There are plenty of memes on the internet. It's one of its core pillars, right up there with cats. Of course, that isn't to say that all memes are necessarily good.

There are plenty of terrible memes, those with jokes so bad they could be considered dead. While you can sometimes give them the benefit of the doubt and say that the memes are ironic, sometimes you can't always get that luxury.

Reddit is a perfect example of a place where jokes go to die. It contains hundreds of perfectly fine memes that were ruined by an incredibly unnecessary caption. These are the type of memes you'll find on Facebook, reposted by an old family member of sorts.

You'd think that the internet has grown past the age of memes with unnecessary captions that add nothing to the joke, but unfortunately, it hasn't. Here are some of the worst offenders.