My opinion is a bit more dire. Infographics are on a strange side of the line between statistic and art. While they're clearly meant to be flashy and emotive, they also tend to quite numbers and display data in a way evocative of authority. It feels a lot to me like being a brand parasite, or displaying a police seal in a not-completely-obviously-satirical way and then trying to cover your steps when the police arrest you for impersonation.

I think overall it's a good thing, really, though. I'm not sure there exists a strong brand for "sensational but detailed information that you probably shouldn't trust but instead just think about" but infographics (both the bad and the good, which are still often very pale demonstrations of interesting data) are filling that hole. What I hope is that they eventually teach people to be more skeptical and questioning of information presented to them, regardless of how statistical it seems.

The unfortunate transitory period is a flock of the confidently misled, I suppose.