30 New Honest And Funny Charts From Matt Shirley That Perfectly Sum Up Our Lives
Interview With ArtistSometimes you don’t need many words to say a lot. Ask Matt Shirley, Instagram’s favorite chart and graph creator who has been making one a day for the past… we've lost count!
Matt’s colorful designs have gained him quite a following online with a 400k-solid fan base and you can totally see why. Charged with humor, candidness, and a perfect ability to communicate things in a clear and simple manner, they serve as a reflection of the times we are living in.
Whether it’s sitting in a traffic jam, working from home, attending a Zoom meeting, or surviving March madness, these are just the tip of the iceberg of Matt’s ingenious designs that make you totally relate. Psst! After you’re done, be sure to check out our previous posts with Matt’s charts and graphs here, here, and here.
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I always am thinking there's a population of horrible people who think that all restaurant food naturally tastes of poop, urine and spit.
I wish everybody followed this rule. Not only with waiters. Shop assistants, cleaning staff, drivers, deliverers, etc are human beings with feelings, too.
Should be a "time spent on Bored Panda" beteen "inability to focus on work" and "guilt for doing no work"
No matter how herd I try, I can never get any work done... and SOMEHOW I still have pretty decent grades
To find out how the creator of the widely popular charts and graphs is doing at the moment, Bored Panda reached out to Matt Shirley for an interview. “It's actually quite difficult to keep up with current events that might make for good charts without it driving me crazy,” he told us when asked how he keeps his charts ever-relevant.
“I tend to not pay attention to the news too awfully much because I find that it's not exactly great for my mental health, so I have to pick and choose the types of current events I talk about with my charts,” Matt explained.
Must have 15 years experience, have owned your own company, invented 5 things that changed society... Starting: $10.00 an hour. Room for advancement, raises.
Having to work all through high school and college just to get enough experience for an “entry level job” is not fun.
...but it's an "entry level job"... shouldn't there be NO experience required?
They are not dumb. They are machines. If they act dumb is because the designer or the person who programmed the software are dumb and didn't think of all the options.
Load More Replies...Why they still use these machines still baffles me. It reduces the amount of customers you can serve and they lose so much money through theft. Why would any business carry on using them?
The money they lose though theft if much less than the money they had to pay on salaries, medical leaves, insurance, etc. Machines don't need weekends or holidays, don't get sick, don't go to the toilet, don't take a break for lunch, don't take time off to look after their children or elderly, don't complain and don't ask for their rights. In the long run, a machine is infinitely cheaper than a human. In short: money, as usual.
Load More Replies...“In general,” Matt said, “I like to do things that are light-hearted so it's natural that some of the more light-hearted news stories are right up my alley. And then, of course, I can always draw off my own experiences, whether it's working from home or dealing with isolation or my thoughts on anxiety.”
and next thing you know weather will show trashy reality tv shows about young, attractive clouds
Bravo: Makeover and weddings...I remember when Bravo was live performances and cultural events.
It’s even worse than that. People act like sleep is an undesirable flaw that needs to be “hacked” to eliminate, they say shite like “a lack of sleep never killed anyone” (this is factually INCORRECT), the media (via BS “sleep aid” drug marketing) talks about REM sleep as if it’s the most restful (it’s not; deep sleep/delta wave sleep is the restful stage, and almost every drug you might use kills it), hours of sleep is paid way more attention than sleep quality, and there’s literally an invisible pandemic of poor/lack of sleep in the USA. Our culture is so toxic.
They don't seem to exist for the majority of the society
Load More Replies...When Matt started his Instagram account @mattsurelee, he was doing charts on white boards. “This worked great at first, but eventually I found that I would often make mistakes that were almost impossible to fix on a white board and I moved to more graphic design charts.”
The graphic design charts gave him the flexibility to do multiple drawings in a day and reuse the templates, “so I don't have to measure and draw the same pie charts or tables over and over again.” Plus, Matt likes the variety of colors he can use digitally.
you also need time to think about what you should have said in that argument a decade ago
and about embarrassing things you did and said years and decades ago
Load More Replies...then comes waking up because you dreamt that your mother got ebola from a jellyfish at an ape preserve in costa rica (but it was also puerto rico) and there were no bonobos tho, those lived in nevada, and then you had to hot air balloon home with your grandpa who suddenly was there after testing a bunch of jellyfish and small mammals for HIV and also ebola.
I have long periods of lucid dreaming, like for months I'll rarely be able to fully sleep. It's weird, it's not the same as sleeping. You loose bits of time
Purple comes way earlier in my time line... And reappears every so often. More like green, purple, pink, purple, green, blue, purple, brown with lots of weird dreams once asleep
Just lemme grab my smear tool……. And there is a representation of trying to fell asleep with ADHD
Wow, I think you may have read my mind while I'm trying to fall asleep and put it on that chart
I read a few tips once for anyone having trouble: picture the number '1" in your head, then count to ten. If any other thoughts creep in, start over. Breath in for 4 seconds, hold for 7, release for 8. Only use your bed for sleeping. Take a book into your room instead of a phone. Sleep in a dark and cold room.
Only thing missing is thinking about all the embarrassing stuff I said 3 years ago as well haha
i have an extra step after thinking about all the things i have to do the next day, having my brain force images of spiders on me.
Hahaha I love it. I'm ok with formulas but spend a considerable amount of time googling "How to (insert lots of words in the hope someone understands that I mean nested if).
“I absolutely didn't expect anything when I started. But it's very nice to find out that other people see the world in the same way I do,” Matt said humbly.
Incredibly, just like on the day he started, Matt is still making at least one graph per day. “If these charts see the light of day is another story. A lot of them turn out to be not up to snuff and are hidden away somewhere on my computer,” he added.
As someone who hads moved house recently, I can attest to this chart's accuracy!
Agreed! I can't believe how much stuff I either donated or threw out! But then again, I was combining households with someone else, so we didn't need two of everything...
Load More Replies...I have been in my home now for 11 years. I was out trying to sort out the garage, which I piled high with junk on the rainy day / night I moved in in hopes of organizing it someday. Someday has not fully arrived but on one small attempt, I did discover that I had a bag of trash from 2009 that I (or someone) moved accidentally from my old place instead of tossing it. So yes... this is totally accurate.
this applies to camping at least packing your suitcase for home. my mom forces me to organize it on the way there.
Can someone much smarter than me, please invent teleportation already!? Packing is the worst.
Also why are movies so f*****g bad with noise? The music and sound is really loud but the dialogs are usually very low. Thats the reason why I usually watch everything with subtitles so I dont need to bmhave a headache to understand the dialogs.
Sometimes it's because it's the cinema version. Sound system have not the same purpose or display. If not, it's a shitty audio mixing work. If you can, lower bass and add trebble, human voices would be more distinguible (french speaker and drunk, i don't know if i write properly, sorry <3)
Load More Replies...I appreciate loud commercials because I can hear when the show is supposed to start again while I do chores for 10 minutes.
Since the last one is talking about commercials, it made me think of something. So lemmie tell y’all a story. So you’re sitting on your couch watching TV, and a commercial for some medicine comes on. It will help you get clearer skin. Then they list all the side effects. And then they say something that could potentially kill you. So yeah I’ll risk death so I can have clearer skin! Idk I just thought of it and wanted to post it so yeah that’s my story.
Also, Matt’s amazing book “A Visual Learner's Guide to Being a Grown-Up” has just come out like a day ago, giving his fans a real treat in Matt’s signature tables, lists, and charts for all the visual learners out there. Check it out right here.
“Additionally, I am in the very beginning stages of working on an idea for a board game and have a couple of new Instagram accounts that should come out soon,” Matt said, so stay tuned!
well there is this one person who dresses up as a fairy (like actually good dressing up, not like tutus and mesh wings) and she has two pet frogs she does tiktoks with.
Load More Replies...As someone who isn't a creator on TikTok but watches the videos, I can say that not everyone will regret what they do. Mostly cuz I just watch skits and gay people
I previously could ise that trick. Worked for quite a while.
Load More Replies...Like hot sauce at taco bell. Ask for 10 you get 2. Ask for 2 you get 10.
It is a Venn diagram. Everything in blue is for petting a dog, but if it overlaps it also works for the other category, such as "what are you doing?". So that question also goes with seeing someone whose name you don't remember.
Load More Replies...I'm not very good at understanding venn diagrams sometimes, but an I wrong in thinking that the response/answer to all these situations is "Hey, buddy"?
santa's a creep, he sneaks into your home while you sleep and basically stalks you all year
Never trust an old man who wants you to sit in his lap, and then he asks you what you want most, while laughing.
Load More Replies...Trash Santa all you want. But raise your hand of you ever sent any of his gifts back...though so.
Santa is an acronym for Statan... *Coincidence? I THINK NOT*
Santa is satan. Mix up the letters of Santa. Hm? It's just an anagram yes?
Ditch that last line. It only lasted for like two months last spring.
Basic human decency and Black Friday do not mix.
Load More Replies...I've only been Black Friday shopping once and never again. I wound up having a panic attack in the middle of the store and my boyfriend at the time had to lead me out. Never ever again.
Me: 5% I have other priorities. 10% I forgot. 85% I'm lazy and every time I turn on the computer to do my homework, the mouse magically clicks Bored Panda instead.
Normally its because I literally can't get up. I don't physically have the energy.
my family's investment strategy inevitably turns out to be "Buy High, Sell Low"....something is not working out with that... I will have to rethink the matter
Have you tried chocolate? (Said by someone who loves the smell of coffee, but can't stand the taste).
Load More Replies...Sleep Issues Cycle: Struggle to sleep -> tired and drowsy next day -> barely productive, need all day to truly wake up -> only able to do useful things late in the day -> afraid to go to bed because there's so much to do and so much is overdue -> go the bed stressed and way past bedtime -> struggle to sleep -> wake up drowsy and tired -> ... (ad infinitum, or until system crashes)
Me: Is there a spirit in my house? Ouija Board: ** slides to yes ** Me: Great, your portion of the rent is $650.00 and is due the first of the month. Ouija Board: F - * - C - K
There is to much social life and family time and not enough enjoying yourself on your own.
There is to much social life and family time and not enough going off on your own to enjoy yourself
When men get sick! LOL! Women just draw a straight line across the top because they generally have to. Especially mommies.
What's not to miss? 'Cause I sure miss the served popcorn that somehow have no stranded un-popped popcorn, the probably unnecessary king-size screen, and the glorious moment when I get to walk out and save the best movie scenes in my head to later think about. In conclusion, the movie theater is awesome! :)
The 15 people on their phone are probably not to mjss
Load More Replies...I was a projectionist from 1978 to about 2003... Loved the job but seeing the same movie for 6 to 12 weeks (unless it was Star Wars or some blockbuster then it could be 9 months) was a bit of a bore but I liked it. Now I never go as a patron anymore.
The buttery popcorn, coke freestyle machines, icees, big screen, sound system, 3-D, seeing the movie with other people, good movies actually coming out...
Don't forget D box seats, even though it adds another $3 to the cost of a ticket. For the right movie, it's worth it!
Load More Replies...I agree. I loved my science subjects in school and found them fascinating but 90% of what we learned was useless. Non biologists/geologists do not need to be able to recognize all the different kinds of rocks or knowing the structure of vegetable tissues. They need to learn first aid, nutrition, sex education, how menstruation works, basic anatomy, why antibiotics dont work in viruses, why vaccines are important etc.
bro, how do you handle applied sciences if you not learned basic science yet?
Load More Replies...How exactly are schools to know which of the hundreds are going to be scientists and which are not? Wish people would stop demonising science. It’s already taking a big enough beating in the curriculum. We have enough Instagrammers, influencers, you tubers and bloggers. We need doctors, astronomers, physicists and biologists. Seriously!
As a New Yorker I can say that you are right about us. We are very loud.
I'm from Upstate NY and we're pretty quiet. Unless you count the sound of guns....
Load More Replies...Pennsylvanians are pretty gritty... especially us Philadelphians. Hell, our Flyers mascot is named Gritty! ecd4d310-4...490e7d.jpg
I've lived in Alabama 8 years now and still haven't met a "nice" person. Racist, dirty, littered hellhole of uneducated inbreeds who can't wear a mask.
The midwestern "Ope, just gonna squueze right past ya!"
Load More Replies...the nicest & smartest employee usually resign in 1 year because they can just search for better job
I was surrounded by reds at all my jobs. Suddenly understand why the Red Shirts were expandable in Star Trek.
Most bosses won't hire smart/nice people because they fear the new worker would make them look bad (because they would).
I once heard a fact form my cousin's brother in law's sister's bestie way back in 2013 and I still stand by that fact to this day
My mother told me something, I pass this knowledge onto my daughter, she Googles it - It's a lie!!
so true. i haven't been scared of the dark (except when i have just watched a really scary doctor who episode) for years, and last night i wanted to go get a ponytail holder because my hair is kinda uncomfortable an i got totally wigged out!
you forgot people who are dying a little more every day and not getting by at all! i feel unrepresented.
I wish they were! I have massive anxiety when I need to call a client who isn't answering emails. There should be a post about the cycle of "oh god I hope they don't answer" and "oh s**t! They didn't answer!"
Load More Replies...mine took longer just because it got cold and cold decaf mocha=eeeuuughhh
Anybody knows free or affordable online writting clases? I always wanting to learn how to do it properly.
Practice is better than any classes. Like one of my professors said - the most important quality of a writer is "assitude"... which means "sit down on your ass and write!" So start writing stuff. Fan fiction is a good place to start, if you are passionate about something.
Load More Replies...honestly, even without the key the chart itself perfectly sums up writing (for me at least)
well thank you for telling me you like burritos what can i get you to drink
man was stung seven times by murder hornets while trying to save Vancouver Island's honeybees
Load More Replies...i find it so funny that south carolina hates ohio, what do they have against ohio
Va doesn’t give a single s**t about west va, it’s Maryland who we hate. They are the WORST DRIVERSSSSSSSS
As a Virginian, I would like to say that I have nothing but love for West Virginia and their awesome state song.
I've seen this one before, and as a Jersey girl, I can again concur.
kentucky & tennessee be over here like *hating each other intensifies*
dogs support us no matter what kind of shitty life we live in, and we absolutely dont deserve it
Road Runners? They seem pretty Harmless unless you are a hungry coyote.
*wishing that you could work from home* *pandemic hits* "oops i wished too well"
College and adulthood have it made. Beer, gift cards, and video games. What more is there?
Kansas Has the Cosmosphere a museum with space artifacts Like the Apallo 13 command module.
"sexy racehorse" XD as someone who lives in KY and knows we have everything to do with racehorses (lol) just yes
