As somebody who has spent a lot of their life staring dead-eyed at the internet, there are not many memes that I come across which truly amaze me. After a while, you can categorize them into various feelings, from twee, to cringe, to bigoted, to boring. Add to that the fact there are a limited amount of formats and ways that a joke can be structured, and you start to see memes repeat themselves, a lot.
Nonetheless, they are something that I come back to time and again. I'm not alone, either. Millions of us return to the same old, same old with a sprinkle of novelty added, for reasons we're not always sure of. Whether we want the comfort or we simply don't know any different, memes are here to take the edge off everything else. You never know, there might be some here that are interesting enough for a second look.