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This meme consists of a black and white photoshopped fake historical battlefield photograph paired with two sarcastic Reddit comments. The edited image shows a Tyrannosaurus Rex carrying a Browning M2 machine gun, walking alongside a military Jeep and human soldiers. The first comment jokes that the image is historical footage of the last T-Rex serving in WWI. The second comment playfully nitpicks smaller historical inconsistencies: noting the Jeep and Browning M2 were not in use until after WWI (the M2 entered service in 1933), then deliberately ignores the obvious anachronism of a dinosaur existing in the 20th century to conclude the footage is actually from WWII instead. The joke satirizes overly pedantic historical fact-checking that misses the most glaring impossible detail of a situation.

You Can't Fool History

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This meme features the four classic 1960s *Spider-Man* animated series villains (the cast of the popular 'Me and the Boys' meme template) superimposed as semi-transparent, ghost-like figures over a background of overgrown Aztec ruins in a jungle setting. White text at the top of the image reads 'Two european cruises struck by two continental American viruses'. The joke leans into dark historical satire: it frames viruses originating from the Americas impacting European cruises as payback for European colonizers bringing foreign diseases that killed huge portions of Indigenous Mesoamerican (including Aztec) populations after arriving in the Americas, with the cartoon villains representing the vengeful Aztec spirits referenced in the title.

Aztec spirits finally getting their vengeance

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The animated meme uses the character Steven from the animated series Steven Universe, showing his facial expressions shifting in sequence: first he displays an overjoyed, excited open-mouthed grin, then shifts to a nervous, confused grimace as he has a sudden realization, then quickly returns to a bright, forced-looking grin. The accompanying text sets the scenario of a gay person detained in a Nazi concentration camp when Allied forces arrive to liberate the prisoners. The dark humorous joke relies on the historical context that many Allied nations also criminalized homosexuality during the WWII era, meaning the person being rescued still faces persecution for their identity even after being freed from the concentration camp, leading to the split reaction of initial relief, sudden worry, and then forced cheer to hide their identity.

Wait a minute

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