As much as community of the meme project as well as the strategic partnerships they're making are important, getting to discover project is the more important. One has to first discover the project before studying their community and the partnership they're making.
Getting to discover the next great project is by following the crypto communities known to be sharing correct information about upcoming cryptocurrency project is the best and the first step to take. This is not limited to just the meme coin but all cryptocurrency projects.
Even a community that shares the correct information about upcoming cryptocurrency projects wouldn't be able to share any information about the next meme coin that will be successful because it cannot be known in advance since meme coins don't really have any team or proper project behind them that one can evaluate to understand if the project has any potential to grow in near future or not, their success totally depends on community hype.
There is no strategic partnership or anything when it comes to meme coins because they don't do anything like that, all they do is start creating hype with multiple fake accounts on different platforms to see if they can create some hype, if they get successful, their token might start gaining investors, otherwise, it will be a failure.