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,

Meow

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

Listen. Animal memes don't have to be cutesy. It's true that people love pics of adorable critters, or even basic baby-talk captions. But there are those of us who tire of this trope, and require more cultured offerings. Instead, we're looking for animal memes that fall into a variety of categories: funny, relatable, cursed, and surreal. We also look for animal memes that feature creatures beyond the usual realm of cats and dogs. This isn't because we don't like them. It's because cat and dog m…

Animals can be hilarious without even trying. From elephants attending the funerals of the people they've killed to ducks going to the pub , animals can get into absolutely absurd situations without anyone's help. Nobody knows how or why they got there, but you wish they could tell you about it. When I was a kid, I had a dog named Bear, one of the most intelligent animals I've ever met. One time, we left him in his crate at home, and when we returned, we couldn't believe what he did. Not only d…

If you asked any of my friends, they would tell you I am addicted to cats. And they might not be wrong. I'm constantly discussing Gorgeous and Grigio, my sweet, sweet furry pets. But the reality behind this infatuation might be less sweet than one would think. If you weren't aware, a little parasite called toxoplasmosis gondii causes toxoplasmosis, a disease that can affect nearly all living creatures, though it is most commonly found in cats. Despite that statistic, it's been documented in hum…

Those warm and fuzzy feelings

Internet memes are the one part of the cultural zeitgeist that no one will ever be able to successfully make a fictional movie about. No matter how much they try, it will never work, kind of like how a New York Times think-piece about a viral meme will always feel ridiculous and awkward. It's like trying to explain why a joke is funny—you just end up butchering the punchline and looking like a dumbass. Just let memes be. Don't write anything profound or pretentious about memes. Don't talk about…

If parallel universes exist, then logically that means there's an alternate reality where memes don't exist, and everything is just varying shades of grey, and food tastes like ash. People look peculiarly ageless because there's no sunshine and no one ever laughs. In this grotesque alternate reality, the only form of entertainment that exists is a single channel on television, which only plays static, but people watch it anyway because there's nothing else to do. Why am I painting such a depres…