A year and a half ago I made the decision to deactivate Instagram for the sake of my mental health. It’s actually insane how much time these apps can eat up if you’re not careful about your behavior. It’s easy to scrolling aimlessly through one’s infinite feed, and at a certain point, it becomes addictive. The devolution starts innocently enough: you plant your butt on the cold, hard toilet and start tapping on Instagram stories of users you barely know, or scrolling past the boring posts from your married friends in the hopes of finding something that is actually funny. Before you know it, it’s been hours of scrolling, your ass is numb, and you’ll never get that time back. It’s gone forever. And as someone who spends 9+ hours a day on the internet – or writing about it – I didn’t think I’d feel like I was missing out. But I was wrong. I miss Instagram. I miss all the shitposts and silliness that comes alongside the baby pictures and incessant photos of other people’s meals. I guess on the internet, you have to take the good with the bad – just like in real life. Anyway. To celebrate the return of the memes (to my scrolling routine), here are some funny ones I came across recently. I hope you enjoy them, too.