Cartoon characters for your Facebook profile picture

I'm pretty new to Facebook (2 months), so I'm not privy to the hip memes that happen every so often. I noticed that one of my friends changed his profile picture to a scene in Tom and Jerry. Badass cartoon, but dumb choice for a profile pic. Call me old school, or lame, but I believe everyone has a right to know what the hell you look like on a social networking website like Facebook. My pic is the best.

I commented on his pic that it was a dumb choice. He must have agreed, or something, because the next day he took it down and replaced it with a normal image of himself. But then I noticed everyone doing the cartoon thing. Turns out that I made my friend go against the grain, because last week Facebook users listened to the meme gods and did the cartoon thing. Something about stopping child abuse, or something.

If I have the power to make one person disobey the meme gods, imagine what else I can do....