50 Funny Pics To Prove That The Best Way To Learn History Is Through Memes
July 7, 2021
Our avid readers will know how much we love memes here at Bored Panda, from science memes, viral 2020 memes, and very literal memes to more specific memes like jokes and memes for women to relate to and car memes to laugh at while you’re stuck in traffic. Because memes are the unofficial language of the internet and if you haven’t been off to the moon lately, you’ll surely know how to speak a word or two.
So this time, we have a special treat for your inner nerd or anyone who missed that once-in-a-lifetime chance to make their history teacher proud. Yep, we’re talking dates, events, and contexts that happened either far back or quite recently in the past.
Welcome to the history memes fueled by the r/HistoryMemes subreddit, where a whopping 2.7M members and self-confessed history experts crack jokes about the old days. Scroll down and upvote your favorites!
#1 I See What U Did There
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#2 Selective Breeding
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#3 A Joke Book From 1940
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Internet memes have been a widely used visual form of online rhetoric since the early 2000s. Today they have become a prominent method of communication across the internet, but as a research subject, they’re still not very well-examined.
With 20 years of communicating in memes, we still don’t know their exact implications, says Rebecca Ortiz, an assistant professor of advertising at the Newhouse School. “Research on internet meme effects is still in its infancy. But we can look to past media effects research to hypothesize how people may be influenced by them.”
#4 But At Least They Have The Cool Building With All The Flags In It
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#5 Professionals Have Standards
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#6 History Repeats Itself
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We should never underestimate the power that social media and the content that’s surfing there has on our beliefs, identities, and culture. “The most shareable content on social media will reach the most people and potentially have the greatest effect,” she said.
Think of memes as bits of humor that capture shared cultural meanings and speak to some of the largest audience on our planet. “[They] are some of the most shareable pieces of content on social media and therefore they deserve scrutiny and better understanding as to how they may influence us,” Ortiz explained.
In that sense, understanding a meme is a way to bond with people and feel a strong sense of community. We as humans are wired to do so, so memes are the perfect gateway to that.
#7 Not The Tea
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#8 Scientifically Proven
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#9 So Much Spice!
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#10 If You Don’t Believe Me Look At China Right Now
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#11 They Here Cause You Dragged Them Her
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#12 Black Panther Flashbacks
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#13 Ah, Good Times
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#14 Enslaving People Because Of Color Skin? Absolutely Barbaric!
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#15 I Dont Think You Want
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#16 Just Make Up Your Mind!
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#17 A Toast To The Irish
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#18 UK Is Like Belgium
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#19 What A Nice Little White Girl
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#20 Life’s A Witch
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#21 A Rare Glimpse Of A History Meme In The Wild
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#22 Oh Well Its Not Like We Can Do Anything About That
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#23 *laughs In Nazi Gold*
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#24 This Country Is Gonna Be Lit!
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#25 Literally Grave Robbers
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#26 Also Forgot To Mention Hera Was His Sister…still A Classic Though
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#27 Ratatouille’s Revenge
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#28 The Madlad
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#29 I’m So Lucky
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#30 “George, I’ve Just Noticed Something…”
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#31 Belgian History 101
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#32 It’s Not Even Close Really
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#33 The Grand Tour Has A Lot Of Meme Potential
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#34 This Is In The Book I’m Reading
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#35 God Is An Englishman
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#36 One Of Our Fellow Scholars
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#37 Guten Tag, Polen
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#38 Coincidence? I Think Not
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#39 So True
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#40 Oh No
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#41 Not Sure If This Has Been Done Before
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#42 All Road Lead To Rome
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#43 Quick Fake China Is Asleep! Up-Vote Flag Of Real China
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#44 Sparta, This Is
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#45 Faked Their Deaths
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#46 Manifest Destiny Be Like
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#47 Yeah, Someone Definitely Used A Ruler To Draw Some Of These Borders
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#48 Not Cool Andrew Jackson
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#49 We See Through Your Disguise, Himmler
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#50 Are We The Baddies?
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