• macniel@feddit.org
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    3 days ago

    when it’s literally the way of how memes propagate; yeah I don’t get it either.

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      3 days ago

      It’s more about stealing credit.

      Like when you say a joke and nobody heard you and somebody tells it again but louder and everybody laughs.

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        2 days ago

        An internet meme isn’t a meme until it is shared around. It becomes something that exists without a single person who can take credit as turning it into a meme. The original creator, even if known, isn’t the person who turned their creation into a meme.

        The need to grasp for credit of an internet cultural phenomenon is foreign to me.