Go ahead, enjoy your memes – they really do help ease pandemic stress

  • Written by: Jessica Myrick, Professor of Media Studies, Penn State
Go ahead, enjoy your memes – they really do help ease pandemic stressA mini break with a humorous meme can take the momentary edge off during a stressful time.JGI/Tom Grill

Zoom meeting after Zoom meeting, while trying to feed, entertain and beg-to-sleep an infant whose day care had closed, I needed a break but couldn’t really take one in April of 2020.

Enter memes. Between work, moving the laundry and taking...

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