Far too often people in a field try to make that field exclusive.  Art is one of those fields even though by it’s very definition there should be no limits on art.  Everything can be studied for the art of it. I like to think of MMA as art, most people won’t see that they’ll just the Savage side of it.  Meme are art Boone can say that they aren’t. It’s just how it’s interpreted. Does making the Mona Lisa into a meme make it not art?