For all of their many strengths, subtlety isn’t generally something that memes excel at. They have some kind of message to get across while offering the maximum level of entertainment in the most efficient way, so they tend to lean toward the obvious side of things. Still, that’s not to say that they can’t have hidden depths. When you know where to look or how to look at it, there are plenty of different meanings to be had. It’s not a necessity to try and find them, though. More often than not, you can have a fine time simply appreciating the content at face value, and taking every humorous image as it comes. The priority is that the memes are helping you to relax and unwind for a moment, and they are more than ready to do that with what they most obviously provide to us at the very first glance.
It’s been 13 years since the first season of Dance Moms aired, and in hindsight, it’s wild that the show lasted more than one season, and we’re still talking about it today. We all know that reality TV has been exploitative since the genre’s inception, but until this Lifetime show, it wasn’t “rank a group of children on a pyramid from worst to best weekly” level of exploitative. According to Abby Lee Miller, ranking young dancers was supposed to motivate them to do better. She claimed that since high schools had valedictorians, so did dance studios. The only problem with that analogy is that high schools don’t post pictures of their valedictorians on the wall above all the other students and broadcast the humiliating failure of their lowest-ranking students to an international audience. Ranking people is one thing, but ranking memes is totally ethically sound. We’re not afraid to broadcast the top 28 memes of today to you, so please enjoy these top-shelf memes.
I feel like these days you don’t have as many people boasting about having a meme collection as you used to. Back in the days when the internet had things like rare Pepes, it felt like every other individual whose screen time could be a cause for concern wanted you to know just how many screenshots they had hidden in the depths of their phone. Then, NFTs came along and made the whole thing seem like a one-way ticket to perpetual loserdom. Add to that the rise of TikTok (it’s harder to feel like a video is a collectible item, somehow), and it seems as if nobody wants to admit to saving up those funny little pictures anymore. It’s OK, though, because we know for a fact that they haven’t stopped looking at them. You only have to scroll a little further to feast your eyes on multiple reasons why.
Life really does seem to press the fast-forward button as you get older. Days blur into weeks, and months into years until it’s nearly November and you’re racking your brain trying to remember exactly what it is that you have been doing for the past eleven months. It can get scary, and what do we here at Memebase believe is the best response to fear? Why, looking at a selection of memes, of course. The existential horrors seem a lot less horror-y when they are pacified with or in funny internet pictures, and it is an easy and attention-consuming way of taking your mind off the calendar for a while. No doubt that so long as the clock keeps ticking, we will all still have an appetite for the silly ways we have of distracting ourselves from that. We’ve got to be grateful that we’ve got that dilemma figured out.
It’s crazy to think that once upon a time, the Screen was kind of a luxury. Now, for most of us, it has turned into nothing short of a need. It is the first thing that gets looked at when we wake up, and the last thing we do before we go to bed. What we might be looking at varies, but more often than not it is entertaining content of some description, and a great proportion of entertaining content on our devices can probably be classed as memes, one way or another. At this point, they are almost an added nutrient in our diet, so let us treat them as such by making sure that we get our daily dose. The likelihood is that if you find yourself here, they already offer that to you, so there is no need to wait any longer. Get ready for another random ride.
By definition, many memes are all about immediate impact. Their existence and success rely on them capturing your attention enough that you don’t just decide to keep on scrolling, after all. However, this doesn’t mean that we shouldn’t consider evaluating them from another perspective. For all they are mostly meant to be throwaway and temporary, some memes are worth coming back to, or indeed meditating on for longer the first time that you see them. It may be true that this doesn’t apply to every single humorous image you see on the internet, but just like learning to chew your food for longer or taking the scenic route home, it can bring copious rewards if you are willing to make the extra effort for it. Below are 34 opportunities to do exactly that, so choose wisely. You might find yourself becoming far more absorbed than you ever expected to be.
Memes certainly don’t have to fall under the category of ‘edgy’ to deserve our time and attention, but they do have to do something or other to pique our interest and more often than not, that involves doing something a little unexpected. It makes sense, seeing as most humor depends on the element of surprise, and as we know they can sometimes get exceedingly creative with their efforts. Now, I can make no promises that every meme that can be found here is going to be groundbreaking, breathtaking, or otherwise a wild, wild ride. I can, however, guarantee that they make for an acceptable way to waste another couple of minutes. Assuming that they allow you to at least do that, we can say that they have served their purpose and even better, they have given you the distraction that you clearly seek. If it gets any better than this, we don’t want to know about it.
Let’s face it, a lot of life is simply quite boring. We wake up every day, go to work, go home, make dinner, check the same three websites, do the dishes or the laundry (there are always dishes or laundry), then go to bed. Sure, there are plenty of things I’m missing out here, but the point is the monotony—if we don’t want it to eat us alive, we have to have some tricks up our sleeve to keep things interesting. That is, of course, where the wonderful distraction of memes comes in. They may often be dealing with mundane topics, but they’re also entertaining enough to make it seem like that is more than acceptable. Boredom can be banished with a simple scroll, or at the very least, it can be postponed. How great that we get to live in a time where such a thing is possible.
What if our thoughts, like radio waves, are transmitted beyond our individual minds, creating a shared web of consciousness? Recent discoveries in neuroscience, quantum physics, and psychology are challenging the long-held notion that our minds are isolated, self-contained units. Instead, evidence suggests that human consciousness may be interconnected in ways we’re only beginning to understand. The idea of collective consciousness, which has long been the domain of metaphysics and spirituality, is now finding a foothold in science. From strange telepathic phenomena to groundbreaking scientific studies on quantum entanglement and the “multiples effect,” the idea that our thoughts could influence or…
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Read MoreWhen I see a grain silo on the side of a road during a car ride across the midwestern United States, I feel the urge to get in there. You’ve lost your childlike wonder if you’ve never wanted to swim around in some grain and let it get into your shoes, socks, and pants. I feel the same way about water towers. There’s something so appealing about a giant structure with such a clarity of purpose. It holds water, it holds grain, and that’s all it needs to hold. It’s not one of these barns that spreads itself too thin trying to contain all sorts of animals that have no business hanging out with each other. Chickens and cows in the same house? Please…
These memes exist in a silo of sorts if you can accept a webpage as such. They are just a tad better than your average meme, so if that’s your thing, you can dive right in head first!
Hey friend, are you feeling down? Did the temperature outside decrease by 8-10 degrees, causing visions of 5 months of nights in with seasonal sadness to dance in your head? Maybe you’re feeling let down by the start of a new school year or the end of a constant stream of summer activities. It’s much more likely that a constellation of circumstances has led you to a low point in your life that a mere stranger could never predict. I extend my sincerest apologies for the gross generalizations and assumptions I made mere moments ago.
It really doesn’t matter what bad things are going on in your life. You could’ve stepped in gum this morning or broken your leg last night, and the same things will make you feel better: spending time with loved ones, getting some much-needed sunlight, and scrolling through 32 of today’s most compelling and intriguing memes.
It is late September, and you know what that means. As she does every season, Mariah Carey is beginning her meteoric rise to the top of the Billboard charts. There is no Christmas song as iconic as All I Want For Christmas Is You; at this point, I wonder if there ever will be. Part of the appeal of Christmas songs is that they come back every year, which is why we’re still listening to Christmas songs from the 50s on the radio and why a song released in 1994 is still topping the charts. If Mariah beat Bing Crosby, maybe someday in the future, someone might beat Mariah. I doubt it, though.
While I do respect the lambs, some of us don’t want to start celebrating Christmas this early. After all, we still have Halloween and Thanksgiving to look forward to, and I don’t want to max out on my Christmas spirit too early. If you’re a casual fan of Christmas, you’ll love these amusing but mostly unseasonal memes.