Getting together with your family during the holidays can be extremely stressful. There’s travel to worry about and food to make, but most crucially, there’s the pressure and desire for everybody to get along. Some of us come from bloodlines that get into screaming matches over store-bought pumpkin pie. Others might be the product of a passive-aggressive lineage where your aunt implies a lot of shady stuff about you while watching the Macys Thanksgiving Day Parade. 

There is one thing that can bring even the most diametrically opposed family members together: laughter. John Waters once said that making someone laugh is the only way to get those who are vehemently against you on your side. If you and your family can laugh over some hilarious memes this holiday season, there’s no telling what could be in store. Extending the olive branch of memes to one cousin might change your whole Thanksgiving for the better.