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This meme creates a comedic crossover between the Pokemon franchise and the Sam Raimi Spider-Man film series. The top text states 'Pidgey after learning sand attack be like', referencing the common Pokemon move Sand Attack that lowers an opponent's accuracy by throwing sand or dirt in their eyes. The visual is a still of Tobey Maguire as Peter Parker/Spider-Man from the 2002 Spider-Man film, edited with the iconic yellow and black face markings of the Pokemon Pidgey over his eyes. The bottom text features the famous movie line 'I'm gonna put some dirt in your eye', which directly parallels the effect of the Sand Attack move to deliver the joke.

Pidgey After Learning Sand Attack Spider-Man Crossover Meme

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This animated meme shows a sequence of events: first, an empty public deck on a cruise ship is displayed, followed by an anime girl in tactical military armor and a helmet aiming a heavy grenade launcher at the empty deck area. The entire deck then erupts in a massive, fiery explosion, and finally the girl peeks out from behind cover with a satisfied, smug expression. The overlaid text jokes that this is the reaction of the poster and their friend when they locate the last remaining person on a cruise ship, as they are determined to avoid another global pandemic. The joke references the widespread COVID-19 outbreaks that occurred on cruise ships in the early days of the 2020 global pandemic, using dark humor to joke about taking extreme measures to stop the spread of disease and prevent another pandemic.

Me and Bro Eliminating the Last Person on a Ship to Avoid Another Pandemic

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This meme is a photograph of the official PlayStation 4 Blu-ray disc for the Mature-rated hack-and-slash game *Onechanbara Chaos*. The disc art features a revealingly posed, fanservice-heavy female character from the game against a bright pink background, alongside standard branding for the game, publisher Xseed Games, ESRB, Blu-ray, and PS4. The image is used as a comedic answer to the question of why people still purchase physical video game discs, implying that the unique, often provocative or appealing physical artwork included with physical copies is a key benefit that digital game purchases do not offer.

Why people still buy physical game discs

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The image shows a printed school creative writing assignment sheet placed on a wooden table, with a sharpened pencil resting at its top left corner. The assignment prompt requires students to write a short story about redemption, with the name field filled as 'Pedro' and the date listed as 07/02/2025. Instead of submitting a written story, the submitter added a detailed hand-drawn pencil portrait of Arthur Morgan, the protagonist of the popular video game *Red Dead Redemption 2*, alongside his iconic line 'I'M AFRAID...'. A perfect 10/10 grade is circled at the top right of the drawing. The joke of the meme relies on the fact that Arthur Morgan's entire character arc in *Red Dead Redemption 2* is a widely celebrated, well-known narrative focused entirely on redemption, making the drawing a technically correct, clever answer to the prompt that earned full marks.

10/10 Redemption Short Story Meme

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This image is a screenshot of a chat-based rock paper scissors game. The right-side player previously chose 'scissors' which beat the left-side player's 'paper', bringing the score to 6-0 in the right player's favor. The left player enthusiastically compliments the right player for dominating the game, assuming their winning streak is based on luck or skill. For round 7, the left player explicitly announces they are choosing 'rock', then asks for the right player's move. The right player is shown about to select 'paper', which will beat rock and extend their winning streak, making the joke that the left player is completely oblivious to the fact that the right player is just picking the obvious counter to their openly announced choice every round.

It's Just Luck Rock Paper Scissors Meme

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This is a photograph of a display showing a Genshin Impact in-game co-op chat interface. A user named loren first asks other players in the lobby where they are from. User Akeno replies they are from France and asks the same question back, another player answers they are from Russia, then a fourth player states they are from Ukraine. After this exchange, both the Russian and Ukrainian players only send the response 'oh', signifying a very awkward, tense silence between the two parties that references the ongoing geopolitical conflict between Russia and Ukraine. Playable Genshin Impact characters Zhongli and Cyno are visible standing with their backs turned to the viewer in a rocky in-game environment behind the chat overlay.

Awkward Genshin Impact Co-op Chat Between Russian and Ukrainian Players

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The GIF shows Peter Griffin from the animated series Family Guy, visibly enraged, repeatedly punching an interior wall. His fist breaks through the drywall, leaving a hole, and he becomes splattered with blood from the impact. The text above the footage reads "Game ends on a cliffhanger Studio shuts down". The meme conveys the extreme anger and disappointment gamers feel when a video game they enjoy ends on an unresolved narrative cliffhanger, and no sequel will ever be released because the game's development studio has shut down, a common occurrence that many players can relate to with multiple real world examples coming to mind.

It's sad that so many games come to mind

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This is an edited cross-over gaming meme combining assets from two popular video games. The background and dialogue interface are taken from the Yakuza (Like A Dragon) series, featuring protagonist Kazuma Kiryu's portrait in a standard in-game dialogue box. A pixelated chicken sprite from Stardew Valley is placed in the top left of the frame, with the text 'B'gawk!' below it mimicking a chicken clucking sound. The dialogue attributed to Kiryu reads: 'Hello Chicken, your name will be... Nugget'. The joke relies on the absurd pun of naming a live chicken after the common prepared food chicken nugget, and references the iconic cutscene in Yakuza 6: The Song of Life where Kiryu names the infant he finds.

Kazuma Kiryu Names A Chicken 'Nugget' Gaming Meme

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This is a two-panel reaction meme using characters from the animated series *The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron*. The top panel features the character Sheen Estevez, with a red 'Nintendo' label over his face, grinning excitedly while holding up a Nintendo Switch game case for the Star Fox franchise, accompanied by the text 'We're finally remaking Star Fox!'. The bottom panel features Grandma Neutron, looking exasperated and annoyed while sitting at a desk, with the response text 'Nintendo, this is the 4th time you've remade Star Fox.'. The meme jokes about Nintendo's pattern of repeatedly releasing remakes or re-releases of the Star Fox franchise instead of developing new, highly requested titles or new intellectual property.

They Did It Again: Nintendo Remakes Star Fox For The Fourth Time

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This is a two-panel comparison meme. The text at the top reads 'Fox in the new game reminds me of someone....'. The left panel features the widely shared viral photograph of a real red fox with an uncanny, forced wide smile and bulging wide eyes that became a popular internet meme. The right panel shows the fox non-player character from the 2023 Bethesda video game Starfield, who wears a futuristic headset and gear, and has a near-identical awkward wide smile and bulging eye expression as the meme fox. The humor comes from the unexpected and hilarious uncanny resemblance between the newly released game character and the pre-existing viral meme subject.

New Game Fox Looks Identical To The Awkward Smiling Fox Meme

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This is a text-over-anime-image meme. The top section has two lines of text: the first is a suggestive romantic/sexual request reading "Touch me like you touch your controller", and the second line is the absurd punchline reading "*throws her against the wall*". The joke relies on referencing common gamer behavior of aggressively throwing their game controller when frustrated, taking the initial request completely literally. Below the text is a screenshot of the anime character Esdeath from *Akame ga Kill*, shown blushing heavily with a shocked, stunned open-mouthed expression reacting to being thrown against the wall.

Touch me like your controller Esdeath meme

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This is a 6-panel digital webcomic. The first panel shows a nuclear explosion devastating the world outside, while a stick figure character smiles from inside a radiation bunker, stating he is happy the world has ended. The next three panels show the character confirming he has plenty of fuel for his generator, a fully stocked supply of snacks and drinks, and zero remaining responsibilities now that civilization has collapsed. In the fifth panel, the character sits on a bean bag chair wearing headphones, holding a game controller, excitedly announcing that his perfect gaming session can finally begin. The final panel is the punchline: the video game screen displays an error message saying authentication failed, asking him to check his internet connection, which is no longer available after the apocalypse. The joke satirizes the frustration of always-online DRM requirements for modern video games, which prevent playing even when all other ideal conditions for gaming are met.

Gamers will relate

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