Let's travel back in time to the middle of the 2000s when the popular social media platforms were Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr, and MySpace. During that time, people barely paid attention to how amazing your caption for a picture was. Then, Instagram came around and bam. That was when it all began, the desire to upload the worthy post onto Instagram.

Before clicking the "Post" button is a tedious process. First, you look through your Camera Roll. You choose the picture that you think is "the one” and immediately send it to your friends for their approval. Then, you edit the picture. And voilà, your post has been perfected and is ready to be seen on your followers' Instagram News Feed.

Hold up though. There is a step missing after you edit the picture and that is to come up with an on-point caption. Some people will just type in emoji's to use a caption, but other people will come up with a clever, witty/punny caption to draw more attention to your picture. When in doubt, we all have that go-to friend to come up with a caption for us too.

From using hashtags to random inspirational quotes, there are a plethora of captions that are used often. Below are 20 captions you have most likely seen before. No matter how basic we try not to be, we sometimes can't help it.

1. "Throwback to..." or "TBT to..."

Even if the picture is not posted on Tuesday or Thursday, you cannot go wrong with starting off your caption with "TBT to..."

2. "So college."

3. "Views"

At this point, we are all guilty of using at least one lyric from a song sung by Drake.

4. "Turned my birthday into a lifestyle."

The iconic Drake lyric to use so followers are aware it is your birthday.

5. "Name a more iconic duo..."

How many iconic duos are there nowadays?

6. "Is it summer yet?"

When you reach a point in the semester and all you want is for summer to arrive as quickly as possible.

7. "... szn"

Tailgate szn, grad party szn, festival szn, sorority recruitment szn...You name it and it becomes a "szn."

8. "Life's a beach."

And you are just playing in the sand?

9. *Insert song lyrics here.*

When you can't think of a good caption and use song lyrics.

10. "Saturdays are for..."

The girls? The boys?

11. "Started from the bottom now we here."

A commonly-used caption to describe making it to the top of a mountain on a hike.

12. "Love you like Kanye loves Kanye."

Well, that's a whole lot of love.

13. "Low-quality picture but a high-quality person."

14. Squad goals

15. "Would rather be here/doing this than studying for finals."

When Finals Week arrives and you just want it to end already.

16. "*Insert place* isn't ready."

17. "No new friends."

Same clique with the usual suspects.

18. "Blurry like my night."

When the moments are not clear as day.

19. "Snap saw it first."

20. "Lemme tell ya something 'bout my best friend."

21. "It's been real."

The end.