It’s a cruel reality that if we want a surefire way to feel hopeless, all we’ve got to do is scroll through the wrong side of social media for several minutes. There are so many people out there who appear to have nothing better to do with their lives than spread misery and hate. 

This makes it all the more necessary for us to have a palate cleanser — we’ve got to remember that some of the loudest voices on the internet don’t necessarily represent what actually goes on in life. Good stuff happens all the time, and wholesome memes endeavor to remind us of this fact. 

Whether they’re inundating us with cute animals or demonstrating the very best of relationships, they show that we exist alongside niceness that is 100% worth striving for. Failing that, we can always come back to the content to give us a boost in troubled times.