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 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.
On kids' cereal boxes, they would always show their sugar-coated carbs as "part of a healthy breakfast" including orange juice and milk. BAD IDEA. Never put both within reach of an inattentive you. One of these days, you're going to be thinking of the milk and get the orange juice and then have to clean a fine spray of orange juice over every corner of the kitchen.
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I'd prefer that, fried stuff in the morning makes me sick. And I don't like eggs
Should have shredded the apple into hash browns. Nobody eats eggs with French fries.
Apple with cinnamon is some of the best i ever tried while exprementing with fruit❤️. You all should try, delicious😋
Do this to me and I will spit that peach right out, no matter who is nearby
Am I the only one who’d rather have the breakfast? Though maybe not quite that many apple sticks.
I mean, I wouldn't mind trying this as long as I knew what it was before eating it.
The mightiest of predators, the deadliest of reptiles, the most terrifying of them all! An empty roll of quicker picker-upper.
Me: "Man, fish are weird for being so easily fooled by lures." Also me: "Ooh, that´s a pretty rock, I must have it!"
Where's some of that unsee juice? I can't remove the image of cheesecake on a stick!
I prefer to be evolving into mud. So parts of me can roaming around as worms.
I'd love this! think about the swishing my skirt will do! with pockets!
HA! Reminds me of my instructor at an environmental educational school, plastic bags and single use items were the worst and any who dared walk into class with a Starbucks drink or plastic bag was dragged over the coals. A few weeks after graduating, I caught one of the instructors emerging from Target carrying a large plastic shopping bag, she saw me and began stammering and got completely red in the face. She claimed the bag belonged to a friend and she was just “holding it for her”. I calmly replied, “you know I am an ex-law enforcement officer and that’s what everyone who is caught red handed holding the goods says” She got a bit quiet and I could feel her anxiety increasing, so I follow up with a smile and reassured her ”it’s okay, I won’t tell anyone” it was adorable as though this well dressed, well put together professional women instantly turned 10 right before my eyes.
Sometimes it's just a meh meal....and sometimes it so damn delicious you eat half the loaf of bread in one go and then have to go cry in the corner because you just ate two days worth of bread in one sitting and you still want more but your stomach is at max capacity and your wallet is begging you to save the rest for tomorrow.
Ramirez is a d**k brained MAGA moron. He's almost as brainwashed as Gary Varvel.
I swear I can't believe some of this people think answers like this are good...
Currently trying my hardest to n o t laugh in the middle of class..... Spoiler alert IT'S NOT WORKING
My region was part of the sea... with mosasaurs swimming around.
I always find the American teachers obsession with MAY hilarious. I don't think it was ever mentioned in Australia. Especially when it is to ask permission to go to the toilet- the teacher's response the majority of the time is just 'Yes, but you can't take your friend with you :)
Mm, that you only meant well? Well of course you did. Mm, whatcha say - that it's all for the best?
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."
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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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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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