Memes are a universal language of the internet. Not only do we share them to laugh, but also to communicate, criticize, and reflect on the current trends. Essentially, they speak of, or rather make a meme of what’s really buzzing right now: think of 2020 and 2021 memes, Squid Game memes, and Mike Pence’s fly on the head memes.
Some memes, on the other hand, refer to the things that most of us find very relatable. They identify a common experience, a feeling, and even an opinion. How come such personal things are so universal, you wonder? Well, we may not have the answers to the phenomenon, but we surely have a lot of hilarious memes of our daily lives in the hooman world to chuckle upon.
And thanks to the Instagram page “Is You Funny,” below is a whole collection of them to scroll through. According to the page’s description, it’s the “most relatable page on the gram,” and it seems like a whopping 2.7M followers would totally agree.
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For real though. I miss Tupac, he would've taken out this trash years ago.
I'm "get off the internet, your dad will be calling from the hospital and the line can't be busy" old
Oh sweetie - I'm older. I'm DOS screen old. I'm floppy disk old. I'm only a few years removed from punch cards old.
Lol yes!! When i was bored of watching the pipes of the protection screen i was doing that😅
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Ha! Beat ya, Windows 3.0. I actually started on MSDOS and I had a Commodore 64 too. I even had a Magnavox Odyssey earlier than that. Sometimes I think it was much simpler back then. I started a college course on Windows NT and half way through, Microsoft, in its infinite wisdom, changed to Windows 2000. Great! That’s $18k down the drain. I did, however, get my MCSE in NT. Whoopee.
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I've got you beat it was before Windows called basic
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Can you imagine windows still uses c: for the primary disk because back in the day a: and b: where floppy drives?
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Windows 98, Ha!. I have been through windows 95 and window 3.11 for workgroups. Also DOS, i loved DOS.
Wordperfect Fight me To learn Word, there was waiting lists for classes in every night school and community college. The struggle was real - analog based for years
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That’s not old. It’s Windows 98. I’m glad I experienced this so I can appreciate how amazing the technology of iPad and iPhones is. I’m glad I grew up with a chunky TV so I can appreciate a flatscreen. I’m glad I had to put the kettle on the hob and wait for a whistle to know how convenient electric kettles are.
Put a screen from the Amiga, Atari ST or Commodore 64 on here and ask that question again.
I used to have a Magnavox console with Pong on it. It came with different clear sheets you could stick on the TV screen to play different versions of Pong. This was in the late ‘60s early ‘70s thereabouts.
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yup. i used to get up for primary school turn on the computer, get ready for school, have breakfast, then go through and play one of these til it was time to leave for school
NObody knows how or if freecell works. It's like the button on crosswalk lights.
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Yes...but those were the days...Youtube was not monetized and Google actually found stuff you were looking for. Sigh...........
I'm old enough that that was in college. I'm Commodore 128 old. I'm Jungle Hunt on the Atari old. I'm dot matrix printer old.
Ah, yes...back when you could play games successively without being interrupted by an advertisement for another game.
Still have the old AOL "try it for free" discs for dial up and a Pentium 2 computer
I had a Magnavox Odyssey console that was a Pong game and you could stick different clear sheets on the TV screen to play different versions of Pong.
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I remember windows 2.0 with othello on an an amber monitor and 10 meg hdd (that you had to shake the case during bootup)
Older than that... and even older than this one. Screenshot...53-png.jpg 
Yes, but I was smart enough to put a shortcut of those on the desktop.
Ok i keep hearing my cousins talk abt nostalgia and minesweeper but like... what even is it?
I only got this about 8 years ago. A neighbour gave me her third hand computer. Had free community wifi for a couple of years and learned how to use Google. Now I help my mum and her friends.
I'd installed Microsoft Windows 1.02, in the middle of 1986 on a Compaq Deskpro 386s with a 386SX/25Mhz and 2Mb of RAM (at first called "console"). there all is started, and my work remained on PC till now, that I'm retired, but always playing on PCs "with steroids", running at thousands of Ghz, impossible to be compared at my start!! I'm happy to be a witness of computer era!
I'd say I'm older, but my school was just poor and only the last grade was allowed the computers in class. Donated by people who traded up. I must download freecell now.
No this old: https://www.shutterstock.com/image-photo/coding-programmer-abstract-background-computer-language-274092284
I'm getting so triggered by this picture 🤣 If you went to work 5 days x 8 hrs a week and it involved facing THIS screen every day, you probably quickly realized that your mother was right and you should have taken that post office gig. Walking is nice.
You have no idea. Buzz buzz brrr brrrr gronk gronk gronk weird danger Will Robinson noise, I think there were bells here, wheee whrrre, buzz buzz....then silence while you stood sipping the tea you made when you started up the dial up so you could GET to this screen And we were EXCITED! about this level of advanced computing. 🤣 DOS forever 💘🤣
I remember Windows 3.1. I once had a job building 386s and the brand new 486s. That was before Pentium. Last week I built a new machine with all the latest and greatest. Almost hard to believe how easy it is now.
Don't look at it directly, just slyly peek at it, the QUICK, scroll! I've had waaay too much Earl Grey hot today, methinks.
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I'm just a teen but our school's computers were ancient... so yes, sadly enough
Yes. I began defragmenting my computer 20 years ago, and I'm happy to confirm I'm almost at 80%.
More then that, remember the turtle movement as a cursor via arrow keys, is the first thing to learn in a computer.
I still use a DOS computer where I work for company dependent analysis! We always joke that lives and livelihoods depend on a 30 year old computer still working, yet the company is too cheap to upgrade.
you know you can run dos in an emulated environment right...?
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In my day you had to type "Load "FreeCell"" then press play on the cassette player and wait for all the 'beep boop beep' sounds to end 5 minutes later and the game would be ready.
I'm even old enough so this was the crazy next generation wonder machine we had to save up to buy after my parents' first DOS-computer got boring.
Anyone else remember the wallpaper on these where you could tile an icon and anyone else edit the car icon so it looked like it ran over a body?
Memes are a quintessential part of the internet culture. It’s where they’re born, where they spread and where they evolve. Seemingly fun and lighthearted, they create a culture of unspoken referential importance by using explicit cultural knowledge, which is a big deal of its own accord. Thanks to them, it seems like there’s never a dull moment online. Today the concept of a meme has evolved into elaborate structures that can come in many forms, like challenges, videos, viral sensations, GIFs, and images with accompanying captions.
I've seen this photo a bunch I laugh every time. However, I've never seen the "before" photo and it does not disappoint.
It shouldn’t come as a surprise that from a linguistic point of view, memes are incredibly sophisticated. In fact, meme creators use “multimodal grammar,” which refers to a post which has both images and captions, to express and share ideas and opinions. As soon as a meme lands on social networks, people start sharing it and add their own personal meanings to the content. That’s why there’s never a final nor single meaning of a particular meme.
That's clever, because anyone can understand it the way that comforts their own opinions.
The fact that internet memes, units of popular culture, constantly circulate, imitate and transform with the help of users, makes them so special. Limor Shifman, a scholar who specializes in the study of internet memes, believes that a meme is not a single idea or image which is spread across social sites, but a group of items that were created with awareness of each other. Think of the internet’s beloved Grumpy Cat meme. Shifman would say that it’s not the cat itself, but the whole set of memes generated with its image, which is the meme.
Dude forgot the eye patch, and the devil horns, and the ear rings, and the nose rings
On the other hand, with memes evolving so much in the past years, in some cases, they become vehicles for political messages, often used to spread aggressive or racist messages and to incite hatred. Emiliano De Cristofaro, an associate professor from UCL, has recently carried out the largest scientific study of memes to date, using a dataset of 160m images from various social networks.
“We showed how 'fringe' web communities associated with the alt-right movement, such as 4chan’s 'Politically Incorrect' board (/pol/) and Reddit’s 'The_Donald' are generating a wide variety of racist, hateful, and politically charged memes—and, crucially, spreading them to other parts of the internet,” De Cristofaro explained.
Remember when you wished you were all grown up so you could be free to do anything you'd like?
What De Cristofaro’s team found was that fringe social networks like /pol/ and Gab “share hateful and racist memes at an impressive rate, producing countless variants of antisemitic and pro-nazi memes.” Moreover, “memes like Pepe the Frog (and its variants) are often used in conjunction with other memes to incite hate or influence public opinion on world events, such as Brexit or the advance of Islamic State,” he said.
Moreover, the team at UCL found that, alarmingly, /pol/ was by far the most influential disseminator of memes, in terms of the raw number of images originating there. “In particular, it was more influential in spreading racist and political memes,” De Cristofaro said.
Just like with any other content on the internet, so with memes, users have to be aware of what kind of content they engage in, share and react to. While having a laugh at relatable memes like these ones in the post can indeed make your day brighter, encountering hateful memes is a whole other thing that’d better be reported.
Ok who took a peek into my life and exposed it in this very pithy meme
Also your phone when your partner across the room says they want to buy something
As soon as you put in that piece you turn into a raging tax evading a$$hole that would rather burn money trying to fly real high than pay their employees a living wage.
And then it becomes breakdance, salsa, work, salsa, breakdance, NEXT SONG
Come on, anyone can look good with her resources, make-up artist, cosmetic surgery and wardrobe. Bernie is just a normal ass guy.
I guess all kids enjoy both, just choose the appropriate moment to do one or the other.
Note: this post originally had 120 images. It’s been shortened to the top 50 images based on user votes.
It appears that my entire day can be described via a series of memes.
It appears that my entire day can be described via a series of memes.
