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I agree, but is it a meme?
Yes, memes are viral thoughts, often utilizing fun to spread, but not necessarily so.
It baffles me that anybody today would say memes aren't or shouldn't be political. I think politics and ideology are the primary reason people create and share memes today. The funny animal cheeseburger phase of meme culture is long over. As witness Reddit meming Trump into office and all the racist conservative memes your boomer relatives share.
I don't think it's a meme but not because of politics.
I think someone else would have to put their own twist on it for it to really count to me.
Otherwise literally everything anyone posts ever is a meme.
That's how Dawkins originally intended it, interestingly. It's been completely redefined in popular parlance, but a meme is originally any transmissable unit of information between minds.
And Blackmore!
Fair enough