What's a meme template?

The point of memes is to present people with a choice. The Drake template makes it obvious, where people accept or reject each idea presented. The content added to the template is not the template's fault; it's the fault of a minority of people who chose to use it in a bad way.

Who gets to decide if the template was used in a bad way?

We do; the audience gets to decide. Like:dislike ratios, as well as comments, get to expand the conversation for or against the meme. If we censor the meme, then selection can't take place; that's also to say that if the meme is censored, people who don't like the meme have no evidence for why the meme was bad.

Why should people fight for memes?

Selection is how we get a better future. It's the choices we make to help each other. It's the idea that we've progressed from the horrors of the past, and we can make tomorrow better if we try today.

What's the reason for censoring memes?

Memetics are largely responsible for story structure, where there are battles between heroes and villains. Memes create fighting and "controversy" so that one side wins. People don't like this fighting.

This hatred of fighting is what's been leading sites like Twitter, Facebook, Twitch, and YouTube to discourage or prevent people from using meme templates. These companies revoke our freedom of selection. They revoke our freedom of speech. It's this hatred of fighting that created the slogan "Love Trumps Hate", which reminds me...

I'm not siding with Trump here. The choice between discrimination and racial acceptance is a meme, but the racist choice has been losing ever since MLK made progress for us. Like I said, censoring the "hate speech" will not help us win with the meme of racial acceptance. A society of censorship is slow and complacent.

What templates have been censored or discouraged by the companies/people mentioned?

In the case of Pepe: most people use Pepe for good. Where I've been, I haven't seen anybody use him for hate speech. Why should a majority of people be punished for what a minority of people are using the meme for?

In the case of PogChamp and BlessRNG: the creators of the memes did something wrong or illegal, but why punish us? Why punish people who continue to use the memes for good causes?

What should people do after signing this petition?

Think about memetics, study it, partake in discussions where disagreement exists, explore the links and topics scattered throughout this petition, and maybe even do some creative writing. But, most importantly, let all sides of the story have freedom of speech.