Xennial Memes

Topics Adulting

Courage and Integrity

A white subway-tile wall with a wooden-framed panel lit by lamps and draped with green ivy above. Black capital letters read: "BE BRAVE ENOUGH TO SUCK AT SOMETHING NEW." A sidewalk curb and dark street run below. Photo of a mountain road that has collapsed into a huge gap, with a raised broken slab of asphalt on the far side. A yellow diamond road sign reads "JUST SPEED UP A BIT". A smaller yellow sign below it reads "YOU GOT THIS". Evergreen forest in the background. Black-and-white hand-drawn comic styled like a side-scrolling platformer. A small figure climbs stairs collecting stars and reaches an EXIT. Screen: "LEVEL END you have gathered ✸ x 3,154 it is pointless to gather these". The figure then meets a large dark creature: "i have done nothing wrong but you are still going to destroy me". The creature sobs. Caption: "CREATURE most vulnerable while HEAVING WITH SOBS". The… Quote card over a photo of a rally outside the U.S. Supreme Court building under a gray sky. Text: "To be clear, they don't get to rule on our humanity. They're ruling on their own." KATE SOSIN. A rainbow flag flies above a crowd; a blue sign reads "WE THE PEOPLE MEANS EVERYONE." White uppercase text on a black background reads: "STOP BREAKING YOURSELF DOWN INTO BITE SIZED PIECES STAY WHOLE AND LET THEM CHOKE" Text on a pale yellow background: "When I was in 7th grade, our teacher put on a video and told us to take notes. Ten minutes in, she threw the lights on and shouted at Steven Webb Sladki, telling him he wasn't taking notes and he should have been. But the thing was, Steve was taking notes. I saw it. We all saw it. The teacher asked if anyone wanted to stand up for Steve. A few of us choked out some words of… Photo of a book page titled "A Franciscan Benediction" with red hand-drawn bracket lines in the corners. Text: "May God bless you with discomfort / At easy answers, half-truths, and superficial relationships / So that you may live deep within your heart. May God bless you with anger / At injustice, oppression, and exploitation of people, / So that you may work for justice, freedom and peace. May God bless you with… Top: three whole eggs on a wooden surface, one dark reddish-brown, one light tan, one white. Bottom: a single fried egg on a black background with three orange yolks. Caption in white capital letters: "RACISM EXPLAINED FOR DUMMIES". Aged, creased typewritten memo from the Dallas County Hospital District, Office Memorandum, November 27, 1963, to all employees. It recounts President Kennedy and Governor Connally arriving at Parkland Memorial Hospital on November 22, 1963, and Lee H. Oswald dying there on November 24, 1963. A seven-item list covers what the hospital did in 48 hours and 31 minutes. It closes by praising its people. Signed J.… 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. 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 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." 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". Newspaper clipping headed "Letter of the Week" with the title "What is wrong with you?" Jonna Ramey of Salt Lake City, a 67-year-old white woman, says her WWII-serving parents fought fascism, tells white supremacists to put down their Tiki torches and get involved in real work, and says all Americans stand against hatred and bigotry. Black and white hand-lettered illustration. Inside a white oval wreath of leafy fronds on a scratchy black background, text reads: "Do not be daunted by the enormity of the world's grief. Do justly now. Love mercy now. Walk humbly now. You are not obligated to complete the work, but neither are you free to abandon it." The word "now" is underlined each time. An artist's rendering of a blue-green cloudy planet against a starry dark blue space background, captioned "Artist impression of Kepler 22b". White text reads: "When he (Johannes Kepler) found that his long cherished beliefs did not agree with the most precise observations, he accepted the uncomfortable facts. He preferred the hard truth to his dearest delusions, that is the heart of science." - Carl Sagan Three-panel Cracked.com graphic. Top: text reads "In 1980, Mel Brooks produced "The Elephant Man", based on the tragic story of Joseph "John" Merrick, tapping avant garde filmmaker David Lynch to direct. After seeing a cut of the film, nervous studio execs requested that some of Lynch's more abstract scenes be removed." Beside it is a black-and-white photo of a man with tousled hair wearing headphones. Middle: a… Black-and-white photo of an old dictionary page printed over with large bold gray capital letters reading: "IF IT CAN BE DESTROYED BY THE TRUTH IT DESERVES TO BE DESTROYED BY THE TRUTH" and below it, "CARL SAGAN". Tumblr post. Left: four movie stills. Top, a man in a horned gold helmet smiles, subtitle: "In the end, you will always kneel." Next, an old man in a trench coat stands in a crowd: "Not to men like you." Next, the old man faces the horned figure: "There are no men like me." Last, close-up of the old man: "There are always men like you." Right: a long text post by mizkit, reblogging hawxkeye, about an MCU scene. The…