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This humorous meme uses a forced perspective optical illusion for comedic effect. The top of the image features text joking that people repaired ceilings by floating up to reach them before Isaac Newton 'invented' gravity. The lower portion is a photo taken from an angle in an office, where a bright backlit window hides the surface a man is standing on, creating the realistic illusion that he is floating unsupported in midair while reaching up to adjust a ceiling vent, with desks, computers, and other office workers visible below him.

People Fixing Ceilings Before Newton Invented Gravity Meme

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This is a two-panel meme. The top panel shows handwritten text on a plain white surface that reads: 'NO MATTER HOW BIG YOUR HOUSE IS, HOW RECENT YOUR CAR IS, HOW BIG YOUR BANK ACCOUNT IS, OUR GRAVES WILL BE THE SAME SIZE. STAY HUMBLE.' The bottom panel displays a photograph of the Great Pyramids of Giza in Egypt under a blue sky with clouds, with overlaid text reading 'Speak for yourself' above the pyramids and 'Peasant' below them. The humorous punchline comes from the fact that the pyramids are enormous tombs for ancient Egyptian pharaohs, directly contradicting the generic inspirational message that all graves are equal in size, and uses sarcasm to mock the overly simplistic, universalizing 'stay humble' advice.

They are, in fact, not the same

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This is a 4-panel collage meme parodying the classic iconography of ancient Egyptian deities, which are traditionally depicted as having human bodies paired with animal heads. The top of the meme carries the caption 'Egyptian gods be like:'. The top left panel shows a person wearing a grumpy white cat mask and a black jacket, holding their fists up in a confrontational, ready-to-fight pose. The top right panel shows a figure in a red hoodie with a happy chihuahua head, being petted on the head by a human hand. The bottom left panel shows a person performing a plank exercise while wearing a cartoonish, wide-eyed horse mask. The bottom right panel shows a photoshopped image of a dog with a pigeon's head, sitting on an indoor floor looking confused. The humor derives from comparing the absurdity of these modern animal-headed costumes and edited photos to the well-known ancient artistic depiction of Egyptian gods.

Egyptian Gods Be Like Animal Head Parody Meme

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This meme uses the popular "Nobody: / [Group]:" format to make a sarcastic joke about British colonial history. The top text reads "Nobody-" and then "The British-", followed by a screenshot from the game Minecraft showing a tiny, remote, completely uninhabited island in the middle of the ocean that has nothing but a few stalks of sugar cane growing on it, which already has a Union Jack (British national flag) planted on it. The joke references the widespread historical stereotype that British colonizers would claim any random, even tiny and unproductive, piece of land they encountered across the world unprompted, with no one asking them to do so.

Just British Things Minecraft Meme

This meme uses the popular "N…