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Not to my american raised ears. I live in colombia and have for nearly a decade. To my ears the spanish "e" sound is most similar to the english sound "ay" as in hay or may but shorter. I've never heard someone make the phoneme "eh" here in colombia.
My argentine ears disagree.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HrEekDZixG0
At 4:10 or so, she says "eme". That's the closest I could find to someone from Colombia saying meme. Eh-meh, not aymay. It's an open E, as in any other Spanish accent.
I think we might just be using different orthography to get the same sound. I hear her say ay-may.