The creator of the ‘The Queen Of Sarcasm L’ Instagram account, Lide, told Bored Panda that it was her sister who came up with the name for it. “She gave me the name because it suits me, as I am sarcastic; not in a bad way, though, just in a funny way,” she shared.
“I decided that it would be a good thing to make other people laugh and smile,” Lide said, revealing that she started by creating a Facebook page (which, sadly, no longer exists) before moving on to Instagram.
Lide shared that the thing she loves most about managing the account is the response she receives from the online community. “I really like when people leave interesting and funny comments, when they get my humor or agree with my views, when they say that my memes make them laugh or make their day better. In fact, that is the best part of it all—getting to make people’s day better.”
According to Lide, one of the ways netizens benefit from ‘The Queen Of Sarcasm L’ and similar accounts is boosting their mood, which they are then quite inclined to do to those in their circle. “People are always tagging friends and family—siblings, for instance—on memes that show things that they have in common or do together.”
The creator of the page added that they often use social media to share suggestions about films or music, for instance, or describe personal experiences, which tends to encourage them to engage in online content more.
When it comes to engaging in online content, Lide is right—people do seem to be inclined to viewing or sharing memes and personal experiences; but more than that, they enjoy capturing and showing their time spent traveling. According to Statista, that’s what the majority of Gen Z and millennial internet users in the US seem to share the most on the net.
Such content is followed closely by memes created by someone else, events the netizens are attending, photos of themselves or the brands and products they like, and memes that they have created themselves respectively.
The prevalence of memes is evident by looking at the numbers of how many are shared on a regular basis. YPulse reported that, according to their social media behavior study, as many as three-in-four people aged 13-36 shared memes; more than half of them seemingly did every week, while nearly a third—every day.
As for the younger generation, YPulse suggested that more than 40% of teenagers from 13 to 17 years of age followed meme accounts online, while the number of 18-20 year olds who did reached 56%.
One of the likely reasons for how widespread memes are is the fact that they’re always changing shape and form, which allows them to remain relevant over time and adjust to current events and trends.
One study of internet memes emphasized that, “In meme culture, flow takes primacy over origin, as the creator of an object and even the conditions in which it was made often remain unknown to the legions of users who remix it and pass it on.”
It’s no surprise that here at Bored Panda, we have quite a collection of all sorts of memes; as a matter of fact, there’s an entire category dedicated to them and them only. So once you’re through with this list, feel free to continue to browse our endless supply of various memes and enjoy a session of hearty giggling.