Sleepless nights, annoying bosses, and tiring days, all pale compared to the human ability to find humor in adversary. Comedy has been a coping mechanism for difficult times since time immemorial and now, through the magic of the internet, we can share and create those annoyingly relatable experiences and mock them at the same time.
The “So Basic I Can’t Even” Instagram account gathers a delectable selection of memes that one might find, funny, painful, relatable, or a combination of all three. So get comfortable, prepare to scroll, and be sure to upvote your favorites and comment your own thoughts below.
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There should be a button to scroll to the recipe. Like, no Brenda I don't care that you live in Texas and your mother-in-law is really kind and bakes cookies for your 7 children.
We have a 'Jump to recipe' option on cooking websites here. Not sure if it is available everywhere
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For this reason I stick to good old cookbooks. Bulky and tedious? Yes. But I get a consistent identical recipe every time without reading 1000 ways a single cornbread recipe has been passed down since the beginning of time.
The secret to my cornbread recipe is a cast iron skillet preheated in the oven and full of hot bacon grease. Then you pour the batter in the hot skillet so it fries a little on the edges and let it bake.
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I believe part of the purpose of 'the story' is to assist with keeping the person posting the recipe with search engine algorithms.
They do it so that the page will show up on Google. Without at least 500 words you wouldn't have found the recipe at all.
I stopped complaining when I found out they have to do this for copyright reasons iirc
Allrecipes used to be good until they moved to a more online magazine type format instead of a recipe database and abolished their recipe app.
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OMG! We recently tried making crab cakes.. I came home mid-way and was tasked with finding the oven temperature on the website, (my human may have been inebriated...).. top of the page listed ingredients, (not all, mind you, the full list was at the bottom under recommended articles and comments....). Directions were scattered around the whole site and NO oven temperature. ((I didn't initially want to find a different site because human was using this ... ) --- I had to reorganize and color code my closet after, just to feel some sense of peace .. .
No kidding! Some of them are PAGES AND PAGES! I don't CARE how u came up with it, and what the weather was like, and ur childhood memories! Just give me the darn recipe!
Red flag right away that I get out and look for another, if they’re yapping now it be more yapping later
I can't believe these people think anyone coming there for the recipe gives a c**p about how it reminds them of life in Florence, or stories their grandma used to tell them in winter in front of an open fire, or how it nourishes their soul. LOL. Shut up. Show food.
It's a copyright issue. You can't copyright a recipe. So you have to put a "story" up.
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Amen. I don't want to read about their lives I want to look at the recipe
Even when you click on "Jump to the Recipe", you still have to scroll some more!
I like the stories: every time I read one, I get reminded of how little I care about strangers. Shut up, Debra, I am on a time crunch.
It’s free content. This complaint is so tired it’s a cliche now. Just scroll or go to a recipe site.
Spend the rest of the meeting imagining painful ways that speaker should meet his/her untimely demise
One of the comforting things about relatable memes is that it shows us that a lot of human experience is at some level shared. Yeah, maybe it’s fun to be unique, but it’s also good to know that other people can and will be able to relate to your experience just by living on the same earth.
This sort of relatability is actually the basis for most memes in general. The word itself refers to something commonly shared in a group, whether it's a gene, idea, belief, or preference. Without this understanding, we would not only miss out on memes, we would not be able to share any humor whatsoever.
It stands to reason that we enjoy content that does relate to our personal experiences. Setting aside memes, comedians, and people who do actually want to make us happy, many salespeople, con artists, and others use this tidbit of our psychology to trick us into trusting them, by using crumbs of shared information to build a rapport. That gives them an "in" to sell us whatever they please.
This is commonly called the Barnum effect, named after the infamous businessman and showman P.T. Barnum, who would use every psychological trick in the book to attract audiences and get them to pay for his shows. Fortune tellers do the same at a smaller scale, taking little bits of surface-level information and using it to manipulate us into thinking that they know more than they actually do.
I would also be impressed by an ice cream truck, but that's it
Ummm zero? Because someone cloned my Sim card and has been happily using my Google ever since and Gmail didn't Say jack s**t
But as these memes and many others demonstrate, people can use commonalities for good, not just sales. Every human's experience is different, but there are always a few things one can find in common across every known demographic category. Take nature, for example. It looks different all over the world and people tend to have different interests. Some people even find it somewhat intimidating or prefer certain biomes to others.
There have to be boundaries, human. This is my ball of slobber.
My Daughter used to think Amazon was magic when she was 6. One time she wrote a letter to the mail carrier to "bring me more Amazon boxes PLEASE!" and another time filled the cart up and hit the purchase button. Thank God I didn't have $9,116.
But the vast majority of people showed similar, positive emotions when presented with the same natural images, showing that there is something in common, if we strip away all the variables. So remember, when you are looking at this collection of memes that were made by total strangers, that there are humans out there who can just add some humor to their daily experience and make thousands laugh.
All I want is a few days where I don't have to do anything! Is that really too much to ask??
There's probably very few things you can think of doing that haven't already been done in Vegas
I’m having my ups now and that’s the best thing happening to me
I am dreading adulthood. Please just let me go back to kindergarten
I saw my package was literally in my town then it returned to where it came from . I looked at why and it said "unable to deliver. Driveway blocked" I live in apartments...with a parking lot.
Because water against a white background usually doesn't shine like that on film, I often wondered if it was astroglide.
My marriage made me stronger, angrier and feistier than I ever imagined I could be. Started swearing during my marriage too at age 33. Some gifts just keep on giving. Am doing fine. He’s the one diagnosed as paranoid delusional and a thousand miles away. If I can take that mess and make an awesome life so can anyone else.👍🏻👍🏻❤️😉
I don’t know WHY the heck I read “dating Apps” instead of “dating-apps”
How about some rainbow flags, I think they're pretty fun
You're supposed to ask my permission before posting pictures of me.
pizza doesn't ask questions, pizza understands, we should all embrace pizza
Note: this post originally had 146 images. It’s been shortened to the top 50 images based on user votes.
