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Memes are a universal language of the internet. Not only do we share them to laugh, but also to communicate, criticize, and reflect on the current trends. Essentially, they speak of, or rather make a meme of what’s really buzzing right now: think of 2020 and 2021 memes, Squid Game memes, and Mike Pence’s fly on the head memes.

Some memes, on the other hand, refer to the things that most of us find very relatable. They identify a common experience, a feeling, and even an opinion. How come such personal things are so universal, you wonder? Well, we may not have the answers to the phenomenon, but we surely have a lot of hilarious memes of our daily lives in the hooman world to chuckle upon.

And thanks to the Instagram page “Is You Funny,” below is a whole collection of them to scroll through. According to the page’s description, it’s the “most relatable page on the gram,” and it seems like a whopping 2.7M followers would totally agree.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

For real though. I miss Tupac, he would've taken out this trash years ago.

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Memes are a quintessential part of the internet culture. It’s where they’re born, where they spread and where they evolve. Seemingly fun and lighthearted, they create a culture of unspoken referential importance by using explicit cultural knowledge, which is a big deal of its own accord. Thanks to them, it seems like there’s never a dull moment online. Today the concept of a meme has evolved into elaborate structures that can come in many forms, like challenges, videos, viral sensations, GIFs, and images with accompanying captions.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I've seen this photo a bunch I laugh every time. However, I've never seen the "before" photo and it does not disappoint.

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It shouldn’t come as a surprise that from a linguistic point of view, memes are incredibly sophisticated. In fact, meme creators use “multimodal grammar,” which refers to a post which has both images and captions, to express and share ideas and opinions. As soon as a meme lands on social networks, people start sharing it and add their own personal meanings to the content. That’s why there’s never a final nor single meaning of a particular meme.

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Ryan Deschanel
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

That's clever, because anyone can understand it the way that comforts their own opinions.

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The fact that internet memes, units of popular culture, constantly circulate, imitate and transform with the help of users, makes them so special. Limor Shifman, a scholar who specializes in the study of internet memes, believes that a meme is not a single idea or image which is spread across social sites, but a group of items that were created with awareness of each other. Think of the internet’s beloved Grumpy Cat meme. Shifman would say that it’s not the cat itself, but the whole set of memes generated with its image, which is the meme.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Dude forgot the eye patch, and the devil horns, and the ear rings, and the nose rings

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On the other hand, with memes evolving so much in the past years, in some cases, they become vehicles for political messages, often used to spread aggressive or racist messages and to incite hatred. Emiliano De Cristofaro, an associate professor from UCL, has recently carried out the largest scientific study of memes to date, using a dataset of 160m images from various social networks.

“We showed how 'fringe' web communities associated with the alt-right movement, such as 4chan’s 'Politically Incorrect' board (/pol/) and Reddit’s 'The_Donald' are generating a wide variety of racist, hateful, and politically charged memes—and, crucially, spreading them to other parts of the internet,” De Cristofaro explained.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Remember when you wished you were all grown up so you could be free to do anything you'd like?

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What De Cristofaro’s team found was that fringe social networks like /pol/ and Gab “share hateful and racist memes at an impressive rate, producing countless variants of antisemitic and pro-nazi memes.” Moreover, “memes like Pepe the Frog (and its variants) are often used in conjunction with other memes to incite hate or influence public opinion on world events, such as Brexit or the advance of Islamic State,” he said.

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Moreover, the team at UCL found that, alarmingly, /pol/ was by far the most influential disseminator of memes, in terms of the raw number of images originating there. “In particular, it was more influential in spreading racist and political memes,” De Cristofaro said.

Just like with any other content on the internet, so with memes, users have to be aware of what kind of content they engage in, share and react to. While having a laugh at relatable memes like these ones in the post can indeed make your day brighter, encountering hateful memes is a whole other thing that’d better be reported.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Or, reminding your boss for your legitimate paycheck you both agreed upon. So glad our company has it all automatic.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

My grandma would babysit 6 or 7 of us grandkids at a time. We would pull a mattress into the living room and use it like a WWE wrestling ring. She would just sit in the corner and watch. A saint. Plus she would let us drink straight black coffee.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

The pandemic really showed how out of touch celebrities are.

William Teach
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

That bit with the celebs, led by Gal Gadot, singing Imagine was one of the lowlights

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Vicky Zar
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

That thing looks bigger than the shopping centers I know. I would like to know how many rooms there are and what their uses are. How can anyone need this much space?

Dani Alexander
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

All millionaires on Instagram and YouTube like, “oh you have to be safe and stay at home. I know it’s hard, it’s hard for all of us, even me” whilst sitting in their 8million dollar house, in their indoor pool area, sitting at the bar in their indoor pool area, drinking 10,000 dollars worth of alcohol. AND not having to lift a finger to even get what they have.

Daniel Schnitzler
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I bet if he’s quarantined he’s going to his private park with his private tigers

ZAPanda
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

never will understand why someone would want that. it must echo like mad with so few people.

El muerto
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

wait, are you telling me he has to walk to the tenis court! that is so sad

Lori T Wisconsin
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Conspicuous consumption. Why is the huge carbon footprint necessary? Celebs just have to show off.

gma
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

it's a shame he has to live under those conditions. Poor baby

Brenda Pereira
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

What a waste of money! No one needs this type of house. What could you possibly do with it all?

Phyzzi
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Okay, but seriously which Disney resort hotel is thi... oh, you are serious. ;)

Riley Quinn
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Don't you just love it when folx living in compounds tell you how to live your life?

L.a. Williams
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

You come and stay at my house for a couple of weeks. You will be singing a different tune. Yes pun intended

Brenda S
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Luv Will Smith, however, there is something wrong in this world with so much wealth for so few, when there is so much utter poverty in America.

okpkpkp
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Geesus. I have worked at rich people's homrs but this s**t is crazy.

Olli Glx
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

A house so big it has its own postal code (or could have ;-))

Jjjane20
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I am currently closed and living in one room because after a long resistance I got covid. I go only to bathroom with my face holes tightly sealed. So yeah, I am enviously looking at Will smith's house and wondering what it's like to have house like that where every family member can have enough of space without intruding anyone else's space and not spread covid within the family.

I I
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

why does one person need so much room ? waste of space

William Teach
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

While getting the plebes still having to work to bring them Uber Eats and stuff

nad krut
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I sure miss the pandemic start when celebs would post dumb s**t like "wErE aLl In ThIs ToGeThEr!!11" from the cliffside hot tub and people would completely rip them apart.

kjorn
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

never get the need to get 26 room in a house. the pool, tennis court, basket court i get it but all the rest?

The Penguin Bandit
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Pass; that house has two structural arrangements that look a little too much like the house got two devil mouths and wants to eat me.

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A Big house, but no wife, or wife at another hommie's house.

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Nadine Bamberger
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

As soon as you put in that piece you turn into a raging tax evading a$$hole that would rather burn money trying to fly real high than pay their employees a living wage.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Humans are resilient, they adapt... they don't fix s**t, but they know how to live in a broken society

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Nathan Pogorzala
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Come on, anyone can look good with her resources, make-up artist, cosmetic surgery and wardrobe. Bernie is just a normal ass guy.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I guess all kids enjoy both, just choose the appropriate moment to do one or the other.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

"ALEXA NEXT SONG" *continues to play "ALEXXXA NEXT SOOONG" Alexa: "I'm sorry I can't find the command for come along" "ALLLLEEEEXXXXXAAAA DAMN IT PLAY NEXT SONG YOU #@%$!" Alexa: Goodbye.

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Daniel Mattock
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Reminds me of the George Carlin joke- “then they tell me to get on the plane, get in the plane! F**k you, I’m getting in the plane!”

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

It's the only good selfie I have of myself. It assures me I'm not that hideous. Ok now I sound defensive

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

You do realize the Porsche back in its day was the gaudy over-priced hyper-car, right?

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

They don't need to know I took my shower during the staff meeting and told them my video and mic are on the fritz

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Where’s my fellow sprawlers at (I know I can’t be the only one who takes up the entire bed)

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Do you think it's because they evaluate how they raised their kids and then decide to spoil the grandkids? My grandmother was very mean when my mom was growing up but was an absolute delight with me.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

that's "the secret" and TBH it is such horsepoop this is really a reasonable response to it.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

The first time my colleagues and bosses saw me without make up (at my 1st workplace).

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Technically, you are allowed to not go to a party... Which is good, because parties are so boring and depressing.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

When someone asks me that I always say "no worries" that way they don't know if I'm honestly good and going to adult or I'm going to go scorched earth on them sometime in the near future

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Me: Stupid maid didn't do laundry on time AGAIN! (I don't have a maid; it's just me)

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

If you should go skating / On the thin ice of modern life / Dragging behind you the silent reproach / Of a million tear-stained eyes / Don't be surprised when a crack in the ice / Appears under your feet / You slip out of your depth and out of your mind / With your fear flowing out behind you / As you claw the thin ice

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Nathan Pogorzala
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Man, f**k that. What in the hell is wrong with us when we place that much value on a some dipshit's useless post. We suck. 1.2 million to see some fake ass photos of someone else's unattainable lifestyle.

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