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by FeepingCreature 1301 days ago
It's not a meme in the same sense though. If this was a short punchy quote that implied that certain memes were bad, then yes.
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All right, let me explicitly substitute for pronouns: your comment was aimed against specific, easily disliked subgroup, namely, "Karen" memes, and so it is unavoidably an attack on the entire group, namely, memes, by association.

It is impossible to say "a "Karen" meme, which is a meme, bad" without implying "memes "Karen" memes, memes bad." Or if there is a way to disentangle them, it certainly won't fit in a comment.

It's amazing how many arguments ad argumentum are not only self-applicable but also self-defying.

Sure, if you arbitrarily decide every comment is a meme.

It's amazing how everything is applicable to everything if you freely redefine the terms used.

edit: Sorry, that was a bit snarky. I think there's reasons why this applies to quick, punchy memes but not to longform comments: memes are antithetical to nuance.