teenagers

We thought there was nothing quite as laughable as an teenager on Instagram complaining about their myriad trials and tribulations, but man, some of these cringe-filled pictures are starting to change our mind.. This pseudo-deep shit that people are putting out there is completely bonkers. And of course, we love it. 

We've all been through those angsty teen phases where fluctuations in hormones bring out the cringe in us. When I was 14, my worst display of teen angst was probably hiding in the bathroom during class to write poetry about being misunderstood. These days, the internet makes it much easier to embarrass ourselves by instantly oversharing and posting deep memes about the ills of society. But honestly, we're pretty into the 'deep' pseudo-philosophical cringe. Give us all the profound joker image macros and 'we live in a society' platitudes, because we think they're freakin' hilarious. 

We've got some great examples of cringey deep posts that were shared in earnest and self-reflexive memes that satirize the angsty teen voice.

Remember being an emo tween/teenager? Unfortunately, we do too. Listening to sad songs on repeat. Thinking we our first school relationships were "forever." Posting attention-seeking messages to social media, hoping someone notice all the pain. While the depression was often very real, there's a painfully cringey- and amusing - aspect to people who wear their hearts on their sleeve on the internet. Don't believe us? Scroll down and brace yourself for some serious discomfort.

Many of us Millennials went through that inevitably cringey phase of our early teens in the mid-2000s where literally any mildly sentimental quote on LiveJournal or Myspace was thoroughly profound enough to bring us to tears. Today's version of that is, of course, the infamously cheesy Tumblr.

You've likely been seeing the word "Sbeve" everywhere on the internet lately, and in case it's (understandably) lost on you, it refers to cheesy posts and quotes on Tumblr that 14-year-old girls would generally find incredibly deep. 

One such example that's popped up all over the internet recently is the phrase "S[he] Be[lie]ve[d]," which you've probably noticed also displays the hidden message "he lied." Once you take that "hidden" message out, what's left is "Sbeve." Cue resulting dumb memes.

What happens when you mix first world anarchy with cringey people on the internet? Absolute madlads. And there's an entire subreddit dedicated to this kind of tongue-in-cheek male rebellion. r/madlads is an incredible archive of of this behavior. From teens who think they're tough to brazenly dumb YouTube commenters, these posts and memes are delicious displays of cringey (and sometimes wholesome) hilarity. 

If you've ever been a teenager or have had to raise one, you're going to enjoy these highly relatable and on-point memes. We'd all like to think that we were easy youths, but unfortunately (with some rare exceptions) that's just not true. We salute you, parents. We salute you.

Teenagers get a bad rap pretty much just for existing, but everyone seems to conveniently forget when they do great things, like write these hilarious senior yearbook quotes. So here's to you, graduates! Now please have some college memes because pains of life are just getting started, baby.

Zoomers, or Generation Z, are known for their bizarre, totally nonsensical humor and we think these memes display that sentiment perfectly. Us Millennials may not fully understand you kids, but we respect you. 

Both Know Your Meme and /r/DankMemes have many more examples, so be sure to check them both out if you crave more of that weirdness!