You might think that funny memes are the biggest enemies of productivity and are just generally useless. But, during the pandemic, it was one of the ways people coped with their negative emotions. As a result of viewing memes, we get a mood boost, which equips us to better deal with problems in our real life.
So, why don’t you give yourself a few minutes to scroll through some random memes? We’ve got just the selection for that – a variety from The Best of Tumblr. Facebook page. Now, be careful: the memes actually have very little to do with Tumblr itself. But does that mean they’re less funny? Not a chance! So scroll down, and let us know which ones you like the most by, as YouTubers say, smashing that upvote button.
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As a society we’ve become less formal about a lot of things, language, dress, dining etiquette. Personally, I like knowing I put the effort in to look good, to have a straight collar, sharp creases, shaved face, and shined shoes. We iron our clothes. It’s quick and easy, It takes 5-10 minutes of my day if I’m doing a shirt and pants individually, maybe 30 minutes after laundry to do all our clothes for the week. Time I honestly would probably otherwise be wasting on my phone or something. I wear a lot of collared shirts for work as does my son who is 10 and often wears Hawaiian or short sleeve button down shirts over an t-shirt. Even my wife irons her polos and slacks. Some fabrics don’t need ironing but unfortunately many are synthetic. We as a family try not to contribute to the microplastic problems buying natural and biodegradable fibers like silk, cotton, linen, wool, or rayon/viscose clothing or rather than polyester and nylon.
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I broke out the ol' iron for my cousin's wedding 2 months ago. Haven't touched it since!
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I never understood ironing things like underwear or t shirts. Formal clothes sure, you want them to look sharp. But who cares about casual stuff?
In prison, our casual clothes were grey shorts, tshirts, and sweats. The ladies who thought they were the coolest people ever would iron creases into their shorts and sweat pants. It looked so silly!
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Yeah.. These days the low quality polyester clothes don't need to be ironed. I wish I had money for those lovely cotton shirts that needs to be ironed.
Even some cotton ones you can get away with it (very carefully dried on a hanger). The ones I have to accept I need to iron are the cotton/linen blends. They don't get worn very much.
Load More Replies... Oh yes! Nice and crispy and smell so fresh! ❤️
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Title: "This FB Page is dedicated to finding the best posts on Tumblr" and the top post is a tweet!
When I started to live on my own and make my proper home rules, ironing and all the bulky and heavy material that comes with it was the first thing to be abolished.
Al I the only one that hates wrinkly clothes? I just came to the Caribbean on vacation and packed in a small suitcase so all my shirts were rolled and the first thing I did was iron them all when I got here..
I'm the same, it looks and feels so much nicer. I feel like a mess with a crumpled shirt!
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Still have an iron and ironing board because of sewing. Can't sew wrinkled fabric. For younger audience: sewing is a way to make DIY clothing, which is cheaper and doesn't add to landfills like fast-fashion does.
Downy Wrinkle Release and throw it in the dryer. Works just like an iron. :)
Good for you! Im gen X and im supposed to know how to iron, and to iron my and my bfs clothes, and im still getting s**t because i dont know how to and i dont give a f**k (i must say i dont wear fancy clothes)
I had to get in a shouting match with my MIL about this. We were going to take a professional family photo, and I had our outfits clean and hanging up, no wrinkles because a) the type of fabric doesn't wrinkle, b) I hung them up straight from the dryer after the cycle. She called hubs the day before and oh-so-condescendingly "graciously" TOLD him to bring our clothes over to be ironed. "Since I know Bitter doesn't own an iron." 🤬 Wouldn't take no for an answer. (She even wanted to pick out/approve our outfits, because I can't be trusted to dress my family in nice clothes, I guess?) I won in the end, our clothes had nary a wrinkle to be seen, and we looked great.
I'm so glad I don't even need to wear clothes to my office because I work remotly
I occasionally iron certain items. Always will. Do not want synthetic materials if I can avoid them.
Got news for you, it's not just your generation. I'm 70 and I quit ironing my clothes a long time ago - found out how to get them out of the dryer slightly damp and then they don't need it. Unless they're linen.
I must disagree. There is nothing like the look you get from the opposite sex when you see them checking you out because you look good. Like ZZ Top said: Cause every girl crazy 'Bout a sharp dressed man.
and the genius that created wrinkle free should be running the country
I hated how my uniform shirts for private school and secondary school had to be ironed. Wearing a tie was just as bad enough.
I am GenX, I was never keen to ironing my clothes. The only reason why I did it is that my mom made me. Once I became an adult on my own, that sh#$$t stopped. I don't own an iron or an ironing board, at all. When my clothes are down in the dryer, I immediately take them out and fold them so that they do not get wrinkled. I hate the iron, it's too much work.
Every time we go to the recycling centre there is a cage full of ironing boards - I'd add mine to it - if I knew where it was. lol
Not so fast. Some, myself included, find ironing therapeutic and relaxing.
this is mostly a combination of more blue color (less formal / non-management) jobs and many clothes being nylon / polyester / blends which tend to not need ironing the way cotton did. In the 70s I wore mainly cotton and silk. Polyester back then was kind of nasty. They have gotten SO much better at the way they produce poly materials now.
I iron my clothes for interviews, meetings, events? What do you wear?
A wrinkled shirt is a sign of someone who doesn't care. I care, I iron, I project a positive image and people enjoy my waistcoats and ties.
In a hotel and my 6 yr old thought the ironing board was a surf board🤣
I use my uron when I'm sewing ( it helps keep the fabric from bunching in the machine) but otherwise, no.
I know parents who iron their kids school uniforms. I cannot wrap my head around that one. School is supposed to be a place they can relax and play and learn. If they don’t get all mucky in the playground, they end up with paint and whiteboard marker on them in class. Why on earth would you waste time ironing the stupid things?
My best friend came to visit for a couple of weeks. Neither of us wear anything other than jeans, sweatshirts, etc. She brought an iron.
Indeed! My Mom gave me the predecessor of her current iron, but I have yet to use it. I'm just too lazy! And ironing the bedding? Heck no.
It's hard to imagine memes ever going out of fashion. The ways we share them, however, are slowly changing. When I was in my first years of university, we likely wouldn't go a week without sending each other the "This Is Fine" dog GIF. While the meme itself is still very much alive and well (and just celebrated its 10th anniversary last year!), I last saw it in GIF format quite a long time ago.
So, what happened? Did GIFs go out of fashion? According to the GIF search engine GIPHY, sort of. At the end of 2022, when the company was basically begging Meta to buy it, they declared that the reason that no one else would buy it was there was less and less interest from users. "They have fallen out of fashion as a content form, with younger users in particular describing gifs as 'for boomers' and 'cringe,'" GIPHY wrote in their filing for the Competition and Markets Authority.
You're to person to your children that you needed when you were a kid..... I heard....
The whole filing sounds more like a roast than a serious legal document. "GIPHY has no proven revenue stream (of any significance)," is another great line. Interestingly, they don't provide any actual statistics, and they cite articles by Vice and Slate as evidence of the decline in popularity of GIFs, as well as a few posts from Twitter (X).
Ryan Broderick, an American internet culture writer, told The Guardian: "Gifs feel extremely dated. They were never easy to make and didn't work particularly well on mobile. So now they are basically the cringe reaction image your millennial boss uses in Slack. Rather than what they used to be, which was a decentralised image type for communicating on blogs and message boards."
People who may not be considered sexiest people alive or otherwise unable to get by on being objective for their looks spend their years developing interesting personalities and outstanding character. Apparently.
Interestingly, at the beginning of the pandemic, GIPHY's popularity actually shot up 33% in one month. But what that probably meant was that your mom, dad, and grandma started communicating through messages and online. Upon discovering GIFs, they were probably the culprits of that popularity rise. That's why even some millennials now think of GIFs as something suitable for 'boomers' only.
To be fair, GIFS themselves are as old as Millennials. The inventor of the GIF is Stephen Earl Wilhite, a computer scientist at the then-huge online service CompuServe in 1987. In 2014, the GIF even had its own exhibition in the Museum of the Moving Image in New York. In the '90s and '00s, people used GIFs to breathe more life into their personal websites and social media pages.
Tumblr was actually one of the platforms responsible for the rise of the GIF. Pages like What Should We Call Me were the home of the reaction GIF. People started saving them in separate folders to have reactions to any possible situation. A GIF artist, Matt Semke, told The Atlantic that the year 2007 and Tumblr were the place to be. "This was an art form that was native to the internet. Videos existed in other places; paintings, photos existed in other places. GIFs just didn't exist anywhere until the internet."
When does a thing become uncool on the Internet? When your mom and dad start liking and doing it, of course. Assistant professor of communication at Syracuse University and the author of books about Internet culture, Whitney Phillips, told Vice that GIFs were once subcultural and niche. "Democratisation creates a sense of disgust with people who consider themselves insiders. That's been central to the process of cultural production online for decades at this point," she explained.
One thing I noticed with the local supermarket, they'd introduce a new homebrand product and it'd be a decent price and amazing quality. I'd get hooked on buying it and stop buying the name brand product. I assume a lot of people did the same. Then after a few months of that the name brand product vanishes from shelves, justified because "no one is buying it". After which the quality of the home brand version plummets while the price increases.
Some people think that people use GIFs in online conversations when they don't really know what to say. They call responding with a GIF “the absence of saying something.” Experts theorize that this might be the reason why the younger generations don't relate to the format.
To his defense, he was in full combat attire and was fighting for hours before he ran to deliver the news of victory. Also, his name was Efklis. Pfeidipides was the one who ran from Sparta to Athens and back to Sparta (modern day Spartathlon) to ask Athenians for help with the war with Spartans.
Linda Kaye, a cyberpsychology professor at Edge Hill University, also told Vice that younger people might be more into "personalized content creation." Therefore, they like sharing TikTok videos more than GIFs. "Maybe people are becoming fatigued from over-use of certain ones."
Get the tattooist to make the 'D' into one half of a book and put the word 'reader' after 'avid'.
This is the main complaint people who don't like using GIFs have. They're just not personal enough, and they're too lazy. GIF-haters say people who send GIFs just seem boring and not original enough to come up with their own content. And the oversaturation of some just makes people feel GIF fatigue. Be honest, how many times have you seen the one with the blinking double-take guy to express surprise?
Unless she's just told you she's a member of the KKK or murders puppies and kittens for fun you'd wait till you were off the plane. Breaking up in public... not great but acceptable. They can at least walk away from you (and vice versa) but when you're trapped in a plane next to them? Yikes.
I have to admit, I've seen people on Twitter (X) and TikTok saying something like "GIFS are cringe" myself. Have I hesitated before sending one to my friends? Maybe once or twice. But I still have a folder in my phone named "Memes" where many popular and some niche reaction gifs reside.
Will I ever stop using GIFs? Probably not. I'll just do it in safer spaces when chatting with my fellow uncool Millennial friends. You can pry the GIF of Homer Simpson slowly backing away into a hedge from my cold, unalive hands!
i was staying with my best friend help her with her little one after she broke up with her partner i had been to her house lots of times but this was the first time had stayed over night and first time i pooped in her toilet i blocked the bloody thing
Back in the early 2000s someone invented a device called the TV be Gone. It cycled through all the codes that could turn TVs off for turning off TVs in public spaces.
if you think about it then it means you both either expect to get cheated on or cheat on your partner so you need to some kind of financial incentive to not do it
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Not one single one of these was a Tumblr post. They were good, sure, but the title is dead wrong.
So Bored Panda is using content from a Facebook page that uses contents of Tumblr? Great job, editors.
Of course, and in a day or two this whole list will be on Izismile, and a dozen other meme sites. That's how this whole thing works... but yeah not tumbler at all.
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None of these were tumblr posts.. I think they're all from Twitter. Hello?
not a single one of these i've ever even seen REPOSTED to tumblr so gg bp.
Not one single one of these was a Tumblr post. They were good, sure, but the title is dead wrong.
So Bored Panda is using content from a Facebook page that uses contents of Tumblr? Great job, editors.
Of course, and in a day or two this whole list will be on Izismile, and a dozen other meme sites. That's how this whole thing works... but yeah not tumbler at all.
Load More Replies... None of these were tumblr posts.. I think they're all from Twitter. Hello?
not a single one of these i've ever even seen REPOSTED to tumblr so gg bp.
