Your brain deserves better than what the algorithms want to feed it, which is why internet users like yourself make wholesome memes. This type of content isn't the fix for every sour feeling or every dead-end doomscroll afternoon, but it does get the job done sometimes. It's nice to be reminded that dogs are always here, and that we share the planet with people who are, for all their flaws, often kind and considerate. In a culture sometimes conditioned to serve cringe, the wholesome springs up like a rose through a crack in the concrete.

On Reddit, over at /r/wholesomememes, users make and share memes that reinforce messages of positivity, tolerance and authentic care for humanity. These memes are here to converse with the better angels of our nature and the better angels of our screens. Let them grace your scroll and balm your soul, like an oasis spring in the vast digital desert.