Collecting and the age of memeing

> Chen Mei, 25, from Jiangsu province, trawls Taobao, an online shopping site, for antique memes. She explains that the selling price of memes is really cheap, less than 4 yuan ($0.6) for over 500 images, or around 9 yuan for 4 gigabytes of memes.

Most of the article sounds like someone took https://www.reddit.com/r/MemeEconomy/ seriously. Someone's getting trolled here, I'm just not sure if it's the author or us.

10/10 would trade my rare Pepe and subtle merchants for some dank Chinese memes.

This entire article is deadpan troll. A mildly amusing one in fairness.

This is a little tangental, but I was surprised to see Hearthstone rendered as “Hearth Stone: Heroes of Warcraft”. Does anybody know if Hearthstone is localized phonetically or semantically in Chinese markets? Was this a round-trip translation quirk, or did they re-localize the game name and not check it against the English name, or what?

This seems strange to me. In Western culture, I've always seen the higher quality copies valued more. Value of cultural artifacts like this usually depends on rarity, and the degraded copies are more common, so why would they be more valuable?

This is a silly article.