To be honest, I don't quite agree with the very name 'Sadistic memes' - after all, most of the memes we selected for this list don't have anything downright horrifyingly sadistic. But, well, 672K followers on the Instagram page have a weighty say - in favor of proper naming and hilarious memes.

In fact, it only seems that making memes is easy - you take some funny or ridiculous picture, add a paradoxical text seasoned with profoundness - and that's it! This actually corresponds to reality no more than the famous revelations of Michelangelo about how he created his amazing statues: "I just take a block of marble and cut off all the unnecessary things from it!"

Of course, this is not so. Each person has their own, completely unique and inimitable sense of humor (and some do not have one at all), and you still need to focus on some average level of humor. The resulting meme should not be too highbrow (many folks won't get it), but it should not be frankly dumb (then hardly anyone will like it). A well-balanced idea is the key to success not only in life but also in meme-making as well.

However, guessing the viral potential of a meme is as hopeless as trying to throw a hail mary in the last seconds of a football match. Why, for example, did the meme about a black and blue (or still white and gold?) dress become popular worldwide, while thousands of other, no less interesting and funny memes didn't? I think science has yet to figure this out - and when it does, a Nobel Prize for this discovery is almost guaranteed!

Okay, in any case, 672K followers on Instagram for a page with memes is quite a good reason to be imbued with respect for the authors of this account. And, it seems to me, a good reason to scroll this selection to the end - and to have a great time reading, smirking and laughing. After all, that's what memes are for, right?