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.
Same morons who think tampons are sex toys, and think women in showers gently caress their breasts, instead of, youknow, just trying to wash the boob sweat off.
They doesn´t even know that boob sweat exist.
Load More Replies...I wasn't the model but one of the students in a freshman life drawing class. Day 1, lots of giggles and blushing. By the end of the semester, no one wanted to see a naked body again. Ever!
When I was modeling naked for drawing classes a lady made an enormous drawing of just my penis. So yeah.
Is it enormous or just artistic interpretation?
Load More Replies...I took some "life classes" when I was younger, and the models are ordinary folks and not fitness models. There is zero sexual energy from anyone, model or student, even when someone produces a drawing that is beautiful. All the energy goes into the drawing, not into connecting with the model.
People who have never been to drawing class has only seen this shown in tv shows, and the shows always make it somewhat sexual. I have never been in drawing class but Im finnish so I have seen every male friend nude and when younger lots of female friends too so nudity is not weird/inherently sexual.
In my figure drawing class, there were 2 regular models. One elderly man with jingle bells pierced to his, I guess, pierced to his own jingle bells. The other man always placed a stuffed Mickey Mouse on the ground beside himself, wore a top hat and played "Chim Chim Cher-ee" from Mary Poppins.
Hahaha 🤣 this is so funny 😂 I loved art school, I was 23 when I first did it, but my classmates were mostly fresh out of school, and being art school, full of quite nerdy kids who had never seen a nude body outside their own homes with mum and dad, so out first day my lovely friends got to see their first naked man, and he’s the saggiest oldest man you ever seen 😂 We still giggle ten years later about the first d**k they ever saw being a wrinkly old sausage 😂 piks they drew/ painted (it was mixed medium) were also hilarious cos they were so nervous
My favorite is the part about the dude trying to get the boobs right, because as an artist...yes. xD
I was in a drawing from life class some time ago. There were male and female models. I didn't have any problems drawing the woman. But for some reason it was really hard to draw the man (I'm a woman BTW.) After about ten minutes though, they just became problems in shading and line.
I've been on both sides of nude modelling for art classes. There is no sexy.
Model has to hold absolutely still. Even sitting flat, leaning back on your arms is agonizing after 30 minutes. But they pay cash, and it's safe.
When you draw the human body, everyone is beautiful, complex, mysterious.
We always had 50-60s year olds in my figures class. One regular we had said, "If you know me don't tell anyone at church I do this," ha!
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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