What do junk food, hard drugs, and memes all have in common? They all scratch that dopamine itch in our brains that keeps us coming back to them again and again. Of course, there are downsides to this, too. It doesn't take a genius to know that drug addiction is a bad thing, and one too many burgers is going to clog up those arteries real good somewhere down the line.
In contrast, memes are just a natural side effect of the fact that most of us are glued to our screens all the time anyway. While there's no doubting that this isn't great, they are probably one of the better things to come out of the whole internet age. They are an easy and relatively risk-free way to have fun, and that can't be said about many things that we do these days. Let's be thankful that they're here for us when nothing else is.