According to many people, we live in a boring dystopia. Rising waters, artificial intelligence replacing hiring managers and aliens possibly being real: there are some weird and bad things happening in the world, but somehow stuff continues as if it's all… normal? The tide of weekday and weekend ebbs and flows, the doors of businesses open and close. In the middle of it all, we're just trying to grill.

Memes can be a way of dealing with these hard times, sharing troubles and trying to dream up solutions. They can also be a way of finding the humor and even the grace we can give to ourselves amid the uncanny and bizarre happenings on this planet.

On the subreddit /r/aboringdystopia, posters share images that prove things are getting stranger before they get better. Whether it's in the horror of consumption or the chaos of the doomscroll, these posts capture the way technology and profit have seeped into every part of our lives.