If you didn't pay much attention during history or hate reading dumb books, these memes might help you seem smarter. They won't help you write an award-winning essay, but they might help you in random conversation or when you're trying to impress someone who is only moderately intelligent.
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Map nerds can rejoice with this gallery, although we have to be honest in that they're not even remotely helpful or educational. So if you're someone who's trying to grow their knowledge of geography, these won't help you at all. But, you know, at least they'll make you laugh, and that's valuable in and of itself!
The Middle Ages, which lasted from the 5th to the 15th century, was no doubt a fascinating period of time for any history nerd out there. But perhaps one of the most fascinating parts of it was some of the extremely WTF-worthy art that came out of it. If you're not sure what we're talking about here, just scroll down to see!
All of this Article 13 business has been kind of a mess, but at least we've gotten some great memes out of it...?
If you aren't familiar with Article 13, it's a proposed directive in the European Union that would require anyone with publishing ability to have a stash of already-copyrighted content on hand.
The controversy? Memers everywhere have been up in arms claiming that it could potentially lead to more censorship online - where they're concerned, in the form of memes. We won't get into how in reality many people are skipping over a small detail in the proposal, but you can read about that here.
But honestly, let's just let people have their fun because we're really enjoying the following bootleg versions of classic memes that people are creating in attempt to "get around" any sort of potential internet censorship. Scroll down to see!
Memers are shook after the EU's Article 13 was passed yesterday by the European Parliament. The r/dankmemes community started meme-ing as soon as the news broke, but seems to be ignoring some very important information regarding the article's passing: memes and GIFs are EXEMPT. This important tidbit seems to be flying over peoples heads. We'd rather assume that people would rather have an excuse to meme than stay calm on the matter. It will be at least two years before the law takes effect, we just hope these memes aren't all we'll be seeing in the meantime.
When you've lived in one place your whole life, you get used to the various customs and behaviors that are standard in your country. So much so that traveling abroad can be a huge culture shock for a lot of people. These American Redditors are sharing the things they realized are completely unique to American culture.
Much of the classical art you see in modern-day museums is absolutely beautiful. And then there's the not-so-well-known stuff you see on the internet, like some of the following, that makes us say "what the actual f*ck." Like, what the heck were people even doing back then? If anyone has any answers, we'd really like to know.
Medieval Reactions is an excellent Twitter account that combines three of our favorite things: memes, witty tweets and classical art. What more could you need?
