It’s no secret that everyone needs a little pick-me-up now and then. Whether you’re feeling stressed out, exhausted, or straight-up unmotivated, it’s easy to get caught up in our everyday burdens. Luckily, sometimes all it takes to step out of that zone is to glance at something sweet or chucklesome.
If you think it’s time for some entertaining memes, we’ve got you covered. Take a look at Humans of Tumblr, an Instagram account documenting some of the best content from the site and sharing it with more than 32.9K of their followers. The creators of this page share humorous and wholesome pictures to show you that it’s not all bad.
Bored Panda has collected some of their best posts that reveal how a few funny images can help you cope with the stresses of life. So scroll down, get ready to smile, and upvote the pics you enjoyed the most!
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The monkeys in india have a racket with the locals. Heres how it works: monkey steals something, like say your glasses. Local man comes up and says if you pay him he will get them back. You give him money, a bit of which he spends to buy 2 oranges. He tosses one orange up to the monkey, but the monkey just uses his other hand to hold the glasses. He then tosses the second orange, and in order to catch that one, the monkey has to drop the glasses. Monkey gets 2 oranges, man gets money, and you get your glasses back, hopefully uncracked. Theyre not tame, they just figured out how to collaborate with the locals.
Yeah, and the monkeys actually stopped stealing hats, because they found out that most people don't care that much about them. Instead they go for glasses, phones and purses.
Load More Replies...Absolutely awesome.... Technically they're paying for their own bread....
I need Robin Hood crows who steal from the rich and bring to the (me) poor.
I believe this comes under the law regarding fencing stolen goods, however as we all know wild critters are basically immune to the laws of man for the most part so carry on
Plus, i don't want to be the one to tell a murder of *anything* that they're breaking the law.
Load More Replies...Bread is not good for birds, not even expensive bread. Instead, offer small pellet dog or cat food, eggs, unsalted peanuts, other nuts, seeds, fruits and vegetables, and even chicken and other meats. A friend of mine regularly fed his local crows leftovers like salmon skin and they adored him. Never brought him anything, though.
Felecia, thank you for educating the Bored Pandas about crow food! I hope they follow your instructions!
Load More Replies...Absolutely you should keep on. I think you should upgrade to peanuts, they love those.
Conspiracy theory: The crows bought all the stuff they gave them from cawst-co.
Take them to the shop with you, that way they can cut out the middle man and your conscience is clear.
Do t feed them bread. Like ducks they can get deformed wings among other dietary deficiencies. Give them nuts, sardines, meat, they are omnivores so bread is not a good choice.
If you feel bad donate it to a charity. Or keep upping the quality of food. Maybe get some salmon for them or something.
As much as I love this, it 100% did not happen. I can believe that this guy got one $20 bill from the birds. Sure. But there is no way the crows figured out that the $20 bill got them "more expensive bread" and responded by bringing the guy more cash. Crows are very smart, but not that smart.
No it is NOT wrong. It's not like YOU'RE the one that is stealing it keep being good to those good birbs!!!!
I'd like to be a 'crow person' someday. Human friends aren't my style, I want friends that look ominous and bring me shiny things if I bake them cookies.
I don't know of any laws against accepting money from crows that you feed.
Crows are proven to be intelligent. They have social structures, court of law n punishment, able to think logically, and more. I m growing more n more facinated by this species;
Love this. Crows are very smart and will reward people that feed them! Keep up the good work!
keep doing it i once fed a stray cat in my garden and one dinnertime it actually brought me a five pound note. (True Story)
Humans do it everyday. Give money in exchange for items or services. By all means OP, keep doin whathcu doin
How do you START feeding crows? I would love to form a relationship with one, but they scare me a little......
My dogs brought home a large bill. I took all the pieces I could find to a bank.... there wasn't enough left to cash.
I've legit thought about training a murder of crows to fly around tourist areas and snatch up bills. I'd train them to take nothing over 20$. They can recognize patterns after all.
People drop money all the time. I've found bills on the ground often. I doubt the birds are pickpocketing or mugging.
I wanna be that person, but unfortunately, crows are very shy around here (bc of hunters).
The Humans of Tumblr website was launched in 2013 and since then, it has been posting memes and interactions from the site for people to enjoy. The creators of this project are very clear about their aims: “Our mission is to help people laugh, find entertainment from our content, and … take the time to relate to the fun and stressful situations we all go through in life.”
Needless to say, Tumblr is a perfect site to witness some of the most entertaining memes, back and forth exchanges, and generally wholesome pictures that can brighten your day. Usually, when you stumble upon an interesting thread, you don’t know where it’s going and don’t expect things to take a surprising twist. Yet, it happens quite often.
That’s why this site is appreciated by many—such surprises are what’s bringing humor and relief into our daily lives, and a lot of people think that it’s worth their time.
Speaking of jokes and memes, it seems that looking at a couple of funny images a day can improve your mood and general wellbeing. A study published in the Psychology of Popular Media journal revealed that memes helped people better cope with the everyday stresses of life during the COVID-19 pandemic. Researchers with Pennsylvania State University and the University of California Santa Barbara found that “viewing memes generated higher levels of positive emotions, which were positively related to COVID-19 coping efficacy.”
Researchers surveyed 748 people online to study whether viewing different comical photos influences emotions, anxiety, information processing, and the way they’re coping with the pandemic stress. The participants looked at a variety of memes and were asked to rate the cuteness, humor, their emotional response, and to report if these jokes made them think about COVID-19.
Jessica Myrick, associate professor at Pennsylvania State University and the lead author of this study, is researching the psychology of how media messages can affect us. “As the pandemic dragged on, I got more and more interested in how people were using social media—and memes featuring cute and funny pics, in particular—as a way to think and communicate with others about life during a global pandemic,” she wrote.
The professor partnered up with a few colleagues and went through hundreds of real memes they found floating around social media. “We developed two pools of memes using the same images: One set had captions about COVID-19 and another set had captions unrelated to COVID-19.”
Then they asked the participants to look at the images: “One group saw the COVID-19 memes, while a second group saw the memes not about COVID-19. A third group saw image-free plain text that summarized the general idea of the memes, but was not in the least bit funny.”
After that, people had to answer questions about how they felt at that particular moment. “People who viewed just three memes rated themselves … as calmer, more content and more amused compared with people who didn’t see the memes,” the author of the study explained. “For instance, people who saw memes scored, on average, a 4.71 on our positive emotions scale, compared with an average of 3.85 for those who did not see a meme.”
So the research revealed that viewing comical images on social media gave a quick boost of positive emotions. However, the topic of the memes mattered. Those who saw COVID-19 related memes “rated themselves as less stressed about life during a global pandemic” and “reported thinking more deeply about the memes and their meaning.”
“More information processing was related to more confidence in their abilities to handle pandemic-related stress,” Myrick explained. “It’s possible that exerting more effort thinking about the topic could lead to mentally rehearsing ways to cope with the related stress, instead of avoiding it entirely.”
It seems that spending time on the internet or scrolling through your social media feeds is not always a waste of time as so many people think. It all depends on the content you’re watching and consuming. So take a break, look through what the Humans of Tumblr has to offer, and tackle your everyday stress with laughter.
C'mon Tumblr! Leaf them alone already. Just sit back at let the well... leaves fall where they may.
I hate how mamy useless things they teach kids in school when they leave out some very important ones. Like basic healthcare (antibiotics, some diseases, menstruation etc) (sex is always about condoms and stds not diseases or what is normal for a woman). Or informatics, which are crucial nowadays to do any job. We learned what Plato and Aristoteles tought thousands of years ago but never how to use basic excel.... Dont get me wrong, plato is interesting and I enjoyed it but its useless. Or things like the structure of vegetable tissues and types of rocks, which again is very interesting but usesless.
Oh the disappointment in this one. You see fries, shovel them in your mouth like crazy (because, fries) and then wonder how the taste so weird.
The mightiest of predators, the deadliest of reptiles, the most terrifying of them all! An empty roll of quicker picker-upper.
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Why don't we get Tumblr stuff more often? It's hilarious!
Shortchanged again, there were several good ones well after #50 that are now.gone.
Click the link "120 images" after #50. "Note: this post originally had 120 images. It’s been shortened to the top 50 images based on user votes."
Load More Replies...In small gray font there’s a note with a link to open the rest of the 120 posts. I thought the same thing at first.
Load More Replies...Why don't we get Tumblr stuff more often? It's hilarious!
Shortchanged again, there were several good ones well after #50 that are now.gone.
Click the link "120 images" after #50. "Note: this post originally had 120 images. It’s been shortened to the top 50 images based on user votes."
Load More Replies...In small gray font there’s a note with a link to open the rest of the 120 posts. I thought the same thing at first.
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