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This is a screenshot of a satirical mobile app store page for an educational app named *Jewish History*, published under the developer name HistoryofTheWorld. The app icon features a Star of David over a grayscale historical photo, is listed as 6.5MB in size, rated appropriate for ages 3+, notes that it contains ads and in-app purchases, and has a large green install button. The dark humor of the meme comes from the 1-star user review shown below the install button: the reviewer uses the display name "Adolf Hitler", has a portrait of the real historical figure Adolf Hitler as their profile picture, and left the 1-star review on 24/05/2022. The joke relies on the widely known historical context that Adolf Hitler orchestrated the Holocaust, the genocide of millions of Jewish people, so his implied extremely negative opinion of Jewish history communicated via the 1-star review is darkly ironic.

Jewish History App Inappropriate Review Meme

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This is a black-and-white single-panel rage comic meme. The left side features a classic enraged rage comic character labeled 'Utah police' yelling aggressively. The right side features a smaller, calm, smiling wojak-style character casually responding to the angry figure. The extreme mismatch between the police character's over-the-top violent anger and the other character's extremely harmless statement about not stealing Lego satirizes a real controversy where Utah law enforcement received widespread criticism for using excessive, disproportionate force and aggressive tactics against people engaged in Lego resale, treating the minor low-stakes activity as if it was a serious violent or drug-related crime, which is also referenced in the original post title.

I'm not selling heroin either

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This meme uses juxtaposition for comedic effect. The top text sets up a relatable scenario where an average consumer gives gentle, constructive criticism of a multi-billion dollar media company's show or movie, stating they found the characters bland and the plot overly basic. The lower section uses a screenshot from the 2019 satirical film *Jojo Rabbit*, where the child protagonist yells an aggressive, hostile insult at an off-screen character, representing the vastly disproportionate angry response the large media company gives to the minor negative feedback.

Large media company reaction to mild criticism

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This image is a screenshot of a public text post from the Reddit r/teenagers subreddit, tagged as a 'Rant' and marked 18+. The post sets up a series of parallel comparisons to point out a perceived unfair double standard: it notes that completing one instance of an action associated with an identity (painting one painting, drinking one beer, killing one person) does not earn someone the associated identity label (artist, alcoholic, serial killer). It then delivers the punchline: the speaker complains that slapping their male friend's (homie's) butt once leads others to immediately label them as gay, questioning the inconsistency of this social judgment. The humor comes from the absurd, deliberately provocative pairing of minor friendly platonic physical affection with far more serious identity categories, as well as the relatable joke about rigid unwritten social norms around platonic physical contact between cisgender heterosexual men.

How Is It Fair That Slapping Your Homie's Ass Once Labels You Gay

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This meme pairs a reaction shot of Christof, the controlling showrunner from the 1998 film *The Truman Show*, with absurdist edgy text above the image that reads: 'now that he is homeless, spawn the biggest titty goth chick in the world. make her super horny'. The original Reddit post this meme was shared with is titled 'You want to come over to my cardboard box?', implying the follow-up interaction is the homeless man inviting the spawned goth girlfriend to stay at his cardboard box home. The humor derives from the absurd premise of a god-like figure arranging a very specific, sexually charged fantasy partner for a random homeless person, leaning into over-the-top wish fulfillment comedy.

Christof Plans Goth Girlfriend For Homeless Man Meme

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This is an edgy reaction meme. The top portion of the image has a black banner with white text that reads 'When your girlfriend is crying about how her male best friend was beaten up by two guys but you paid for four'. Below the text is a close-up screenshot of the character Gustavo 'Gus' Fring from the TV show *Breaking Bad*, taken from the season 4 finale scene right after he survives a bomb explosion, with half his face burned off, wearing a stoic, slightly annoyed unbothered expression. The humor comes from the implication that the boyfriend narrator orchestrated the attack on his girlfriend's male best friend, hiring four people to assault him, and only feels frustrated that he wasted money paying for four attackers when only two showed up to complete the beating, showing no remorse for the incident even as his girlfriend is upset. The stoic annoyed expression of Gus perfectly matches the narrator's petty, unapologetic sentiment.

Poor Me Paid For Four Meme

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This is a 2-panel reaction meme using the widely recognized Drake Hotline Bling template. The top panel shows Drake making a rejecting, disgusted hand gesture next to the text 'HANTAVIRUS', to signal disapproval of the hantavirus. The bottom panel shows Drake smiling and giving an approving pointing gesture next to the text 'HENTAI VIDEOS', to signal he prefers hentai videos over hantavirus. The joke relies on the strong phonetic similarity between the words 'hantavirus' and 'hentai', creating an edgy, absurd comparison between two unrelated items based solely on how similar they sound.

No more hantavirus

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This is a classic Philosoraptor Advice Animal meme, set against a light green gradient background. The central graphic is a stylized illustration of a velociraptor holding one claw up to its chin in a contemplative, thinking pose. Bold white text is placed at the top and bottom of the image: the top text reads 'IF WOMEN HAVE NO TESTICLES', and the bottom text reads 'WHERE DO THEY STORE THEIR MICROPLASTICS?'. The joke relies on a flawed, absurd logical leap: it references the widely shared factoid that microplastics have been detected in human testicles, and falsely assumes testicles are the only location microplastics accumulate in the human body, to create an intentionally ridiculous, edgy pseudo-scientific question.

Philosoraptor Absurd Microplastics Storage Question

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This 4-panel comic meme features the popular 'Chill Guy' anthropomorphic brown dog character meeting the Grim Reaper in the afterlife, signified by the halo above his head. Panel 1: The Grim Reaper tells Chill Guy 'IT IS TIME TO GO.' Panel 2: Chill Guy asks the Reaper 'Was I a good meme?' Panel 3: The Reaper bluntly responds 'NO.' Panel 4: As Chill Guy attempts to justify his popularity by saying 'At least im a Chi-', likely referencing the similarly over-saturated Chiikawa meme franchise, the Reaper rudely cuts him off saying 'Please shut the fuck up.' The humor comes from mocking the overexposure and audience fatigue of overused viral meme characters in 2020s internet culture.

Chill Guy Asks Grim Reaper If He Was A Good Meme

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The image features online streamer and commentator Shoe0nhead (June Lapine) in a streaming setup, with an American flag lit by pink and purple ambient lighting in the background and a microphone visible in the foreground. She has a calm, slightly smug, unbothered expression as she throws a piece of paper into a large trash bin next to her. The trash bin bears a printed label reading "unsolicited opinions from online prostitutes". The joke functions as a dismissive rejection of unprompted, unwanted opinions from groups the poster does not respect. As a proposed meme format, the label text on the trash bin can be edited to reference any group or type of opinion the user wants to disregard.

Proposed Meme Format For Dismissing Unwanted Opinions

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This is a two-panel reaction meme. The top panel displays bold white text above a confused seagull tilting its head, which reads 'THAT WHITE DUDE WHEN HE FINDS OUT HIS GREAT X200 GRANDPARENTS WERE AFRICAN:'. The bottom panel features the same seagull screaming with its beak fully open, set against a blurry bright red background with motion lines to indicate extreme, frantic anger, with the partial text 'N-' below it implying the character is about to yell a racial slur. The meme satirizes white people who claim they are not racist, but react with extreme defensive anger and attempt to justify using anti-Black slurs when they learn they have distant ancient African ancestry, mocking performative non-racism and racial hypocrisy.

I'm Not Racist White Guy Ancestry Reveal Seagull Meme

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This meme is composed of two parts: the top section is a screenshot of a Reddit post from user u/Invic-117 asking the question 'What's a good movie where the "good guys" lost?', and the bottom section is a reaction image of Gumball Watterson from the animated series *The Amazing World of Gumball*, dressed in a suit sitting behind an office desk with a smug, scheming knowing expression, with the caption below him reading 'I think we all know where this is going'. The joke relies on the common internet trend where users respond to this type of question with controversial, often offensive hot takes that reference real-world tragic or politically contested events (framed as the 'movie' in question), leading to heated, toxic arguments in the comment section, which aligns with the original 9Gag title referencing needing hazmat suits to engage with the content.

Hazmat suits ready: Good guys lost movie question meme

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