Anytime you start wondering whether the world as you know it is currently crumbling into oblivion, look no further than online news headlines to gage the level of terrestrial decline. Whether they're trumpeting celebrity trivialities or laser-focusing on helping you catch your cat inside a tape circle (real), today's headlines are a thoroughly boner-killing sign that pop culture has become a sort of numbing agent against reality.

Anytime you start wondering whether the world as you know it is currently crumbling into oblivion, look no further than online news headlines to gage the level of terrestrial decline. Whether they're trumpeting celebrity trivialities or laser-focusing on helping you catch your cat inside a tape circle (real), today's headlines are a thoroughly boner-killing sign that pop culture has become a sort of numbing agent against reality. Here's a few that we felt did the best job of signaling society's ever-nearing implosion, because it's Wednesday and happy hour is seven hours away.

From BuzzFeed

 

From Daily Mail

 

From Gawker

 

From The Denver Post

 

From Upworthy

 

From Elite Daily

 

From BuzzFeed

 

From Huffington Post

 

From NYMag

 

From Gawker

 

From Huffington Post

 

From BuzzFeed

 

From The Denver Post

 

From Daily Mail

 

Oh my god, what? Wiggity wiggity what?

Well, regardless of how apocalyptic these headlines are, one thing's for sure: they're better than reading Fifty Shades of Grey for the 30th time in a secret attempt to memorize all the "skillz" that are in there. We'll pick reading about how fast we could eat a muffin or laughing at people's tramautized pets over that any day! Okay bye!