You know while touching grass it still came up. Without even being online at all!

You know a meme isn't an internet only thing. Its a legitimate social concept that can and does exist everywhere, with people talking and sharing it in their real life.

And, as to your original point that I agree is often the case, one can be so terminally online that they miss the forest for the trees in their specific little channels (like here) with its memes that they assume that's the whole of the internet itself!

So, you yourself demonstrated the point perfectly.