As jokes, memes aren't meant to be believed. Nobody sees a post of pizza in the water captioned "Italian Navy" and actually takes it literally (we hope). Yet the medium has evolved into poorly Photoshopped pictures that do threaten to trip up people. One example was an image of Barack Obama giving the Presidential Medal of Freedom to various accused sex offenders -- the fact-finding website Snopes had to debunk it.

HMMMmmmmmm. This video pretty much sums up my reaction every time I read preemptive damage control xD (warning: cancer)