Wow. This is great. I never thought of it this way and it was right in front of my face.
Regarding “borrowing” memes, as a meme-maker myself I realized long ago I have no control over who finds them and uses them. I made them to be used anyway.
I know I’ll never get credit as an author, and I would have to doxx myself anyway to get credit.
I am happy to do my little part in information warfare and try to wake people up. I’m sure pretty much all meme-makers feel that way.
Sometimes when I post ones from here on CTH I feel like I should credit the screennmame of the person on FR I got them from, but then I don’t want people to think that person made the meme when he or she probably got it from someone somewhere who themselves got it from someone somewhere.