Not a bad article, memes aren’t easy to write about.
In my view they’ve basically the modern version of the “old saying”. In days past, if grandma wanted to teach you a basic lesson about some basic life principle, she might say something like “what goes around comes around”.
You can imagine that had technology allowed, she might include an amusing pic and make that message the pic caption, just to add value and clarity.
Since a meme can communicate so much more with visuals in addition to words, we’ve branched out with them a lot. But in essence, they’re just iterations on the concept of maxims/proverbs/efficient communications of folk wisdom, with a general tendency towards humor.
As someone that has always enjoyed breaking down and analyzing the specific language of those old sayings, I get a lot of the same enjoyment from meme analysis.