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I remember when random comics that don't get passed around much weren't considered to be memes.
I must be so old.
A couple of years ago my kid took a funny picture of the cat and put some white text on it and said "look I made a meme!" I told her "No, you made an image macro. it's not a meme unless it goes viral." and even her mother who's older than me told me I was being pedantic and any picture can be a meme.
I hate it here.
You don't get to dictate how others use language ʅ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)ʃ
but we all have the right to be bothered by it :)
Especially when the new meaning causes the old one to be forgotten despite it being a pretty cool idea.