Xennial Memes

Xennial Memes

Screenshot from a Sega Genesis beat-'em-up game: a blond fighter in red boxing gloves stands on the roof of a blue police car on a city street at night. Hud text: "AXEL", "x3", "TIME 99", "PRESS 2UP START". Caption: "ONLY TRUST YOUR FISTS. POLICE WILL NEVER HELP YOU". Bold black all-caps text on a white background reads: "IF YOU DON'T NEED A MASK BECAUSE GOD WILL PROTECT YOU, WHY DO YOU NEED A GUN?" A faint watermark sits in the lower right corner. Text on a white background reads: "remember when Scar promised the hyenas a better life in order to use them to gain power but when they realized he lied to them they ate him?" and below, in smaller text, "something to think about". Beneath is a screenshot of the hyenas from The Lion King, snarling at the viewer with tongues out. Colorized vintage portrait of a young man with swept-back dark hair and a mustache, in a brown tweed coat with a white collar, against a pale gray-green background. Gold text reads: "Get My Name Off Your Shitty Cars You Nazi Fuck". Two-panel anime comparison. Left caption: "Being 30 in the 80s" over a stern, wrinkled man with gray hair and mustache in a red and gold uniform. Right caption: "Being 30 in 2024" over a smooth-faced man with teal hair and a thin mustache in a similar uniform. Blue graphic with white text: "SEXUAL ORIENTATION IS NOT A CHOICE. RACE IS NOT A CHOICE. PLACE OF BIRTH IS NOT A CHOICE. ETHNIC GROUP IS NOT A CHOICE." Below, in huge red outlined letters: "HATE". At the bottom in white: "IS A CHOICE." Screenshot from Final Fantasy VII on PlayStation: a short blond man in a red suit stands in a futuristic circular chamber. A blue dialogue box reads: "President Shinra: " My company makes great products that people love and I've never physically hurt anyone. So why the hate and violence against me? "" Cartoon of a blue, California-shaped character with arms and legs facing a group of red and pink state characters. California says in a speech bubble: "That's fine. It just sounds like D.E.I. and affirmative action for red states, which I thought you hated." A bubble from the group says: "Every state, no matter its size, gets two senators. It's only fair!" Caption: "The Electoral College is DEI for Red States..." Black-and-white photo of a magazine page. A dark-haired person with round glasses appears at left. Large quote: "I want AI to do my laundry and dishes so that I can do art and writing, not for AI to do my art and writing so that I can do my laundry and dishes." Caption: Author and videogame enthusiast Joanna Maciejewska nails it (although bathroom cleaning goes ahead of laundry and dishes). Header: commentary in… Screenshot from a 16-bit RPG in a stone brick dungeon. A dialog box reads: "GO AND ATTACK THE MONSTERS. THEN USE THEIR MONEY" with a down arrow. A red-haired figure in a blue robe stands near a second figure. Status bar: "TESS L 1", HP 40, MP 24, "NO PLAYER". In a store aisle, a large Mario figure in a red cap and blue overalls grips a white flagpole topped with a gold ball and a red pennant bearing an M. Below it, hands hold fanned-out dollar bills, including a ten and a five, like a stripper pole tip. Nintendo Switch Online cards and game boxes line the shelves behind. A 3D-printed plaque with raised silver filament on a shimmery dark blue-green base, held in a hand. On the left is an outlined figure in a helmet and headset, gripping a vertical pole. Text on the right reads: "Have you done the trauma treatment yet?" Black serif text on a white background: "A hunch and a conscience are a dangerous combination. People mistake your survival for sacrifice and your sacrifice for survival. You know too much about what has already been stolen and what is still left to lose. No one wants this information, even you." Credit: Sarah Kendzior, The Last American Road Trip: A Memoir. #kindlequotes A Wall Street Journal map of the US shading each state by the percentage of respondents who consider themselves in the Midwest. Title: "Percentage of respondents who consider themselves in the Midwest." Pink handwriting reads "real midwesterners" with an arrow, and "mental illness" over the Plains states. Black typewriter-style text on a cream paper background reads: "Hope is a risk; especially when you've known what it is to dream for better and only be met with the tyranny of degradation, greed, and violent appetites. But despair is a concession. Be careful of who you let regulate your dreaming. Always remember who benefits from our hopelessness." Signed at the bottom: "BLACK LITURGIES". Black and white stick figure comic. A figure with scribbled dark hair asks, "WHATCHYA DOING?" A bald stick figure replies, "ECONOMICS." On the floor beside them is a pentagram drawn in a ring with a lit candle at each point. A motivational-poster-style image with a black border. A huge black-and-white tabletop RPG dungeon map fills the frame, packed with rooms, corridors and caves. Below it, the caption reads: "DUNGEONCRAWL. If this picture alone doesn't motivate you to play right now, there is something wrong with you." Aerial photo of a massive wall of orange dust engulfing a suburban city, with a Shiba Inu doge face edited into the cloud. Black text on the cloud reads "The Supreme Court". White text over the city reads "A thriving, modern society". A sticker on a gray, peeling wall styled like a retro computer window with a yellow title bar reading "[Trolligarchy]". Yellow text on black reads: ">> Trolligarchy /trōl,ə,gärkē/ [noun] A collection of billionaires who adhere to the NRx (neoreactionary) movement, also known as the Dark Enlightenment. The NRx movement is the belief that governments should be controlled by "CEO" dictators and individual freedoms… Two-panel illustration. Top: a simple figure sits on a cliff labeled "Idea", facing a gap labeled "Being cool" and a far cliff labeled "Results" holding a plain beige vase. Bottom: the gap is filled with golden ground labeled "Being cringe"; the figure walks across to a glowing, sparkling golden vase on the "Results" cliff. Four-panel-style cartoon in a single frame. On the left, robed and hooded Klan members hold a sign reading "WE WANT TO KILL BLACK PEOPLE" and a glowing cross. On the right, a crowd of people holds a green sign reading "WE WANT CIVIL RIGHTS". A smiling man in the middle holds up a sign reading "COMPROMISE?" A sign on a brick wall reads: "IF YOU'RE OPPOSED TO GAY MARRIAGE YOU CAN SIMPLY SAY NO WHEN A GAY PERSON PROPOSES TO YOU." At right, a storybook illustration shows Frog and Toad walking through grass, Toad holding a ball of string and Frog holding a rainbow kite. Dark blue textured background with the Final Fantasy Tactics: The Ivalice Chronicles logo. Text: "Nearly 30 years ago, the collapse of Japan's bubble economy engulfed the nation's financial institutions in mountains of bad debt, triggering a wave of corporate bankruptcies, a sudden and extreme rise in unemployment rates, and stagnation of Japanese society as a whole. It was an era when many were robbed of hope,… Four-panel black-and-white pen-and-ink comic. Panel 1: a rugged mountain landscape with the text "Not All those Who Wander are Lost". Panel 2: a bald, round-headed hiker with a backpack stands in a field, text "Except Tim". Panel 3: Tim stands tiny in a vast landscape, text "Tim is Lost as Shit". Panel 4: Tim curled on the ground, text "Tim has Hypothermia". Anime character with short blond hair winks and salutes, wearing a blue vest over a white shirt. Caption: "Am I a boy? Am I a girl? Who knows! But everyone finds me hot and that makes everyone gay" Vintage storybook-style poster with an illustration of the Mad Hatter holding a teacup and a piece of bread, a pocket watch, butterflies and hearts. Text reads: "When You Can't Look On The Bright side I will sit With You in The dark." A cross-stitch in a wooden hoop, stitched to look like lined notebook paper with a red margin line and blue rules. In black block lettering it reads: "When they go low, you fucking punch them in the neck so they know you mean business. This is about power not affect." Hand-drawn pen and marker grid of twelve flags labeled by month under the heading "CORPORATIONS". Every month shows a black and white American flag with a blue stripe, except June, which shows a rainbow Progress Pride flag. Months: JANUARY, FEBRUARY, MARCH, APRIL, MAY, JUNE, JULY, AUGUST, SEPTEMBER, OCTOBER, NOVEMBER, DECEMBER. Signed JAUQUETTE. A memorial table of bouquets, cards and keepsakes in a marble hall with an arched doorway. A note reads "Melissa, THANK YOU for being a champion for nurses & patients. Rest in Power Madame Speaker." A printed page quotes Psalm 34:18. A black banner with a rainbow border reads "WHAT COULD WE WIN TOGETHER?" A black bookmark lying on an open paperback. White text: "if you can read this..." Below is a square photo of a bloodshot yellow eye with a black pupil. More text: "you have invaded my privacy while i was reading and now i will turn around and shoot you dead." Red text: "goodbye bitch." A white smiley face is at the bottom.

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