Nah, OP is just straight denying that screenshots of text are memes. Claiming some bullshit like having to make some change to it for it to qualify as a meme. Just ignoring reposts of green texts, copypasta, reddit stories (poop knife, cylinder, cbat guy, etc etc etc etc), people getting ratioed on twitter, tumblr chains.

Like, wtf kinda change does OP want me to make if I wanna revive some old classic greentext. Draw a big red circle on it? Slap a wojak right in the middle?

Screenshots are lazy, sure, but they are definitely still memes. Whether an exact replica or not.

OP: 👏 TOMATO 👏 IS 👏 NOT 👏 A 👏 FRUIT 👏

Everyone: tomatoes are botanically considered a fruit

OP: ackshually I don’t like it in my fruit salad, therefore it is not a fruit

An exact copy of a gene is a gene. An exact copy of a meme is a meme.

Well said.

When everything is a meme, nothing is

“When everything is made of genes, nothing is”

This is just an assertion, and a false one too.

Everything is a meme, and they behave exactly like genes. They replicate themselves, perfectly or imperfectly, and are then subject to competition for users’ attention which will affect their future replication.

Another meme is attempting to outcompete the screenshot genus of memes, by using you as a propagation tool: the “screenshots of text are not memes” meme.

Edit: downvote me if you want but you can’t deny the facts. The idea I expressed in this comment was also a meme whose chances of propagation were diminished from your downvote.

It’s the dictionary definition