Xennial Memes

Xennial Memes

A large black opening quotation mark above gray bold text: "The reasonable man adapts himself to the world. The unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man." Below, in black: George Bernard Shaw, Maxims for Revolutionists. Chart titled "The Periodic Table of Storytelling" laid out like a periodic table of color-coded boxes, each a TV Tropes trope with an abbreviation, name and popularity number, e.g. Ae An Aesop, Cal Call to Adventure, 4wl The Fourth Wall. Footer: "All these tropes and twenty thousand more are detailed on tvtropes.org". A slide with a dark teal background and a small red tab at the top right. White capital letters read: "THERE IS NO "DIGITAL STRATEGY" ANYMORE, JUST STRATEGY IN A DIGITAL WORLD." Black borders surround the slide. Pixel art equation. Small 8-bit Mario, labeled "Person who's a potential customer", plus a Fire Flower, labeled "Your product", equals Fire Mario throwing a fireball, labeled "Awesome person who can do rad shit!" An orange arrow from the text "This isn't what your business sells." points at the flower. A blue arrow from "This is." points at Fire Mario. Footer: "© 2013 UserOnboard.com" A five-level pyramid diagram titled "The Hierarchy of Innovation". Top: "Technologies of the Self" e.g., self-expression, identity management, pharmaceuticals, personalization, vanity. Next: "Technologies of Leisure" e.g., entertainment, mass media, consumer goods and services, athletics, travel. Next: "Technologies of Prosperity" e.g., systems of manufacturing, transport, energy, finance, communication, education,… Vintage-style poster with a gray Super Nintendo controller illustration on crinkled cream paper. Text below reads "GAMING since 1988". Footer reads "VICTORIABRETON.COM | VBTYPOGRAPHY.ETSY.COM | VICTORIABRETON.TUMBLR.COM". A faint watermark reads "VICTORIABRETON". Bold black sans-serif text on a white background reads "Fuck it," then a black-and-white pen-and-ink illustration of a sailing ship with billowing sails on waves, then "it." The ship stands in for the word "ship." A huge dark flowchart titled "How to Write a Game Story". A green START triangle leads to "Add zombies." and "Do you care about story?", then branches through questions like "Are you pretentious?", "Sweet. Genre?", "Is there a princess, possibly in another castle?", "Aliens?", "Mafia?", and "Cool with cribbing Tolkien?". Endings include "THE END", "NOPE SEQUEL", "Oh. You don't need this chart.", and "Real clever.… White pixelated text on a black background dotted with small yellow pixel stars reads: "EVERYTHING NOT SAVED WILL BE LOST." Photoshopped image of a man in a black pea coat, jeans and cream driving gloves, sitting in a saddle with reins on the back of a giant mallard duck. He looks upward and smiles against a pale gray-green sky. No text. A red quote card with a white opening quotation mark above a white horizontal line. White capital letters read: "VIDEO GAMES FOSTER THE MINDSET THAT ALLOWS CREATIVITY TO GROW." Below a second white line is the attribution "NOLAN BUSHNELL". Black-and-white photo of a street riot: an overturned burning car, smoke, and several young men standing in a debris-strewn street. Torn paper strips are pasted over it. The top strip reads "i like to stay up late on the computer". The bottom strip reads "and look for answers." Circular Myers-Briggs infographic with a pink and yellow wheel at center (Extroversion, Introversion, Intuition, Sensing, Feeling, Thinking, Judging, Perceiving). Around it, 16 type descriptions, from ENFJ to ISFP, each paired with a caricature of a famous person. Credit: Illustrations by Chris Morris. Photo of an open book page. Heading: "THE SUN NEVER SAYS". Poem: "Even / After / All this time / The sun never says to the earth, / "You owe / Me." / Look / What happens / With a love like that, / It lights the / Whole / Sky." A small star ornament sits above the title. Photo of a yellowed newspaper clipping on a paper towel. It reads: "DEAR ABBY: A long time ago, you had a definition of "maturity" that I kept and liked a lot. I can't find it. Can you dig it up, please? – Mother in Osceola, Ark. Dear Mother: Consider it dug. It was penned by my mother: This is maturity: To be able to stick with a job until it's finished; to do one's duty without being supervised; to be able to… A vial of dark red blood with a red cap beside a block of text. It reads: "It contains more than 4,000 chemicals and it has spread into every human body on Earth." "Among its components are formaldehyde, acetone, ethanol, ketone bodies, dihydrogen monoxide, tryptophan, urea, Dehydroepiandrosterone, Hexosephosphate P, and at least 20 kinds of acids." "Nearly every chemical constituent will, in certain… Six-panel comic-style meme repeating a sepia portrait of a man with slicked-back dark hair and a mustache in a dark coat and high white collar. Panel 1: "Invents A/C Electricity" / "Tries to give it to the world for free". Panel 2: "Finds out someone is using one of his patents" / ""Let him use them, he is doing good work."" Panel 3: "Finds out a contract he has with someone will cause that person to lose their… A someecards user card with a vintage illustration of a kneeling man in a hat gesturing at the ground while a woman in a long dress and hat stands with her back to us. Text: "Behold! The field in which I grow my fucks. Lay thine eyes upon it and thou shalt see that it is barren." Logo: someecards, user card. 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".

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