The original mene has got it all wrong. From mere appearance that guy could score higher than both of these, which explains his compulsory action.(At the time... Appearances change and socially acceptable behaviour has changed in the meantime). He's trying to break out of the chains.

Unless he's working in some job that isn't "respectable". In that case GF is taking advantage of him until she gets bored. I know plenty of these relationships...

Anyway. Everyone looks the same now, so being dumb and pretty isn't really appealling.

There's so many layers to this meme. I wonder if historians or algorithms will investigate it in 100 years