Yes, it sedated certain people who sat thinking their salvation was near, and it outed many to the intelligence apparatus as people to monitor and keep tabs on for future operations…
At the very least they can correlate the IP addresses of the posts on these threads using the timestamp in the post to when the Imgflip image was redrawn when the post was posted and displayed on our browser.
I don't know if LiveRamp sells their data to CIA front companies or not, but it would be trivial to pull off. All the image flippers should be hanging their heads in shame. But they are not.