It’s Funny, But It’s Sad: 77 Funny Posts That Make People Laugh And Despair At The Same Time (New Pics)

Human emotions are a funny thing; you might be feeling ecstatic one moment and become completely devastated the next. If you’ve ever related to that Pedro Pascal meme where his laughing face changes to a crying face in a second, you’re in the right place.

The Internet has been in an interesting collective state in the past few years. We know the world is in a pretty bad place, but all most of us can do is laugh and meme about it. The “Funny and Sad” community reflects this sentiment pretty well, and here we have the newest selection from them for you to feel happy, sad, and confused by.

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#1 Just Like Religion Shouldn’t Play A Factor As Well

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#2 Well Said

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#3 This Is Exactly What It Feels Like

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We might think that crying and laughter are two very different emotions. But think about it: haven’t you laughed so hard that you started feeling tears fall down your face at least once in your life? Yale University psychologist Dr. Oriana R. Aragón and her team claim that it’s the body’s way to regulate itself.

“People may be restoring emotional equilibrium with these expressions,” she explained. “They seem to take place when people are overwhelmed with strong positive emotions, and people who do this seem to recover better from those strong emotions.”

#4 The Wage Gap Has Been

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#5 The Dad Had No Reason To Be Angry – It’s The Truth

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#6 The 1% Has To Go

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But this list is hardly about crying from laughter, is it? It’s more about things that make us feel so desperate and helpless that we feel that all we can do is cry. Sometimes, we use laughter and humor to deflect so that we don’t feel as much empathy.

As psychoanalyst and author of To Heal a Wounded Heart Pilar Jennings explains, sometimes laughter is the body’s way of saying “I can’t deal with this.” If we allow ourselves to empathize with the person or the problem on a deeper level, we might open ourselves up to the same emotion. Thus, humor acts like a protective shield.

#7 Class Solidarity Now

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#8 Why This Happened Our In Country?

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#9 Democracy

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People also laugh when they’re anxious or uncomfortable. Researchers speculate that it’s how we relax in stressful situations, similar to laughter’s function when we see something funny. Margaret Clark, professor of psychology at Yale University and co-author of the study “Dimorphous Expressions of Positive Emotion”, also hypothesizes that it’s how we let other people know that we need help to down-regulate our nervousness.

#10 So Controversial

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#11 No Guys, Capitalism Works I Swear

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#12 Wtf

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The “Funny and Sad” subreddit also fits in pretty well with the type of humor millennials enjoy. When we think about the TV shows, movies, and other media that we’re consuming at the moment, it’s hard not to notice how dark and absurd some of it is. In her article for The Guardian “‘Horrifyingly absurd’: how did millennial comedy get so surreal?” Rachel Aroesti points to shows like Rick and Morty, The Good Place, and BoJack Horseman.

#13 This

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#14 Blaming Us For The World They Created

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#15 It Is A Facepalm To %1 Billionaires

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Aroesti seeks to answer the question “Why is millennial humor so weird?” and suggests that it reflects the sentiments of many young people that the world just doesn’t make sense anymore. In 2017, The Washington Post offered another reason: we’re becoming more rootless with the delay of marriage, kids, and home ownership, and disillusion with religion, so all that gets reflected in the comedy and the content online that we consume.

#16 My Type Of Woman

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#17 Lmfao

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#18 Gay

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Aroesti calls the shows she listed “sadcoms” and describes them as “a strain of comedy-drama shuddering under the weight of personal hardship and the idea that actual jokes are largely unnecessary.” This type of humor, according to her, pierces the panic-inducing online news cycle and gives us at least some reprieve from the world going to bits.

#19 Funny

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#20 Funny And Sad

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#21 People Would Really Say That

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Gen Z, in turn, amp up their attraction to dark humor by laughing at their own trauma and hardships. Much of Gen Z’s humor reflects their struggles with mental health conditions and the dystopic state of the world. Some say that Gen Z is the most honest generation yet: they call it as they see it.

#22 Makes You Think

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#23 Wanting Or Being Able To Is The Issue

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#24 This Actually Happened To You?

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One young person told the Bipolar and Depression Support Alliance that nihilism is the go-to response for this generation because they don’t see adults and politicians taking action to solve societal problems like climate change, school shootings, socioeconomic inequality, and many others.

#25 Faith, Lmfao

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#26 “F**k You, I Got Mine!”

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#27 Interesting

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Experts say that Gen Z is the generation that grew up with many stressful global incidents and the internet. This cocktail brewed an army of nihilistic, absurd humor-loving kids. Columnist Elise Sanders even likened Gen Z to the Dadaist movement, because they, too, reject the logic and restrictions of capitalist societies.

#28 Eh, They’ll Figure It Out

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#29 Broke Broken Bro-Can’t

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#30 Women Are Humans, Really?

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If you, too, have a nihilistic streak, you probably enjoyed the pics on this list. Let us know which were your favorites by upvoting the best to the very top. And if you’d like to see some more, check out our previous articles with posts from the “Funny and Sad” subreddit here, here, and here!