
It’s out of envy for the reality they get to know. It’s not out of envy for their ignorance. We look longingly at puppies captioned with “head empty” or monkeys making nonsense sounds at each other.

Only in a year like 2020 would it be completely legitimate to ask a friend to iron your brain.
#CHICKEN THOUGHTS FULL#
The mentality, she says, is "acknowledging that you need your cup full to keep fighting." For those who spend a lot of time involved in activism, says Tumblr's resident meme archivist Amanda Brennan, "no thoughts head empty" can be a form of release and self-care during a stressful period. On Tumblr, where the stereotypical user is fiercely passionate about social issues, people are still frequently sharing memes about not thinking. “If someone takes it as ‘I’m going to pull away and disconnect and not think through important issues,’ that’s someone who has the luxury to do so.” Beer lends an awesome funky flavor (the darker the beer, the better), while buttermilk tenderizes the chicken. beer or buttermilk, used for a quick BBQ chicken marinade.

“It’s some people saying, ‘Wouldn’t this be great? Too bad it’s not real,’” says Milner. Personally, I have a thing for chicken thighs I think they’re the tastiest, most flavorful & juicy part of the chicken. It’s somewhere between idle escapism and gallows humor. “No thoughts head empty” isn’t a worldview. Across the web, on Twitter, TikTok, Reddit, or Tumblr, commenters complain they are fed up with living through history, that they would please like to opt out.īut the real smooth-brained move is to take memes at face value.

It was a lot-more than any one person could process, let alone explain. ago I can't thank you enough for your heartfelt messages - your compassion and stories have made the past 24 hours so much more bearable for me. It’s an aspirational peace of mind, like when a kid plugs their ears mid-lecture to say, “ la la la, I can’t hear you,” but really, they still can they’re just making a statement about what they want.īy June of this year, the jab-jab-uppercut of high-level happenings had stupefied many of the folks perennially jacked in to feeds: the Australian wildfires, the pandemic, police brutality, the economy’s collapse, hell, the murder hornets. Tasked with processing so much news, so quickly, on such a high level, the Very Online in our midst-the ones who medicate Twitter vertigo by scrolling TikTok, who blunt the influx of heinous headlines with happy Instagram chemicals-are memeing about not processing anything at all.
