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There's a concept I'll never wrap my head around.
when it's literally the way of how memes propagate; yeah I don't get it either.
Memes are copied and shared, not stolen. You can't steal digital images or ideas.
Copyright law is in shambles
You can violate copyright law by copying and sharing, but that is different than stealing. Stealing involves taking something. Copyright involves copying.
It is right there in the name.
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.
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.
Yes I'm fully aware. I'm merely sharing an analogy.
They're not airborne?
they fly now!
It's like saying your children stole half your DNA...
Well the kids cost them an arm and a leg or more!
So imagine you're a mod. And someone posted a meme to your subreddit. So you delete it, and then post it yourself at an optimal time farming 10s of thousands of upvotes. That's meme theft.
This isn't. Lol