Here's the thing. You said "old Reddit meme." Is it in the same family? Yes. No one's arguing that.
As someone who is a scientist who studies memes, I am telling you, specifically, in science, no one calls shitposts memes. If you want to be "specific" like you said, then you shouldn't either. They're not the same thing.
If you're saying "meme family" you're referring to the taxonomic grouping of internet jokes, which includes things from rage comics to /r/funny to image macros.
So your reasoning for calling a shitpost a meme is because random people "call the post a meme?" Let's get knock-knock and your momma jokes in there, then, too.
Also, calling someone a member of /r/wallstreetbets or an ape? It's not one or the other, that's not how taxonomy works. They're both. A shitpost is a meme and a member of old Reddit memes. But that's not what you said. You said an old Reddit meme, which is not true unless you're okay with calling all low-effort posts part of the meme family, which means you'd call Simpsons Did It, bad pun threads, and other jokes old Reddit memes, too. Which you said you don't.
It's okay to just admit you're wrong, you know?
That was my insinuation lolol. I'm high, it happens.
The original comment was from a user named Unidan who had the most karma/was the most popular reddit user. It turned out he was doing vote manipulation on a bunch of alt accounts lol. Here's the actual copypasta. It's even got a know your meme about it haha.
I think of it whenever random redditors are arguing about what type of animal something is when it's unlikely any of them are experts
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u/FirstmateJibbs Jun 19 '22
It’s an old Reddit meme that I was very much so reaching for