the simpsons

The Simpsons is always on point for parodying American culture, but sometimes the show actually predicts it:

In this day and age, you'd be hard pressed to find someone on the street who has no interest at all in video games. Everyone has the potential to be a type of gamer in a sense. Sure, not everyone knows the heartbreak of a mid 2000s COD Xbox live lobby or the disappointment of almost any water level, but gaming is a thing near and dear to many of us. Here's a kid who's stepmom sold his PS4 so he rented out her house.

We know some of you might be trying to avoid talking about politics for the next four years, but we're of the mind that you really ust have to laugh about it all. And what better way to laugh at our pain than with memes? These Simpsons memes are an amalgam of television we love and the absolute hell of this year's election. If we can't take pleasure in these, what do we have left?

With just a pencil and some paper, 15-year-old João A. Carvalho can create cool, 3D effects that make his drawings pop out of the page through a combination of line manipulation and shading.

Here is some of his amazing work, and you can view more on his Facebook page.