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This meme consists of a block of text above a two-photo side-by-side collage. The top text states that all Scientology buildings located on Hollywood Boulevard have been locked down, with their exterior door handles removed, and claims that TikTok users accomplished this outcome in one week, despite 30 years of critical books and documentaries failing to produce the same effect. The left photo shows the front entrance of an open Scientology building, with large 'SCIENTOLOGY' signage displayed prominently above the doors. The right photo shows a locked, unmarked Scientology building on Hollywood Boulevard, with no visible exterior branding, situated next to a street tree and fire hydrant on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. The core joke is a sarcastic praise of TikTok's grassroots user base for having a larger tangible impact on the controversial organization's public operations than decades of formal critical media coverage.

I guess TikTok isn't 100% bad after all...

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The meme features bold text at the top reading "This used to be a joke" above a screenshot from the game Fortnite, set in a desert area in front of the Station 99 gas station location. Four playable character skins are lined up on Fortnite spawn pads: an upside-down hanging Spider-Man from Marvel, the kaiju Godzilla, Peter Griffin from the animated sitcom Family Guy, and Goku from the Dragon Ball anime franchise. The humorous point of the meme is that the combination of these extremely disparate, unrelated fictional characters in the same game was once a commonly referenced absurd joke online, but Fortnite has since added all of these characters as official playable skins, making the former joke a reality. A Fortnite watermark is visible in the bottom right corner of the game screenshot.

This used to be a joke Fortnite crossover meme

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The image features an official portrait of Kerry Neves, the first openly LGBT judge to serve in Texas, standing with their arms crossed and smiling, wearing judicial robes with insignia, next to a rainbow pride flag. Large white text overlaid at the bottom of the image states that this judge was banned for life from serving as a judge after they ordered an attorney to be handcuffed during a courtroom proceeding. The meme's implied joke, referenced in its original title, is that the judge was acting on a 'power trip' when they had the attorney cuffed, only for this action to result in the permanent end of their judicial career, acting as a 'speed bump' for their abuse of power.

When the Power Trip Hits a Speed Bump: First LGBT Texas Judge Banned For Life

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This is a 4-panel meme utilizing the popular 'Gru's Plan' template featuring the character Gru from the Despicable Me franchise. The first panel shows Gru gesturing excitedly upward next to a sign stating 'You find a creepy picture on reddit'. The second panel has Gru tapping his forehead proudly, with a sign reading 'You repost it to r/creepy'. The third panel shows Gru looking sneaky and pleased next to a sign that says 'Gets downvoted because it is creepy'. The fourth panel shows Gru looking confused and disappointed, with the same text as the third panel on the adjacent sign. The joke relies on the irony of the r/creepy subreddit, which is dedicated to sharing creepy content, downvoting posts specifically for being too creepy, contradicting the subreddit's stated purpose.

It is pretty creepy though...

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This meme is composed of two parts: the top section is a cartoon depicting a person labeled 'Americans' crawling exhausted through a hot desert. Two road signs stand in front of them: one pointing left indicates water is 1 mile away, and one pointing right indicates water is 1 kilometer away. The person is crawling towards the 1 mile option, playing on the common stereotype that Americans exclusively use the imperial measurement system and avoid metric. Below the cartoon is a screenshot of a social media comment that attempts to defend the American choice, stating 'But the Americans are right. A mile is less then a kilometre. (1 mile = 1.6 Kilometre)', which is ironically contradictory, as 1 mile being equal to 1.6 kilometers means a mile is longer than a kilometer, making the American choice the worse, longer distance option for reaching water.

Americans Choose Miles Over Kilometers In Desert Meme With Ironic Comment Punchline

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This is a two-panel meme that makes an ironic point about human relationships with working animals versus companion animals. In the top panel, a drawn blonde bearded 'Nordic Chad' meme character affectionately says 'You're my bestfriend' to the Cheems Shiba Inu meme dog, which responds with 'Bark'. In the bottom panel, the same Chad character awkwardly says 'Sorry bro' to a crying, upset cartoon horse, which lists its massive historical contributions to human society: 'Carried men through wars, farming, exploration, migration, trade, and civilization'. The joke highlights the irony that horses provided thousands of years of critical, uncompensated labor to support human progress, but are now far less popular or valued as companion animals compared to dogs.

6,000 years of unpaid labor

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The meme has top text that reads "When you arrive at a lying competition but the competitor lied about the venue", paired with a lower image of a CGI T-Rex edited to have a human-like smug, self-satisfied smirk. The bottom of the image features a small text watermark that says "sarcasm". The joke hinges on irony: the competitor has already effectively won the lying contest by lying about the event location before the competition even begins, and the dinosaur's amused, knowing expression conveys the feeling of being impressed or amused at being outplayed before the activity starts.

When you arrive at a lying competition and the competitor already lied about the venue

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This is a single panel edited meme of a crudely drawn party scene. On the left, a man standing alone against a wall with a small party hat has a photograph of a heavier version of rapper Eminem edited onto his head, with overlay text reading 'They don't know that I'm Eminem'. On the right, two dancing party guests converse: the male guest asks if the man alone is Eminem, and the female guest responds that it cannot be him because 'Eminem ain't fat'. The joke references widely circulated real photos of Eminem from a period when he gained weight, playing on the public's common perception of Eminem as slim, so the party guests do not recognize his heavier appearance while he is aware of his own identity.

Eminem ain't fat

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This is an ironic relatable meme. The top of the image features black text reading 'How I feel when YouTube shows me ads for accounting services and business loans (I am unemployed)'. Below the text is a widely used stock photograph of a confident smiling man in a grey business suit sitting at a modern office desk, holding a corded landline phone to his ear while using a desktop computer, appearing as a successful professional business owner. The humor comes from the stark contrast between YouTube's algorithm incorrectly targeting an unemployed user with ads meant for established business owners, and the user playfully leaning into the absurdly mismatched impression the algorithm has of them by using the successful businessman photo to represent their feelings in this scenario.

I am flattered YouTube has such hopes for me

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This is a screenshot of a removed Reddit post from the r/memes community. The post contains an embedded meme that uses two viral wildlife photos: a wide-eyed monkey staring directly at the camera, labeled 'Me posting literally anything on Reddit', and a menacing lion hiding in the dark background behind it, labeled 'Insecure neckbeards' (referring to overzealous Reddit moderators). The central punchline of the meta joke is that the very post sharing this meme about unfair arbitrary post removal on Reddit was itself removed by r/memes moderators, as confirmed by the official removal notice shown below the embedded content. The original poster added the text 'See what I mean?' above the meme to highlight this ironic, self-fulfilling coincidence.

Meta Reddit Meme About Post Removal Gets Removed

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This is a two-panel reaction meme featuring the animated character SpongeBob SquarePants. The top left text reads 'Me getting a job to afford video games', paired with an image of a cheerful, excited SpongeBob sitting at his Krusty Krab office desk answering a work phone with a big smile. The bottom left text reads 'Also me having no time to play them because of that job', paired with an image of a dejected, exhausted SpongeBob slumping at the same desk, looking glum next to a steaming mug. The meme conveys the relatable ironic frustration of taking a job to earn money for hobbies, only for the job to take up all the time that would have been spent enjoying those hobbies.

Getting a job to afford video games only to have no time to play them

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This is a meme shared on 9Gag that repurposes a UK news article screenshot. The original news piece from The i Paper covers a 70-year-old pensioner who is unable to sell her £850,000 family home, alongside context that 2.9 million UK residents over 55 who want to downsize are struggling to sell property in the current housing market. The 9Gag title 'The Day Of The Pillow has begun' references a popular dark humor internet meme that jokes about younger generations waiting for older family members to pass away (with 'pillow' referring to the crude euphemism of smothering elderly relatives) to inherit high-value property that they cannot afford to purchase themselves, creating an ironic contrast between the older homeowner's frustration at being unable to sell her home and younger people's desire to gain access to that same unaffordable housing via inheritance.

The Day Of The Pillow has begun

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