Face your fears as they come and face them head-on. Neale Donald Walsch once wrote that “what you look at disappears. What you resist persists.” Kapwing is a powerful online editor that you can use to create memes from images, GIFs, and videos online. It's one of the web's most popular meme makers and is the first meme generator to support videos. Join thousands of meme makers who use Kapwing every day. Writing Environments, Location and Localization Lab, University of Rhode Island, Kingston, RI, United States Oil change memes have taken the internet by storm, and it’s not hard to see why! These hilarious images and videos are popping up all over social media, each one poking fun at the necessary (but admittedly tedious) task of getting an oil change for your car. But what is it about this subject that has people laughing so hard? Let’s take a closer look at the humor behind this trend. No matter what type of meme format you choose for changing diapers, all parents can appreciate the humor in these silly images. They provide an outlet for stress and laughter in equal measure, making them great tools for coping with this difficult but necessary task. Conclusion

Another reason why these memes are so funny is that they often exaggerate the experience to hilarious effects. For example, you might come across a meme that shows someone attempting to change their own oil but ending up covered head to toe in grease. Or you might stumble upon an image of someone trying (and failing) to see under the hood of their car because it’s located in such an inconvenient location. These tropes play on common frustrations or quirks that many drivers face when dealing with cars – making them all too relatableWhat does a great meme look like? An iconic meme can take many forms. It could be a static photo, a video clip, or an animated GIF. No matter how it looks, a great meme often contains an amusing image or scene and humorous captions that best describe a situation or emotion people can identify themselves with.

A personal example, I keep saying I want to go to sleep by 10 pm. Every day Isay this. I am so ready for this change to happen because I have too many things going on, and I feel that waking up early would be really helpful. Taken out of a 2013 web comic strip called "On Fire," this image showing a human-like dog enjoying his coffee while his house is burning down has seemingly become more and more relatable every year. The image is rarely altered, simply attached to troubling or hard-to-grasp news.The iconic green puppet has stolen the hearts of millions on the "Muppet Show" since the 1970s, but the internet meme sensation didn't begin until 2014. Most notable memes include Kermit sipping on some tea with passive-aggressive text followed by "but that's none of my business," as well as another with a hooded Kermit formatted to show good versus evil thoughts. Along these lines, we understand the rhetorical work of image circulation, such as with environmental memes, as a form of “strategic gesture,” which Peter Bsumek and his co-authors define as “a rhetorical assemblage of movements, actions, and performances that are intended to generate effects larger than a sum of individual or particular acts in systems of power” (5, emphasis removed). They argue that, as opposed to “empty gestures,” they are “a discursive innovation that is oriented not toward deliberation, but toward articulation and mobilization of loosely networked local publics” and are a “productive mode for enabling networked publics and generating counterpublicity” (11). The circulation of environmental memes offers important participatory strategies for engaging digital publics and counterpublics in environmental communication. In a recent study, Hautea et al. (2021) discuss how TikTok videos “contribute to and reify global climate messaging” (1). Building from Papacharissi's (2015) conception of “affective publics,” they discuss memetic power as “sustained by the structures in which they are situated” (5). As such, they demonstrate how TikTok allows “non-expert users [to] visibly intervene in a discussion that generally takes place among expert-level scientists and journalists: the question of how serious a problem climate change is and what to do about it” (12). As social media continues to play a pivotal role in the changing environments through which the public communicates, memes are an increasingly important element of public advocacy and communication. In recent years, a growing number of scholars have begun to examine the important ways that memes mediate environmental discourse. Ross and Rivers (2019) argue that through “the use of common meme templates combined with the typical humorous or ironic message they convey, Internet memes represent a potentially powerful form of socio-political participation in the online community” (975). Along these same lines, one recent study suggests a connection between exposure to climate change memes and participation in online activism ( Zhang and Pinto, 2021), while one examines how memes can participate in environmental culture jamming ( Davis et al., 2015), and another suggests that “visual style” played an essential role in the 2009 Climategate controversy and in shaping public understanding of climate change ( Greenwalt and Hallsby, 2021). Visuals have also been shown to increase the efficacy of environmental messaging ( Meijers et al., 2019). Other studies suggest that memes serve an important role as “memory actants” which “influence not only the content of public memory but also the attitudes with which we remember that content” ( Silvestri, 2018). The authors declare that the research was conducted in the absence of any commercial or financial relationships that could be construed as a potential conflict of interest. Publisher's Note The "is this a pigeon?" meme first rose to popularity in 2011 after Tumblr posted a photo from a Japanese animated show of an android mistaking a butterfly for a pigeon. Most of the memes derived from the photo use the subjects to express modern confusion or paranoia. A stunning example of how far human beings have come in the last hundred years, a young girl like Lorde shows the distance we’ve come toward attaining real equality among the genders. Gradually we are moving forever toward equal rights for all people, such that it becomes as ordinary as breathing. 14. Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person View in gallery via quotesgram.com

When they blindside you on a Tuesday evening, right before you go to bed? They can be downright terrifying. Like with Godzilla, though, the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster is neither strictly “natural” nor is it strictly “human-made.” In their respective articles, “The Hidden Face of Disaster” and “Fourfold Disaster,” Oguma (2011) and Takahashi (2011) discuss how, although the earthquake and tsunami were natural phenomena, the historical complexities and contingencies behind the Tohoku and Kanto regions made the disaster much more than strictly “natural.” That is, while the meltdown was triggered by physical processes, human processes led to the reactor's placement in the path of the earthquake and tsunami. Even in the aftermath, natural and human processes intertwined as ocean currents dispersed the high levels of radiation to the various fishing communities south of Fukushima ( Takahashi, 2011). Though fisheries were only temporarily closed, perhaps more disastrous was the damage to the region's reputation due to rampant suspicions of radiation-contaminated fish ( Takahashi, 2011).

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Don’t worry if some of your initial jokes end up becoming misses rather than hits – just keep laughing “trial and error!” Ever since the show "Keeping Up with the Kardashians" first aired in 2007, people fell in love with watching the family's antics. They have all been the subject of a huge number of memes, with some of the most popular ones using screenshots from the show (usually of a meltdown or overreaction).

Because of the complex and convoluted history of visuals in American environmentalism, sharing memes and images online is sometimes dismissed as an empty or “performative” gesture ( Woods and Hahner, 2019). Yet, numerous scholars of rhetoric, communication, and new media demonstrate that image circulation plays a more complex, if not ambivalent, part in digital discourse. In Gestures of Concern, Chris Ingraham (re)defines rhetorical gestures as “efforts people make to join in public affairs in ways that feel participatory and beneficial, though their measurable impact remains imperceptible” ( Ingraham, 2020, 1). Ingraham goes beyond these relentlessly negative views to define gestures as “an expression into form of an affective relation,” and “an expressive concern that acts as both a means and as an end because their most instrumental effects are exhausted in their expressivity” (1). These rhetorical moves, he argues, contain the possibility of social transformation. In other words, these gestures offer important ways to perform and participate in social and political change in meaningful ways, even when they risk performativity. As such, gestures are a necessary part of sustaining a participatory culture and mobilizing networked publics in a digital age ( Papacharissi, 2015). A challenge to anyone who has become exploited by those who are handed the world on a platter: Stand up for yourself and stop being a slave to the few that hold you down. Whether it’s economics, social status, or simply the cruel exploiting us, we should not make our oppression easy on our oppressors. 18. Don’t let the shame of quitting keep you from respecting your needs in the moment View in gallery via onceandalwaysanathlete.com

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That’s the major cross-purpose I’m working on now, and I’m getting better because last night, I did sleep 30 minutes earlier than usual so…win!