I preface this the same way I do all of them in saying that about 5 years ago I decided to stop being involved with the time-wasting that is social media. I got tired of the politics being a part of everything and although I didn't do it as often as others, I was posting things just to get recognition from people I barely know and at times, people I don't know. It was all really stupid and I decided that I was going to do anything rather than be involved with what I believe to be one of the biggest problems of our current times.
Nowadays, when I have some free time I will do something productive on my phone like learn a few words in some language that I immediately forget, or if I must be mindlessly scrolling, to look through 9gag, which is a collection of mostly memes that the users themselves determine is the best.
Is there some politics in there? Of course, that is unstoppable. However, the self-governing nature of the place means that those posts never make it very far and get downvoted to oblivion.
Here are the memes that I found amusing or thought inspiring over the past however-long-it-has-been.
Nadi gives me a look every time I get up to leave the house in a hopeful yet kind of distressed way. I think she has learned that there is about a 50% chance that she is coming with me every time that front door opens but every now and then she doesn't get to come with me. When this realization has struck her before I leave she will often pout much like this labrador. She refuses treats and just looks super sad. It breaks my heart a little bit every time.
This is a stupid meme, but lately I have been getting a kick out of memes that are just dumb. If you are a bit older though I want you to take a little nostalgia trip with me and remember how they used to be a really big part of your life. I recall an entire aisle filled with board games in the stores like Wal-Mart or K-Mart and how I would spend hours reading the back of the boxes trying to decide what to get next. If you are around my age you almost certainly had a Connect-Four. It's probably one of the best selling games of all time.
I don't know if this technically qualifies as a meme or not. I'm not one of the overlords. But if you have a friend named Larry, and I think most people do, this is a real picture found somewhere in middle USA.
I left the title on this one intentionally. There is a very large portion of 9-gag that will downvote anything political, regardless of who it is about or if they agree with the message or not. I am one of those people
on the other hand, this happens to me probably every single time I cut my fingernails. Every...stinkin'....time.
This will likely not mean anything to you unless you are a gamer. I don't really play videogames anymore but seriously, this was a big part of essentially every action game I have ever played.
it's funny because it is true. Matt Damon became the subject of a lot of meme's thanks to Team America: World Police by the creators of SouthPark. If you know what i'm talking about I found out recently that Matt Stone and Trey Parker don't have any problem with Matt, but when they were making his puppet it came back from the custom place looking a bit... "special" and that is why they ridiculed him in the movie. The Internet doesn't forget!
Absolutely ferocious animal. I don't need to say any more
Are you old enough to remember when Limp Bizkit was everywhere and how they came out of nowhere to basically dominate the charts? I do.
This meme was posted as a response to the somewhat political things that get posted about gender ideology. The 9-gag community is tired of the arguments and whining. Limp Bizkit did kind of accidentally get it right though, didn't they?
it's true. Change just one small thing and you wouldn't be seeing it right now, would you?
This is not a meme but since I don't have Twitter and find it to be a bane on most people's existence I wouldn't have seen this otherwise. Bella Ramsey is constantly ridiculed on 9-Gag mostly because everyone hates her performance in The Last of Us, I never watched it and have no plans to do so.
once again, not a meme but I like it. This is obviously a joke but the point is still there. I stopped getting pirate stuff when streaming services were still a good idea but these days if you want everything it likely would cost more than a premium cable connection did back in the day.
last one! The time I spent in Mexico showed me that the country is very much a drinking culture and I had to ask my family members that live there if this was true and they confirmed that it is. The birthday parties for children are well-known for being a time when people get even more drunk than they would for anything else and provided everyone behaves themselves, I think that is great.
I'll leave you as I normally do, with a picture of my lovely dog Nadi. This is her pouting face when I have made it clear that she is not going to come with me when I leave. The look of absolute depression is palatable, and most of the time she simply stares at the front door for hours waiting for me to return. Thank goodness she has no concept of time so it doesn't matter if I return in 10 minutes or 10 hours, the reaction is always the same.
If you have any memes to share back, it is always appreciated.