GagBase Logo Explore

Tag: controversial

This is a 4-panel satirical comic illustrating purported new broadcasting guidelines for women's athletics. Panel 1 (top left, green checkmark): A full-body shot of a cisgender female athlete running on a track is marked as allowed. Panel 2 (top right, red X): An upskirt shot of a female athlete participating in pole vault is marked as prohibited. Panel 3 (bottom left, green checkmark): A close-up shot focusing on the prominent groin bulge of a transgender female athlete pressed against a pole vault bar is marked as allowed. Panel 4 (bottom right, red X): A full-body shot of a male athlete running on a track is marked as prohibited. The meme satirizes perceived inconsistent and controversial double standards in modern women's sports policy, mocking the contradiction between rules against sexualizing cisgender female athletes, acceptance of imagery highlighting biological male traits of trans female athletes competing in women's categories, and the exclusion of cisgender male athletes from women's sports coverage.

New broadcasting guidelines for women's athletics

This is a 4-panel satirical c…

This meme consists of two parts: a block of text at the top, followed by a screenshot from the ending of the 1997 film *Titanic*. The top text points out that in the film's ending, the character Rose reunites in the afterlife with Jack, the poor young 'bad boy' she had a brief passionate affair with at age 18 (cheating on her wealthy fiancé with him), instead of with the husband she spent most of her life with and who fathered her children. The image below shows the iconic afterlife reunion scene, where Jack and Rose stand face to face looking at each other affectionately, with other passengers who died on the Titanic watching them from the surrounding balconies. The meme uses this detail from the film to argue the point stated in its title, that conventional lifelong marriage and having children do not necessarily bring women the most happiness, compared to the intense romantic connection of young love.

Just shows that marriage and kids don’t make women happy

This meme consists of two par…

This is a two-panel satirical meme using the widely known 'two red buttons indecisive choice' template. The top panel displays two adjacent large red buttons, respectively labeled 'PROSECUTE PEDOPHILES' and 'PROTECT PEDOPHILES', with a hand hovering uncertainly between the two options. The bottom panel shows a stressed, sweating man wearing a red and white outfit, labeled 'AMERICANS' at the bottom, wiping sweat from his forehead as he struggles to decide which button to press. The meme serves as critical social commentary, satirizing the perceived widespread indecision or conflict in American society and politics around addressing child sexual exploitation, implying there is a faction that is torn between holding perpetrators accountable and shielding them from consequences.

Difficult Choice For Americans Regarding Pedophile Consequences

This is a two-panel satirical…

This is a text-only post consisting of a bold opening claim followed by a personal anecdote and a closing question. The opening statement asserts that most men would prefer to die alone rather than date their long-time crush if she has a child with another man. The anecdote describes the poster's male friend who pined after a girl from high school for over a decade who never returned his interest; after the girl had a child with a partner who abandoned her, she began pursuing the friend, who rejected her. The friend explained he would rather stay permanently single than raise another man's child after being treated as a backup option for so long, claiming most men share this view. The poster ends by expressing confusion that a child is treated as an insurmountable dating dealbreaker that erases all prior romantic interest, asking readers why this is the case.

Women, am I right? Men rejecting crushes who have children from other partners

This is a text-only post cons…

This is an iteration of the widely used 'Change My Mind' meme format. It features public commentator Steven Crowder sitting outdoors at a campus table holding a branded mug, with an edited sign attached to the front of the table that reads 'Self diagnosed autism is ableism' above the standard template text 'CHANGE MY MIND'. The meme is used to criticize people who incorrectly self-diagnose autism solely because they have niche or unusual interests, framing this unqualified self-diagnosis as ableist toward people who are formally diagnosed as autistic.

Just because you have interests doesn’t mean you’re autistic buddy

This is an iteration of the w…

This image is a combined screenshot of two social media posts. The top section is a tweet from user @AarielWestCoast (display name THEE SAGITTARIUS) posted on June 2, 2020, which states: 'sometimes you don't even realize you was sexually assaulted until months or years later', referencing the well-documented real phenomenon that sexual assault survivors often take extended periods of time to process and recognize their experience as assault. Below this shared tweet is a comment from user Mil An that reads: 'or even decades . After he earns enough money .', presenting a controversial, darkly humorous implication that some individuals make false sexual assault allegations years after the alleged incident specifically to seek financial gain once the accused has accumulated significant wealth.

Let that sink in

This image is a combined scre…

This image is a screenshot of a public post from the X (formerly Twitter) platform. The post, written by verified user Zuby (@ZubyMusic), presents an opinion about common misinterpretations of strength in women: it states that men are not intimidated by truly strong women, but that many women incorrectly equate aggressive, rude, and unpleasant behavior with strength. The text clarifies that this kind of negative behavior makes a person insufferable, and that men avoid people who act this way not because they cannot handle them, but because they have better, more pleasant options to choose from, ending with a laughing crying emoji to add a lighthearted tone to the statement.

Fact: Men Aren't Intimidated By Strong Women, Just Rude Unpleasant Ones

This image is a screenshot of…

This image is a screenshot of a public exchange on the X (formerly Twitter) platform. The first post by user @moonchild asks the question: 'gun to ur head and name one thing japan gave to the world? Excluding Anime', and includes an image of the national flag of Japan, a white background with a solid red circle in the center, as the implied answer. A second user, Modern Crow @TheModern..., replies to the post with the line 'Humans are roughly 70% water'. This forms a dark, edgy joke: the red circle on the Japanese flag is implied to represent the 30% of the human body that is not water, referencing mass casualties associated with either Japanese imperial war crimes during World War II, or the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, framing the red circle as blood or incinerated remains. The original post shows engagement metrics of 1.4K comments, 80 retweets, and 620 likes.

Edgy Dark Humor Post Asking For Japan's Contributions Excluding Anime

This image is a screenshot of…

This is a single-panel hand-drawn cartoon illustration. It depicts a Black man wearing a blue beanie holding a blood-stained knife in one hand and pointing off-screen with the other, speaking to a UK police officer (identifiable by the checkered band on his police hat, who is shown from the back). The man says in a speech bubble: "BUT OFFICER, HE SEEMED KINDA RACIST." The dark, satirical joke hinges on the absurdity of the character trying to use a claim that the person he apparently stabbed was racist as a justification for committing violent assault, mocking excessive or performative responses to perceived bigotry.

But Officer He Seemed Kinda Racist Satirical Comic

This is a single-panel hand-d…

This image is a screenshot of a public X (formerly Twitter) thread. The initial tweet, posted by user @lataina_, states "Black people built Europe" and received 18 retweets and 8 likes. A reply to this tweet from user @ChrisE5... reads "When they going to build Africa?", a sarcastic rhetorical question framing the original claim as contradictory, which received 1 comment, 6 retweets, and 51 likes. The meme is titled "Burn" as the reply is widely perceived as a sharp, dismissive clapback to the original controversial claim.

Burn: Sarcastic Reply to 'Black People Built Europe' Tweet

This image is a screenshot of…

This collage meme features a dark humorous premise. It includes a block of explanatory text at the top, a main photo of Italian woman Cinzia Dal Pino smiling as she stands near a river with a historic stone bridge in the background, and a smaller inset nighttime photo of a white car positioned on a set of outdoor stairs. The top text states that Cinzia was robbed at knifepoint by Said Malkoun; after the robbery, she got into her car, ran the robber over multiple times killing him, retrieved her stolen bag, drove away, and was set to be sentenced for her actions on the day the post was published. The title refers to the dark joke that the deceased robber can no longer commit any future robberies.

Well, he won't do it again.

This collage meme features a …

This meme combines a widely used reaction shot of actress Amber Heard making a skeptical, judgmental side-eye expression with a screenshot of an anonymous social media post. The post is written by a woman who admits she cheated on her husband once during their 10-year marriage, and expresses frustration that her husband immediately left her, served divorce papers, and refused to speak to her or accept her apologies over two years. The title asks the "council" of internet viewers to share their judgment on the situation described.

Let’s hear what the council says.

This meme combines a widely u…