You're right: light-hearted, non-serious memes joking about a new game people are excited about are cringe.

Screeching rage when someone doesn't like the same fictional woman you like, to the point that you obsessively seek out and comment on any image that may be distantly construed as besmirching the honor of "m'waifu," however, is based.

I've got a Melia-themed avatar, and yet, of the two of us, somehow you're the bigger simp.