I'm pretty sure the modern meaning of "meme" is fundamentally the same as the original meaning. The fact that lately there's a popular aesthetic (so popular as

I'm pretty sure the modern meaning of "meme" is fundamentally the same as the original meaning. The fact that lately there's a popular aesthetic (so popular as to have "generators" that ignore the possibility of other aesthetics) is separate in a way. A bit like how the word "album" was, for a time, heavily implicative of a vinyl record, but fundamentally it's any cohesive grouping of works.