It's a niche market of crypto and there are some people who are interested in it, and that's about it. Sort of like the meme people, although most of memes are not banned anywhere, so meme people have more chance to grow but it is still a niche, or the NFT people for example, it is a niche, it is not a general all audience thing like bitcoin or ethereum or Solana, it is more just popular with a group of people that's it, a small group of people. Hence, we are not really seeing it be that difficult for most people to ignore it.
I disagree with it being considered the same as meme. Privacy coin is different, they have real use case and real demand. There are big community as well.
Some people need privacy and they provide the solution to that. Unlike meme that is a non utility token, exist solely for pump and dump.