personally, i believe memes are much like a modern day philosopher. execpt even better than other philosophers like descartes or sarte because they were just one guy, just one individual, whereas memes are made by many people, therefore memes are a collective. therefore a lot of smart philosophical insights that one person, not even people like kant, can think up on their own because many brains are better than just one. for example, memes teach us that the world can be divided into two categories: good guy gregs on side, scumbag steves on the other. memes show us that somedays we are socially awkward penguins, somedays socially awesome penguins, and many days a mix of both. memes show us the difficulties of dealing with an overly attacched gf, but also the difficult feels of having no gf at all. they teach you to see beauty where others cant. ive heard people call shrek ugly, but to me, his is love, he is life. just look at the rare pepe phemenon; many people see it and go, "oh, how dumb, they are just jpegs how can they be rare" but if you know memes you know it's more deeper than that. it's an emotion pepe evokes in you. you see a pepe you havent seen before, you right click and save to a folder you made just for him. others can't see the value maybe, but you can. pepe shows you the purity of intrinsic value in albeit simplistic pleasures in an increasingly corporate and materialistic world of flash; pepe shows that its ok to push back against a society of people that demand a sleeker phone, a bigger tv, or the fastest cars. to these people, they see a cartoon frog, but to us, we see something beautiful, something rare, even.
so never doubt the power of memes, they teach you things about the real world, and love, and pain, that you might not see otherwise.