With great knowledge comes a well-defined sense of dark humor. Once we know too much about the world, life, and humanity, it’s tough not to let pessimism take over, which is why geniuses with a fully formed cerebral cortex resort to dark humor. As the ultimate shield in this grim-infested world we live in, dark humor protects its wielders with great fervor, keeping us safe from whatever may harm us out there. 

Climate change? Laugh it off. Crazy people at 7-Eleven? Make a joke about it. Untold horrors of the human experience? Keep clowning. For those of us cynics who will happily use our dark humor to laugh away our problems, no atrocity can penetrate the wall of protection we’ve built around our psyche. With dark humor, we are safe. With dark humor, we are infallible. And with this upcoming list of dark humor memes, we are impenetrable. Scroll onward to consume a batch of snarky, sarcastic hilarity that will undoubtedly feed the beast within.