These tired memes are for anyone running on fumes, spite, and a single cold cup of coffee you keep forgetting exists. If burnout feels less like a phase and more like your default setting, welcome—this is your break room. We’ve got work memes, burnout memes, and relatable memes for the kind of exhaustion that lives in your bones and pays rent.
There are two kinds of tired: the “I need a nap” tired, and the “I need to move to a coastal village under a fake name” tired. This set is aggressively the second one. It’s the vibe where someone asks, “Are you okay?” and your brain starts drafting a witness-protection plan. Short-term goal: survive the week. Long-term goal: never open your inbox again.
A lot of these tired memes are basically financial horoscopes. You look stable from a distance, like a well-lit restaurant. Up close, it’s a folding table and a prayer. The savings account shuffle. The “my first mistake was not being born rich” realism. The quiet terror of realizing money is just teleporting between accounts like it’s trying to escape you. Relatable memes shouldn’t be this accurate, and yet here we are, feeling personally observed.
And then, of course, work memes: the great equalizer where 110% effort and bare-minimum energy somehow land on the same paycheck. That little fact alone could power an entire economy of burnout memes. Add one message from an unemployed friend at 2:13 p.m. and suddenly you’re staring out the window like a character in a prison drama. Inspirational quotes cannot save you now.
But the real hero here is bed. Bed doesn’t ask follow-up questions. Bed doesn’t assign action items. Bed doesn’t say “circle back.” Bed is the closest thing we have to luxury.
If you want to keep spiraling in style after these tired memes, go next to 35 Work Memes For People Who Hate Email, 40 Money Memes For The Financially Confused, and 29 Insomnia Memes For When Rest Is A Myth.
I’m Laura Bennett, and I’d like to file a formal complaint against the entire week, not just Monday.
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Laura Bennett has spent eight years immersed in internet culture, specializing in deep dives into meme origins, evolving meme trends, and digital subcultures. As a contributor for several prominent online platforms, including BuzzFeed’s meme division and Know Your Meme, she’s written extensively about viral moments from Crying Jordan to Woman Yelling at a Cat. Laura believes memes aren't just internet jokes—they're modern-day folklore. She brings that passion to Thunder Dungeon by keeping readers connected to what's culturally significant, hilarious, and timelessly viral.
