Internet memes come from the original concept of memes as an element of culture passed on from person to person.

From Wikipedia’s “internet meme” article.

It’s a meme because it first makes you laugh, and then it makes you think.

Didn’t you know? Screenshots of social media posts are memes now 🙃

!politicalmemes@lemmy.world suffers from this but it’s 1000% worse there.