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It’s Funny, But It’s Sad: 77 Funny Posts That Make People Laugh And Despair At The Same Time (New Pics)
Human emotions are a funny thing; you might be feeling ecstatic one moment and become completely devastated the next. If you've ever related to that Pedro Pascal meme where his laughing face changes to a crying face in a second, you're in the right place.
The Internet has been in an interesting collective state in the past few years. We know the world is in a pretty bad place, but all most of us can do is laugh and meme about it. The "Funny and Sad" community reflects this sentiment pretty well, and here we have the newest selection from them for you to feel happy, sad, and confused by.
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#2
The Dad Had No Reason To Be Angry - It's The Truth
Nathaniel He/Him Cis-Het 6 hours ago
Just lately he suggested taking the Panama canal and Greenland by force in order to protect the free world.... Protecting the free world by invading it....
#3
The Wage Gap Has Been
We might think that crying and laughter are two very different emotions. But think about it: haven't you laughed so hard that you started feeling tears fall down your face at least once in your life? Yale University psychologist Dr. Oriana R. Aragón and her team claim that it's the body's way to regulate itself.
"People may be restoring emotional equilibrium with these expressions," she explained. "They seem to take place when people are overwhelmed with strong positive emotions, and people who do this seem to recover better from those strong emotions."
#4
Just Like Religion Shouldn’t Play A Factor As Well
#5
This Is Exactly What It Feels Like
#6
The 1% Has To Go
But this list is hardly about crying from laughter, is it? It's more about things that make us feel so desperate and helpless that we feel that all we can do is cry. Sometimes, we use laughter and humor to deflect so that we don't feel as much empathy.
As psychoanalyst and author of To Heal a Wounded Heart Pilar Jennings explains, sometimes laughter is the body's way of saying "I can't deal with this." If we allow ourselves to empathize with the person or the problem on a deeper level, we might open ourselves up to the same emotion. Thus, humor acts like a protective shield.
#7
Why This Happened Our In Country?
#8
Democracy
People also laugh when they're anxious or uncomfortable. Researchers speculate that it's how we relax in stressful situations, similar to laughter's function when we see something funny. Margaret Clark, professor of psychology at Yale University and co-author of the study "Dimorphous Expressions of Positive Emotion", also hypothesizes that it's how we let other people know that we need help to down-regulate our nervousness.
#10
It Is A Facepalm To %1 Billionaires
#11
Class Solidarity Now
Nathan Lewis 8 hours ago
But Elon is so cool and smart, and if I ride his meat hard enough he might notice me.
#12
No Guys, Capitalism Works I Swear
The "Funny and Sad" subreddit also fits in pretty well with the type of humor millennials enjoy. When we think about the TV shows, movies, and other media that we're consuming at the moment, it's hard not to notice how dark and absurd some of it is. In her article for The Guardian "'Horrifyingly absurd': how did millennial comedy get so surreal?" Rachel Aroesti points to shows like Rick and Morty, The Good Place, and BoJack Horseman.
#13
This
#14
So Controversial
#15
Wtf
Aroesti seeks to answer the question "Why is millennial humor so weird?" and suggests that it reflects the sentiments of many young people that the world just doesn't make sense anymore. In 2017, The Washington Post offered another reason: we're becoming more rootless with the delay of marriage, kids, and home ownership, and disillusion with religion, so all that gets reflected in the comedy and the content online that we consume.
#16
People Would Really Say That
Nathaniel He/Him Cis-Het 6 hours ago
Literally anything that might help people or the community.....SOCIALISM! Get your commie butts out of here!
#18
Wanting Or Being Able To Is The Issue
Aroesti calls the shows she listed "sadcoms" and describes them as "a strain of comedy-drama shuddering under the weight of personal hardship and the idea that actual jokes are largely unnecessary." This type of humor, according to her, pierces the panic-inducing online news cycle and gives us at least some reprieve from the world going to bits.
#20
Blaming Us For The World They Created
#21
"F**k You, I Got Mine!"
meeeeeeeeeeee 9 hours ago
The world would be so much funnier if people like this just got automatically deported. If I was in charge I'd make that a rule for a laugh. I remember before the Brexit vote seeing people on the news with clearly non-English accents saying they shouldn't let any more of those foreigners in. lmao
Gen Z, in turn, amp up their attraction to dark humor by laughing at their own trauma and hardships. Much of Gen Z's humor reflects their struggles with mental health conditions and the dystopic state of the world. Some say that Gen Z is the most honest generation yet: they call it as they see it.
#22
Funny
One young person told the Bipolar and Depression Support Alliance that nihilism is the go-to response for this generation because they don't see adults and politicians taking action to solve societal problems like climate change, school shootings, socioeconomic inequality, and many others.
#25
Funny And Sad
#26
Broke Broken Bro-Can’t
#27
Nintendo
Experts say that Gen Z is the generation that grew up with many stressful global incidents and the internet. This cocktail brewed an army of nihilistic, absurd humor-loving kids. Columnist Elise Sanders even likened Gen Z to the Dadaist movement, because they, too, reject the logic and restrictions of capitalist societies.
#28
This Actually Happened To You?
#29
My Type Of Woman
#30
This Is Just Sad
If you, too, have a nihilistic streak, you probably enjoyed the pics on this list. Let us know which were your favorites by upvoting the best to the very top. And if you'd like to see some more, check out our previous articles with posts from the "Funny and Sad" subreddit here, here, and here!
#31
Let's That Sink In Already
#32
Eh, They’ll Figure It Out
#33
Capitalism Cannot Survive Without Poverty
StarCrossedFriday 1 minute ago
Especially when it’s been proven over and over that raising minimum wage doesn’t have to mean food costs go up. It just shows that big businesses are getting more and more greedy, and one day the bubble is going to burst.
#34
Women Are Humans, Really?
#35
Still Relevant 90's Joke
#36
No Way
#38
Americans Be Like: Universal Healthcare?
#40
Clever Comeback
stupidMonkey 6 hours ago
Please tell me where I can find a treasury bond that yields 8%. I will then be able to make 3 million bucks by selling that information.
#41
Sad Indeed
Kris Fireheart 1 hour ago
Don't forget those of us who are still in our 30s and have all of them. Asbestos removed from my childhood home at 8, lead pipes in my 1950s house, and of course, plastic everything
#42
I Think This Fits Well Here
#43
That Is A Fact
Panda Kicki 8 hours ago
In Sweden ot has happened multiple times that firefighters are lured in on fake fires and ambushed. Some areas they now cant enter without police escort.
#44
Middle Class Died
Kris Fireheart 1 hour ago
Actually it was more than that. The dollar fell in value. 5 dollars in 1950 would be more like 30 today. Then there were the wars, reaganomics, and people like Trump raising rents to untenable levels. It used to be cheap to live in New York, for example. Now that single studio is gonna run you 7000 a month
#45
Amen
#46
Pls, Why Is The World So Bad
Disgruntled Panda 7 hours ago
That hits pretty hard. Everyone (including me ofc) wants things to be better but also has a limit of how much personal"discomfort" they are willing to accept to make that happen. Will have to reassess my priorities methinks
#47
Where You Swipe Left Right Or Up
#48
Well, It's True Isn't?
#49
Fun Fact
Panda Kicki 8 hours ago
I had to look thkat up. It is about how to identify adtuöterous wifes by poisoning them with some kind of toxic water. The abortion is a side effect, not the purpose.
#50
The Excuses Used Against Us Are Ridiculous!
Kris Fireheart 1 hour ago
Or better yet, just do it the way our parents did, and some of us still do: buy beans and make an actual pot of coffee
#51
Heart-Eater 'Murica
#52
At Least They Only Had To Pay For One Wedding
#53
Realitysville, USA
#54
Sometime Doing More Is Not The Way
Tha Monkey 8 hours ago
Lawd, that sounds like my dad, when I switched to WFH. He'd call during the day (I work 9-5, M-F), and ask, "Are you working or at home?", repeatedly, despite me correcting him. Sigh.
#55
Look, Sky Daddy People Are At Again
#56
Funny And Sad
#57
I Can't Help But Laugh
#58
I Feel Sad For The People Who Are Actually In This Situation. Capitalism Sucks
#59
Work
#60
Wrong Mythology
Nathaniel He/Him Cis-Het 6 hours ago
Because if we do not let the rich have all the money they will move to another country that will. Choice is a job with low pay or no job with no pay.
#61
Yesss Sir
stupidMonkey 6 hours ago
Gather round children while I tell you the fantastic story of corporate personhood.
#62
Are You Living Your Life ?
Panda Kicki 8 hours ago
Thats the days of working for the landlord. THEN ypu had ro work your own fields to actually be able to eat. No holidays there.
#63
Crazy To Imagine, Huh?
#64
The Grammar Police Of The World. Lol
#65
Confused Applause
#66
Why Did He Hide It From His Family?
Norm Gilmore 5 hours ago (edited)
By law in New Zealand lotto winners can choose to be anonymous. But people will know if I've won. The mini castle built for the cats in the backyard will probably give it away...
#67
Merica!
Megalodon Meg 8 hours ago
Oh no it's worse than that. You can enlist at 18, can indeed smoke at 18 but can't have alcohol or pay for a hotel room in a lot of places until 21
#69
The Biggest Mistake
#70
If My Parents Gets That One Wish
LakotaWolf (she/her) 8 hours ago
My mom (80 years old) got pissed off at me the other day and screamed "I WISH I'D NEVER ADOPTED YOU!" which is extra hilarious because like... you usually have to go to a LOT of extra effort to adopt a child vs letting biology do its thing (assuming normal fertility.) It was also hilarious because she sounded like a snotty teenager yelling "YOU'RE NOT MY REAL PARENTS!!" (incidentally, I have NEVER said that to either of my adoptive parents, because they ARE my real parents.) It also really hurt. Nearly 43 years down the line, she can still cut me to the quick by telling me I'm just white trash like my biological parents and will never be good enough.
#71
Poor Kid
#72
Let's Pretend We Do Not See The Acronym 😂🤣😂🤣
Tha Monkey 8 hours ago
I kinda hate the boomer qualifier; I'm technically a boomer (identify as GenX - 1964), and am pretty tech savvy. I was just having this discussion about a colleague (~1993), who is most definitively NOT tech savvy. Maybe it's just more nuanced than age?
#73
Damn!
#75
I Think It's Omnidirectional Hahaaaa
#76
Depressing But Funny
#77
Accurate
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Nathaniel He/Him Cis-Het 5 hours ago
I can think of someone commenting on these threads who could do with being punched.
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Nathaniel He/Him Cis-Het 5 hours ago
I can think of someone commenting on these threads who could do with being punched.
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