I'm probably being too charitable towards the old stuff/too harsh on the new stuff.
Also the America-brained topics are more of an endemic issue of the anglo internet, but even German sources had a lot of stuff around 2017 talking about Trump and the like - and yes, unfortunately American hegemony means that it's relevant even abroad.
I have no take on the meme, but the bottom text is on point.
I like to use podcasts to find out about books that interest me enough to be enthusiastic about reading them