Memes were kind of funny at first, but now they have begun to drive me insane.

I want you to imagine a scenario in the past few years where a meme didn’t come up at least three times a day.

Now, I’m not going to sit here and say memes are a crisis that must be addressed and stopped, but it is annoying that I can’t go a day without having to hear someone think they are so clever by spewing something that somebody else made on the internet.

The worst part is some are genuinely humorous until they are run into the ground by being continuously repeated. The ironic Harambe stuff was funny for like two days. Then it got to the point where I couldn’t even read an article about the political situation in Eastern Europe without that stupid dead gorilla being shoehorned in some way. There was nothing I could do to escape the giant rotting monkey on the internet’s back.

Memes have gotten to the point now that if I see even two images with the same joke in a day, I can tell that this will be annoying me for at least a week.

Many will say “well why don’t you just not look at memes?” Well as I have said before, I literally can’t help it. I have been to very serious websites where the things will show up.

Remember Pepe the Frog? Of course you do, because for whatever reason news media decided to pick up on an image that some mouth breathing internet Nazis co-opted for their use. If a time traveller ever wanted a short summary of the 2016 election, I will simply point at a picture of that frog and scream maniacally.

Memes particularly affect the student body at ESU because they are very popular among people our age. I will often hear them uttered while walking across campus.

I implore you, ESU, please take the time to come up with something original to say as a joke. My fragile little mind might not be able to take one more dead gorilla.