You're a fool if you don't believe that the golden age of being a goth teen was the 80s-2000s. Since then, the edge of wearing black clothes and listening to screamo has worn off. When I was a teen, I was a total wannabee goth. I wanted to get a “scene” haircut, but it definitely didn't happen for me. I was obsessed with eyeliner to the point that I literally looked like a raccoon. I

We here at Memebase are firm believers in letting people enjoy things. As with anything else, though, there are exceptions. If you enjoy picking your nose and eating your boogers, we're not going to support you. If you enjoy pulling the plug on people on life support to charge your phone, that's not going to fly either. Drinking a pumpkin spice latte or light beer, however, is AOK. People who shame others for their tastes are usually sad people - gatekeeping or roasting the most basic of intere…

If you had a million, bajillion dollars, and a passion for utter chaos , which company would you buy and transform beyond recognition? Many people think this is exactly what Elon Musk has done to Twitter, but frankly, it only seems slightly more insufferable. For now. Me? Well, I'd probably buy Benihana. If you don't catch the shrimp that the Hibachi master lovingly tosses toward your mouth, you have to pay double your bill, and clean the restaurant. What could go wrong? Twitter user @JennyENic…

Oh, happy day! It's time to pass some merry memes around the fireplace with Ma and Pa . Not to engage in toxic positivity, but how on earth could I be sad when I've got a gorgeous selection of humorous lined up for me ripe for the picking. Reading memes together as a family is what I'll remember far more than reading Charles Dickens or watching a “movie” together. Memes will make you laugh, and won't make you cry. They are so shallow and surface level that they won't inspire any emotions too co…

Giving people gifts can be one of the more challenging aspects of the holiday season. Especially when you're dating someone who isn't straightforward about the presents they would actually like to receive. The people in my life who I struggle to buy gifts for are my parents and my boyfriend. My parents simply have everything they could ever want and have abandoned the quirky interests of their past (like Mexican dioramas) for a more quaint and pastoral lifestyle in their new home of Vermont. My…

'Happy New Years' is just on the tip of our tongue at this point.

Look out, dog moms ! There's a new sheriff in town, and her baby is leafy and green. Houseplants have been a staple for generations, but they've had a real boom in popularity over the past few years, especially with younger generations on social media. While some people adopted a dog or picked up new artistic hobbies when the pandemic hit, the newly anointed plant moms and plant dads strapped on their gardening gloves and got to work: repotting, watering, and desperately hoping their plants did…

Where does a meme end and a tweet begin? Can tweets be memes? Can a trend that originated on Twitter transcend to become something beyond what mere memes can encapsulate? These are questions that I simply can't and won't answer. Just because I'm here does not make me a confident meme expert. I am just a dum-dum whose brain is fueled by exorbitant amounts of Diet Mountain Dew at press time. The one thing I do know is that I am not going to quit Twitter . I've been on that godforsaken website sin…

You're lying if you say you don't get the urge.

We believe that wasting time should be a simple endeavor. The sad truth is that time passes by all too quickly. Even though humans today have a zillion different technologies, apps, and streaming services to help us procrastinate and while away the hours , there are still road blocks that keep us from making the most of our free time. While sometimes the roadblocks come in the form of a crappy internet connection or a dead phone, more often than not we're simply blessed with the kinds content t…

Brrrr! Baby, it's cold outside. And we don't want to do anything. It's true that there are definitely some winter enjoyers out there, doin' their winter things. Emmy from Memebase just went ice skating in Central Park on an evening that boasted temperatures well below freezing. I know people who will go on bar or food crawls in a January chill. Then there are the true psychos, who do the whole Polar Bear swim on January first. While I cautiously respect and fear these people, I just can't join…

To be a parent or to not be a parent. That is the question that so many twenty-somethings and thirty-somethings grapple with, and it's a lot harder to answer than you'd think. Of course, some people don't have a choice in whether they become parents. Babies sometimes just happen to people, and that's that. But for those with the privilege of family planning, it's all about the timing. Some people want to have kids as soon as possible, and some have to scramble toward the finish line, with the s…

2023 here we come!

Twitter has been more than a little bit of a shitshow lately. While we can blame Elon Musk for a lot of that, the truth is it's always been pretty insane. One of the more insane phenomena that we've noticed lately is fake accounts trying to garner sympathy for their family's experiences with Covid-19. That's on top of all the fake accounts that are normally buzzing around the site. Fakeness isn't the only problem we face on Twitter. It's the absolute shamelessness with which people spout genera…

I love Hallmark Christmas movies . Well, maybe love is too strong of a term. I will watch at least one Hallmark Christmas movie yearly to bask in the channel's dedication to repetitiveness, cheapness, and corniness. It makes me feel comforted that hundreds of practically identical movies are playing on the Hallmark Channel all day, every day, during this time of year. Even during the rest of the year, the Hallmark Channel has committed itself to the values of churning out the same tired stuff b…

Oh yeah, baby. It's Tuesday again. And that means it's time for our weekly installment of our “Tolkien Tuesday” meme collection. The