Like everyone on the internet, I like to look at memes. However, there is a line on when they turn from "funny" to "offensive." Recently, "triggered" memes have been popping up all over Twitter and Facebook, making fun of things that can get a negative reaction from certain groups of people, which ends up being mostly millennials.

While most people find these memes funny, I know a lot of people with mental health issues (myself included), who don't find them funny at all. In a society that doesn't take mental health seriously, these memes keep reinforcing the harmful stereotypes that are already present. The origin behind the word "triggered" was so that people can describe something that can hurt them emotionally, that makes them think of traumatic events.

Trigger, or content warnings, provide a disclaimer to the reader on social media, so they can determine if it's something they want to see/read. To find out that people are making fun of things that make people upset, is upsetting. I don't want other people to continue thinking that mental illnesses are something to be taken lightly. Seeing that on the internet just makes others who really do have triggers and mental illnesses close up to people. If we can't be taken seriously, then who can we really depend on?

Let's not make fun of something very serious to get entertainment.