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This two-panel expectation vs reality meme contrasts childhood visions of 2025 with the current state of online discourse. The top panel features a sleek, utopian sci-fi cityscape with curved skyscrapers, elevated high-speed transit, and a bright, advanced environment, captioned *How I imagined 2025 as a kid:*—capturing the optimistic, futuristic hopes many children held for the year. The bottom panel subverts this with two iconic Wojak-style meme characters: on the left, a weathered, exhausted Doomer Wojak paired with the text *facism is bad* (noting the typo of 'fascism' as 'facism', common in online spaces), and on the right, an angry, screaming Grokk Wojak (a character linked to reactionary online communities) yelling *Grökkk, is this true?*. The meme satirizes the gap between idealized futuristic expectations and the divisive, frustrating culture war discourse defining 2025's online landscape. The right character's question is a sarcastic, aggressive reaction to the left's statement, playing into typical online argument dynamics.

2025: Kid's Futuristic Dream vs Disappointing Wojak Reality

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This two-panel meme uses characters from the 2009 stop-motion animated film *Coraline* to create a relatable joke about burnout and unproductivity. The top panel shows Coraline, in her iconic yellow raincoat, leaning into a doorway with an eager, curious expression, asking her father: "ARE YOU WINNING FATHER?" Her father appears exhausted, slouched over an old desktop computer with a drained, deadpan look. The bottom panel reveals the computer screen, which displays a pagination interface (showing pages 54,55,56,57,58 with page 56 selected), implying the father is stuck scrolling through endless, tedious pages instead of making progress or "winning" at his task. The humor comes from the irony: the father is clearly not successful or productive, he's burnt out by a monotonous, unfulfilling task, subverting the hopeful question from Coraline. This meme resonates with anyone who has felt overwhelmed by endless, unproductive work or online scrolling.

Are You Winning Father? (Coraline Meme About Tedious Unproductivity)

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This two-panel meme juxtaposes a real-world Miss Universe crowning moment with a popular confused alien reaction template. The top panel displays the 2015 Miss Universe crowning of Pia Wurtzbach, with the text 'Crowing Miss Universe:' (a typo for 'Crowning'). The bottom panel features the iconic 'confused aliens' from a comedy skit meme, with the sarcastic question: 'Miss Universe of what? Earth?'. The humor comes from the aliens pointing out the irony of the pageant's grand title 'Miss Universe' when it only features contestants from Earth, mocking the overstated scope of the competition's name with sarcastic disbelief. The joke relies on the double meaning of the word 'Universe' — the pageant uses it as a grand, all-encompassing term, but the aliens take it literally, questioning why it's called 'Universe' if it only represents one planet.

Aliens Mock Miss Universe Title: 'Only Earth?'

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This meme is a remixed screenshot from the 2005 film *V for Vendetta*, featuring the character V standing with their back to the viewer, hunched slightly, in front of a towering, fiery burning pile of materials (likely symbolic documents or books). Overlaid on the lower portion of the image is the text: "How it feels to pay property tax". The meme uses the dramatic, devastating visual of the burning pile to humorously exaggerate the emotional and financial pain associated with paying property tax, framing the experience as watching one's hard-earned money be destroyed in a catastrophic, irreversible way. It leans into sarcasm and hyperbole to resonate with people who feel burdened by this mandatory financial obligation, turning a stressful adult responsibility into a relatable, darkly funny joke.

How It Feels to Pay Property Tax - Burning Pile Meme

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