16 Memes That Prove People Of The Past Are More Relatable Than They Seem

Some things never change. As time goes by, a kiss is still a kiss, a sigh is still a sigh, and paintings and memes have a lot more in common than you might think. The oldheads of yore, painters of portraits and landscapes, were like the posters of today. Classical art paintings made people laugh, think and share in new ways, just like memes do.

On the subreddit /r/trippinthroughtime, art aficionados post memes created by adding dialogue and captions to old paintings. These smirks and sighs from centuries ago are just as memorable and memeable as today's reaction images and viral trends. It might surprise you just how modern some of these pictures feel.

There's an image of the past as very proper, buttoned-up, and superstitious. But in fact, history is much stranger than that because people are much stranger than that. Humans are goofy and ghoulish in equal measure, and so are memes and art.