50 Wholesome Memes And Posts That Remind Us The World Isn’t All Bad, As Shared In This Facebook Group
Whenever you step online, you come under a constant fire of negative content about racial injustice, climate change, election controversy, mass shootings, and the list goes on.
Consuming too much of it can lead to what mental health professionals call "media saturation overload," "doomscrolling," "headline anxiety," and "headline stress disorder."
Though there is no formally recognized disorder or diagnostic criteria, many psychologists are seeing patients suffering from news-related stress.
So let's try to offset that, shall we? There's a Facebook group called 'Wholesome memes' and its 127K members are focused on just that: innocent, feel-good stuff that puts a smile on your face instead of sucking the joy out of your heart. Join us and take a look at some of their most popular posts!
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It's refreshing to see these wholesome memes. The way that news is reported and consumed has changed significantly over the last few decades. Nowadays we can hardly avoid it and many of us even actively feel the need to seek it out.
According to Graham C. L. Davey, Ph.D., who is a Professor of Psychology at the University of Sussex, UK, the modern-day tone of the news is increasingly emotive. "It's increasingly visual and shocking, and its commentaries increasingly negative and fear-laden," he wrote in Psychology Today. "It's not surprising that there is also growing evidence that negative news can affect our mental health, notably in the form of increased anxiety, depression and acute stress reactions."
Notifications on our phones keep us in direct contact with world events regardless of what we’re doing. As Mark Deuze writes in his book Media Life, the modern world has become one in which the media are ubiquitous, pervasive and cannot be switched off, and this is also true of news, where immediate daily information about world events has become an accepted reality of everyday existence.
But a more significant impact of the digital age on news reporting, according to Professor Davey, has been the dramatic shift to visual imagery in news items, especially visual imagery contributed by the audience and garnered by journalists from social media.
Your cat has that, "office b***h who judges everyone" vibe.
"User-generated images of important world events are now regularly captured on the smartphones of those close to or even directly involved in these events, and this new form of 'news reality' began to appear during the Asian tsunami, the 7/7 London underground bombings, and the Boston marathon bombings, developments that effectively allowed the audience to witness such events in what was virtually real-time," the psychologist explained.
Such user-generated images permit news broadcasters to present ever more dramatic and shocking images that were either not available or not permissible in earlier times.
For example, in news coverage of the 2015 terrorist attack on the Charlie Hebdo offices in Paris, images were made available worldwide of one of the gunmen shooting a policeman at point blank range.
Flash forward two years and television news coverage of the terrorist attack on Westminster Bridge and the Houses of Parliament did not hesitate to show graphic smartphone-captured images of the injured, the dying, and the dead
Very smart. I shall show my 3 year old this idea. Brilliant. I am 45 and wouldn't have thought of doing this
"The news audience is now effectively being transported to the site of an event by real-time graphic images so that those watching these images become directly connected to the distressing events that are happening and the affect these events generate," Davey explained. In a way, the media no longer reports from the scene but is part of the scene and action.
Not to mention all the articles and programmes about improbable dangers, such as being swallowed by a black hole. As Davey pointed out, they often give most credence to those supporting the Doomsday scenario, and significantly less exposure to the experts who critique them.
"Most people wouldn’t know what a black hole was even if it came straight up the toilet pan, dragged them screaming towards the singularity at the speed of light and ultimately spaghettified them. But the chances of that are very, very remote," the psychologist said.
In today's content, there is often a lack of distinction between news and comment, especially when news outlets are cynically attempting to broadcast their own heavily angled political views, and news-as-comment is just one step away from fake news.
Winning the political argument is all that matters, it’s not important whether the information you garner to support your argument is heavily angled or even sheer delusion. This is because, by our very nature, human beings cannot allow their ingrained political or ideological beliefs to be destroyed by "facts" because for many people those beliefs define them and are a central component of their identity.
So obviously, there's plenty of news that is sensationalized, emotionalized, and stuffed with speculative commentary. But at least the psychological impact on the mental health of consumers is becoming increasingly recognized too. And good thing we have such awesome sources to balance out the negativity.
Unlike my dog. ONE YEAR we let him unwrap a present. The next year he was UNBEARABLE in anticipation of opening his christmas present.
Sometimes. This cat must think you're a special human. He picked you and cats are rarely wrong about their humans being special.
Awwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww, i will spam w if i have to because omg adorable
Please wait till it takes 3 minutes to get to your birthday. Here a hint I was as born right after ww2
Me at olive garden. Waiter: tell me when to stop. Me five days later: keep going
Let me see: Need potty training-✅ Spoiled them with toys and treats- ✅ Cute and adorable-✅
Management writing fake article about wanting to return to the office, you mean. Or hiring someone to—-just like they pay people to write all the fake five star reviews on their crappy products.
Larry is a very cute, but hard working, danger noodle. Make sure you tip him well.
Wait is the bad part that he tried to drown her or that he didn’t succeed?
I really don't like not wearing my glasses man i even forget they aren't there and try to adjust them 🤧🤧🤧
It’s my birthday today. None of my friends, even my closest ones, have wished me, only my grandma. Love you grandma
I signed up today just to wish you happy birthday, hope you had a corker
Load More Replies...I don't even bother closing the door anymore, I live alone so it's only the cat on guard duty that sees me!
Someone drew over this and made it my hero and it is the cutest thing ever
Shes half black... its instinct (its not racist if i am black as well)
In European culture, it is considered rude to start eating before everyone is seated at the table. Other cultures have different practices....some patriarchal, some child-centered....vive la diversite!
Please at bed at 6 am and have to be work at 8 am.
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She looks like she's ready to spring out at you if you get too close.
I seem to recall that there's a clear evolutionary link between dolphins and cows.
I remember details about everyone I meet. I once brought up something my best friend told me she liked a lot and she’s happy because I remembered that small thing
Why is it okay for parents to do this, but teachers get in trouble for doing this?
See, I prefer what my sister got me. A very nice set of handmade wooden coasters, made out of natural slices of log. They say "I was Groot" on them.
Me: This is Ireland. What do you want to do on all the other 90 days of summer?
i wish people did that for me. they always just ignore me.
If anyone here decides to make this a reality, please let me know. Thank you!!!
Who decided to separate the words and not call him HELLMO?! You missed an opportunity
I do this to inspection guy. I make the wildest claim on how to fix something. They go along.
I got so slap from doing that. Never do it when wife in Labor
I actually know a guy who moved to Africa in order to steal leopard kills. He was an archaeologist, and he had a theory that early humans were more scavenger than hunter. So he would steal leopard kills to compare them to fossils found, and he was able to prove that it was very likely early humans did, in fact, steal kills fairly often.
I’ve been watching old videos and photos from when I was 5-10 years old and I’ve just been crying from the nostalgia and the fact that I’ll never be that happy again
usually I hate collections of memes, but I laughed at a lot of these
These were cute and they made me happy and I forgot about my life for 30 minutes. :)
Oldies but goldies! Congratulations if you made it through the whole list
Load More Replies...Some of these didn't seem to match the title. An interesting collection, though
usually I hate collections of memes, but I laughed at a lot of these
These were cute and they made me happy and I forgot about my life for 30 minutes. :)
Oldies but goldies! Congratulations if you made it through the whole list
Load More Replies...Some of these didn't seem to match the title. An interesting collection, though