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This is a two-panel humorous comic meme. The top panel depicts a sidewalk next to a building with an arched window, where a folded paper sign reads "UNHATED Insects ANNUAL MEETING" with a left-pointing arrow. The bottom panel shows a large empty conference room with a round table surrounded by many empty chairs, with only a single blue butterfly sitting at the table as the only person in attendance. The joke is based on the common observation that nearly all insect species are widely disliked by humans, with butterflies being one of the very few exceptions that are generally viewed positively and not hated, making it the only insect to show up to the meeting.

Only Butterfly Attends Unhated Insects Annual Meeting

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This is a 4-panel 2x2 comparative meme. The top row features two profile illustrations of the blonde bearded 'Nordic Chad' meme character facing each other: the left character states 'I want to buy these 5 acres of land', and the right character replies 'that would be 1 million dollars.' The bottom row features two classic Doge (Shiba Inu) meme characters facing each other: the left Doge says 'i peed here so this territory is mine', and the right Doge simply replies 'ok'. The joke lies in contrasting the complicated, high-cost human system of land ownership and purchase with the simple, unchallenged instinct-based territorial marking that dogs use, framing the dog's method as far more straightforward and unarguable.

I peed here.

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This meme features text at the top that reads 'If inhaling bleach powder causes short term memory loss, imagine what inhaling bleach powder does'. Below the text, the character Tom from the *Tom and Jerry* cartoon series stands waist-deep in a cloud of white powder that resembles bleach powder, with a confused, blank, disoriented expression. The joke relies on wordplay and the premise of short term memory loss: the speaker asking the question has already forgotten they stated the exact effect of inhaling bleach powder earlier in the same sentence, making their question redundant, which is visually highlighted by Tom's confused demeanor as if he is already suffering from the memory loss effect described.

Inhaling Bleach Powder Short Term Memory Loss Meme

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This meme features a blurry photograph of a newborn baby swaddled in white fabric, lying on a soft pink surface. Overlaid text reads 'Me at 2007, lying around wasting time instead of studying physics.' The joke relies on absurdist humor: it exaggerates common feelings of regret over not starting to learn difficult subjects like physics earlier, by framing a literal newborn infant (who is completely incapable of studying) as having wasted time in 2007 by not learning advanced academic material.

I should have started then

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This meme shows the back of a bald person's head facing a scenic river landscape. A natural small crack on the crown of the scalp looks extremely similar to human buttock cleavage. Bold yellow text at the top reads 'I JUST UPLOADED THIS TO PORNHUB', and matching yellow text at the bottom reads 'AND NOW I AM BANNED'. The joke comes from a visual pun: the scalp crack is framed as being mistaken for explicit adult content, leading to a ban from the adult platform Pornhub, playing on the site's content moderation rules for humorous effect.

Pornhub doesn't have a sense of humor

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This satirical meme is presented as a screenshot of a fake online news article. The headline claims that gay adult film actor Brandon Cummings, who is said to star in the "Let's Go Brandon" series of male-on-male pornography, was arrested after physically assaulting 35 Neo-Nazis. Below the headline is a mugshot-style photo of a young white man in a white tank top, overlaid on a generic cable news broadcast background featuring a blue digital globe graphic and purple/red light streaks. The meme's title frames the fictional Brandon as an anti-fascist hero, with the "no clothes" line referencing his purported career as an adult performer. The joke relies on wordplay and subversion of the conservative political "Let's Go Brandon" slogan, repurposing it for an absurd, anti-fascist humorous premise.

not all heroes wear clothes

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This is a single-panel meme featuring a vintage image of actor Orson Welles seated at a dining table. In front of him are a plate of fried rice, a Paul Masson Pinot Chardonnay wine bottle, two glasses of rose wine, and a basket of bread. Welles looks directly at the viewer with a stern, disbelieving, overly serious expression. Text placed above the image reads: "A shrimp? Am I to accept, as God's own truth, that the sea's very own abominable and chittering roach, was the one who took wok into hand and fried this rice?". The joke relies on absurdity and tone mismatch: it presents the ridiculous premise that the shrimp ingredient in shrimp fried rice is an intelligent creature that cooked the dish itself, delivered in a pretentious, overly formal dramatic tone that matches Orson Welles' famous sophisticated public persona.

Many skills are acquired under the sea.

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This meme uses the popular 'couple lying in bed' stock photo template, showing a woman and man lying side by side under covers, both looking thoughtful and facing opposite directions. The caption over the woman follows the standard template trope, reading 'I bet he's thinking about other women', referencing the common comedic premise that women assume their distant male partners are thinking of romantic rivals. The caption over the man completely subverts this trope, reading 'Who the fuck is the guy taking picture of us', pointing out the logical absurdity of an unseen third person being present to take a photo of the couple in their private bedroom, breaking the fourth wall of the meme format for a comedic twist.

Couple In Bed Meme Wonders Who The Photographer Is

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The image is a viral meme featuring a grey tabby cat posing for a police mugshot, positioned in front of a hand-drawn height measurement board marked with numbers 10, 15, and 20. A circular inset in the top right corner shows the same cat having its paw pressed onto an ink pad for a paw print as part of a mock police booking process, held by a uniformed officer. Text at the bottom of the image reads 'Cat "arrested" in Bangkok after biting police officer, mugshot goes viral.' The cat has large wide eyes and a neutral, slightly confused expression, wearing a grey fabric collar with a pink identification tag. The humor comes from the absurd application of standard human criminal booking procedures to a pet cat.

Viral Bangkok 'Arrested' Cat Mugshot Meme

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The meme features a photograph of a person holding a very large giant African land snail in their cupped hands. Above the photo, text reads 'Please. My rabbit. He's very sick.' The joke comes from the absurd intentional misidentification of the large snail as a sick shaved rabbit, leaning into nonsensical absurdist internet humor by mismatching the animal shown and the label given to it.

My Very Sick Rabbit (Giant Snail Meme)

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This is a 4-panel edited Calvin and Hobbes comic meme satirizing overly simplistic, arbitrary two-category classification systems common on the internet. In the first panel, Calvin's dad approaches Calvin who is sitting with a radio, saying he will show him something interesting about indie games. In the second panel, the dad asserts that all indie games fit exactly two categories: *Slay the Spire* and *Slay the Princess*, assigning Hades to the *Slay the Spire* bucket and Outer Wilds to *Slay the Princess*, which Calvin initially agrees with. In the third panel, the dad continues to incorrectly assign completely unrelated indie games to the two arbitrary categories: Minecraft is labeled *Slay the Spire*, Celeste is labeled *Slay the Princess*, and even Inscryption, a roguelike card game that shares no premise with *Slay the Princess*, is assigned to that category. The fourth panel uses the iconic Calvin bed freakout reaction panel, showing Calvin horrified by the absurd, nonsensical categorization.

The two types of indie games meme

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This is a long vertical multi-panel webcomic drawn in a simple, popular minimalist cartoon style. It follows a completely nonsensical, absurdist plot: starting with a conversation about union dues at work, it abruptly shifts to characters finding a supposed 'Scroll of Truth', getting into fights, going on an unplanned adventure, encountering blue alien-like creatures, visiting a burning building, and ends with no coherent conclusion, filled with random jokes, casual swearing, and unexpected plot shifts designed for humorous effect.

Chaotic Absurdist Long Minimalist Comic

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