Look at those little faces

It can be more than a little unsettling to pass an unassuming mountain of trash and hear something rustling around in the shadows of the garbage pile, but depending on where you live, it's probably just a cute little trash panda hunting for its next meal. There's no reason to be scared of these critters unless they are frothing at the mouth in a rabid rage. In fact, humans share more qualities with those tiny creatures than most people actually realize. Are there dark shadows under your tired-l…

It’s very easy to have a knowledge of Animal Kingdom on a very superficial level. You go to your local zoo, you see the zebras, and you think you know something. If you’re a regular viewer of Animal Planet or the Discovery Channel, you might feel a little bit superior to the rubes who called themselves the next Steve Irwin. Unfortunately, neither of these groups truly compare to the real hobbyists. Do you know the kinds of people we can look at a prehistoric fish thing and tell you it’s genus,…

Usually, when gender reveals go viral, it's never for something good. How many videos have you seen of a gender reveal party starting a fire or the dad storming off when he finds out the baby is a girl? A genuinely intriguing and compelling gender reveal is hard to come by these days, making this parrot's gender reveal such a revelation. This beautiful bird has been a part of his family for over four decades, and they always just assumed he was a boy. When their vet suggested he might be a girl…

Congratulations, time traveler. Somehow, through will, strength, or perhaps resignation, you have made it to the end of Monday . How does it feel? If it doesn't feel like something that should be congratulated, then you're right with us. We didn't consent to being born, and we certainly didn't consent to an existence that makes us feel like we've accomplished some grand task. Life shouldn't feel like an endless cycle of suffering with tiny breaks in between, and if we are this exhausted and dej…

I don't know about you, but I'm old enough to remember a place and time before the world wide web. A time when you had to find humor in joke books, terrible TV sitcoms, inside jokes with old pals, and good old fashioned farts . When I was a child, my friends and I would invent strange and completely nonsensical words and repeat them over and over again until they became hilarious. There's no denying it: we've come a long way since then. Thanks to memes , millions of strangers can be in on the s…

Let's be honest…the landscape of memes right now can be kind of depressing . There are so many memes about catastrophic global events that they can be hard to avoid. What happened to the good old days, when wholesome and fun memes ran this town? I don't want to see vaguely humorous pictures bemoaning the backbreaking reality of American hegemony. I want to see pictures of funny birds. I don't want to see a TikTok breaking down every single solitary unethical thing that some random micro-influen…

The 1990s was the golden age of edutainment. I might be a little biased, but I wholeheartedly believe that The Magic School Bus and Bill Nye The Science Guy are the only reasons that there are any Millennial and Generation Z scientists. If your 5th-grade science teacher rolled out a big fat TV on a questionably secure cart, you knew you would have a fantastic day of learning (and not being able to get the Bill Nye theme song out of your head). Although the 90s produced some of the best edutainm…

I'm going to let you all in on a little secret; as a child, I was a frog girl . I'm not talking about your average run-of-the-mill frog girls that seem to be sprouting on top of lily pads constantly these days. I'm talking about a ride-or-die girlie of the ribbit experience. The only Webkinz I got were frog Webkinz. I had at least two baseball caps featuring the amphibian. The Rainforest Café mascot was my idol. I'm not messing around when it comes to frogs. It can be bittersweet when one of yo…

My head hurts. It hurts so much. It seems like whenever I feel like I've gotten closer to getting this damn rock over the hill, it gets heavier a la Sisyphus' eternal plight. Except instead of hauling stuff up an incline, I'm trying to manage a damn website. It's a lot to handle - sending emails as early as 7 am and then working until 7 pm. It almost sucks some of the fun out of memes . I don't recommend turning pleasure into work, but I know my circumstances could be worse. There are a few tim…

Toe beans not included

As a young cultural icon once said, “Animal crackers in my soup. Monkeys and rabbits loop the loop Gosh, oh gee! but I have fun Swallowing animals one by one.” There are some memes out there that aren't for the average little baby animal lover--mere children who only know about dogs, cats, fish, birds,

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It is wild that nearly every kid I knew wanted to be an animal scientist or a marine biologist when they grew up. I guess it makes sense since animals are one of the four interests children consistently have across generations: animals, books, sports, and pink. If you meet a kid that doesn't possess at least one of these interests, you have just met an individual in the 99th percentile of uniqueness. Kids and adults love animals, and I don't blame them. Animals love you unconditionally unless t…

Who knows how we did it, but once again we find ourselves just past the beginning of a brand new week. The days and dates might be arbitrary markers, but the whole annoying situation of being alive certainly is not. It is very important to find ways to make everything more bearable, and that is where the beautiful business of memes comes in. Few things brighten the endless slog of existence like a super sized serving of extra dumb humor , so why not take a scroll through this latest offering? I…

Dog memes for a little dopamine boost