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No. I don't care for them either. They're lazy attempts at humor. Some are mildly amusing, but mostly they're shit. What's disturbing is that they've become a form of communication, and the grammar and syntax of kids are showing that. Memes are making them dumb.
People were snipping out pieces of newspaper and sending them to eachother in the post as jokes, as soon as newspapers became a thing. People used to have silly paintings commissioned to send to eachother too.
Memes are the DNA of the soul, friend.
No.
That is literally what it is though. The name meme was chosen because it's supposed to be the cultural equivalent of a gene.
It's literally graffiti. It's lazy, and it's lowbrow. I don't care if you don't like that.