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Yeah as someone who browses by all and came across this, I upvoted without realising the Community it's in. But you're right. This is in no way a meme.
What makes something a meme?
Following the Internet definition of it? (Because we wouldn't want to commit the etymological fallacy, would we?) It's a piece of content that follows a known predictable format, or that at least appears to do so but subverts it. I don't agree with @FishFace@piefed.social that anything funny on the Internet is a meme, or even that memes need to be funny (though they usually are). But it's certainly a notably different meaning from the broader cultural one that Dawkins came up with 50 years ago.
Wiktionary's definition 2 is pretty good:
Most things called "memes" are not memes as the term was originally defined.
Every bit of information is a meme as the term was originally definition. Nowadays, the term means "something funny on the internet".