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This is a three-panel meme using footage from Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith. The first panel shows Mace Windu seated on the Jedi Council, with overlaid text: 'YOU WILL WORK 40 HOURS A WEEK, BUT WE WILL NOT GRANT YOU THE TITLE OF FULL-TIME'. The second panel shows Anakin Skywalker looking frustrated, with text: 'THIS IS OUTRAGEOUS. HOW CAN I WORK 40 HOURS BUT NOT BE CONSIDERED FULL-TIME'. The third panel is a wide shot of the full Jedi Council ignoring Anakin's complaint. The joke adapts the original film scene, where Anakin is added to the Jedi Council but denied the rank of Master, to satirize exploitative corporate practices where employees work full-time hours but are denied full-time classification and associated benefits, with the final panel representing companies ignoring worker pushback against these unfair policies.

Companies force full time hours without full time status

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This is a 3-panel comedic meme using the well-known 'They're the same picture' template from the US sitcom *The Office*. The top-left panel shows a public photo of Donald Trump speaking into a microphone, while the top-right panel shows the viral 'Back Ashley' edit: a shot of Angela Martin from *The Office* facing away from the camera, with Trump's face edited onto the back of her head. The text between the top and bottom panels reads 'Corporate needs you to find the differences between this picture and this picture.' The bottom panel features Pam Beesly Halpert from *The Office* in a talking head segment, with the caption 'They're the same picture.' The joke satirically claims that Donald Trump's face is identical to the edited face on the 'Back Ashley' character, playing on the absurd visual similarity for humorous effect.

The Origin of Back Ashley

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This meme features an artistic depiction of ancient Egyptian workers building the Great Pyramid of Giza, with overlaid text reading 'How tf did they build this without any' that is cut off by an image of an open pack of Marlboro cigarettes. The punchline is delivered in the top Reddit comment under the post: 'They had camels idiot'. This is a double pun: 'camels' refers both to the livestock animals historically used for labor in ancient Egypt, and to Camel, another popular cigarette brand, implying the ancient workers used Camel brand cigarettes instead of Marlboro to get through the labor of building the pyramid.

What cigarette brand did ancient Egyptians use to build pyramids

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This is a single-panel pun meme on a plain white background. At the top, text reads 'finally I am on a date'. A simple black line-drawn stick figure with a bored, unimpressed expression stands with its hands on its hips and one leg casually crossed, positioned next to a large photograph of a dried date fruit. The joke relies on the double meaning of the English word 'date': one definition is a romantic social meeting, while the other refers to the dried fruit shown. The meme ties to its original title to imply the person represented by the stick figure is quirky or unusual, as their idea of going on a date is literally being in the presence of the date fruit instead of a romantic partner, often used as a relatable joke for single people or those who joke about their odd dating habits.

I'm built different

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This is a two-panel split reaction meme. The top left section has black text reading 'I hate this job', paired with a photo of a young blond man in a grey hoodie making a disgusted, pained grimace to express frustration with his job. The bottom left section has black text reading 'Gets paid', paired with the same man grinning widely and happily while putting on a pair of dark sunglasses, showing that all job-related frustration disappears immediately once he receives his salary. The joke is based on the extremely common relatable experience of disliking one's job but being satisfied by the compensation.

Hating Job Until Getting Paid Meme

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This is a single-panel reaction meme using a still from the 1997 sci-fi comedy film Men in Black. The frame shows Will Smith's character Agent J, dressed in a black suit and sunglasses, holding up the neuralyzer, a fictional device that erases bystanders' short-term memories. White bold text is overlaid at the top and bottom of the image: the top text reads 'FACEBOOK REBRANDS TO META', while the bottom text reads 'FORGET WE GOT SUED FOR $150 BILLIONS FOR CAUSING GENOCIDE'. The comedic premise draws a parallel between the memory-wiping neuralyzer and Meta's 2021 rebranding from Facebook, implying the name change was a deliberate attempt to distract the public from high-profile legal accusations and severe negative press against the company at the time.

Facebook Rebrands to Meta to Forget Past Scandals Meme

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This is a pixel art meme set against a solid black background, referencing the classic educational video game The Oregon Trail. The upper half of the image features the game's iconic yellow pixelated covered wagon being pulled by a yellow pixelated ox, with low green pixelated hills in the background. Below the wagon, the game's signature blocky white death notification text is edited to read 'YOU HAVE DIED FROM LISTENING TO RFK JR.' The joke satirizes RFK Jr.'s reputation for spreading dangerous pseudoscientific and conspiratorial claims, implying that listening to his rhetoric is so absurd or harmful that it results in death, mirroring the often arbitrary, sudden death events players encounter in the original Oregon Trail game.

Oregon Trail Meme Joking About Dying From Listening to RFK Jr.

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This is a two-panel reaction meme. The top panel is captioned with the text 'When it's finally your turn to be an adult, and suddenly the economy starts getting worse' above an image of a stressed older man wearing a light blue shirt and work apron, holding his glasses on top of his head while smoking a cigarette and looking exhausted and overwhelmed. The bottom panel is a scene from the film *There Will Be Blood*, showing the character Daniel Plainview with a noose around his neck, with large text overlaid reading 'STARTED ADULTING IN 2000' above smaller text that says '-First time?'. The joke contrasts newer young adults who are facing a declining economy as they enter adulthood against people who became adults around the year 2000, who already experienced major economic downturns earlier in their adult lives and are unfazed by the current poor economic conditions.

The fun never stops: adulting during bad economic times

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This meme consists of text sections and a screenshot from the TV show Breaking Bad. The top text reads 'when you donate 1$ to a streamer', below which is a still of the character Walter White (Heisenberg) in a desert setting, with the subtitle 'Now, say my name.' displayed at the bottom of the still. The joke satirizes the common behavior of viewers who donate even a very small sum of money to streamers, then feel overly entitled to the streamer's attention and personal recognition, as if their tiny contribution makes them a major financial patron who deserves specific acknowledgement, playing off the iconic Breaking Bad scene where Walter demands to be called by his drug lord alias as proof of his status and reputation.

I mean, I basically made him rich

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The meme features a photograph of an ornate red carpet, stylized to look like Aladdin's magic carpet, laid flat to occupy an entire paved car parking spot next to a real parked vehicle. Overlaid text on the lower portion of the image reads "Aladdin parks like a dickhead" followed by a laughing crying emoji. The joke frames the magic carpet as Aladdin's mode of transport, implying he inconsiderately parked his carpet in a full car parking spot as if it were an actual car, poking fun at bad and inconsiderate parking behavior people encounter in real life, combined with a pop culture reference to the Disney Aladdin franchise.

Genie, teach me how to park

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This is a single panel meme using the iconic Grumpy Cat template. It features the famously grumpy-looking cat Tardar Sauce held by a partially visible human hand, staring at the viewer with her signature unimpressed scowl. Bold white text at the top reads 'I DIED 7 YEARS AGO AND HAVEN'T SEEN A LOT OF THE NEW MEMES.', with a matching one-word response at the bottom reading 'GOOD.' The joke plays on Grumpy Cat's established persona of disliking almost everything, implying that modern new memes are of such low quality that the cat is glad she did not have to experience them after her 2019 death.

Grumpy Cat is glad she missed new memes after death

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This is a humorous pun meme presented as a screenshot of a fake dating app profile. The main profile image is a close-up photo of a real live catfish being held by a partially visible human hand. The profile claims to belong to a 20-year-old named 'Real Human' located 70 miles away. The obviously unconvincing bio reads: 'Hello I am an real human I enjoy the human hobbies of breathing air and walking with my leg'. The core joke is a pun on the internet slang term 'catfish', which refers to a person who uses a fake online identity to deceive others, especially on dating platforms, literalized here by using an actual image of a catfish as the profile photo for the clearly fake 'human' profile.

Definitely not a catfish

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