Damn. I never thougth about this, but have you ever noticed that this kind of memes are basically a one huge strawman fallacy? No offence OP, just a sudden thought.
How is this a straw man? I've literally had people tell me they don't want to eat soy because of the estrogen, while they eat cheese and dairy products.
I mean, any argument with an imaginary opponent is kinda a strawman if you think about it. I'm not doubting existence of such folks tho, there are lots of morons among people.
No, it is not automatically a strawman. It's only such if it was intentionally contrived to support a particular position. An imaginary person used in a socratic dialog is clearly not automatically a strawman, for example. That would be tantamount to saying Socrates himself (potentially an imaginary person used by Plato for argumentative purposes) is nothing but a strawman.
Not only was the meme not a strawman, it was an incredibly common conversation that happens in real life dozens of times every day.
Nah there are people genuinely out there spouting this, unfortunately a former friend of mine has become a tate/rogan person and this is one of the weird things spread around in those circles.