If grandma can't tell that the picture is edited, then it's no longer a meme, it's slander.
The comedic value would be even higher if it was an obvious tongue-in-cheek edit. Given it's professionally and seamlessly edited, then it's too ambiguous to be a meme and thus should not be protected as free speech.
If you think the standard for free speech should be delineated by what the most clueless members of society can grasp, then you're effectively anti free speech.
The comedic value would be even higher if it was an obvious tongue-in-cheek edit. Given it's professionally and seamlessly edited, then it's too ambiguous to be a meme and thus should not be protected as free speech.