Adding to what others have said, so much internet has been purged in recent years that the meme might very well be lost media.

Have you seen Google lately?

I suppose its the same speed but in my case it felt less awkward to fetch ^ image above than to search "meme where a black guy is facing the viewer and pointing to his car radio in a car"

And in anon's case its way more efficient then googling "naked gigachad image, black and white, bearded short hair big pecs" and hoping the right one will come up.

So I suppose it's a specificity problem

It’s not always easy to find the exact meme I have in mind, there have been a couple times that I gave up on internet searching for one because it just wasn’t showing up. I also prefer scrolling through a bunch of memes that I’ve already vetted as good rather than the sea of meme trash the internet holds.

I dont archive memes but I think its 2-part

1. They can't google 4chan OC because it disappears before it can be indexed
2. Its not just about finding an image, but also about finding an image with the right caption, so they dont have to caption it themselves, because work

Google sucks these days, it's way faster.

I was looking for the old "You may be cool, but you'll never be 5 popped collars cool" meme a few days ago and the only images I could find were thumbnails. I miss the old demotivational format

I don't want to expose my server to potentially millions of people :D