I made this thread today out of boredom. Because I'm bored I guess I'll share with you people my opinions on what constitutes a true meme and what is simply just some stupid unoriginal crap. Now this isn't a rant, it's just me explaining the difference I personally see between real and unreal memes. Feel free to debate.
First off, a 'meme' is nothing more than a recurring image or phrase or what-have-you. If you've seen "dat boi" lately
( http://media3.giphy.com/media/UHKL9BtyM4WrK/giphy.gif ), that could be considered a real meme. Why? Because it's simply something that was posted online and has subsequently spread.....like cancer.
A meme doesn't have to make any sense whatsoever, it just has to distribute over the web fairly rapidly. This is why most of these types of things get their start with 4Chan.

Now, what shouldn't be considered a "true meme" is when unoriginal webtards paste the recurring image with their own words over it. Examples of this would include the following page
https://imgflip.com/

Those, my friend, are "templates" with unwitty captions filled in which egotistical morons use to try and get upvotes. And damn does the internet just eat that shit up.
IMO, real memes still do occasionally crop up here and there. We still get visitations from old friends like this . But many good memes came from the early 2000s and before.

I don't really mind some memes that much. It's when you see people who repeatedly use the same thing over and over again, like in youtube comments. I'm sure that there was some originality in the creation of some memes, but that's disappeared long ago.

Your memes end here.

Frankly, who cares? Meme originally meant a thought or idea that spread naturally through a group. It was used at first on the internet as exactly that; an idea, a joke, or similar, that spread naturally through repetition and word-of-mouth. Then it became "any joke on the internet that has been told more than once."

and now it's mutated again. I don't doubt the meaning will mutate in the future.