We had a very efficient and funny campaign to inform the general public that screenshots are not memes.
However, people keep posting screenshots in this community. I propose that we establish a rule banning screenshots. Maybe there is a dedicated community or screenshots enthusiasts could create one.
Of course if this proposal is widely opposed, I will withdraw it and go hide in a cave, never to be heard again.
Also, cartoons are not memes either but this is a battle for another day.
Edit: added brackets to the title for clarity
The phone showed ad notifications right out of the box and got software updates without issues, so definitely no malware.
Not sure when the gallery thing started but it was definitely the samsung app (which is a system app so you can't do anything to it without root).
The phone is gone now because it got slower over time until it became unusable. Androbench showed that the eMMC was perfectly fine, so that was due to updates.