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If someday, after several thousand years, archaeologists of future civilizations study our historical legacy, then the main art of the first half of the 21st century will definitely be memes. To paraphrase the so-called 'Rule 34' (which is itself a meme), 'if it exists, there is a meme about it. No exceptions.'

Along with the legendary memes known all over the planet, there are many less famous (and, let's say right away, not at all famous), sometimes cringy and weird ones - yet no less amusing and entertaining. For example, like these, presented by a dedicated Twitter page called 'That's not satisfying.' So before all the netizens have moved from Twitter to the newly created Threads, let's just enjoy these memes on Bored Panda!

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TheGoodBoi
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Darn mountain trolls playing catch again. AYE! WATCH WHERE YOU'RE THROWING S**T!

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Interestingly, the term "meme" itself was introduced by evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins long before the advent of the internet in its classical sense - back in 1976. In his book called The Selfish Gene, the scientist drew a witty parallel between biological and cultural information. And if the first one consists of basic units - genes, then the second one can be structured into similar units - "memes." Moreover, Dawkins believed that memes are also subject to mutations, artificial selection and, of course, natural selection, but this, you see, is overly rocket science for just a simple list of funny images.

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TheGoodBoi
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1 year ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Option 2: You have to cover yourself with a blanket (make sure to lift your feet to tuck the blanket under), then put a pillow over your head covering the back of your head with the other side open so you can breathe. Full protection against La Llorona and the Cucuy

justmemorticia
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

They forgot to include the monsters under the bed! If you leave your toes peeking over the edge, you're living dangerously.

Poppy
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Just cover yourself in a blanket, everyone knows that blankets are kryptonite to ghosts

xolitaire
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I envy everyone who is courageous enough to sleep with their back to the room. Because I am not one of them.

Jude Corrigan
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

It's natural instinct. Your spine,pelvis and ribcage protect the back more than the front.

JB
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Back to the wall so you can fight back immediately.

SkekVi
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I used to fix this by flipping the other direction (vertically) so my back was always to the wall regardless. XD now I just hang curtains and I'm like 'ay if you wanna start sh!t with my a$s that's on you, ghosts'

Leslie Wright
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Either way, ya gotta pull the covers over your top ear so vampires won't bite it off.

Person
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I choose hiding under the duvet with my feet covered facing the wall

Joshua David
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I'm so opposite lol. I love wall hugging. Now I don't have one around my bed...but when I did...

Shy Dragon (she/her)
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I normally use option 1, cuz I don’t like not being able to see what’s happening in my room

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In general, a sense of humor can be regarded as a kind of defensive reaction to difficult life situations. And indeed, if problems are perceived from a comical angle, they usually become less serious, less threatening. Or at least they look like they have. In the end, as the great French playwright Pierre-Augustin Beaumarchais once said, "I hasten to laugh at everything - otherwise I would have to cry."

Or let's take a more recent literary example - just remember the boggarts from the wizarding world of Harry Potter. To cope with this creature, which took on the image of a person's deep fear, it was necessary to present your fear in a comical way. True, it still required a spell - but to ridicule our own fears, magic wands, believe me, are not that mandatory.

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Matthew M. Hurley, Daniel C. Dennett and Reginald B. Adams, the authors of the book Inside Jokes: Using Humor to Reverse-Engineer the Mind, published in 2011 by The MIT Press, tried to give another reason why we love jokes so much. "Humor is related to some kind of mistake. Every pun, joke and comic incident seemed to contain a fool of some sort - the 'butt' of the joke," Scientific American quotes Hurley. "And the typical response is enjoyment of the idiocy - which 'makes sense when it is your enemy or your competition that is somehow failing but not when it is yourself or your loved ones'". By the way, this fully explains why self-deprecation is so valued by people - and why it is not so common among them...

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Be that as it may, each of us has our own sense of humor - for example, I sincerely laughed at some of the memes and pictures presented in this collection, so you may also crack up at them. In any case, please feel free to scroll this list to the very end, and share your own opinions on it in the comments below. And please don't forget to laugh a bit - after all, as the great comedian Charlie Chaplin said, 'a day without laughter is a day wasted.'

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TheGoodBoi
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I usually try to match the person's text vibe, even if I'm the opposite of them

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Jane
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Y’all know they just be laying on the floor with their shoes on the wall, right??

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Howard M. Lewis Ship
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I believe this is the City Museum in St. Louis, MO, USA. It's an amazing place, kind of feels like a visit to the Joker's hideout. https://www.citymuseum.org/

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