--- title: Women Laughing Alone With Tablets: New Stock Image Meme description: Behold: the latest inexplicable stock image phenomenon canonical: https://time.com/3624276/women-laughing-alone-with-salad-tablets/ author: Samantha Grossman article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2014-12-08T22:05:41.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-05-11T04:48:16.491Z og:title: Women Laughing Alone With Tablets: New Stock Image Meme og:description: Behold: the latest inexplicable stock image phenomenon og:url: https://time.com/3624276/women-laughing-alone-with-salad-tablets/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Women Laughing Alone With Tablets: New Stock Image Meme twitter:description: Behold: the latest inexplicable stock image phenomenon twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # 'Women Laughing Alone With Tablets' Is the New 'Women Laughing Alone With Salad' by [Samantha Grossman](https://time.com/author/samantha-grossman/) ## Samantha Grossman Dec 8, 2014 10:05 PM UTC by [Samantha Grossman](https://time.com/author/samantha-grossman/) ## Samantha Grossman Dec 8, 2014 10:05 PM UTC A few years ago, we were introduced to [Women Laughing Alone With Salad](http://thehairpin.com/2011/01/women-laughing-alone-with-salad): a gallery (and then meme) that pointed out the weirdly high number of stock images of, well, women laughing alone with salad. Well, as _On the Media_ [has noticed](http://www.onthemedia.org/story/women-laughing-alone-tablets/), there’s a new trend that could soon take over the Internet. Women are still laughing, and they’re still alone, but this time, they get to hold tablets instead of salad bowls. Progress? No seriously though, there are a _lot_ of stock images of women laughing alone with tablets. Behold:  Young woman in kitchen laughing at digital tablet Getty Images  Young woman with coffee using digital tablet Getty Images  Mixed race woman using tablet computer Getty Images  Senior woman using digital tablet on sofa Getty Images  Businesswoman using digital tablet in office Getty Images It’s actually pretty fun to imagine that these women are using their tablets to look at (and laugh at) stock images of women laughing alone with tablets. Meta. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3624276/women-laughing-alone-with-salad-tablets/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3624276/women-laughing-alone-with-salad-tablets/"},"headline":"'Women Laughing Alone With Tablets' Is the New 'Women Laughing Alone With Salad'","datePublished":"2014-12-08T22:05:41.000Z","dateModified":"2026-05-11T04:48:16.491Z","description":"Behold: the latest inexplicable stock image phenomenon","url":"https://time.com/3624276/women-laughing-alone-with-salad-tablets/","keywords":["Newsfeed","women","Internet","Tablets"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Samantha Grossman","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/samantha-grossman/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3624276/women-laughing-alone-with-salad-tablets/","name":"'Women Laughing Alone With Tablets' Is the New 'Women Laughing Alone With Salad'"}}]}] ```