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…

Not everyone can be a renaissance man, woman, or person. In fact, it's straight-up unrealistic to think everyone in the world will have diverse set of interests and hobbies. For much of my sad little life, I've felt like a boring person. It's not because I'm feeling constant tedium, and, surprisingly, not because I have zero talents. The feeling of dullness I feel about my personality is due to the fact that all I really care about (besides my loved ones) is food. Cooking it. Eating it. Looking…

Out here at Memebase we understand that there is a demand for kinda basic and painfull relatable memes . And there is really nothing abjectly wrong with that. With that said, we are resigned to admit that after years of scrolling through that simple and easily-consumed content, we tend to appreciate the weirder memes a little more. Memes that might be a bit surreal, or even completely nonsensical. Memes that might make you scratch your head, or even weird you out. We also enjoy memes that are e…

Sometimes I feel like I relate a little too much to Fred Durst. Or at least the Fred Durst who wrote ‘Break Stuff.’ You may be familiar with the tune: a rage-filled anthem for people who have bad days every day. A tune for terribly ticked-off individuals who are at their wits end and ready to strangle a person if they look at them the wrong way. Unfortunately, violence gets people in trouble. So how do we convert all the anger to something more productive, or funnel it into healthy activities?…

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…

There are many different types of intelligence in this world. Some people are mathematical whizzes who do seemingly needless equations just for kicks. They can do complex math in their head and calculate tips within seconds. Then there are the artistic geniuses, who understand how to create masterpieces with paints, pencils, sculptural materials, or even garbage they find on the street. I've always envied science nerds who actually understand space and time, the physics of everything. There are…

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…

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…

Extra baggage is extra expensive.

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

There are lots of memes out there that leave a person with zero questions. Those relatable work memes , anything hyper-topical, parenting memes. They're all pretty self-explanatory. Work sucks, bosses are terrible, parenting leads to lack of sleep, we all know the drill. We'd be stupid not to include that dogs and cats are cute. When the basicness of these memes gets to be dull, or we actually want to use our brains, we turn to history memes. While we're not history dunces, we can hardly preten…

Social media does have some positive qualities. It brings people together regardless of global location. It allows people with unique problems to connect with the similarly afflicted, allowing for solidarity. It's also been known to help people reunite with lost pets and even humans. But it can sometimes feel like it does more harm than good, especially in this era of people trying to use the apps to make money and gain attention, the latter of which helps people to do the former. One way that…

Does the thought of going under and having a surgeon try to fix your body terrify you? Well, you may be onto something. Apparently surgeons still do all the same, terrifying things they did 2,000 years ago.

It kind of feels like ADHD discourse has been at an all-time high. Everyone on Twitter seems to be discussing the disorder, and our advertisements on other social media sites always seem to do with acquiring medication for the issue, or receiving counseling for it. There's a reason for this. Over the past few years, it's become clear that attention deficit disorder manifests itself in many different ways - it's not just feeling fidgety or having a poor attention span. I recently was diagnosed m…

The internet is kind of wild. At this very moment, all across the globe, there are people like you, hunched over their laptops and/or phones, trying to pass the time. Some of them are reading this article, too. The cool thing about this is that somewhere, somebody is typing up a super-specific sentiment, or a terribly inconvenient and cursed truth, and is about to share it to the whole of Tumblr . Sometimes these posts contain strange and warnings, like the first entry in this list, which invol…

Hello, internet explorers. Is it just me, or is anyone else having a harder time than usual grappling with their internet addiction? I kind of have some theories as to why. You see, at least here in the Northeast, things are getting a wee bit cold. They are also (sadly) getting a whole lot darker. Just a few days ago I was walking home at just past five, and it was basically dark as night. It was more than a bit alarming, especially as someone who has to work in an office all throughout the dre…