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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Why This Happened Our In Country?
It Is A Facepalm To %1 Billionaires
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."
The 1% Has To Go
The Dad Had No Reason To Be Angry - It's The Truth
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....
Just Like Religion Shouldn’t Play A Factor As Well
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.
Well Said
The Wage Gap Has Been
This Is Exactly What It Feels Like
This is a paraphrase of something I saw on Facebook the other day. It's like we are in a new Jurassic Park movie. People are saying, "but the dinosaurs got loose and killed people." Others are saying, "yeah, but maybe the dinosaurs will ne nice this time." Fingers crossed. Because I heard dinosaurs don't like to eat people with crossed fingers. The fingers get stuck between their teeth.
I again feel the need to preface this by saying, i have loathed trump for 30 years. Terrible human being, terrible president who wants to do terrible things. However between 2020 and 2024....the number of black people voting for trump increased from 8% to 16%, Hispanics from 32% to 45%, Asians from 34% to 38% other racial demographics from 41% to 54%....and among young people from 41% to 53%. Turnout among white voters however dropped from 58% to 55%. Democrats might want to investigate the underlying cause of that shift. Maybe want to consider the fact that yes, most people, even within his own party loathe trump....just not as much as they hate the tired song and dance that the dems have been doubling down on, over and over again for the past 15 years.
To me one of the main problems seems to be that Biden wanted to run for it first, only to be replaced by Harris. If she had the full run, I'm not so sure Trump would've won.
Load More Replies...When he gets into office and flushes all the environmental laws down the toilet, we won't be rooting for cancer because we'll be too sick with cancer.
Not a single one of my relatives or close friends voted for Trump... My electrician is the closet person to me who did...
Knowing that he won is like seeing blood in your underwear, but being unable to afford go to the ER.
Aww I love that they're still so positive about this state of affairs. This was no biopsy. This was full cerebral resection and they're sitting drooling in a chair waiting for the brain to crawl back into their head of its own accord.
People are acting dramatically as if it was Trump's first term. Has he destroyed America? Was he a ruthless dictator? Calm down.
Did he have a stacked Supreme Court last time? Full support of both houses because every Republican is scared to go against him in any way? There is nothing stopping him now. And he’s getting dementia, which will only increase in severity. Why do people who say what you did in your comment never realize these things?? Oh, wait…
Load More Replies...Please get over your TDS! WE WON!! America WILL be GREAT AGAIN, in spite of all of you a******s wishing that it won't be so. Seriously, why are you hoping that the USA won't do well?
Ignorant, crazy, and stupid is no way to go through life, son.
Load More Replies...It's funny to me that you think your comment carries such weight or import that it could possibly "trigger" anyone. 😂
Load More Replies...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.
Makes You Think
Wanting Or Being Able To Is The Issue
This
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.
Class Solidarity Now
But Elon is so cool and smart, and if I ride his meat hard enough he might notice me.
People Would Really Say That
Literally anything that might help people or the community.....SOCIALISM! Get your commie butts out of here!
Interesting
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.
No Guys, Capitalism Works I Swear
So Controversial
Democracy
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.
Faith, Lmfao
"F**k You, I Got Mine!"
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
Funny
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.
Lmfao
Blaming Us For The World They Created
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.
That Is A Fact
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.
Let's That Sink In Already
This Is Just Sad
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.
This Actually Happened To You?
Amen
Women Are Humans, Really?
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!
Capitalism Cannot Survive Without Poverty
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.
Well, It's True Isn't?
I can't even begin to tell you how much I wish Elon Musk were nothing more than a bit of undigested beef.
Nintendo
To conservatives, "socialism" is any public program that helps people they don't like.
I Think This Fits Well Here
Pls, Why Is The World So Bad
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
Still Relevant 90's Joke
Funny And Sad
Broke Broken Bro-Can’t
Americans Be Like: Universal Healthcare?
My Type Of Woman
Clever Comeback
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.
No Way
Probably
Fun Fact
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.
The Excuses Used Against Us Are Ridiculous!
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
Middle Class Died
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
Eh, They’ll Figure It Out
Where You Swipe Left Right Or Up
We're Married, I Swear
Sad Indeed
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
Note: this post originally had 77 images. It’s been shortened to the top 50 images based on user votes.
I can think of someone commenting on these threads who could do with being punched.
Load More Replies...I'm currently going through something with my partner where I think it's probably going to end and one of the scariest things is that I can't really afford to live on my own. I have a decent job with the state and hardly spend money on "luxuries" but even just sticking with bare minimum it'd be so tight. So, now possibly staying in an unhealthy relationship because I literally cannot afford not to. Sorry to over share. :(
I was in that situation about 14 years ago, I just said fvck it and went for it. It was not worth the heartache so it was easier to be flat broke all the time but out of the situation. Fingers crossed for you!
Load More Replies...What's up with BP? Every time I get on the site, I get relentless popup ads about viruses on my phone? Anyone else, or just me?
Nope, I get endless pop-up ads about Sketchers. The real thing is, I believe Bored Panda is trying hard to get us to upgrade to premium.
Load More Replies...Why do these polls never have the right answer? YES I like these memes, dark humour is FUNNY.
Wait why did you show me this? Also what was the subject? It seems like murica but the title is just generic
um...these are funny BUT sad...and the sad comes from the politics.... sorry to disturb your world view
Load More Replies...And once again you read the whole thing rather than closing the tab & going about your day.
Load More Replies...I can think of someone commenting on these threads who could do with being punched.
Load More Replies...I'm currently going through something with my partner where I think it's probably going to end and one of the scariest things is that I can't really afford to live on my own. I have a decent job with the state and hardly spend money on "luxuries" but even just sticking with bare minimum it'd be so tight. So, now possibly staying in an unhealthy relationship because I literally cannot afford not to. Sorry to over share. :(
I was in that situation about 14 years ago, I just said fvck it and went for it. It was not worth the heartache so it was easier to be flat broke all the time but out of the situation. Fingers crossed for you!
Load More Replies...What's up with BP? Every time I get on the site, I get relentless popup ads about viruses on my phone? Anyone else, or just me?
Nope, I get endless pop-up ads about Sketchers. The real thing is, I believe Bored Panda is trying hard to get us to upgrade to premium.
Load More Replies...Why do these polls never have the right answer? YES I like these memes, dark humour is FUNNY.
Wait why did you show me this? Also what was the subject? It seems like murica but the title is just generic
um...these are funny BUT sad...and the sad comes from the politics.... sorry to disturb your world view
Load More Replies...And once again you read the whole thing rather than closing the tab & going about your day.
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