and is in fact an iteration of some other meme created by someone else?
People have different opinions on what a “meme” is but for me the iteration part is what actually makes it a meme.
- A funny (?) joke: Not a meme
- An iteration of a joke that gets recognized as such: A meme




I don’t see anyone here making this about hierarchy or anyone claiming that one group of people is “better” (or “worse”) than the others.
That Gen Z is scoring worse in those tests is a fact. Nobody says that Gen Z is “worse” because of that. If anything this might make previous generations look bad whose decisions lead to the world gen z has to grow up in: The school system, current crises, the pandemic, social media, etc.
To acknowledge those test results is the key to address what caused those results. Then we can discuss: