Xennial Memes
A blonde woman with glasses in a red t-shirt sits surrounded by enormous towering piles of books, reading a large open book. Top text: "SOME PEOPLE PREFER PLAYING VIDEO GAMES." Bottom text: "OTHERS PREFER STARING AT MARKED SLICES OF TREES AND HALLUCINATE VIVIDLY FOR HOURS ON END."

Some Prefer Video Games, Others Hallucinate Over Books

A deadpan joke describing reading books as staring at marked slices of trees and hallucinating, contrasted with video games. A bookworm's reply for a pre-screen childhood.

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A blonde woman with glasses in a red t-shirt sits surrounded by enormous towering piles of books, reading a large open book. Top text: "SOME PEOPLE PREFER PLAYING VIDEO GAMES." Bottom text: "OTHERS PREFER STARING AT MARKED SLICES OF TREES AND HALLUCINATE VIVIDLY FOR HOURS ON END."

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A small child in a white unicorn costume with a horn and spines crouches with arms out on a grassy lawn, facing a boy in a yellow Star Trek command uniform who points a toy blue and yellow space blaster at them. Top text: "NEVER LET NORMAL". Bottom text: "INTERFERE WITH AWESOME". 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." 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". Illustrated row of colorful book spines on a wooden shelf, including To Kill a Mockingbird, The Kite Runner, Forever by Judy Blume, Huckleberry Finn, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, Bridge to Terabithia, Of Mice and Men, The Catcher in the Rye, The Giver, The Bluest Eye, The Handmaid's Tale, Harry Potter, The Color Purple, and A Wrinkle in Time. Below it reads: I'M WITH THE BANNED A smiling young woman with short dark bangs and a teal headband glances at the camera while pointing at a big red button on a beige industrial control panel. She wears a rainbow wristwatch. The panel reads: "ESCHATRON 9000". Warning: "DO NOT OPERATE THE ESCHATRON 9000 UNLESS YOU'RE REALLY, REALLY SERIOUS ABOUT DESTROYING THE WORLD". Labels: "MAYHEM", "TEMPERATURE" with a display reading 113, "DESTRUCTION",… A pink-to-red sign mounted on a dark stone wall below a red brick wall, above a white-framed window. White text reads: "THE "GUNS DON'T KILL PEOPLE" PEOPLE SURE SEEM TO THINK A BOOK CAN MAKE YOU GAY." Small text at bottom right: "@NoahGarfinkel".

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