/bant/, I figured it out. I finally understand the meaning of the Universe.
Think about memes. What truly is a meme? At its core, a meme is an idea.
Consider all things that exist in the universe. How did they come to be? Humans ascribe all things they comprehend to ideas.When you see a leaf, you comprehend the leaf because you have comprehended the concept, the idea of the leaf: the meme of the leaf.
4chan itself was once an idea that became manifest as a website. Everything began life as an idea, a meme. Some memes die. Others become reality. And a select few shape and mold reality and other memes around them.

All that is, has been, and will be, is memes.