Sometimes you just need a distraction. If you’re a frequenter of Cheezburger (which I hope you are) you know this feeling well. The world is full of so much muck that you’d just like to tune it out for a while. Maybe you have something on your mind that you would rather forget about. It’s easy to feel powerless over that like you have no way to drown out the voices. 

This is when you go on the hunt for something else. But it has to be a particular kind of something else or it won’t work. Forget about turning on the news, there’s nothing good in there. Forget about reading a book, it might be full of upsetting themes. And you can only pet your dog for so long before he starts to get annoyed at you. So this is when you turn to memes to heal your ailments.