Biblioteca Memetica

A collection of memes, curated by CJ Trowbridge.

Disclaimer: I often save memes that I disagree with; seeing something here should not be taken as evidence that I agree with it. I have been saving and categorizing tens of thousands of memes for decades. Many times I save a meme specifically because I disagree with it and in order to create new memes that counter its message.

Meme Categories:

This meme features a series of images of Joe Biden, the 46th President of the United States, in a series of increasingly absurd and disturbing situations, including being in a room with a giant spider, being attacked...

Topic: AI Art Posted:

This meme features two astronauts in space, one pointing a gun at a massive, pixelated sphere. The text reads "Always has been" and "Wait, it's all AI generated?" The image is a humorous commentary on the rapid advanc...

Topic: AI Art Posted:

This meme is an image of a table with a list of sci-fi and fantasy subgenre categories, such as "Biopunk", "Cyberpunk", and "Dystopian", but with each category name replaced with a "Mad Libs"-style phrase, such as "Bi...

Topic: AI Art Posted:

This meme is a humorous image of a forest with a bright, vibrant color palette. The image is captioned "When you're trying to be quiet in a forest, but your phone keeps ringing." The image is likely a cartoonish or ex...

Topic: AI Art Posted:

This meme is a still image from a video of Mark Zuckerberg, the CEO of Facebook, speaking in a virtual reality (VR) environment. The image shows him standing in a virtual room, with a background of shelves and books,...

Topic: AI Art Posted:

star person

Topic: Aesthetics - Nonself Posted:

person dissolve horizon

Topic: Aesthetics - Nonself Posted:

The meme is a humorous image of an empty, abandoned shopping mall with a single, lonely, and out-of-place vacuum cleaner (also known as a "space vacuum") sitting in the middle of the floor. The text "I've been here fo...

Topic: Aesthetics - Liminality Posted:

This meme is a humorous exchange between two people. The top text reads, "Him: I never said that. Her: Screen shots." The image below shows a woman holding a large book titled "Screen Shots." The joke is that the woma...

Topic: Accountability Culture Posted:

The meme is a humorous critique of the concept of "cancel culture." It starts with a statement that "it's not cancel culture," then lists several statements that are actually about cancel culture, such as "it's conseq...

Topic: Accountability Culture Posted: