{"id":43871,"date":"2020-08-21T22:00:32","date_gmt":"2020-08-21T22:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/freshestfm.com\/the-mentally-im-here-meme-brings-solace-and-laughs-during-tough-times\/"},"modified":"2020-08-21T22:00:35","modified_gmt":"2020-08-21T22:00:35","slug":"the-mentally-im-here-meme-brings-solace-and-laughs-during-tough-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/freshestfm.com\/the-mentally-im-here-meme-brings-solace-and-laughs-during-tough-times\/","title":{"rendered":"The ‘Mentally I’m Here’ Meme Brings Solace and Laughs During Tough Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>There’s no doubt 2020 has taken\u00a0a heavy toll on our collective mental health.<\/p>\n<p>Between the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/complex.com\/tag\/coronavirus\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">ongoing health crisis<\/a>, the worldwide fight for\u00a0racial justice, and highly contentious presidential race, it’s no wonder why many of us are yearning to just get away so that we may\u00a0wring\u00a0all the stress and anxiety out from our brains. Unfortunately, the pandemic has made it even more difficult to simply pack a bag and disappear for a few days; so, people have had no choice but to resort\u00a0to mental escapes.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Over the past couple of weeks, social media users have been flooding timelines with the “Mentally I’m Here” <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/complex.com\/tag\/memes\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">meme<\/a>, which amusingly illustrates the desire to leave reality behind.<\/p>\n<p>The concept is pretty simple: Social media users share a picture of a place and\/or activity that either brings them peace or distracts them from the current shit storm we’re living in. The majority of these posts are pop culture references that use recognizable stills from TV shows and film.\u00a0The Kingdom of Far Far Away seen in <em>Shrek<\/em>, the kitchen in <em>Ratatouille<\/em>,\u00a0Hogwarts Castle in <em>Harry Potter<\/em>, and an apartment unit from <em>Friends<\/em> are among the meme references.<\/p>\n<p>If you’re looking for a distraction or a laugh,\u00a0check out some of the posts below.<\/p>\n<section class=\"suitcase-ad\"\/>\n<section class=\"suitcase-ad\"\/>\n<section class=\"suitcase-ad\"\/>\n<section class=\"suitcase-ad\"\/>\n<section class=\"suitcase-ad\"\/>\n<section class=\"suitcase-ad\"\/>\n<section class=\"suitcase-ad\"\/><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.complex.com\/life\/2020\/08\/mentally-im-here-meme-takes-over-social-media\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a style=\"display:none\" rel=\"follow\" href=\"http:\/\/megatheme.ir\/\" title=\"\u0642\u0627\u0644\u0628 \u0648\u0631\u062f\u067e\u0631\u0633\">\u0642\u0627\u0644\u0628 \u0648\u0631\u062f\u067e\u0631\u0633<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There’s no doubt 2020 has taken\u00a0a heavy toll on our collective mental health. Between the ongoing health crisis, the worldwide fight for\u00a0racial justice, and highly contentious presidential race, it’s no wonder why many of us are yearning to just get away so that we may\u00a0wring\u00a0all the stress and anxiety out from our brains. Unfortunately, the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":43872,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6825,448,449,5,604,7,8,301,93],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43871","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-6825","category-dfp-notadsafe","category-dfp-notadsafe-noads","category-featured","category-memes","category-music","category-news","category-social-media","category-tier-one"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/freshestfm.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43871","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/freshestfm.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/freshestfm.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freshestfm.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freshestfm.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43871"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/freshestfm.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43871\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43873,"href":"https:\/\/freshestfm.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43871\/revisions\/43873"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freshestfm.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43872"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/freshestfm.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freshestfm.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freshestfm.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}