Speaking as someone whose whole job is to be online, I have to agree with Michelle Santiago Cortés here. We may have officially settled into “precedented times,” but the chaos just keeps coming. The many shifts, cataclysms, and changes of the last few years have plateaued into a sleepy sense of normalcy, or at least numbness. And through it all, we memed. The meme, at this point, has become our collective coping mechanism; a way to engage in the cultural conversation without the risk of sincrere-posting (cringe!). And when things are this hellish, who can blame us for wanting to keep some emotional distance? Review the Internet's most ridiculous moments of 2022, and how we reacted, at the link in bio.