Why fo you feel the need to tell me what I am already doing though?

You stopped reading too early.

It is not worthless at all.

It is.

Studying cultural changes through the lens of evolution is very useful and enlightening.

Agree, but different topic and not dependent on the definition of a meme.

I would argue your narrow definition of “meme” is worthless because we already have a term for what you are describing - they are called “image macros”.

But I never narrowed it down that far, I only excluded (explicitly and so far) screenshots of texts. You misinterpreted that explicit exclusion as me implicitly narrowing the definition down to only images.
Now, granted, this medium narrows down what can be shown to basically images (videos are images, too) with text and/or sound, and image macros are a very common meme format, but out of this medium there are other forms of memes, too (for example deliberate moves of ones body like the Dab, Tik Tok dances or a mic drop, or dropping a side reference in a conversation). Even within this quite limited medium there are image based memes that do not need any text (like the seemingly infinite variations of the loss meme). All these forms (and examples) have one thing in common: they take an existing idea, symbol, practice manneurism, etc and recontextualize it, creating intertextual references. A screenshot of a text with nothing by its side does not do that. You can make a meme out of some of them (like posting a sign somewhere that redraws the lines of some rules just so much that nobody notices), but the screenshots of stories or jokes are not memes by themselves. And the letter A all by itself isn’t either.

That would mean that everything was a meme. And a definition that encompasses everything is worthless, arguably not even a definition (because nothing is defined).

Great, you made a meme out of a screenshot. Yet, the screenshot is not a meme, it’s a ranfom story.

Where meme?

Feel free to make your own quality memes.

Because the definition of meme

The Oxford Dictionary’s definition of a meme you meant to say.

For example, Jana Zündel (german article), a german meme researcher, stated that a meme always includes a recontextualisation. The Wiki page lists key characteristics such as intertextuality and cultural evolution.

There is a screenshot from reddit posted here earlier today, do you think that’s a meme? Can you take it, put it in a new context and have it keep its original context as a reference so that the new post would create a new idea building on the context? Or is it just a random story, maybe funny to some?

When everything is a meme, nothing is. Ther is no adaptation, no cultural twist, no recontextualisation or any other relevant criteria in a screenshot of text and nothing else.

When everything is a meme, nothing is. That is why often there is a distinction made between the Richarf Dawkins type of meme and the modern internet meme.

Reddit (idk about this one? Reddit does have memes in some subs)

Just a recent reference

But you are completely right about what I complain about. A meme often contains text, and sometimes even is purely text (for example a popcultural reference in a text-only medium can be considered a meme), but a single (maybe even witty) tweet or a forum discussion without any further context is maybe funny, but not a meme.

If you find the screenshot quote funny and memeable, make a meme out of it and post it here. But the screenshot itself is too little.

Well, where would such content go? I agree these things don’t fit the definition of a meme. But they aren’t jokes either. And there’s no c/randomFunnyStuff.

https://lemmy.world/comment/21240390

If you removed everything that isn’t a perfectly pure meme, this community would be very empty.

I mean, is demanding some effort and quality really asking too much? If this community was empty withouth non-meme posts, does it deserve to be a meme community?

But then you are missing or leaving something out:

Is that an AI-answer?

No, unfortunately you don’t have to win only once. For most people who struggle with obesity, it’s a lifelong struggle. Jojo effect, mental state, hormone changes, other illnesses, etc. I was on a good way but gained 20 kg when I stopped smoking. Stuff happens, systems fail and stop working, even after they worked for some time.
Shit sucks. Which is why even temporary successes are great and to be celebrated.

But Sci Fi on the Sci Fi-Channel

Where meme?

So no decent human being can make interesting music?

Macht nix, ich auch.