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This is a 3-panel satirical stick figure meme. Left column: first panel shows a stick figure holding the flag of Spain yelling 'WE WON THE WORLD CUP'; second and third panels show a plain neutral lone stick figure standing. Right column: first panel shows a group of stick figures holding a globe of the Earth smiling in approval of Spain's win; second panel shows the group giving a thumbs up to the lone stick figure; third panel shows the group making unprompted negative remarks about Argentina: 'Argentina is bad', 'I really dislike the Argentina team', 'Argentina are racist', 'THE GAME IS RIGGED FOR ARGENTINA'. The meme mocks the common online trend of people making unsubstantiated negative generalizations about Argentina following their 2022 FIFA World Cup victory, with the original title's /s tag explicitly marking the content as sarcastic.

Argentina is bad and racist (I know because I saw it on Reddit) /s

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This meme uses a well-known screenshot of Cillian Murphy playing J. Robert Oppenheimer from the 2023 Christopher Nolan biographical film *Oppenheimer*. The character is shown with a somber, serious expression staring directly at the viewer. The text overlaid at the top of the image makes a sarcastic, relatable joke that the person who created the endless scroll UI feature, now ubiquitous across most social media platforms, has caused more widespread negative harm to global society than Oppenheimer, the scientist often referred to as the father of the atomic bomb. The joke references common public frustration over endless scroll leading to rampant internet addiction, wasted productivity, and widespread negative mental health impacts for billions of users.

Endless Scroll Inventor Did More Harm To Humanity Than Oppenheimer

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This is a two-panel black-and-white edgy meme. The top panel features Derek Vinyard, the neo-nazi character from the film *American History X* (played by Edward Norton), shouting while pulling down his tank top to reveal a swastika tattoo on his chest. Text overlaid on the top left reads 'SEE THIS? THAT MEANS NOT WELCOME.' The bottom panel cuts to a close-up of a man's face, which is covered by five icons: the crying-laughing emoji, the classic Twitter bird logo, the Instagram app icon, the TikTok app icon, and the LGBTQ+ pride flag. The meme conveys the poster's nostalgia for older, earlier iterations of the 9GAG platform, and expresses that the referenced entities (mainstream social media platforms, pervasive casual joking culture, and prevalent LGBTQ+ discourse) are unwanted by the poster, who believes they have ruined the community.

I Miss What This Place Used To Be

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This meme uses a photograph of Reddit CEO Steve Huffman, known online as spez, who is wearing a beret, round glasses, and a headset, resting his hand under his chin with a contemplative, thoughtful expression. Bold white text is placed at the top and bottom of the image: the top line reads 'NOW', and the bottom line reads 'FUCK UP THE UI'. The joke criticizes the well-documented pattern of Reddit leadership rolling out widely unpopular, user-disliked user interface updates and platform changes every few months while ignoring pushback from the userbase.

Meme Mocking Reddit CEO For Regularly Rolling Out Unpopular UI Changes

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This is a two-panel reaction meme featuring the character Bender from the animated series Futurama, joking about the perceived prevalence of bot accounts on the 9Gag platform. In the top panel, Bender has an excited, happy expression with his hands on his cheeks, positioned next to the official 9Gag logo. In the bottom panel, Bender has a smug, unimpressed expression and points directly at a parody logo reading 'OnlyBots' which mimics the design of the OnlyFans logo, replacing 'Fans' with 'Bots'. The meme ties to the original title question 'Are there even any people left?' implying that 9Gag has so few real human users left that it is effectively a platform exclusively for bots.

Are there even any people left?

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This meme consists of a top text block followed by a reaction image of the Heavy character from the video game Team Fortress 2. The top text reads: "Me travelling back in time to 2014 to kill the guy who created Musical.ly before it can start a chain reaction resulting in short-form brainrot content taking over the internet:". The Heavy is shown with wide, determined eyes, pointing a large gun directly at the viewer, representing the person intending to carry out the described time travel assassination. The joke is a hyperbolic, humorous expression of widespread frustration with the dominance of low-effort, attention-span-damaging short-form video content online, which traces its mainstream origins to Musical.ly (later acquired and rebranded as TikTok).

Wish you could time travel to stop short-form brainrot content

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This is an 8-panel satirical comic meme titled 'The Evolution of Religion' that jokes about how the object of human worship has changed throughout human history, ending with the modern obsession with social media. The panels progress through sequential stages: 1) Early animist sun worship of 'shiny things in the sky', 2) Worship of cats, 3) Polytheistic worship of 'people in the sky' (multiple gods), 4) Monotheistic worship of 'less people in the sky' (one god), 5) Worship of religious prophets 'people who say they came from the sky', 6) A return to cat worship (reflecting modern internet obsession with cat content), 7) Worship of money ('the almighty' dollar), 8) Worship of social media bots. This ties into the original post's core theme that likes and social media engagement are the new modern 'currency' and primary object of worship in current society, satirizing how modern society prioritizes social media validation and money over traditional religious belief.

The Evolution of Religion (Likes Are The New Money)

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