I thought the responses to this were really interesting and wanted to come back to them at the time but I ran out of spoons.
I'm thinking of it again now because an old reply of mine got spotted and boosted somehow (probably the thing it's a reply to got boosted) about explaining jokes and memes.
I'm also thinking of a recent post I saw boosted a lot from someone who asked if their toots reached any screenreader users. I think they were asking the wrong question there.