Let's get one thing straight: at this point in the long-documented saga of the 21st century's most entitled a-holes, the term 'karen' isn't limited to middle-aged women, though the stereotype may have started that way. Just because someone doesn't flaunt a highlighted a-line bob doesn't mean they're exempt from the karen label. A 20-something man who calls the landlord on a neighbor peacefully sunbathing on a patch of grass outside is a karen. A vegan who posts a lengthy message to Nextdoor demanding that everyone in their vicinity stop grilling meat is a karen. A redditor who complains that people should be speaking English in r/France is a karen. Karens come in all shapes and sizes, but they all have one thing in common: nobody likes them.
The delusional karens and shamelessly disrespectful customers of the world are still at large and they must be exposed. If you've ever worked in the service industry or retail, some of these infuriating examples of utter rudeness might strike a nerve.
Social media has a steep learning curve for the old. It's a lot of folks using the laughing emoji when sharing sad news, accidentally posting their sordid google searches as their statuses, printing out memes, believing even the most absurd satirical new articles, and speaking in all caps. But we gotta cut them some slack, cause these old people are trying their best on social media.
Let's be honest: there is a time and a place for Facebook. For anyone under the age of 40, that's mostly keeping in contact with your elderly relatives (and keeping up with the Memebase page). It was never the number one place to go for the dankest OC memes, and recent years have only proved this further. It might now be the kind of place where the Boomers and all your small town high school acquaintances fight it out to see who can be the most cringe, but sometimes that produces the kind of content that is so abominably bad you can't help but marvel at it. Listed below are some of the most dire examples of what passes for humor as collected on r/terriblefacebookmemes. Who knew Minions were still so popular?
Every single one of us, cat owners, has a story to tell about how we chose and adopted our fur babies. Some of us rescued our cats from terrible lives on the street, others went into a shelter to pick up a kitten then ended up changing our minds and adopting a senior pet. and some of us... well, some of us didn't choose at all and were instead picked by the cats.
Last week, our purrfect ICanHasCheezburger users shared some of their stories with us - stories of cats adopting them, and they were so cute and wholesome, we simply had to share them with all of you guys as well. Thank you to everyone who shared, and we hope that your cats have the absolute best lives living with their humans of choice.
Wherever there are people minding their own business, trying to go about their stressful day, there's always a Karen lurking somewhere nearby, ready to make everyone's lives just a little bit harder. The retail world and service industry are no strangers to the obnoxious Karen who seemingly exists to abuse shift workers, and it seems like the plague has produced a new breed of Super Karens who complain to managers about anything and everything all while refusing to wear a face mask in the midst of a global pandemic.
For the essential workers out there who have had to continue dealing with crazy ass Karens, these memes and posts are for you. Thanks to the internet, the evil-doings of Karens are now very well-documented, and so we can roast Karen from the safety of our own homes.
Just because you have a baby doesn't mean you know what you're doing when it comes to parenting. It's just a process of trial and error, and honestly, most parents don't have a clue. Some ask their parents for help; others ask friends and some post on Facebook groups. All are valuable ways to learn new information, but sometimes the questions are so ridiculous that it makes you wonder if there should be a common-sense test to determine whether or not you are fit to have a baby. If there was, we can't imagine these parents would pass. Check out these insane questions parents posted in Facebook groups.
Listen. We're not the kind of people who would outright say that having children is a mistake. We're all about choice. If you want to be responsible for another living creature until they turn 18, or until they move out of your basement at age 40, that's up to you. But for gods sake, we need to do something about unhinged "Mommy Facebook groups". Thanks to r/ShitMomGroupsSay, we now know that many of them are toxic communities that foster ignorance, entitlement, and a whole lot of Karen-like behavior.But we'd be lying if we said their cringey and crazy posts weren't entertaining.
We don't need to tell you that the internet is full of cringe. As hard as you might try to look away, the cringe will follow you. Embarrassing people who consistently flaunt their worst qualities online cannot be forced to log off, but at least we can point and laugh at their shameful posts. We've collected some very irksome pics and screenshots that exemplify our worst traits as a species. Let these mortifying internet moments be a lesson to anyone thinking about posting.
Anyone who's on Facebook likely has boomer relative somewhere who uses the social network to ask for advice about creating PDFs, or accidentally makes public events instead of sending private messages, or complains about innocuous problems, like the neighbor's dog barking too loudly. Well there's a Facebook group called 'a group where we all pretend to be boomers' and it's exactly what it sounds like. Everyone in the group must stay in character at all times, making for an absolutely spot on parody of the Facebook world of boomers. We've captured some gold moments from the group to give you a taste of what it's like.
Hey there hun. Long time no see! Boy, have I got an opportunity for you. How would you like to be your own boss and join my team? It's so cheap to join! Only $500 up front. You gotta spend money to make money. No initial inventory required! You'll just need to buy the product to show to your customers. It's so easy. I work 80 hours a week for myself—beats working 40 hours a week for a boss, am I right? You're in full control of how much you sell, you just need to sell enough to be qualified for the commission. I am my own boss and I'll be as wealthy as the company's CEO in no time. Anyone can do it, and if they can't, then they don't want it enough. Only quitters lose, and only losers quit!
Sound familiar? If you've ever gotten an unsolicited DM like this from a total stranger or that one high school friend you lost touch with years ago, then you're probably familiar with multi-level marketing. Or perhaps you yourself are a recovering pyramid schemer? Hey, we all go through bouts of desperation and bad life choices, but that doesn't make cringey MLM posts and doublespeak copy-pasta any less annoying for someone on the receiving end. If you're fed up with all the scammers peddling their fake bullshit, you'll surely get a kick out of these anti-MLM memes and eye-roll worthy posts from wannabe entrepreneurs and 'bossbabes.'
Mark Zuckerberg is hovergliding face-first into the memes with his latest Fourth of July social media stunt.
In a video Zuckerberg posted to Facebook on Sunday, the tech billionaire hydrofoils over a lake at dusk while wielding a giant American flag, looking like a totally normal and relatable human. The clip is set to John Denver's 'Take Me Home, Country Roads,' a detail that pushes the video out of the realm of sincerity and straight into meme territory.
It's totally possible that Zuckerberg and his public relations minions were genuinely attempting to make the Facebook CEO seem badass, patriotic or human, but this isn't Zuck's first time getting roasted for his expensive water sports hobbies. If anything, the viral 'sunscreen face' incident probably taught Zuck that the memes are…inevitable. Perhaps this was Zuckerberg's way of embracing his fate as a meme. In any case, nothing stops the internet from taking the opportunity to roast a tech billionaire. Keep scrolling for some of the spiciest roasts and meme reactions to Zuck's weird Fourth of July post.
Oh, cats... they have some of the strangest habits we have ever seen in an animal. From cats' strange fascination with fresh laundry, having to put their booties on our warm clothes right after they come out of the dryer, to cats' eternally weird obsession with human food, having to put their paws in it even when they know it's food that they won't like. And now, we're gonna talk about cats and their ridiculously pompous water drinking habits.
Some cats will be normal about it, and then there are the ones that will have a whole ritualistic dance around their water bowl before drinking. It's hard to get cats to be interested in their water sometimes, and there are creative ways that you can get your cats do drink, but to be honest, we think some of them are just being jerks on purpose and enjoying having us run around and serve them.
Ever look around and get the sense that we're living in some sort of techno-dystopia? We get it—sometimes it's cool to have lights that you can dim from your phone or a watch that tells you how many calories you burned, but maybe the 'Internet of Things' has gone too damn far. Once you start connecting every single object in your home to the internet, you become pretty vulnerable when, say, Google is suddenly down, or your WiFi router malfunctions. Sometimes a doorbell should just be a doorbell and a toothbrush certainly shouldn't require regular firmware updates. And who the hell actually wants an Amazon surveillance robot literally flying around their house 24/7?
Anyway, we've got a bunch of examples of bad 'smart devices' from Twitter that might make you reconsider that bluetooth coffee mug purchase.
We've got a lot of respect for creative types who are good at reusing materials and upcycling old junk into cute planters for the local community garden or whatever, but some people take their DIY projects way too far. Objects made out of old dreadlocks need not exist in the world. And please, for the love of God, no more carpeted bathrooms. We've got a handful of cursed images and cringey examples of people who took their DIY experiments a bit too far and left us thinking, 'DI-why though?'
Since the creation of the internet, people have been trying to get away with selling all sorts of BS. From fake news to blatant scams, people will try just about anything. But sometimes, these tricksters will try pawning their blatant lies on people they don't anticipate will see right through their game, and when they get caught out, it's comedy gold. These masterminds of fiction tried fooling the world but got called out straight away. It's incredible how far people will go for attention.
Most of us are guilty of getting wooshed by obvious satire at some point in our lives, but some unfortunate souls out there post their indignant reactions to satirical headlines a little too hastily and end up on a subreddit called r/AteTheOnion, where stupidity is immortalized. We've got a bunch of facepalm-worthy examples of gullible schmos falling for satire so that you can feel better about all the times you felt like a fool.
