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Memes can absolutely be propaganda
Memes can be propaganda, yes, but they need to be something more, otherwise they won't reach people.
You can make an image macro of a cat with the text "cucumber bad", but it probably won't be very popular. Even then, there's a history of memes about cats reacting to cucumbers that gives that idea more traction than "Nazis did a nazi".
Someone asked "why the downvotes". I explained "bad meme".
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Go report the Wikipedia page for Kilroy Was Here for not being complex enough to be culturally significant (despite its actual cultural significance), I guess.