In the digital world, internet memes have become a common way of processing fear and tragedy through humor. A political controversy, natural disaster, celebrity scandal, or some internet phenomenon can easily lead to the quick birth, proliferation and spread of internet memes as a digital public response mechanism. Internet memes not only encourage creativity with online viral content or an emerging social crisis, but they also allow us to process current issues, events and people. They mirror real-life behaviors, experiences and stances in uniquely humorous ways and in various digital forms such as videos, parodies, image macros, and remixes. They also allow people to connect with each other and create a sense of community and levity.
Bored Panda collected some of the very best jokes about coronavirus to put a smile on your face and help you feel better in these dark times. Upvote your favorites of these hilarious photos and when you're done enjoying this list of fresh new memes, check out part 1 of our collection right here. We also reached out to Mind, a UK mental health charity, so read on about their advice about staying mentally fit during prolonged episodes of staying at home. Since the beginning of the outbreak in China, it wasn't just the novel coronavirus that began to spread around the world. There has been a massive outpouring of jokes, puns, Tweets, TikTok videos and memes about it that have been spreading online on various social media platforms. COVID-19 is a global health crisis and it is therefore important to investigate the social and cultural artifacts of this pandemic and the new ways of interacting in the form of internet memes.
According to the Global Web Index report, 87% of US and 80% of UK consumers say they consume more content since the outbreak. Humor content is found especially important for younger generations and, in fact, more than 50% of Gen Z are looking at memes online and 52% are watching YouTube and TikTok videos. It's tough to stay positive when coronavirus deaths top 12,000 globally and entire nations go on lockdown. But no matter how hard it gets, there's always a cold weapon known as a sense of humor. And some people aren't missing a chance to spice up the hard times with funny jokes, memes, and deadly funny quips.
One thing the current COVID-19 crisis shows us is that humor and creativity in online communication appears to be a helpful resource for people in coping with the psychological impacts of this pandemic. Along with COVID-19, a lot of new vocabulary and terminology entered into our daily use of language. Stephen J. Mexal, professor of English at California State Fullerton, argues that people can learn obscure and scientific terminology very quickly in times of crisis. Indeed, we are now quite familiar with expressions such as "flattening the curve" and social distancing and can distinguish between an epidemic and a pandemic. While being in lockdown and quarantine, people are trying to make sense of what is going on and develop a social reaction to a fatal pandemic in the digital age. The threat of coronavirus is weighing on every one of us.
And some people aren't missing a chance to spice up the hard times with killer jokes, viral memes, and deadly funny quips. The language used in internet memes interests me particularly at a time when people are enjoying these digital items to alleviate their stress and anxiety. Given that internet memes have revolutionized the way we use language and communicate online, it is worth looking into the language of disaster humor we engage in during the current crisis. The pandemic has taken over the world and while health professionals and government authorities are working tirelessly to keep people as safe as possible, they are doing their best to make a difference as well. Washing their hands, social distancing, and creating jokes about the situation online, of course.
It's one of the most popular coping mechanisms, helping everyone to handle their pandemic-related fears and anxieties. "The more we laugh at something, the less scary it looks,"one board game developer has said. That's why Bored Panda brings you the newest edition of coronavirus jokes that people are sharing online. Upvote your favorite corona jokes, let us know which ones you liked the most and why, and make sure to check out our latest lists here, here, as well as here.
So how do we connect with other human beings and spend all of that extra free time we've been given? That's right, people have flooded the Internet to sum up how this pandemic has changed our everyday lives, and it proves that we maintain our sense of humor no matter what. From changing your hygiene habits to fighting over toilet paper at the supermarket, scroll down to check everything out.
What really makes us laugh when we see an internet meme? Memetic humor is largely predicated on creative multimodality, meaning that it involves the combination of creative texts, images, hyperlinks and other visual features. In this post I will be focusing on three linguistic elements of humor in internet memes. These are intertextuality, wordplay, and incongruity. Since its outbreak in late 2019, the COVID-19 pandemic has become a global health crisis of unprecedented magnitude in a matter of a few months and claimed thousands of lives.
The pandemic forced billions of people around the world to stay home in quarantines and lockdowns and quickly adapt to sudden changes in living and working conditions. One thing that came as no surprise at a time of "physical" isolation caused by a real-world yet invisible virus is the vast amounts of media people are consuming these days. This excessive media consumption also shows how connected people are online as they cope with the psychological impacts of COVID-19. The term meme is rooted in evolutionary biology, coined by Richard Dawkins in his famous 1976 book The Selfish Gene. Meme comes from the Greek mimema, meaning "imitated'" which Dawkins is believed to have shortened to rhyme with gene. Memes indeed resemble genes, and the transmission of cultural units is like the transmission of genes.
Just as there are good genes, there are also bad or infectious genes. The positive genes are the good ideas that spread from one mind to another and lead to cultural evolution. The bad genes are the bad ideas or mind viruses that are infectious and cause destructive mutation in society. During the transmission process, memes undergo changes by means of copying and imitation. Traditional examples of cultural memes are bird songs, rumors, catchphrases, stories, fashion, etc. The cultural units or memes of a society reflect deep social and cultural structures and can reveal the hidden or implicit ideologies rooted within.
Staying mentally fit also means reducing the amount of time you spend scrolling through social media. After all, nearly everyone's writing and posting about the coronavirus at the moment. The good news is that sites like Twitter offer you the ability to mute certain keywords, to follow or mute accounts that might be making you anxious.
So use those tools to filter your social media feed and go for wholesome news stories. Yes, the coronavirus pandemic continues to spread across the world and we all feel like we're in danger. Yes, the number of infected has surpassed 197k globally. But some people see the silver lining even in this situation and come up with truly funny jokes about the coronavirus.
If you have more of a twisted sense of humor, these dark jokes are for you. The 2019–20 coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak was eventually declared to be a worldwide pandemic. Here are some associated quotes, jokes, riddles, puns, pickup lines, memes, portmanteaus, acronyms, anagrams and terms (letters A-G). See also Part 2 (quotations, H-N), Part 3 (quotations, O-S), Part 4 (quotations, T-Z) and Part 5 . Please share your results with others because this website is censored by Google.
Coronavirus is a sore subject of recent weeks, about which people jokes every day. In the era of global cataclysms, people are saved by humor. Users of social networks never cease to amuse and amaze with their resourcefulness and humorous talent. Experience shows that laughter is one of the most effective ways to relieve stress and discomfort caused by quarantine and the state of emergency.
"I think one of the things jokes do is help distance people from the awfulness," Lyons said. "It helps you not feel the fear that you might get sick, by turning it into a joke. Which makes it, at least in fantasy, less serious. It protects you from feeling bad about it." The majority of [Crafty Panda's] content is shared on social media. The only way we can mitigate risks is to use multiple platforms.
There have been instances when an algorithm changed on one social media platform, which resulted in a drop of views. Therefore, we feel quite safe because we upload content onto multiple platforms. Eat well, drink plenty of water, exercise regularly.
Read a good book, maybe practice meditating as well. If anything, this crisis is the perfect opportunity to reexamine your priorities (and maybe even start a new hobby!). Above all, remember to laugh and smile a lot.
Having a good sense of humor is going to help immensely in the months to come. Ilona is a photo editor at Bored Panda with an MA in Communication Of Creative Society. Before Bored Panda, she worked as a social media manager and freelance graphic designer.
When she is not photoshopping or searching for the most interesting photos for stories, she is usually watching good movies and says that The Godfather is the best. Humor is a useful tool in helping to cope with cabin fever during a lockdown. Jokes, memes, and funny one-liners engage people remotely and create a sense of social belonging. "Developing a sense of humor about life's challenges is a great place to start," Scott said. "There are plenty of great coronavirus memes and plenty of bad ones. I think when it comes to a situation like that, one that affects everyone on a global scale, it's kind of fair game.
Of course, there's a line, I think, when you start mocking other people's experiences with the virus," he explained. Just like many of us, Ariane limits the amount of time she spends absorbing corona-related news nowadays. "I get my news in bite-sized chunks from Twitter. I read the news articles they recommend but I never watch the television news as I find that a lot more emotive and distressing than written news," she said. It's good for our emotional health to limit how much time we spend thinking about the coronavirus each day. Liucija Adomaite is a creative mind with years of experience in copywriting.
She has a dynamic set of experiences from advertising, academia, and journalism. This time, she has set out on a journey to investigate the ways in which we communicate ideas on a large scale. Her current mission is to find a magic formula for how to make ideas, news, and other such things spread like a virus. Internet memes are also an ideal medium to express and hear multiple voices, identities and opinions of ordinary people. The kind of creativity we observe in internet memes also has important implications for the new ways we use language and subconsciously exploit various linguistic strategies to create humor.
Internet memes frequently involve unexpected combinations of two or more elements, known as incongruity. Such juxtapositions significantly contribute to a meme's success. In Example 10 below, a marine biologist working from home is featured.
There are several opposing elements being creatively juxtaposed here which results in humor. One element is the context opposition – a marine biologist working in the ocean vs in a bathtub. The incongruity is intensified in the image due to the marine biologist wearing diving equipment.
The textual part of the meme highlights and ridicules working from home due to the social isolation requirements as that would be impossible for a marine biologist. Therefore, it is not surprising that an infectious disease outbreak that quickly turned into a global pandemic has led to various forms of digital artifacts in the form of internet memes. Even though internet memes are relatively a new genre in digital discourse, the concept of memes existed long before the digital era. Kilroy was here Even before the digital era, fictionalizing chaos and disasters and satirizing tragedies were common in traditional mainstream media. While all of this is scary, poking fun at certain aspects of the pandemic through memetic creativity and humor can provide some levity and alleviate anxiety during this troublesome time.
Jokes and laughter have long been known to have therapeutic value. Research has shown that laughter stimulates the immune system and there are known benefits of humor in psychotherapy. In this said moments for all of us, if there is only one thing we can do to stay positive is humor. Some people are so bored that they're finding creative way to spend their downtime. From pretending to be in the tube while actually in the shower to sending a dog to buy Cheetos, Bemorepanda has collected a new list of the most popular pictures trending today.
When it comes to Bored Panda's content, we are less reliant on social media platforms because people come to our website directly, or are referred to the website from Google search. If something happened to social media, our articles would be fine, but the video content would take a bigger hit. Is there any genre of humor more satisfying than a dad joke?
They're funny because they're so corny and you're not even sure whether to laugh or grimace. Most of us are guilty of following every tiny update about the coronavirus pandemic. It leaves us mentally and emotionally drained. In times of stress and trouble, a sense of humor and some laughter go a long way to help us feel better and lift our spirits. We need humor like this to get us through dark times. I pity everybody who lacks a warped sense of humor.
I really hope that when this is over and it is safe to gather in large groups, that the schools will have some days set up so the kids can have their real graduation ceremonies and their proms. I don't even have kids, but I do feel sorry for them missing out. Unfortunately, we can't eliminate stress and anxiety from our lives. We can, however, develop skills to manage them. "A sense of humor can be an amazing line of defense when it comes to coping with stress," Elizabeth Scott, MS, who's a wellness coach specializing in stress management and quality of life, wrote in Very Well Mind. Jonas is a Bored Panda writer who previously worked as a world news journalist elsewhere.
After getting his bachelor's degree in Politics and International Relations at the University of Manchester, he returned home and graduated from Vilnius University with a master's degree in Comparative Politics. Jonas enjoys writing articles ranging from serious topics like politics and social issues to more lighthearted things like art, pop culture, and nature. In his spare time, Jonas writes books and short stories and likes to draw lighthearted illustrations. A huge fan of literature, films, philosophy, and tabletop games, he also has a special place in his heart for anything related to fantasy or science fiction. The coronavirus continues to spread and has infected more than 26 million people all over the world.
It's no laughing matter and sometimes it's tough to see the silver lining in life. But finding some humor in this thoroughly miserable state of affairs and poking fun at 2020 helps keep our spirits up. Bored Panda contacted Ariane Ling, a clinical instructor in the the Department of Psychiatry at NYU Langone Health, who told us about the toll the current crisis has on our emotional state. It turns out that harnessing a sense of humor during this time is one of the most effective strategies to cope with unpleasant feelings. Here are the funniest jokes told by 23 U.S. presidents.
