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vintage and contemporary Facebook memes
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The original "dinosaur telling a joke" meme, by The Oatmeal, where the punchline always falls flat. In the original version, the dinosaur tells the joke "What's a dinosaur's least favorite reindeer? ...Comet!"
December 20, 2025 at 8:05 AM
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An image of a classic child's toy called "The Farmer Says" that makes animal sounds when you spin it around. A caption reads: "We have to go back in time and destroy AI at the source".
December 15, 2025 at 5:20 PM
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An image with the caption "What if [trans flag] had whatsapp". It shows a WhatsApp contact pane featuring recent messages from various characters including "Mushroom Man: 'How to transition?'", "Chaser: 'Pls respond'", "Chad: 'You are so beautiful'", "Celibate: 'Chromosomes!!!'", "Random Cis Woman: 'I couldn't even tell'", and "Trans oomf: 'Wanna make out?'"
December 12, 2025 at 9:39 PM
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a photoshopped image of a kitten walking in the snow while wearing a wooly cap a caption reads: "When it's so cold your dih n bawls instant freeze off and now you got no dih n bawls" a further caption nearer the cat reads "Oh no, my dih n bawls"
December 12, 2025 at 8:12 PM
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can't buy mso-data-placement on bluesky
An advertisement for a shirt in a black friday sale. There is an error in the code so that it shows some of the raw html used to generate the advertisement. This is common on Facebook because Facebook is a good website
December 9, 2025 at 7:08 PM
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A photo with the caption "Alexa: remind me to feed the baby". The photo is of Alexa with a timer which reads "Defeat the baby".
December 6, 2025 at 8:05 AM
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A meme featuring a pane with Carly Rae Jepsen together with a well-known image of a dog on a vintage telephone. Carly Rae signs a lyric from her song; "Here's my number, so call me, maybe?". The dog on the telephone replies "Hello Maybe! This is Dog"
December 5, 2025 at 9:39 PM
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An image of the Pyramids of Giza with the caption "Why are the pyramids in Egypt?" A facebook comment below reads "Because they are too big to transport to British museums."
December 5, 2025 at 7:43 PM
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Some roughly-lined classical fine art of a monk reading. He has extremely wide eyes, as if shocked by something in the book, to the point where this is humorous.
December 4, 2025 at 9:10 PM
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A poster on a fence that reads "Stop being so British and say what you think"
December 4, 2025 at 7:57 PM
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A comic panel titled "Tsundere Hamilton". In the panel, Alexander Hamilton says "I-I finished these dispatches early." As Washington tries to thank him, he continues: "Don't THANK me! I just had time to spare! It's not like I'm trying to impress you or anything!"
December 3, 2025 at 10:10 PM
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ducks are quacked
A post by a Facebook account called "We are nature" which shares a depiction of an "AI vs Nature" comparison. The prompt is "An animal that can move through the sky, sea, and land". On the left is a chimera-like creature. On the left is a duck wearing a hat. A comment reads "Really? Ducks can move through the sky?"
November 30, 2025 at 9:07 AM
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A meme showing an ape-like primitive hominid smoking a cigarette. The caption is "Another day without needing to calculate the surface area of a cone."
November 29, 2025 at 8:05 AM
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some of these old facebook adverts haven't aged very well
A vintage advertisement which reads "Stay fit and Slim: By taking Amphetamine"
November 28, 2025 at 7:43 PM
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a meme showing nearly identical anime characters (I'm sorry I actually don't know who they are). The most notable difference is that one is taller than the other. The taller one is labelled "5 foot 9 Girls" and the shorter one "5 foot 9 Guys". They shake hands.
November 26, 2025 at 8:53 PM
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A meme with two panels. In the first panel a woman says to another "Adolescents are great!" The other woman says "I agree". In the second panel, the two women shake hands. The handshake is circled and labelled "Protein shake".
November 10, 2025 at 5:20 PM
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An image of a wooly mammoth is digitally superimposed onto an image of a pile of popcorn. A caption reads "can you find?" with a slightly smaller image of the mammoth. The humour is derived from the fact that the mammoth is not hidden in the popcorn.
November 8, 2025 at 8:05 AM
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Nathan extending too hot
a Facebook Marketplace listing of a table which has been flagged for "overtly sexual products"
November 6, 2025 at 7:57 PM
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A meme in three panels. In the first two, two identical-looking bearded men, one wearing an "AI Sux" hat and the other wearing an "I love AI" hat, argue with one another. One says, "If Alan Turing were alive today he'd say 'LLMs aren't a real AI". The other says "Noooo! He would! They pass the Turing Test!". The third panel is captioned "Alan Turing if he existed today". There is a photo of Alan Turing where he is saying "I'm quite fond of this Grindr app".
November 5, 2025 at 9:40 PM
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A caption over an image reads "When you rob a bank". In the image, there is a very recognizable picture of an older man which normally contains the caption "it ain't much, l but it's honest work". In this version, the words are rearranged to it reads "it ain't honest work, but it's much".
November 5, 2025 at 8:53 PM
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A photo of a shrimp with the caption in the style of a news headline. It reads: "Daily Shrimp: Marine biologists confirm shrimp cannot understand the concept of WiFi"
November 4, 2025 at 7:08 PM
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A photo of a billboard which reads "Jesus: name above all names". The billboard has a plaque on the frame which reads "Allison", seemingly the name of the billboard manufacturer or an advertising company. The positioning of this plaque makes it just above the word "Jesus" on the billboard. A caption reads "Allison, no!!!"
November 4, 2025 at 6:14 PM
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This is a meme with three panels. A person working at a computer says "Yeah, I want to meet you for lunch, I just need to someone to cover my shift". The next panel shows the shift key on their keyboard covered with a blanket. The third panel has the person saying, "Okay, all taken care of."
November 3, 2025 at 6:03 PM
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A pointelle stitch which takes the phrase "let it snow" but rearranges the letters as "le tits now". It also features Christmas lights and snowflakes arranged in a way that vaguely resembles feminine breasts.
November 3, 2025 at 5:20 PM
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A guide to putting clocks back for daylight savings time with the following captions: Smartphone: leave it alone, it does its magic Sundial: move one house to the left Oven: you'll need a masters in electronic engineering, or a hammer Car radio: not worth it, wait six months
November 2, 2025 at 9:07 AM