For me, memecoin season isn't over yet. I've seen people making good money from memecoins lately. Also, people are recreating same kind of memecoin on another blockchain and they still pump. Example is Pepe on sol, pepe on Base and so on. I can also say that memecoin on base network made it more active than Zksync network.
Will never be over I guess. Memecoins are simply tokens which market prices are highly affected by serveral factors; market behavior in general, hype, and market manipulation from big investors. It can easily be triggered by those factors I've mentioned. There are people who keeps on making money from these campaigns. As long as there is/are reasons for its existence then it will be there. However if it is with which memecoin could be on top of this narrative, then it would be hard to tell. On a daily basis, there are many meme projects being introduced across different exchangers and any of those could replace on the other hand. These coins are already a part of this growing industry. No development is expected with most of these coins but if it is just with market existence the every coin has it.
It looks like memecoins are not going away, like you said. Memecoins are getting more popular than before. New ones are being made every few seconds, especially on Solana and Ethereum. And as you mentioned, they may actually be helping the crypto market in some ways. But I'm not sure about their effect on the market's reputation, because I've seen some people complaining about that
