Xennial Memes

Xennial Memes

A collage of video game artwork in a grid: a golden angular figure, a dark armored warrior, a figure wreathed in fire and smoke, a hooded assassin's blade, the golden Triforce, a dark armored soldier, and a glowing orange mechanical arm. Top text: "IF VIDEOGAMES HAVE TAUGHT ME ANYTHING". Bottom text: "IT'S THAT IF YOU ENCOUNTER ENEMIES, THEN YOU'RE GOING THE RIGHT WAY." Photo of the gray lunar surface with a lunar module leg at upper left and a small reflector instrument tilted in the foreground. Caption text: "For me, the most ironic token of that moment in history is the plaque signed by President Richard M. Nixon that Apollo 11 took to the Moon. It reads: 'We came in peace for all mankind.' As the United States was dropping 7.5 megatons of conventional explosives on small… A black poster with a 3x3 grid of dim night cityscapes under dense starry skies and the Milky Way. Top text: "These photograhs by Thierry Cohen show us what we would see at night if there were no light pollution." Labels: New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Shanghai, Rio de Janeiro, Paris, Hong Kong, São Paulo, Tokyo. Bottom text: "This week is International Dark Skies Week. Please show your support by lighting… Peanuts comic panel: Lucy sits holding a football and says in a speech bubble, "If you cut taxes on the rich, they'll invest that money and create jobs for everyone!" Charlie Brown stands nearby, looking at her. Caption: "Apologies + appreciation to Schulz". Red all-caps text on a light gray background reads: "ARTISTS ARE PEOPLE DRIVEN BY THE TENSION BETWEEN THE DESIRE TO COMMUNICATE AND THE DESIRE TO HIDE. — D.W. WINNICOTT". A small red Recite logo and the words "Made with ♥ by recitethis.com" appear at the bottom. A flowchart on a green background with orange shapes. A large circle at the top reads "IS LIFE GOOD?" Below it, two diamonds read "YES" and "NO". "YES" leads to a circle reading "GOOD". "NO" leads to a circle reading "CHANGE SOMETHING", with an arrow looping back up to the question. Photo of a folded sheet of paper with typewriter-style text: "There comes a time in life, when you walk away from all the drama and people who create it. Surround yourself with people who make you laugh, forget the bad, and focus on the good. Love the people who treat you right. Pray for the ones who don't. Life is too short to be anything but happy. Falling down is part of life, getting back up is living." White and colored hand-lettered chart on a black background comparing two columns split by a vertical line. Left heading in green: "Good Theft". Right heading in pink: "Bad Theft". A "VS." is circled in the middle. Rows: "Honor" / "Degrade"; "Study" / "Skim"; "Steal from many" / "Steal from one"; "Credit" / "Plagiarize"; "Transform" / "Imitate"; "Remix" / "Rip off". A grainy, weathered photo of a woman with dark tousled hair and heavy eye makeup, looking at herself in a dirty, spotted mirror while holding a lipstick to her lips. Text at the top reads: "Damaged people are dangerous. They know they can survive." Black-and-white pen-and-ink cartoon of a living room covered in dense plaid, checkerboard and crosshatch patterns. A bespectacled man in a plaid shirt sits and points sternly at a boy who stands with his head bowed. A woman in a polka-dot skirt looks on with a hand on her hip. A crumpled paper with a spiral lies on the floor. There is no text. Green T-shirt-style illustration of a small, pixelated 8-bit Link sprite crouching at the lower left. On a black brick wall behind him, his shadow stretches up as a realistic, detailed silhouette of a tall Link holding a sword and shield. The image contains no text. A tire swing hangs from a large oak tree branch over a green grassy hillside with distant hills and a river in the background. White text at lower left reads "THE ORIGINAL PLAYSTATION". Bottom right reads "facebook.com/homesteading". A blurred hand types on a laptop keyboard. Text above reads: "We've all heard that a million monkeys banging on a million typewriters will eventually reproduce the entire works of Shakespeare. Now, thanks to the Internet, we know this is not true." —Professor Robert Wilensky A man with tousled brown hair in a dark pinstriped suit, dark tie and white shirt glances sideways while adjusting his cuffs against a gray backdrop. Black panel text: "Smile, Listen, Agree, and then do whatever the fuck you wanted to do anyway... - Robert Downey Jr." Footer: "NO REGRETS, JUST LOVE ON DAMNLOL.COM". A someecards user card with a green background. Text reads: "My favorite outdoor activity is going back inside where it's warm." Below, five bundled-up people in winter hats sit in a line on a sled sliding downhill. The logo reads "someecards user card". Poster with a faint background of pi's digits in gray, a large black pi symbol, and red text: "Pi is an infinite, nonrepeating decimal - meaning that every possible number combination exists somewhere in pi. Converted into ASCII text, somewhere in that infinite string of digits is the name of every person you will ever love, the date, time, and manner of your death, and the answers to all the great questions of the… Dark gray poster with a white border and light gray capital letters reading: "If you're going to try, go all the way. Otherwise, don't even start. This could mean losing girlfriends, wives, relatives and maybe even your mind." Smaller text at the bottom right reads: "-Charles Bukowski". A demotivational-poster-style image with a black background. A pixel art portrait shows a green-skinned man with a teal pompadour, a cybernetic metal plate over one eye with a glowing red lens, and a purple cloak, against an orange backdrop. Large text: "VIDEO GAME MEME". Smaller text: "Leroy Jenkins stole my sweet roll when I found out the cake was a lie. I yelled objection, but he did a barrel roll, so now all my… 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;…

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