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A meme is just "A unit of cultural information, such as a cultural practice or idea, that is transmitted verbally or by repeated action from one mind to another."
Anything can be a meme. I mean, the entire first Shrek movie was a meme, just like the bee movie.
in the Dawkins sense, sure. But the "meme" in "internet meme" has a more specific meaning.