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What's a better form of entertainment in this digital age than scrolling through some funny memes? Especially when you've had a really tough day or week. Sometimes, even your favorite show or movie seems to require too much brain power. So opting for a quick but effective fix in the form of some random memes is often your best bet.
Today, we're featuring a community that shares hilarious content daily. The Funny AF Spiritual Memes group has 2 million members, so you know you're in safe hands, Pandas. Scroll down and entertain yourself with some memes about this weird thing we call life. And read on for our exploration of how memes have become a language in their own right.
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Ray Ceeya (RayCeeYa) 6 months ago
This could be a monetized service. There should be an app for this!
At this point, most of us are familiar with what the word 'meme' means. In 1976, Richard Dawkins called it "ideas that spread from brain to brain." In today's Internet culture, that's especially apt because memes tend to spread like wildfire on different social media platforms. The more accurate description for today would perhaps be that the ideas spread from device to device.
The first example of what memes look like is an image from the Judge Magazine issue in 1921. It's the original "Expectations vs. Reality" type of picture. Yet people don't consider it to technically be a meme. Why? Because it didn't have the virality aspect. For a picture, a video, or a quote to become a meme, people have to copy it and share it.
Nowadays, what we consider to be memes is so widely known that even a non-chronically online person would know them. There probably isn't a young person who wouldn't recognize Drake gesturing 'nuh-uh' from his "Hotline Bling" video or that screenshot from an anime with the butterfly with the caption "Is this [blank]?"
Yet, it is a sort of secret language. More niche memes allow individuals with similar interests to communicate things others might not know about. One person could be well-versed in philosophy memes but know absolutely nothing when they see a Formula 1 meme.
Linguist Rebecca Garcia claims that memes are not so much a language of their own but a graphic form of speech. "Just as language and writing is a form of communication, so are memes. Even though these images incorporate only short written messages, they’re usually understood by the receiver or audience."
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Tiffany Marie 6 months ago
Mens beauty line is starting to expand more and more. Eventually it'll be as bad as wonens. Just give it some time.
Memes don't represent the way we write. They're an expression of how we talk. The way we speak is more informal than how we express ourselves in writing. "We mirror our speech patterns in memes. Therefore, when we communicate with memes, we are communicating with a graphic form of speech," Garcia writes in her Public Linguist blog.
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waarimelone 6 months ago (edited)
Got it. Develop the most attractive allergic reaction ever to makeup.
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Lauren Caswell 6 months ago
You don't want to absorb too much serotonin. you need a field of it per se, to allow proper neuron communication. People with low serotonin are put on SSRI meds(Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitor). This slows the re-absorption of serotonin, allowing the levels in the brain to rise and re-establishing effective neural firing (the lack of which can cause depression. I have inherited GAD anxiety myself, so SSRI meds don't work. I take SNRI [Selective Noradrenaline Reuptake Inhibitors] meds instead, as Noradrenaline is to anxiety as Serotonin is to depression).
Dumb teenager 6 months ago
I started taking a serotonin reabsorbtion inhibitor (fluoxotine) for anxiety around a year ago and have had my dosages raised twice since. It's worked for stopping the panic attacks but I seem to feel a lot less emotion now then I used to (one of my friends joked that I smile every 2-3 buisness days and that my emotions range from slightly bored to mildly confused). I'm considering asking about lowering my dosage as I don't particuarly want to be an emotionless sociopath (in saying that, can't be sure that it's the fluoxotine causing it)
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Jayjay 6 months ago
Nah, don't curse them, inpire them to do their job just like a boss in a good company would do :).
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LB 6 months ago (edited)
The serotonin hypothesis of depression is just that, a hypothesis. The meds don't work for a lot of people, but no one ever really investigated which part of the group of depressed folks actually has low serotonin. Don't get hung up on believing this is what's wrong with your brain. It could be this! Could also be disregulated stress system or something else... or healthy reaction to the s**t show of war and climate change and globalization etc https://www.nature.com/articles/s41380-019-0385-5
Jayjay 6 months ago
Yes, I was mentor of several psychiatric patients, and the stuff the Mental Health Care subscribes like candy was truly a shock for me. Off course some people need these d***s, but the way Mental Health Care plays Russian Roulette with their patients is abominal.
Load More Replies... Cybele Spanjaard 6 months ago
I could do with a bit more at 85.. not that I am at all mentally deficient..I forget a common word a day ( it comes back in less than 3 minutes but...)
Lucy 6 months ago
The imbalance of seratonin being related to depression was never proven. In was a theory in the 60s pushed by the Pharma companies. Everything is a scam.
Diolla 6 months ago
SSRI's helped both me and my sister very well (both for depression). I am now off them but they were a lifesaver.
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We tend to communicate through pictures on social media more than with words. We send GIFs, emojis, and, of course, memes. But with memes, it's not about the image itself. In 2015, researcher Walter Jose Castañeda concluded in his study that the meme image is what matters, not the image in the meme. "[Memes] obviate any relationship that their components may have with the image from which they originate," he wrote.
When someone sends you a meme with a tearful cat, the conversation doesn't actually have anything to do with cats. The text and the context of the conversation seemingly have nothing in common with the cat picture. But when put together, they make up a complete composition and we get its meaning.
Memes also have a strange power of bringing people together. They are a reflection of Netlore (Internet folklore) and reflect many different facets of the human experience. What was once an easy and new way to joke around with friends online is turning into a community-building engine. It's not just about the many faces of Doge and Pepe anymore -- memes now can be way deeper than that.
"We can see not just the new ways people do things or the new ways people express themselves in public but also some of the themes, some of the anxieties or desires people have. All of these complex issues are reflected in things like memes," Director of the Centre for Digital Culture at Kings College London Paolo Gerbaudo told the BBC.
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Casey Smith 6 months ago
I was walking and found a snail on the sidewalk so I brought it with me to the park and then when I got home I worried it would be lost so I went back and got him and brought him to the area I found him and that was 1987 but I still think of that snail.
Memes can help people feel less alone during hard times (this was especially evident during the pandemic), but they also can help marginalized communities. Sharing memes is a great way to build a collective identity. The founder of the Meme Studies Research Network, Idil Galip, said that this collective sense of identity even bleeds into real life.
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Howl's sleeping castle 6 months ago (edited)
My parents have accepted that my cat is an important family member and they let me show them her photos and videos, and they watch it happily. My mum sometimes even asks if my cat ate food or not.
"Niche memes are not meant to go viral," Galip explained. "They're meant usually to create things like in-group belonging, something that kind of strengthens a sense of identity." It's similar to speaking another language. If you ever stumble upon a meme that you don't entirely understand, it might just be that it's not for you.
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_-DungeonKeeper-_ 6 months ago (edited)
Young My Idiotic Imagination That Keeps Making Mind Movies And Singing Assorted Ivycomb Songs When I Need To Pay Attention Or Sleep Why Can't I Ditch This Brain And Get A New One
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Barbara Wilcock 6 months ago
If someone gives me a simple math problem (2+2) I panic and shout 847
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Little Wonder 6 months ago
The knowledge that your PC takes 4 minutes to boot, and it's 20 seconds to the desk is very dangerous when you work from home and have a snooze button.
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Szzone aka Rottyintós Batman 6 months ago (edited)
We need more of these, fewer AITAH stories (only the really good ones), and zero celebrity/TikTok updates
Prince of Darkness 6 months ago
I often wonder if anyone even reads the text by the b.p. "authors" or if everyone ignores it and just reads the memes. I also often wonder how low one's iq has to be in order to think that their comments are seen by the people whose memes are curated for these "articles"
Diolla 6 months ago
I never read the author text, should I? And also, in some threads the pics are actually submitted directly by the OPs. Have done that myself AND read the comments.
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WineDrinker2022 5 months ago
So.much better than all the fake AITA stuff..if I wanted to read Reddit, I'd go to Reddit
Szzone aka Rottyintós Batman 6 months ago (edited)
We need more of these, fewer AITAH stories (only the really good ones), and zero celebrity/TikTok updates
Prince of Darkness 6 months ago
I often wonder if anyone even reads the text by the b.p. "authors" or if everyone ignores it and just reads the memes. I also often wonder how low one's iq has to be in order to think that their comments are seen by the people whose memes are curated for these "articles"
Diolla 6 months ago
I never read the author text, should I? And also, in some threads the pics are actually submitted directly by the OPs. Have done that myself AND read the comments.
Load More Replies... WineDrinker2022 5 months ago
So.much better than all the fake AITA stuff..if I wanted to read Reddit, I'd go to Reddit
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