Xennial Memes
Photo of a curved yellow poster on a London Underground platform at Covent Garden, beside a red-and-blue roundel sign reading "COVENT GARDEN". Purple scribbly hand-lettered text on the poster reads: "MASS SURVEILLANCE IS MADE BY MACHINE MEN WITH MACHINE HEARTS".

Machine Men Surveillance Ad in the Tube

A yellow Tube poster at Covent Garden quotes "machine men with machine hearts", a Chaplin-style warning about mass surveillance that sits oddly well with Xennial dystopian worries.

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Photo of a curved yellow poster on a London Underground platform at Covent Garden, beside a red-and-blue roundel sign reading "COVENT GARDEN". Purple scribbly hand-lettered text on the poster reads: "MASS SURVEILLANCE IS MADE BY MACHINE MEN WITH MACHINE HEARTS".

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