I’m a huge anti-beggar, and I would actually argue that yes, there are some memes that mention upvotes that aren’t necessarily begging. Take for example, this meme here.
There was also a meme on the front page once where the premise was “I got 3 upvotes and 139 views. But what’s important is I probably made 139 people laugh.” I loved that meme.
To summarize, all begging memes mention upvotes, but not all memes that mention upvotes are begging.
Sorry this is a lot.