‘Me at night thinking of fantasies to get myself to sleep’: Gen Z TikTokers Advocate for the Practice of ‘Shifting’, Puzzle the Rest of the Internet

The whole point of fantasy is that it seems better than reality. The main reason for this is that it isn’t real in any way, shape, or form. It wasn’t too long ago that the general consensus was that if you wanted to realize a dream, you had to put in the work for it …
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Mentally Ill Memes For Sad Boys With Unseasonal Depression

Like many of my fellow Gen Zers, I learned all about mental illness on the internet. Everything I learned about depression, anxiety, and suicidality was on Tumblr dot com during the cursed year of 2012. I should’ve known from the second I set my eyes on a Superwholockian blog that this was a platform populated …
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Depression Memes for the Mental Health Conscious

Depression is a fickle, frustrating beast. It can come at any time, in any variety, and in any severity. You could have had the best week of your life. Everything going right; work is incredible, friendships are healthy, and social life is stellar. But one day you wake up and that terrible feeling has emerged. …
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A Selection of the Worst Medical Takes Twitter Has To Offer

Social media at large is certainly not a medical forum, but its users sure like to pretend it is. In the past couple of years, there have been…situations, one might say, that have increased the amount of medical discourse that happens among non-medical professionals both on social media and in the world at large. It …
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Memes And Tweets For Aging Internet Users

If you’re one of the millions of people who were born before the ubiquity of smartphones, you might feel like you’re getting old when you go online. When I scroll through TikTok, and I see countless videos that are ⅓ Family Guy clips, ⅓ ASMR slime video, and ⅓ Subway Surfer gameplay, I wonder if …
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Bleak and Bizarre Tales From People Who Stare at Security Cameras For a Living

The idea of working security and staring at a camera for eight hours has never appealed to me. I’ve always figured I’d fall asleep on the job, or get scared being by myself. I never really thought about the horrors that people who work these jobs might see on a daily basis. A few years …
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Downer Memes For Anyone Who Feels Down in the Dumps

Life is like a game of dodgeball, but instead of rubber balls, it’s throwing neuroses, depression, existential crises and responsibilities at us. And let’s be real, we’re all getting hit left and right. Take me, for example. I’m currently juggling more responsibilities than a circus clown with a dozen balls, trying to keep it all …
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Mental Health Memes For Those Who Need a Pick-Me-Up

One of the most popular memes about the phrase «fighting demons» goes as follows; Dudes be like, «I’m fighting demons,» and the demons are bisexuality. While there is a lot of truth to that statement, dudes and gals alike are fighting all sorts of demons that extend far beyond struggling with their sexualities. Mental illness …
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Relatable Memes For People Who Can’t Afford Therapy

If you’re someone who spends so much time scrolling through memes that you forget to eat, shower, or see sunlight, you’re in good company. We here at Memebase totally get it – memes are like potato chips, you can’t just have one. You have to have them all. As anxious-depressive humor experts, we often find …
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A Sad Selection of the Worst Medical Takes Twitter Has To Offer

Social media at large is certainly not a medical forum, but its users sure like to pretend it is. In the past couple of years, there have been…situations, one might say, that have increased the amount of medical discourse that happens among non-medical professionals both on social media and in the world at large. It …
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