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Disapproving Mom Reacts to Daughter's Keg Stand Photo Graduation Cake

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The meme uses a soft pink background covered in light and white heart shapes, some decorated with small pink bows. At the top, bold pink text with a white outline reads 'remember to eat your diploma to absorb the knowledge!'. Below the text is a black and white tuxedo cat with bright green eyes, lying down and looking directly at the viewer with a deadpan calm expression. The cat is edited to wear a black graduation cap with a gold tassel, and two diploma props are placed in front of it: one flat printed State Board of Education diploma, and one rolled diploma tied with a red ribbon. The joke is the absurd, illogical premise that physically consuming a diploma document will transfer the knowledge the document represents to the eater, rather than the diploma just acting as a certificate for already completed learning.

Graduation Cat Advises Eating Your Diploma For Knowledge

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This meme uses a viral scene from the 2021 Pixar animated film Luca, where an adult man casually tosses a young boy off a stone ledge while his wife stands behind him. The text overlay at the top satirizes the experience of many college graduates: after receiving their diploma (referred to as a 'sheet of paper'), they are sent out into the world by their colleges with no practical training or guidance on how to secure employment, with the institutions showing no concern for their students' post-graduation outcomes.

Thank You College: Graduates Get No Job Prep Meme

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This collage meme has three core parts: The top section has text explaining the poster made a hand-drawn Pikachu tie for their father when they were in 1st grade, and 11 years later the father wore that same tie to the poster's high school graduation. The left panel is a close-up of the homemade, child-drawn tie, which features a crude illustration of Pikachu from the Pokemon franchise on a dark background, with small extra cartoon faces drawn above Pikachu. The right panel is a photograph of a smiling father wearing a cowboy hat, blue shirt, and the handmade Pikachu tie, posing next to his child who is dressed in a red graduation cap and gown, wearing a 'cum laude' honor sash. At the bottom of the collage is a popular reaction banner pulled from the Fallout video game series that reads 'Everyone liked that', framing the moment as universally heartwarming and positively received.

Dad wears 11-year-old handmade Pikachu tie to his kid's graduation

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This meme is split into two sections. The top is a screenshot of a redacted social media comment from a bartender, who explains they ruin graduation parties by congratulating new graduates, revealing they hold the exact same degree as the graduate, then asking what the graduate would like to drink. The joke relies on the implication that the degree failed to get the bartender a job in their field, leaving them working as a bartender, which immediately crushes the new graduate's optimistic expectations for their post-grad career. The bottom is a two-panel reaction meme: the left panel shows a 3D rendered yellow cartoon character with a smug, deadpan expression, while the right panel shows the same character laughing maniacally while surrounded by flames, with the word "Bartender" overlaid across both panels to represent the bartender's mischievous, unapologetic reaction to dashing the graduates' hopes.

Bartender with matching degree ruins graduation parties

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This edited 3D animated meme features Woody from the Toy Story franchise standing with an anxious, pained, uncomfortable expression. Next to him is a red-haired young woman wearing a blue graduation cap and a pink halter top, who rests one arm on Woody's shoulder while holding her other hand out in a dismissive waving gesture, set in an indoor room with light walls and wooden flooring consistent with Toy Story's art style. The joke plays on relatable feelings of leaving childhood nostalgia and possessions behind after graduating, as the graduate figuratively waves off childhood icons like Woody as she moves into adulthood.

Woody Looks Distressed Next to a Graduating Girl Waving Something Off

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This meme pairs top text reading 'When you managed to finish college even though you didn't know what was going on most of the time' with a still from the Pirates of the Caribbean franchise showing Captain Jack Sparrow standing unsteadily on the mast of his heavily damaged, barely functional ship the Black Pearl. The joke draws a parallel between somehow successfully graduating college despite constant confusion and being in control of a vessel that is barely holding together despite appearing to function enough to keep sailing, making the content highly relatable to people who struggled through their college degrees.

Relatable College Graduation Meme With Captain Jack Sparrow

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This is a two-panel pun-based meme that uses the popular mirror reflection meme template. In the top panel, a man stands facing a mirror pointing at his reflection, with encouraging text about graduation that reads: "You Will graduate / You Will get that degree / You Will get the hell out of that school". In the bottom panel, the punchline is revealed: instead of the man's reflection, the figure is a guillotine dressed in a graduation cap with a diploma, that says "Thanks Human". The joke relies on the phonetic similarity between the words "graduate" and "guillotine", creating an absurd pun on the graduation encouragement.

Graduate Guillotine Pun Meme

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This image is a screenshot of a public tweet from economist Douglas Webber. In the tweet, Webber shares one of his favorite experiences as a PhD committee member: after a PhD student finishes their dissertation defense and waits outside the room while the committee deliberates on the result, he loves opening the door to bring the student back in and simply greeting them with 'Doctor' to confirm they have passed and earned their doctorate. He notes he has gotten to share this moment 17 times and counting as of the date of the tweet. The moment is widely viewed as a heartwarming, wholesome celebration of the student's years of hard work.

Calling a new PhD graduate 'Doctor' after defense

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