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This meme uses the popular 'they don't know' party template. A character standing alone in the corner wearing a small party hat has the Internet Explorer logo as their head, holding a drink and thinking the text displayed at the top right. The other people at the party are anthropomorphized versions of competing popular web browsers: Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, Brave, and Opera, all socializing with each other and paying no attention to Internet Explorer. The joke references Microsoft's official end of support and shutdown of the Internet Explorer web browser after decades of public availability.

Internet Explorer Last Day At Browser Party Before Microsoft Shutdown

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This collage meme references the 2003 Disney film *Freaky Friday* and its iconic soundtrack. At the top, the lyrics to the pop-punk track 'Take Me Away' from the film are written, opening with the line about not wanting to grow up and wanting to escape. The left panel below the lyrics is the official *Freaky Friday* original soundtrack cover, featuring Lindsay Lohan and Jamie Lee Curtis in their character outfits from the body-swap comedy. The right side has two stacked reaction images: the top right shows an audio volume knob turned all the way up to the maximum setting of 10, and the bottom right is a widely used viral reaction image of a young child screaming with their hair blown back, as if they are yelling the song at full volume. The joke plays on nostalgia for 2000s Disney media and the relatable urge to blast beloved nostalgic music loudly to escape the stresses of adulthood, which aligns perfectly with the escapist tone of the song lyrics.

Meme About Blasting Freaky Friday's 'Take Me Away' At Full Volume

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This image is a screenshot of an X (formerly Twitter) post showing a real commemorative tombstone for the discontinued Internet Explorer web browser installed in South Korea. The left panel is a close-up of the dark granite tombstone, marked with the Internet Explorer 'e' logo, its operational dates from August 17, 1995 to June 15, 2022, the Korean character for 'deceased' before its name, and the humorous epitaph "He was a good tool to download other browsers", with artificial flowers and a small red offering bowl placed at its base. The right panel shows the full location of the tombstone, a small rooftop display area with a miniature white church, gravel paths, artificial grass, and mountain and city scenery in the background. The humor comes from the widely circulated internet joke that the notoriously slow and outdated Internet Explorer was primarily used by new computer users only to download more functional competing browsers like Google Chrome or Firefox.

Internet Explorer Real Tombstone In Korea Joke

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This is a 4-row, 2-column 8-panel collage compiling stills of famous roles played by actor Sam Neill across his decades-long acting career. The collage features characters from his well-known works spanning adventure, sci-fi, drama, and western genres, including roles from productions like Jurassic Park, Hunt for the Wilderpeople, and Thor: Ragnarok, compiled as a tribute following the announcement of his passing to celebrate the breadth of his work that impacted multiple generations of audiences.

RIP Sam Neill. Farewell to an absolute legend who shaped our childhood

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This image is a screenshot of a public post from X (formerly Twitter) by user @Iconawrites. The post text jokes that global society should acknowledge gasoline-powered cars are environmentally harmful, and proposes the magical Catbus character from Studio Ghibli's *My Neighbor Totoro* as the ideal sustainable transport solution for the future, followed by an in-clip screenshot of the brown, striped, multi-legged Catbus running across a grassy field with an excited open-mouthed expression. The meme uses nostalgia for beloved Ghibli media to make a lighthearted, humorous comment on conversations around green transport and climate action.

Catbus as Sustainable Transport Future Meme

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The meme consists of text at the top and a photograph below it. The top text reads 'Remember when magazines came with demo CDs?'. The photo shows an open zippered CD wallet holding two Sony PlayStation 1 demo discs in paper sleeves: the left disc is a generic official PlayStation 'demo one' promotional disc, while the right disc is a demo version of Namco's fighting game *Tekken 3*, featuring the character Jin Kazama on its official cover art. The post evokes nostalgia for the now-obsolete 1990s to early 2000s practice of including physical game demo discs as a free bonus with printed video game magazines, before digital game distribution became standard.

Maybe I'm the last old fart that still remembers magazines coming with demo CDs

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This is a two-panel comparative relatable meme. The upper panel displays a glittering, densely packed night cityscape full of lit skyscrapers and sprawling urban development, paired with the text 'My dream when I was a kid' at the top, illustrating the common childhood aspiration of living a glamorous, exciting life in a bustling big city. The lower panel shows a serene, isolated wooden log cabin situated on a grassy shore next to a calm lake, surrounded by forested mountains under a soft pastel sunset or sunrise sky, paired with the text 'My dream now' at the bottom, representing the common shift in priorities as people mature, where peace, quiet, and low-stress natural surroundings become far more desirable than busy, high-pressure urban life. The meme resonates widely with adults who grow tired of the fast pace and stress of city work and life as they age.

Childhood vs Adulthood Dream Comparison Meme

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The meme uses the iconic funeral scene from *Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare* that features the famous 'Press F to Pay Respects' interactive prompt. Uniformed honor guard soldiers have had their heads edited to be replaced with logos of popular modern web browsers: Opera, Apple Safari, Mozilla Firefox, and Google Chrome, standing to mourn the discontinued Internet Explorer, whose logo is displayed on a memorial portrait next to the casket. The text at the top of the image reads 'He was the worst, but he was family', which humorously references the widespread public perception of Internet Explorer as a slow, poorly performing browser that was nevertheless a core nostalgic part of many people's early internet usage experiences.

Internet Explorer Discontinuation Funeral Meme

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This is a nostalgic adult humor meme featuring a still from the 1981 R-rated comedy film *Porky's*, set in a high school locker room. The foreground shows the character Lassie, while a shocked male coach character stands in the background. The overlaid text states 'Kids today will never know why they called her Lassie', referencing a crude running joke from the film: the character is nicknamed after the famous fictional heroic collie dog Lassie, because she would pull partners' heads down towards her during oral sex, mirroring the dog's habit of pulling people by clothing to lead them to a location. The joke relies on the viewer having seen the 1980s film, making it inaccessible to younger audiences who only know the Lassie dog character.

Kids today will never know why they called her Lassie

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This image is a screenshot of a mobile notes application displaying a comedic rewritten version of the opening verses of My Chemical Romance's iconic emo anthem "Welcome to the Black Parade", re-titled "Snail Black Parade". The core joke relies on consistent, absurd wordplay: every key noun in the original lyrics is modified to add an "sn-" prefix, with parenthetical explanations confirming each modified term refers to the snail equivalent of the original word (e.g. "snoy" = snail boy, "snather" = snail father, "sneader" = snail leader). The humor comes from applying this silly, low-effort theme to a normally serious, widely recognizable piece of 2000s alternative music.

Snail Themed Parody of My Chemical Romance's Welcome to the Black Parade

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This meme consists of two still frames from the Pirates of the Caribbean film franchise. The top frame shows a wide underwater shot of two silhouetted figures (Captain Jack Sparrow and Will Turner) walking across the seabed while carrying an overturned rowboat over their heads, supposedly to trap an air pocket under the boat. The bottom frame shows a close-up from inside the overturned boat, where Jack and Will are shown with their heads above the water line inside the boat, despite being fully submerged under the ocean. Overlaid text on the left side mocks the fact that this iconic movie stunt is physically impossible: the air pocket would not remain trapped in the boat at that ocean depth, and the characters would not be able to carry the heavy boat underwater against buoyancy and pressure as depicted. The joke highlights the silly, physics-defying plot hole that fans of the franchise have embraced as a funny, memorable part of the movie.

Captain Jack Sparrow Breaking Underwater Physics Meme

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This is a two-panel relatable meme. The left panel is labeled '7 years old me', featuring the well-known viral reaction shot of Jordan Peele sweating profusely, looking stressed and panicked as he glances to the side. The right panel is labeled 'My dad's phone', showing the screen of an old Nokia feature phone displaying an alert that the SIM PIN is blocked, requiring a PUK code to unlock the device. The meme jokes about the common childhood experience of messing with a parent's phone without permission, accidentally locking it permanently, and being terrified of getting in trouble for the mistake.

7 Year Old Me Panicking After Locking Dad's Nokia Phone

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