@tldr
The comparison doesn’t go far enough: Memecoins are this cycle’s NFTs, but worse.
Early on in NFTs, you could use a unique image to acquire status and distribution on social networks: https://farcaster.xyz/tldr/0xeffb0c9b
Memecoins don’t have any grounding to offer, and this is a large part of why they only retain a small % of people over time (less than 1% of people who tried)