time travel

The era we're living through seems pretty bleak most of the time. It's hard to ignore the pandemic and our current political shitshow. But the past has been just as bleak, if not more. These dank history memes use humor to lighten up that darkness. As a bonus? They're kind of educational! 

No watch? We'll give you a hand: it's meme-o-clock. Time to laugh at some timeless memes about all things time-related! We can't get enough of these painfully relatable memes about aging, daylight savings time, and of course 2020. This series of clever memes really helped put our worries about the future into perspective. As time slowly crawls toward the end of a cursed year that felt more like a decade, it's good to remember that things can always get worse. If you think about it, the hindsight our future selves will experience is something to look forward to! Until then, have fun wasting some time with these timely memes.  

Remember those Time Machine memes we covered last week? Well, they haven't shown any sign of disappearing from our timeline. The very gender-oriented format plays with many themes, but most often imagines men and women doing very different things with time-traveling technology. While the format often imagines doing something just and noble with the time machines, sometimes the boy (or girl) in question chooses to do something entirely pointless. Either way, we're loving the memes. We've put together some of favorite new iterations, but you can read more about the format (and enjoy more examples) over at Know Your Meme

We know the whole Girls vs. Boys trend in a lot of Reddit memes has gotten a bit tired. But this trending format about how the sexes would approach time machines has breathed some life into the slightly sexist memes. Fortunately, the memes are so good we can't get too mad. We've put a bunch here for your consideration, but as the meme goes deeper into Wojak comic territory, we'll probably start seeing a lot more. And we're happily awaiting them.

One of the latest meme trends to pop up on Reddit has taken the form of a "time traveler conversation," in which a shadowy figure comes from the future and drops some serious future wisdom on an unsuspecting character - generally to very positive reception. The meme has been meshing well with Area 51 memes, as well as old classics like Shrek and Keanu Reeves. Here are some of our favorite examples of the perception-bending formats.

There are definitely some things from recent years that we don't need to be reminded of, but we're here for these nostalgic memes. "We Did It, We Time-Traveled" is a meme inspired by comic artist SrGrafo, which memers have begun using to remind us of things that were once popular on the internet in the recent past. Go check him out on Reddit!

Late last week we were hit with a barrage of memes about Avengers character Captain America (Chris Evans) flexing his time-travelling knowledge on his boo, Peggy Carter. Steve Rogers never looked so smart. We put together a healthy selection of the memes, but they just keep. On. Coming. And they appear to be getting spicier. 

Another day, another dank Avengers: Endgame meme! The r/dankmemes subreddit has been flooded with Captain America (Chris Evans) memes for the past two days, and these particular formats deal heavily with history. In Endgame, chooses to travel through time permanently to spend the rest of his days with Peggy Carter, the love of his life. These memes address the fact that the former Captain America would have a wealth of historical knowledge that Peggy lacks - and can even use it to his advantage. The result is a versatile dank meme that's endlessly entertaining.

And you know what else is endless? The amount of memes we're getting out of Endgame even way after the movie's initial release. An absolute win, some might say.