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.
let them branch out a bit, this problem goes down to the roots
Load More Replies...The p spelling is actually the old English spelling that borrowed from French/Latin
Load More Replies...Poor americans, they get picked on so much for completely valid reasons.
Some accents make 'should've' sound like 'should of' and people just don't bother double-checking. It used to happen a lot when people were illiterate.
Load More Replies...We use 'fall' and 'autumn' interchangeably. Don't hate me because I have options.
Yes, and besides, Autumn is a pretty word and the name of many girls. I've had several students named Autumn, but never had a student named Fall.
Load More Replies...It's funny how the one who made this post criticises Americans while this person ignores than Latin came first and THEN French.
They are also ignoring that the word "Fall" in reference to the season...is an ENGLISH invention, not American.
Load More Replies...Thank fack. I thought people only noticed the French was misspelled and not that Latin is waaaaaaay older than French. Thanks for restoring my faith, bro.
Load More Replies...Lol. In the 1500's "fall" was a common English term for that time of year. It literally meant, falling of the leaf. Don't believe everything you read on this site.
1) Americans also use autumn. People will choose which they prefer. Our dialect is rich in loan words and we therefore have a surplus in our vocabulary. 2) You're being awfully snooty about taking words from a language that is fine with making a word-final -pne silent.
One can get a little uncertain at times. Glad to see other people here says it should be "should have" not "should of". Thought it was a bit weird so...
Other countries have such pointless things that they like to hate on the US for. It makes them sound dumb, but I guess that happens when you get your cultural info from memes ✌️
Fall was used in England long before the English came here and started using it. We use it interchangeably in the US. But please continue to use your ignorance to somehow make others look stupid.
Car signal lights: British: We call them indicators because they indicate what direction we're turning. Americans: We call them bliNKerZ cuz they go BLinK!
why diid i read everthing so calm but for usa in my mind a brute and loud shout like ummm
It MIGHT be 'fall" in the USA, but not here! Australia, (except in fancy suburbs in he Southern States that have planted European trees :-(
UK- We call it jumper because“Jumper” is actually derived from the noun “jump,” a modified form of the French “jupe,” used to mean a short coat in the 19th century (and completely unrelated to “jump” meaning “leap”). ... The use of “sweater” in its modern sense of “heavy knitted top worn for warmth” had appeared by the early years of the 20th century. US- WE CALL IT SWEATER BECAUSE IT HOT AND MAKE SWEAT
We ain't laughing at having to bag those leaves the fall. But they sure are fun to land in right after your brother raked them into a pile.
It should be called "Push" instead of "Fall" because trees actually push the leaves off so the tree can conserve energy to survive Winter.
Fall was used in England, before being replaced by Autumn. I think in some ways American English can be more traditional than English in England.
Actually, it stems from the phrase "the falling of the leaves," which poets apparently loved. So it's not as dumb as it initially sounds. But, yes, leaf fall down.
Nope, it's fall. Autumn is the name of one of my childhood bullies.
Wir nennen es "Herbst" und gehen ordentlich einen Saufen. Dasselbe tun wir übrigens in "Frühling", "Sommer" und "Winter".
Perhaps, but not because of this. The post is incorrect, Fall is not American in usage or origin. Everything online is not true.
Load More Replies...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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