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In the sense that they make up the vast majority of what is disseminated in our primary digital social spaces, are often pandering to a small set of intellectual properties that people use to define themselves, and end up shaping the way we then respond to the world around us in derivative, abbreviated ways that doesn't foster deep interaction? Kinda, yeah. It gets repetitive.
Blocking certain users and magazines helps. Unfortunately, and moreso in the fediverse, it doesn't unearth much else, tbh. It's just what we be doing in this era. I think there are a lot of societal factors influencing that.
At the same time, the right meme still gives me that dopamine hit. Big fan of greentexts, for example. So I don't dislike memes, per se. Just the glut of them.