Okay I think I figured out part of why we find the minions so enraging: we like our memes to have structure. Even the weird ones have internal logic and structure to them. That’s why we can make submemes and meme parodies. The minions ones are literally just random text superimposed on unrelated pictures of minions. It is EXACTLY what you get when Facebook grandmas attempt to participate in meme culture. It’s a copy of a copy of the abstract concept of meme. Which is why it makes no sense to us.
This is exactly the problem.
ooh I have a thing for you to read: https://medium.com/message/god-tier-facebook-moms-run-the-meme-game-1e56ef0d31ec
Please read the wise words of nickdouglas