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[Runa216]

Machiavellian said:

That is because memes are mostly used for misinformation than anything else.  I use to have these conversations with a friend of mine who use to post memes concerning political subjects all the time and I asked her if she ever check if the meme was actually true.  Of course she did not which I then had to send her to the topic at hand to actually understand the subject she was reposting.  Memes are a nice tool that can be for fun but mostly it can be a tool for misinformation as people just repost them because they align with how they think.

That's one of my gripes about modern political discourse. The wrong but simple answer is a lot easier to convey and share in meme form or just in general than the complicated, right answer. So a lot of stupid shit gets shared a lot easier and a lot faster than smart shit. 

"Gender is weird" Is a lot easier to convey in a single image than "Gender is complicated based on a litany of factors from a spectrum of sources, such as cultural, biological,...." etc.