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What's a better form of entertainment in this digital age than scrolling through some funny memes? Especially when you've had a really tough day or week. Sometimes, even your favorite show or movie seems to require too much brain power. So opting for a quick but effective fix in the form of some random memes is often your best bet.
Today, we're featuring a community that shares hilarious content daily. The Funny AF Spiritual Memes group has 2 million members, so you know you're in safe hands, Pandas. Scroll down and entertain yourself with some memes about this weird thing we call life. And read on for our exploration of how memes have become a language in their own right.
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Ray Ceeya (RayCeeYa) 1 year ago
This could be a monetized service. There should be an app for this!
At this point, most of us are familiar with what the word 'meme' means. In 1976, Richard Dawkins called it "ideas that spread from brain to brain." In today's Internet culture, that's especially apt because memes tend to spread like wildfire on different social media platforms. The more accurate description for today would perhaps be that the ideas spread from device to device.
The first example of what memes look like is an image from the Judge Magazine issue in 1921. It's the original "Expectations vs. Reality" type of picture. Yet people don't consider it to technically be a meme. Why? Because it didn't have the virality aspect. For a picture, a video, or a quote to become a meme, people have to copy it and share it.
Nowadays, what we consider to be memes is so widely known that even a non-chronically online person would know them. There probably isn't a young person who wouldn't recognize Drake gesturing 'nuh-uh' from his "Hotline Bling" video or that screenshot from an anime with the butterfly with the caption "Is this [blank]?"
Yet, it is a sort of secret language. More niche memes allow individuals with similar interests to communicate things others might not know about. One person could be well-versed in philosophy memes but know absolutely nothing when they see a Formula 1 meme.
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MarieTDr 1 year ago
My library maxed out at the price of the book itself.
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Katie Lutesinger 1 year ago
Reminds me of the story about the book that was overdue by ONE HUNDRED YEARS. It was finally returned by the guy's descendant.
Crybaby 1 year ago
“Hey man, I think my great-great grandfather forgot his book, here it is”
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Mandypie 1 year ago
I'm lucky...I moved and threw a library book into a random box. Didn't find it until 6 months later. I was terrified returning it, only to find out that my local library doesn't charge late fees! That was when I became a quarterly patron.
Sobri Kate 1 year ago
My library changed its policy to not charge for this reason. They were sure people were not visiting the library because of old late fees.
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Ash 1 year ago
Some libraries forgive fines. However, I lived in a town where the local library sent letters to kids' parents saying that the DEBTS FOR LIBRARY FINES WERE GOING TO COLLECTIONS. We found out about this because my roommate taught English as a second language at a local elementary school and the parents, who did not speak good English, were TERRIFIED and asking her for help. She called the library and gave them a piece of her mind.
M Whee 1 year ago
Our library lets kids read down fines, $1 off for an hour of reading in the library.
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Unauthorized Kiwi 1 year ago
My library doesn't care. As long as you give them the book, it's fine.
Lee Gilliland 1 year ago
Mine gave up and had a forgiveness weekend, got something like 500+ books back
Michael Largey 1 year ago
My college told me I couldn't graduate because there was no record of my turning in my towel in gym class freshman year.
Gwyneth Jones 1 year ago
How about you using this a a teachable moment about accountability and responsibility and pay the easy peasy dang $2.25 fee? {says the retired Daring Librarian) ;P
Penny Hernandez 1 year ago
I engaged in an ongoing passive-aggressive war with the librarian at my local library when I was a kid. (She seemed to just dislike me for some reason.) After a while I just stopped going there and mostly depended on the books my best friend had available. Her mother reviewed children's books for a very well known newspaper so that worked out quite well.
StrangeOne 1 year ago
I've lost my library card. It could have actually been stolen. Pretty sure there's still about $20-$30 of late fees on that card they'll want me to pay before I replace my card. It's been 15 years. Not sure if anyone else has racked up more fees on that card.
Gracie Mae 1 year ago
my library no longer charges late fees, and if the items i've checked out aren't returned by the due date, the library automatically renews it & sends me an email with my new due date!
Kathleen Pearlman 1 year ago
The library I used to work at (and surreptitiously cancelled fines at) recently abolished fines. And we used to get books way overdue - found in dad's attic or something to that effect.
Donald Holder 1 year ago
Tell me, what public library keeps those kind of records? ps. What's the statue of limitations on late book fines?
Danish Susanne 1 year ago
I would hold a grudge too if you borrowed something from me and didn't return it.
Jane Alexander 1 year ago
Paso Robles CA library in the 'Black gold System does not charge late fees And they have a great new program where they will bring books, movies, talking books, music and take back returns to the library for disabled people. Also CA has 'zip books'* state wide. See if your library has this. *'Zip Books'; If the library doesn't have a book you want to read, movies now too, They will order it sent to you, you read and 'return' to the library.
Shaun Coleman 1 year ago
"Nobody holds a grudge like your local public library" Really? Are you aware of the Balkans? There are people there still pissed off about stuff that happened in the 13th century!
Marcy Stoeven 1 year ago
I'm ashamed of them! As a librarian myself often library employees are so lazy. Write letter to the head librarian either city or county. So sorry this happened, tell all with details.
Kelly O'Leary 1 year ago
OR librarian. Don't ever cross one of them ... they are MEAN and know everything, so they think.
Nicola Thrope 1 year ago
The 2.25 may be the principal, but the late fees are why you had to sell your house, your yacht, three cars and a kidney.
Marianne Grann 1 year ago
I guess that OP was short for 1 Penny 20 years ago! My husband was a librarian so I know for a fact that they never forget if they lend you a Penny 20years ago!
Rochelle Redding 1 year ago
One local council library in my area has nominal fines, but a couple of times a year they’ll wipe fines in exchange for non-perishables for a food drive. Another local council library doesn’t charge fines and just renews the books automatically until you return them unless someone else has a reservation on it.
Scott Rackley 1 year ago
I returned a book after going through my grandmother's things. They said the fine would have been over $150 (32 years) but since the book was in good condition they'll just take the book and knock off the fine.
Riley Quinn 1 year ago
What century is this? That's an incredibly small fine for such a delayed return.
Sinnsyk Jakte 1 year ago
I joke about how I've had a library book long enough that if I step foot into the library I borrowed it from, they'll cut my head off.
The Big Bad 1 year ago
One of my daughters library books got lost (fell behind something and we really could find it). After a couple of weeks we got threatening letters... For a kids book that wouldn't be worth 50 cents at a yard sale. We found it, brought it back and quit the library. It helps that we already got a lot of books at home...
Wondering Alice 1 year ago
I remember at uni late fees were by the hour and huge. On the other hand, the cost for losing a book was reasonable, and much less than buying a set text. How could they not predict the outcome of this? I raised the issue of the crazy late fees in a lecture and other students were annoyed at me, saying I needed to get my books back on time as others needed them. I see this point of course, but after a few a few long (over an hour round trip with hills) walks to hand over a book so the person who lived next to me could get it - our halls became a home for 'lost' books. Daft really.
Wondering Alice 1 year ago
Sounds nice, but if parents haven't paid up bills in school, the kid can't get food. Also, kids do suffer in many many ways when parents are in debt. (UK)
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Crissy Newbury 1 year ago
Correction: LIBRARIAN. Little H*tlers. Same as Doctors’ receptionists.
Linguist Rebecca Garcia claims that memes are not so much a language of their own but a graphic form of speech. "Just as language and writing is a form of communication, so are memes. Even though these images incorporate only short written messages, they’re usually understood by the receiver or audience."
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Tiffany Marie 1 year ago
Mens beauty line is starting to expand more and more. Eventually it'll be as bad as wonens. Just give it some time.
Memes don't represent the way we write. They're an expression of how we talk. The way we speak is more informal than how we express ourselves in writing. "We mirror our speech patterns in memes. Therefore, when we communicate with memes, we are communicating with a graphic form of speech," Garcia writes in her Public Linguist blog.
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waarimelone 1 year ago (edited)
Got it. Develop the most attractive allergic reaction ever to makeup.
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Lauren Caswell 1 year ago
You don't want to absorb too much serotonin. you need a field of it per se, to allow proper neuron communication. People with low serotonin are put on SSRI meds(Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitor). This slows the re-absorption of serotonin, allowing the levels in the brain to rise and re-establishing effective neural firing (the lack of which can cause depression. I have inherited GAD anxiety myself, so SSRI meds don't work. I take SNRI [Selective Noradrenaline Reuptake Inhibitors] meds instead, as Noradrenaline is to anxiety as Serotonin is to depression).
We tend to communicate through pictures on social media more than with words. We send GIFs, emojis, and, of course, memes. But with memes, it's not about the image itself. In 2015, researcher Walter Jose Castañeda concluded in his study that the meme image is what matters, not the image in the meme. "[Memes] obviate any relationship that their components may have with the image from which they originate," he wrote.
When someone sends you a meme with a tearful cat, the conversation doesn't actually have anything to do with cats. The text and the context of the conversation seemingly have nothing in common with the cat picture. But when put together, they make up a complete composition and we get its meaning.
Memes also have a strange power of bringing people together. They are a reflection of Netlore (Internet folklore) and reflect many different facets of the human experience. What was once an easy and new way to joke around with friends online is turning into a community-building engine. It's not just about the many faces of Doge and Pepe anymore -- memes now can be way deeper than that.
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"We can see not just the new ways people do things or the new ways people express themselves in public but also some of the themes, some of the anxieties or desires people have. All of these complex issues are reflected in things like memes," Director of the Centre for Digital Culture at Kings College London Paolo Gerbaudo told the BBC.
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Casey Smith 1 year ago
I was walking and found a snail on the sidewalk so I brought it with me to the park and then when I got home I worried it would be lost so I went back and got him and brought him to the area I found him and that was 1987 but I still think of that snail.
Memes can help people feel less alone during hard times (this was especially evident during the pandemic), but they also can help marginalized communities. Sharing memes is a great way to build a collective identity. The founder of the Meme Studies Research Network, Idil Galip, said that this collective sense of identity even bleeds into real life.
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Howl's sleeping castle 1 year ago (edited)
My parents have accepted that my cat is an important family member and they let me show them her photos and videos, and they watch it happily. My mum sometimes even asks if my cat ate food or not.
"Niche memes are not meant to go viral," Galip explained. "They're meant usually to create things like in-group belonging, something that kind of strengthens a sense of identity." It's similar to speaking another language. If you ever stumble upon a meme that you don't entirely understand, it might just be that it's not for you.
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_-DungeonKeeper-_ 1 year ago (edited)
Young My Idiotic Imagination That Keeps Making Mind Movies And Singing Assorted Ivycomb Songs When I Need To Pay Attention Or Sleep Why Can't I Ditch This Brain And Get A New One
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Barbara Wilcock 1 year ago
If someone gives me a simple math problem (2+2) I panic and shout 847
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Lady Miss Pie 1 year ago
Trauma bonding isn’t two people bonding over trauma. It is what abusers do to keep their victim closer to them. The behavioral sciences are very clear about that but people still use it incorrectly.
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Little Wonder 1 year ago
The knowledge that your PC takes 4 minutes to boot, and it's 20 seconds to the desk is very dangerous when you work from home and have a snooze button.
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3 Otters 🦦 1 year ago
OMG. Never going to NYC again with someone who thinks Grand Central is just a block from Battery Park. I’ve been suckered twice and that is enough. Didn’t mind the walk, but I rather have spent the time at the Strand.
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Howl's sleeping castle 1 year ago
I am an Aries and had one junior who was Aries. I surely hated her guts. I was talking about her to another colleague who pointed out I was worst before I changed my ways.
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hockeygorl 1 year ago
gonna send that to my bestie… js kidding i woulda had to kill her she knows too much
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Ovata Acronicta 1 year ago
Quite literally. Got back on my rollercoaster videos nonsense recently and suddenly I have an incredible urge to get to Six Flags.
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Szzone aka Rottyintós Batman 1 year ago (edited)
We need more of these, fewer AITAH stories (only the really good ones), and zero celebrity/TikTok updates
Prince of Darkness 1 year ago
I often wonder if anyone even reads the text by the b.p. "authors" or if everyone ignores it and just reads the memes. I also often wonder how low one's iq has to be in order to think that their comments are seen by the people whose memes are curated for these "articles"
Diolla 1 year ago
I never read the author text, should I? And also, in some threads the pics are actually submitted directly by the OPs. Have done that myself AND read the comments.
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WineDrinker2022 1 year ago
So.much better than all the fake AITA stuff..if I wanted to read Reddit, I'd go to Reddit
Szzone aka Rottyintós Batman 1 year ago (edited)
We need more of these, fewer AITAH stories (only the really good ones), and zero celebrity/TikTok updates
Prince of Darkness 1 year ago
I often wonder if anyone even reads the text by the b.p. "authors" or if everyone ignores it and just reads the memes. I also often wonder how low one's iq has to be in order to think that their comments are seen by the people whose memes are curated for these "articles"
Diolla 1 year ago
I never read the author text, should I? And also, in some threads the pics are actually submitted directly by the OPs. Have done that myself AND read the comments.
Load More Replies... WineDrinker2022 1 year ago
So.much better than all the fake AITA stuff..if I wanted to read Reddit, I'd go to Reddit
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