15 Screenshots That Simply Had To Be Preserved For The Greater Good

Meme of boy looking like he just realized and text: "When the teacher walks up to you during an exam and looks at your paper then shouts out 'guys make sure you read the questions carefully,'" and photo of mom and Matt Damon with text "Just met this guy who says he's an actor."

The internet has changed a lot in the past few decades, but taking a screenshot of something absurd or hilarious has never been more popular.

Lots of memes get their start from the simple act of pressing a few keys or holding down some buttons and taking a snapshot of a text exchange, social media post, or website. It’s the perfect way to capture the gist of a conversation in an instant, and it’s easy to do. Luckily for us, there’s a whole subreddit devoted to sharing the funniest screenshots people have gathered from the web. Here are a few of our favorites.

1. “Oh hey, famous scientist guy. Didn’t see you there.”

2. Sounds like a likely story, if you ask us.

3. Some of these screenshots hit us right in the feels. Oof.

4. That answer may be dark, but… he’s not wrong!

5. Some internet romances are not all they’re quacked up to be.

6. “I’ve made a terrible mistake.”

7. Ask and you shall receive!

8. Looks like someone opens doors a tad too enthusiastically!

9. Why didn’t we ever think to just ask?

10. They’re the real MVPs!

11. Each social media site is its own special brand of cray-cray, but Reddit takes the cake!

12. He got us on a technicality.

13. We think we would remember that, so… no?

14. But wait, isn’t a globe… round?

15. Welcome to every online argument ever.

You never know when or where you’ll be when you spot something that simply must be shared. Have those fingers ready to screenshot and keep the fun going!

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