I speak in this case not only of internet memes, but also cultural and pop-cultural memes. As I've said before, internet memes are, to me at least, extraordinarily unfunny, and a lazy attempt at real humor. Cultural memes have a somewhat more rigorous way of seperating the wheat from the chaff by way of being passed down through the generations (so much so that things like the chicken/road joke are instantly recognizable to almost anyone). Internet memes have no such built-in quality control; this, coupled with anonymity and a demand for attention, leads to lame attempts by internet people at getting their own slice of the humor pie. On a case-by-case basis this is harmless, but left unchecked, could lead to people's standards of humor being lowered substantially.
So, the moral of this rant is probably: Let things become memes on their own and don't try and make them yourself.
And also yeah this is a poll I sort of forgot about that.