sad memes

Clowns have been having quite the moment over the past few years. "Jokerfied" has become a verb. Thousands of women have been Harley Quinn for Halloween. It had a new opportunity to become a household name. Despite all these prominent media moments, we (as a society) are overlooking the biggest clowns of all: ourselves. 

That's right. Somehow, the human race has managed to make jesters of themselves on a day-to-day basis. Whether it's convincing yourself that you matter to your corporate overlords, or if you've convinced yourself that you can change your toxic partner, we're constantly subconsciously donning giant shoes and making a mockery of ourselves by playing dumb. But we're not alone. Pretty much every living, breathing human with an ounce of empathy, heart, or soul has themselves up for clownish disappointment. And boy, are there a ton of memes out there that reflect just that. 

Ah, Monday. Everyone's favorite day of the week. It's cool because you get to spend half of Sunday dreading the next day instead of actually enjoying it. Which, honestly, would probably happen even if we were unemployed. Why? Anxiety. Depression. It's hard. Coping with the crushing realities of life and death ain't easy. Wrestling with the ways in which we do our part in a capitalist society. Panicking because we don't really understand what the hell we're doing. While we all experience this to a degree, we all have our own unique struggles. Sometimes we cry in a cocoon of blankets in a dark room for hours on end. Sometimes we have panic attacks and require a soothing Xanax. And sometimes we kind of need both. Most kinds of these crises, symptoms, and feelings are covered in this gallery. It's like a Pu Pu platter of pain, baby. And god we hate that we relate to it.

If you ever find yourself in an emotional rut, tired all day even though you wake up at 3pm at the earliest, hungover not from partying, but from dehydration, or restarting a show on Netflix you've already watched five times, then these memes are for you. We've put together some painfully relatable depression memes for those who feel dead inside but can still somehow muster up enough humor to chuckle dryly at some funny content. Sad souls deserve a good laugh too, and sometimes wholesome, feel-good memes just don't hit the same. 

As spring gets warmer and starts to emulate the summer, people all over the northern hemisphere seem to be celebrating. Happy couples taking sunny walks with their pets. Children running around the playgrounds. Sundresses come out of winter storage and make an appearance at picnics and on promenades. Many of these people are feeling like life is good again. But there are other people out there (like us) who know the truth. Sadness is still lurking - and in the scheme of things, it's hard to enjoy a day drinking romp when you know our existence is a very mere bleep on the radar of the universe. These memes, which might trigger the optimistic, do a great job of expressing our existential dread and depression. We're not here to be killjoys, but man is it good to feel seen.

It's been quite a week - and it's only Thursday evening. It feels like we were celebrating the Ever Given's hilarious plight a year ago, when she was only freed on Monday. Since then there's been a lot of weird news (Teletubbies & crypto?) and some bad news (Matt Gaetz, anyone?). To cleanse your palates of the madness, we're here to offer some refreshing, relatable, and classic memes for your perusal. Let us help you press pause. 

It's like clockwork. Winter's bleakness recedes, and everyone who cuffed up for the cold nights is starting to feel that itch. It's officially breakup season. These memes are designed to help get you out of the misery hole and back on market to take advantage of those sexy summer flings. 

If these memes aren't doing the trick, these ex-related memes might give you the spiteful solace you crave. If you're still coupled, well, here are some boring memes about your successful love. Enjoy.

If you're miserable and you know it, look at memes. If you're miserable and you know it, look at memes. If you're miserable and you know it, and you really can't be bothered to show it, if you're miserable and you know it, look at memes. The more depressing and self-deprecating the better.

It may only be the beginning of March, but here on the East Coast (and in the Northern hemisphere) we can feel the seasonal depression fading away with the arrival of what we like to call "False Spring." While the sunshine and warm-ish weather are a preview of future joy, realistically it's going to take a long time for us to snap back to normal. And for those of us with the regular depression + seasonal depression combo, the light at the end of the tunnel is a little farther away. While we can't make the bad feelings disappear, we can help you remember that you're far from alone. You know, with a big old gallery of bleakly relatable memes.

Life isn't always butterflies and rainbows. Sometimes it's sh*t and even more sh*t. If you're the sort of dark soul who is at peace with their deep-rooted pessimism and angst, then these tongue-in-cheek depression memes might hit the spot. Maybe it's toxic of us, but sometimes we like to lean into the gloom with the help of dark humor and painfully relatable memes. 

Forcing that fake smile everyday can get old real quick, especially when you feel the the big sad creeping up on you. It's totally normal to feel like crap once in a while, and when we're deep in the void, sometimes those inspirational image macros with platitudes about positivity and self-love just make us feel worse. That's when we turn to morbid memes. If you're in a terrible mood and feel like embracing the darkness within, we've got just the content. These memes definitely won't fix your problems, but at least they won't undermine your pain. 

Do you ever feel so crappy that the misery seems to transcend into a sort of dark humor? Sometimes when life becomes so cosmically sh*tty, it feels as if the universe is just trolling you. In those moments, we can't help but laugh back at the universe. Yeah, everything is terrible, but guess what? We can still meme our way through this hellscape called 'life', and no one can take that away from us. 

If you're feeling the feelings and you don't know what to do about it, step away from the big sad and into the warm embrace of some relatable memes. Sure, memes won't solve all your problems, but they might remind you that you're not alone. Because guess what? People make memes. And the people who made these memes must have been pretty dang sad. We all experience pain, that's what makes us human! And we all deserve to cozy up to some funny memes and ignore all the bullsh*t once in a while. 

If you're in the "Life's a bitch and then you die" camp, you're probably going to enjoy this gallery of memes. They're for the people who lean into their pessimism, and perhaps have a habit of calling it "realism." For the people who don't have the energy to pretend that everything's okay. For the people who accept the pain and use dark humor to cope. And most of all, these nuggets of moroseness are for the people who can't handle another wholesome or cutesy memes. 

Now that we're in the dead of winter (prime SAD season) we need all the dopamine we can get. One way to get those feel-good chemicals buzzin' is by scrolling through memes. And these relatable and weird tidbits of comedy definitely fit the bill. From strange memes about evolution to sadly self-deprecating humor, this humble offering should make you feel better, at least for a little while.

2020 is a f*cken wash, y'all, and we are over it. As is such, please have some depressing memes that will remind you of how much everything sucks. eBaum's World has more 2020-specific content here.