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The meme consists of top text overlay followed by a photograph. The top text reads: 'Machine learning or something, idk I´m not a computer scientist'. The photograph shows a white closed-circuit security camera mounted on a plain beige wall, positioned such that its lens is pointed directly at a copy of George Orwell's dystopian novel '1984' placed directly in front of it, making it appear as if the camera is reading the book. The humor comes from a double pun: first, 'machine learning' is a common tech term for AI training, and here the literal machine (the security camera) is 'learning' from a book; second, the novel 1984 is famously centered on constant state surveillance, so the surveillance camera is implied to be learning how to conduct surveillance better from the book, playing into popular jokes about growing mass surveillance and dystopian modern society.

Machine Learning Joke With Security Camera Reading 1984

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This two-panel contrast meme jokes about people's self-perception when using ChatGPT versus reality. The top panel depicts a silhouetted figure manipulating a sleek, futuristic holographic control interface with glowing digital displays, paired with the text 'WHAT PEOPLE THINK THEY LOOK LIKE TALKING TO CHATGPT', representing the common ego-centric idea that users are performing advanced, high-stakes technical work when interacting with the AI. The bottom panel features a confused, disheveled pirate character from *Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides* sitting on a beach next to a severed preserved head, looking bewildered as he rests his hand on his chin, with the text 'WHAT THEY ACTUALLY LOOK LIKE', poking fun at the fact that most users are actually confused, indecisive, or asking trivial/silly questions when using ChatGPT, far from the sophisticated hacker-like figure they imagine themselves to be.

Third party thinkers: ChatGPT user expectation vs reality

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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 two-panel satirical meme mocks Apple's widespread reputation for selling basic products and accessories at extremely high, inflated prices, and for frequently selling components that are normally included with a base product as separate paid add-ons. The top panel shows a plain white mug with the Apple logo printed on it, priced at $5300 with a crossed out original price of $4999, placed next to a detached white mug handle that is sold separately for $999. The bottom panel features a photo of Apple CEO Tim Cook cupping his hands around his mouth as if making an official product announcement, with overlaid text reading 'GLUE FOR $700', implying customers are required to pay an extra $700 for glue to attach the separately purchased handle to the mug.

Apple iMug

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The meme has two lines of text at the top. The first line reads 'Me: *holds an app to delete it*', the second line reads 'The rest of the apps:'. Below the text is a light blue background resembling a mobile phone home screen, with 6 different popular meme characters including Doge, Sonic the Hedgehog, Spongebob Squarepants, a low poly cow, a low poly skeleton, and a pink bird meme icon all staring blankly or awkwardly at the viewer. The joke personifies unused apps on your phone as being nervous and watching you when you are about to delete one of them, a relatable experience for smartphone users.

Other Apps Stare When You Go To Delete An App Meme

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This is a sarcastic single-image meme. The top of the meme poses the question 'What could be the most terrifying thing we find on Mars?' above a standard photograph of the red planet Mars against a black space background. The punchline of the joke is placed at the very bottom of the image: 'Microsoft Teams'. The humor derives from widespread popular dislike of the Microsoft Teams work communication platform, implying that being forced to use the platform for work is so unpleasant that finding it on another planet would be the scariest possible discovery, as it would mean people cannot escape work obligations even on Mars.

A terrifying discovery on Mars is Microsoft Teams

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This is a two-panel sarcastic humor meme. The top text contains a typo, reading 'phtoshop was invented in 1987 people before photoshop:'. The upper panel appears to show a person in the stands of a crowded sports stadium holding up a smartphone to take a photo of the event, with the word 'sarcasm' overlaid on the hand holding the phone. The lower panel reveals the joke: the people are actually indoors in a room, holding their phones up to a computer monitor that displays the stadium footage. One person holds a small desk lamp up near the screen to mimic bright stadium lighting, to make the photos they take look like they were actually taken in-person at the stadium. The joke pokes fun at the misconception that fake or edited photos only existed after digital editing tools like Photoshop were invented, showing that people used low-tech, physical methods to create misleading photos before digital editing was common.

People Before Photoshop Fake Photo Meme

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This meme leads with the text line 'Wont tell anyone that I became rich, but there will be signs' at the top. Below this text is a screenshot of the about page for an officially registered, paid WinRAR 7.01 64-bit license, confirming the software has been legally purchased. The humor comes from the long-running tech culture joke that the vast majority of WinRAR users never pay for the software, as WinRAR remains fully functional permanently even after the nominal 40-day free trial expires. Purchasing an official WinRAR license is therefore framed as a subtle, funny sign that someone has enough disposable income to spend money on a product nearly everyone uses for free indefinitely.

The true sign of richness

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The meme uses a standard image macro format, with black text at the top above a still frame from the 1972 film *Jeremiah Johnson*. The top text reads 'Internet Explorer when handing over Chrome downloading duties to Edge'. The image shows actor Robert Redford as the titular Jeremiah Johnson, a rugged bearded frontiersman, looking over his shoulder at the viewer with a tired, relieved, resigned expression while holding an object as if passing it off, perfectly embodying the joke of the obsolete browser Internet Explorer happily passing its only widely recognized use case (downloading competing browser Google Chrome) on to its replacement, Microsoft Edge.

Internet Explorer Hands Chrome Download Duties to Edge Meme

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This is a two-panel meme using a scene from the show *The Umbrella Academy*. The top panel features a shocked character in the driver's seat of a vintage car, captioned "IOS USERS COMING TO ANDROID", representing the overwhelm and surprise iOS users often feel when switching to the more customizable, feature-dense Android operating system. The bottom panel shows another shocked character in the car's back seat, captioned "ANDROID USERS GOING TO IOS", illustrating the equal confusion and frustration Android users experience when switching to the more restricted, less customizable iOS platform. The joke plays on the stark differences in design philosophy between the two dominant mobile operating systems, and how unfamiliar users from each ecosystem find the other platform.

iOS and Android Users Switching Platforms Shock Meme

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This meme has top text that reads 'My reaction when Apple announces the iPhone 18 and I start to feel my iPhone 14 overheat' placed above an image of Wheezy, the squeaky penguin character from the Toy Story franchise, sitting dejectedly in a dim, blue-lit corner looking tired and resigned. The joke plays on the widely discussed consumer trope and accusation of planned obsolescence for Apple products, implying that older iPhone models immediately develop performance issues like overheating as soon as a far newer generation of the device is announced.

My reaction when Apple announces iPhone 18 and my iPhone 14 overheats

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This meme uses a classic scene from the Baki Hanma anime to make a relatable joke about computing hardware durability. Text at the top sets up the premise: the extremely muscular, nearly invulnerable character (Pickle) standing unfazed while being hit by multiple powerful laser blasts to the head represents laptops and desktop PCs that have remained functional for over 15 years. The laser blasts stand in for repeated attempts by tech companies to render older hardware obsolete, including planned obsolescence practices, planned software slowdowns, and discontinued support for older devices, all of which have failed to break these still-functional older machines. A second character hides in the bushes looking shocked, mirroring the surprise of both tech companies and users at how long well-built older hardware can last.

Old Laptops and Desktops Surviving Corporate Planned Obsolescence

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