2020 memes
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A lot can happen in a year. You can learn you're pregnant and have a baby within that time span. You can get a divorce or travel the entire globe. Or, if you're like most people trudging along with their lives lately, you can spend a whole year grappling with the effects of a pandemic. Whether you've been working remotely, attempting to homeschool your kids, unemployed, or fighting the virus firsthand in hospitals, this year has taken a toll on everyone. There's the quarantine 15 (or 20), bad haircuts, newfound agoraphobia, and, of course, living much of your social and work life through choppy and unnecessary Zoom calls.
While we were trying not to think about the passing of time and this increasingly depressing period of stasis, people on Twitter are facing the sad truth head on via memes. The glumly relatable memes compare March 1st 2020 and March 1st 2021 with painful accuracy. They're the exact opposite of a glow-up. But at least they're a great reminder that we're far from alone in this monotonous struggle. Fingers crossed things don't get worse by next March. We can't handle seeing a bleak three panel progression.
Surprise surprise. More snow. Some of you thought it was over, but ohhhhh no. Not even close. Looks like we're all hibernating for the rest of winter, so it's time to get creative with the indoor activities. If you can't think of anything new and exciting to fill the dull, dark days with, at least you know there's always gonna be memes to fall back on. Memes are like a security blanket that never gets old or tattered. Let these decent random memes warm up that cold heart, and if this dump isn't enough for you, we've got even more here!
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Artists have been revered for creating works of beauty for thousands of years - but do you think brush-wielding monks in medieval Europe had any idea their painstaking efforts would be used for the unholy humor of memes? Chances are they didn't. These memes may have absolutely nothing to do with the art's intended purpose, but we think they add historical and cultured edge to an art form that's only been around for a couple decades. They're a beautiful merging of old and new, and (most importantly) they're funny as hell.
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If you're looking to shirk responsibility or waste some of your precious time on this planet, you've come to the right place. We're huge proponents of avoiding problems and reality with internet humor. And we've got a whole lot of that right here, in the form of dumb and dank memes.
Last month we asked all of you to help us rank the best 2020 memes of the year. The memes were both depressing and relatable, a reflection of the year's bleak and soul-sucking vibes. From the Covid-19 pandemic and murder hornets to the hellish election in the United States, it really felt like someone upstairs (if you believe in that sort of thing) was pulling a cruel prank on us. But it's important to try to take the bad times with a sense of humor. And these are the memes that you, our loyal friends and followers, thought summed up the year the best. Here's to 2021. We know things aren't going to change immediately, but we damn, we deserve a break, don't we?
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We hope you had a leisurely long weekend despite all the stress that comes with living through a global pandemic. The holiday is over and now it's time to employ those little coping mechanisms that help us tolerate this living hell. For us that means lots and lots of memes. We've got a decent batch here to jumpstart the week with some light chuckles.
"If you're bored, that means you're boring." This was something my mother used to say to me when I complained about the tedium of my childhood life. I thought that things might get better in the boredom department when I got older. Unfortunately, there was no predicting the monotonous hellscape that is 2020. If my mom's right, this year, we're all pretty damn boring. But at least we have memes.
