watermark "@projectliberal". The same smiling face is captioned "I AM A PROUD RACIST". Beside it, a photo of a… Rainbow-striped graphic with bold text reading "DON'T BE" in dark gray, then stacked words in red, yellow, green, blue and purple: "TRANSPHOBIC", "RACIST", "ABLEIST", "SEXIST", "HOMOPHOBIC". The first letters spell TRASH. Small credit: "@ILLUSTRATIONSBYANNIEE". A white sidewalk letterboard sign on a black stand, between two wooden planters, with black letters reading: "SCARED IS WHAT YOU ARE FEELING. BRAVE IS WHAT YOU ARE DOING." A red heart sits below the text. A street and a parked blue car are behind it. Three-panel Bicycle Stick meme. Panel 1: a cartoon man rides a bike holding a stick, labeled "Trump". Panel 2: he jams the stick into his front wheel, labeled "His own incompetence and corruption". Panel 3: he lies on the ground by the bike, labeled "Why would immigrants/POC/DEI/trans people/Jews do this". Watermark: imgflip.com. A poem in dark teal serif text on a white background with a blue border. It reads: "I will not apologize for my strength and the way it intimidates you. I will not tame my spirit and the way it howls. I will not be less." The last line is in italics. Credit: "L.E. Bowman". Black serif text on an aged parchment-style background reads: "Thou shalt not kill' also means 'thou shalt not let profit margins decide who lives and who dies.'" Small text in the bottom right corner reads: "@godpod.bsky.social". Green cross-stitch on black fabric in an oval wooden embroidery hoop. It shows the pixelated ox and covered wagon from The Oregon Trail. Beneath it, stitched text reads: "YOU LISTENED TO RFK". A watermark reads: "@institchesbysara". Black-and-white photo of a serious middle-aged man with swept-back dark hair, wearing a tweed jacket and tie, in front of crowded bookshelves. Below, white text on a dark navy background reads: "The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness." John Kenneth Galbraith Slide with a blue gradient background. Heading: "STOP USING RETROARCH". Bullets: "EMULATORS WERE NOT SUPPOSED TO BE CORES"; "YEARS OF ADDING "FEATURES" YET NO REAL-WORLD USE FOUND for switching to retroarch"; "Wanted to use shaders anyway for a laugh? We had a tool for that: It was called "CRTs""; ""Yes please give me MAME 2003 Plus" "Please give me 14 different versions of bsnes and snes9x to choose from" -… Rear view of a dark gray SUV parked on a city street, with hand-painted white capital letters across the back window and tailgate that read: "RUSSIA CONQUERED HALF OF AMERICA FASTER THAN IT CONQUERED ONE FIFTH OF UKRAINE." The license plate is mirror-reversed. A meme with a black banner on top reading "ONCE UPON A TIME THE FRENCH HAD A REAL PROBLEM WITH THE 1%". Below it, a wooden guillotine with a bloody blade stands between half-timbered buildings under a stormy sky with lightning. Bottom banner reads "THEY SOLVED IT". A woman in sunglasses and a fur-trimmed black coat holds a white protest sign in a crowd. The sign has a blue woodcut-style illustration of a raised fist strangling a coiled snake with open fangs. Text reads: "NO KINGS" at the top and "BUT US" at the bottom. A person in a Hello Kitty mascot costume with a pink bow and a ruffled pink princess gown swings a large sledgehammer at an open silver laptop on the carpet of an office. Debris litters the floor. Caption at top: "replying to the client "no worries"" A Calvin and Hobbes comic panel: Hobbes the tiger in a red scarf walks through snow beside Calvin in a red knit cap and blue coat. A speech bubble reads: "DEI INITIATIVES WERE NOT PUT IN PLACE TO ENSURE LOWER-QUALIFIED MINORITIES COULD GET HIRED INSTEAD OF MORE HIGHLY-QUALIFIED WHITE PEOPLE. IT WAS PUT IN PLACE TO ENSURE LOWER-QUALIFIED WHITE PEOPLE WERE NOT HIRED INSTEAD OF MORE HIGHLY-QUALIFIED MINORITIES." A large white billboard on wooden posts in a muddy, leaf-strewn field under a gray sky. Blue block text reads: "WITH FEMA GONE, WHEN COMMUNITIES ARE DESTROYED FROM NATURAL DISASTERS, BILLIONAIRES CAN BUY THE LAND FOR PENNIES ON THE DOLLAR." Cartoon still from an animated Star Trek series: a stern gray-haired officer in a black and gold uniform scowls on a starship bridge while crew members look on behind him. Caption: "THEY ONLY CALL IT CLASS WARFARE WHEN WE FIGHT BACK." Screenshot of a web article header. Blue links read "POLITICS", "POLITICAL SCIENCE", "PUBLIC HEALTH". Headline: "I Don't Know How To Explain To You That You Should Care About Other People". Subhead: "Our disagreement is not merely political, but a fundamental divide on what it means to live in a society." "By Kayla Chadwick, Contributor" "Video Editor" "Jun 26, 2017, 09:57 PM EDT" "Updated Jun 29, 2017" Two-panel Drake-style meme using Star Trek: TNG's Geordi La Forge in a gold uniform and VISOR. Top, he waves a hand away. Text: "Do Not Comply In Advance" with red X marks: bossy; already a cliche; implies permission to comply later. Bottom, his VISOR glows red as he points approvingly. Text: "Fuck You, Make Me" with green checks: leads by example; directs yelling at opposition instead of allies; easy to chant at a… Yellow stencil mural on a red brick wall. At top, a large black fish chases a scattered group of tiny black fish. A middle banner reads "DO NOT PANIC". Below, the small fish are packed into the shape of one giant fish chasing the big fish. A bottom banner reads "ORGANIZE".

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