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Gags & Memes
Soundboards, meme archives, internet humour that survived a decade of reposting. Open in a tab you can close quickly.
15 sites
The meme feed that reposts everything eventually, sorted into channels so you can choose your particular poison.
- 1 hr+
Two decades of other people's terrible family portraits, submitted willingly and captioned by the people in them.
- 10 min
Endless listicles of art, design mishaps and comment-section drama, engineered to eat a lunch break whole.
- 1 hr+
The 2001 humour portal that somehow still updates, with the same mix of clips, pictures and questionable taste.
- 10 min
- Not at work
- Sound on
Twenty-five years of accidentally poetic English on packaging and signage, photographed across East Asia.
- 10 min
The GIF search engine everything else plugs into, still the fastest route to the exact reaction you have in mind.
- <1 min
The lolcat archive that taught the internet its first grammar, still posting captioned animals two decades later.
- 10 min
Every meme template with the text boxes already in the right places, and no watermark once you find the setting.
- 2 min
One big button, one badum-tss, for punchlines that need help landing in a meeting nobody is enjoying.
- <1 min
- Sound on
The reference desk of internet culture, with sourced origins and dates for jokes you never knew had a paper trail.
- 1 hr+
The largest soundboard on the web with a search box, which makes it either a toy or a workplace hazard.
- <1 min
- Sound on
A blog of neat things — odd history, strange products, good comics — running since 2005 with no algorithm involved.
- 10 min
Retail and service workers' stories about customers, filed daily, and a bottomless argument for tipping generously.
- 1 hr+
Daily roundups of the funniest things posted elsewhere, a genre this one has been working since 2009.
- 10 min
The other GIF keyboard, with better tagging for reaction clips and a sticker library your phone already quietly uses.
- <1 min
How we picked these
Every entry in Detour is hand-sorted rather than scraped: filed under one category, given one to three moods, and placed in a time band for how quickly it pays off. The practical facts — cost, sign-up, sound, device and whether it is safe at a desk — are recorded per site and shown on every card, so you can rule things out before you click.
Gags & Memes: questions
How many sites are in Gags & Memes?
15 sites, each hand-sorted by category, mood and how long it takes to pay off.
Which of these sites are free with no sign-up?
15 of the 15 are free and need no account. None of them are paid.
Do these sites work on a phone, and are they safe for work?
15 of 15 work on a phone; the rest are desktop only. 14 are safe for work and 12 work with the sound off.