Laughter can truly brighten even the darkest day, but most of us hardly smile or chuckle throughout the week. This could be because of the crazy demands of work or life's stressors, which occupy so much of our minds that we forget to enjoy ourselves.

That’s why we decided to use humor to brighten your day with the help of some absurd and hilarious memes from ‘ thehomie ’ Instagram page. There’s a clear reason why this account has 3.6 million followers, and all of the photos in this list are designed to make you laugh out loud or at least snort some hot air from your nose.

Memes aren’t just little jokes to laugh at on your way to work or while scrolling in bed; they’re serious marketing tools that can propel a company’s growth through humor and social commentary. According to Pulse Advertising , a tech-enabled social intelligence company, the global meme industry grew from $2.3 billion in 2020 to $6.1 billion by 2025. 

Tongue-in-cheek marketing campaigns can help businesses get 60% more organic engagement. Companies like Duolingo also use this strategy with their green owl mascot to get people to download their app and keep up with their lessons. Even customers seem more likely to buy from brands that post casual memes, which shows the power these simple jokes and photos can hold.

Memes aren’t a modern invention ; they date back to 3 B.C., when archaeologists uncovered a mosaic from the ancient city of Antioch that showed a three-frame bathing scene. The first section shows a servant preparing a bath; the second frame shows a young man running away from the bath and being chased by an older servant who can't catch him; and the last section shows a seemingly happy skeleton of the young man sitting casually with a jug of wine. This seems to be one of the first memes in existence that teach people to live their lives happily.

According to Independent Lens , these funny pictures and drawings represent people's feelings, thoughts, and ideas. They don’t need words to convey complex concepts, since an image or moving picture can say it all.

The term "meme" was introduced in 1976 by the evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins, who described it as a cultural unit of information. He derived the word from the Greek words “mimeme” and “gene,” and said these concepts spread through imitation just like biological genes.

These hilarious pieces of information tend to act almost like a virus, getting replicated and transmitted from one person to another; from there, they can also evolve and mutate at random. Richard Dawkins’s initial explanation helped coin the term "meme," and over time we have seen many incredible ones, like the dancing baby in 1996.