If you're reading this description, we're willing to bet that you can read well enough to indulge in this frivolous selection of tweets and Tumblr posts that made us crack a smile. Memes are so visually oriented these days. We're not mad at taking a wee break from having everything spelled out with a picture.

TGIF, y'all. Ready to celebrate the culmination of another week of pain? Between the gas shortage,violence in the middle east, and the absolute agony of our personal lives, it's probably safe to say that the whole world deserves a break.  While memes won't do much to promote world peace or knock the stupidity out of the heads of some Americans (us included), they will help assuage the pain of existence. At least for a little while. 

There she is: the average pleb. She leaves the office at 5 p.m. on the dot. As she makes her way down the beaten path, she imagines turning on an educational podcast while cooking a nutritious dinner. Maybe she'll even read a book before bed. 'Yes...' she thinks to herself, 'tonight is the night I do that self-care thing everyone's been talking about.' Halfway through her 45-minute commute on a particularly crowded train, fast food starts to feel pretty appealing. When she finally gets home, she plops down on the couch and tears open the Taco Bell wrappers. Avengers: Endgame is already queued up.

As the credits roll, she knows what she must do. It's time to sleep. 'It's bedtime' she tries to convince herself as her hand reaches for the phone. 'Just one meme' she tells herself. Soon one meme becomes fifty. She chuckles lightly, her gleeful face lit up by the glow of the screen. 'This is the life' she says. 

If you're at all connected to what's going on in the world, you're probably aware that many people in the United States seem to be worried about a gas shortage. Here in New York, the last time we had a gas shortage (after Hurricane Sandy) was pretty debilitating. Lines of cars sometimes went for miles, filled with worried and agitated drivers - and then, of course, there were the ones who had to find a way to navigate around them. This time it's not a natural disaster that's causing mayhem. This gas panic is a direct result of last week's cyberattack on Colonial Pipeline, a major pipeline that provides gas along much of the East Coast, and all the way to Houston. 

Colonial Pipeline announced today that they've restarted their pipeline system and have resumed deliveries, but that can't undo the panic and the memes its inspired. The ransomwear attack influenced hordes of frantic drivers in the Southeast to stockpile gasoline in whatever containers they had available - a move that evoked the country's toilet paper crisis from the beginning of the Covid-19 crisis. While several photos and videos of people stockpiling gasoline in unorthodox containers have been flying around, none have faced as much ridicule as a photo and video of people attempting to collect gasoline in plastic bags. 

And this is how someone thinks they should get gas...🙄 #gasshortage pic.twitter.com/XT7APSI9rM

— Tyler in Texas (@ty_p3) May 12, 2021

Oh, shit. #gasshortage? Better pick up a couple extra bags. pic.twitter.com/a09ue2eQfK

— Fiendishly Yours, (@FiendishlyYours) May 11, 2021

Though both the photograph and the video are real, neither of them were taken in the last week. In the trunk? Gasoline that two men had attempted to steal, not in the United States, but in the Mexican state of Puebla. The video was taken in December of 2019, and according to Snopes, it depicts a woman doing some weird sh*t in Houston, Texas. Despite the misconceptions, people on Twitter have been eating up the idea that people around the country are filling up bags with gas. It even got so bad that the US Consumer Product Safety Safety Commission published a thread urging citizens not to horde gas in this unique manner. Even more entertaining than the thread (which should not exist) are the roasty tweets that users are firing out left and right. We know it's kind of shitty to make fun of people who might have a screw loose, but god, we can't help but enjoy the spicy savagery. 

If there's one group who have managed to thrive through the global pandemic, quarantine, and social distancing, it's gamers. While most have struggled to adapt to new and awkward methods of remote socializing, gamers simply retreated into their established Minecraft realms and WoW parties and carried on as usual. For both seasoned and noob gamers alike, we've got a bunch of nerdy memes for people who'd rather sitting in front of a console or gaming PC. 

At this point, the meme world has bestowed its own celebrity status to many actors and public figures. Nic Cage was absolutely everywhere for a while. Keanu has lent his mug to everything from Sad Keanu to Mini Keanu, with a ton of wholesomeness in between. To be a star these days is to submit yourself to the meme makers of the internet. And some media personalities fare better than others. 

One person who's been both roasted (for his revolting pasta recipe) and revered in meme history is actor Robert Pattinson. Nearly a decade and a half after he graced screens as Edward Cullen in the Twilight series, he's become somewhat of a meme mainstay. His role in the Sadie Brothers' tense and thrilling Good Time was especially fruitful where formats are concerned. The classic track jacket meme has been everywhere since its inception, and this year we've got the 'You Think You're Better Than Me' format trending amongst both Redditors and A24 junkies. As today is Pattinson's birthday, we thought we'd celebrate with a handpicked selection of memes that feature him as a star. Some of them are dated. Others are extremely stupid in the name of irony. And others have become classics. But we're happy that they all celebrate our favorite sparkly vampire turned indie darling.

It's not very nice to laugh at the failures of others and that's certainly not what we're trying to do here. We're laughing at the hilarious and unexpected results of failed attempts to fix something mundane, tell a blatant lie, get a point across, or simply do a thing. We've got to give an 'A for effort' to the ones who at least tried. On the other hand, some of these people failed so hard that it makes us question whether they even wanted their attempts to be successful. We've got a bunch of funny examples of when people got it totally wrong. 

If you're a lean, mean, meme-eating machine, then you've come to the right place because all we've got are memes. If you're looking for intellectual discourse about the current state of the world, then show yourself out—this is the meme zone and the content you're about to consume is dumb as hell. You might even lose a few braincells by the end of this collection of buffoonery.  

As we go through the week, our standards for entertainment tend to plummet. Instead of seeking out smart, compelling films and books, by the time Wednesday hits we're just looking for a distraction. Subtitles? No thanks. Wordy creative fiction or a fascinating trip through history? Can't do it. Instead, we're left to pretend to watch television as we wearily scroll through our phones, waiting for slumber to take over and take us into another day.  Rather than scroll through some of the day's inevitably bleak news, why not indulge in some stupid fun? We've put a bunch of that together in one convenient gallery.

Not everyone can be an expert on the Star Wars prequels, and that's okay. Just leave that to us (or the memes, anyway). This frustrated boyfriend was just trying to figure out exactly which prequel his girlfriend was talking about, to hilarious results. But hey, at least she tried?