Meme scouting and sharing is a fun way to spend our time on our own, or to show care to our loved ones. Everybody appreciates a nice, original well-though memé. However, as people share them over and over and over again, the people who put their heart and soul into the original image become forgotten heroes, whose main goal was to make a few people laugh. And greedy people decide to make money out of it.
The article about the #fuckfuckJerry movement mentions a T-Mobile ad that went viral on twitter, not because it was funny, but because it was almost a carbon copy of an already existing meme that went viral months before the ad. People were upset on the fact that the meme was clearly stolen and no credit was given. Turns out they were overreacting, and the person did get enough credit for it.
FuckJerry is one of many meme pages scattered around all social media, including Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and even Snapchat, that are making money off of other people’s work by slapping ads into their content. It’s ridiculous how low effort their content is: they just take somebody’s video, add black bars on top and the bottom of the video and some text in the likes of “this is so funny (laugh emoji)”. And they make money. out. of. it. with no repercussions.
tl;dr: Meme stealing should be punishable by law.
