There is no way this isn't satire.
this post was submitted on 25 Mar 2025
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Your faith in humanity is way too high.
GallowBoob claims another victim.
Holy shit I haven’t heard that name in a long time
No I am ~~Unidan~~ Gallowboob!
Here's the thing. You said a "jackdaw is a meme."
Is it in the same family? Yes. No one's arguing that.
As someone who is a scientist who studies memes, I am telling you, specifically, in science, no one calls jackdaws memes. If you want to be "specific" like you said, then you shouldn't either. They're not the same thing.
If you're saying "meme family" you're referring to the taxonomic grouping of Memidae, which includes things from rickrolls to copypastas to shitposts.
So your reasoning for calling a jackdaw a meme is because random people "call the funny ones memes?" Let's get astroturfs and reposts in there, then, too.
Also, calling someone a human or an ape? It's not one or the other, that's not how taxonomy works. They're both. A jackdaw is a jackdaw and a member of the meme family. But that's not what you said. You said a jackdaw is a meme, which is not true unless you're okay with calling all members of the meme family memes, which means you'd call astroturfs, reposts, and other OC memes, too. Which you said you don't.
It's okay to just admit you're wrong, you know?
hey guys look at this totally original meme I am posting
This is why they made nfts. OP fucked up and didn’t protect himself through the power of block chain.
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I don’t think they understand what a meme is.
Most don't.
Most don't know shit about copyright either, cause OOP has a case, assuming they used their own meme template.
The entire meme economy is technically one big copyright violation, which just shows how utterly broken current copyright law is.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Jwo5qc78QU
A case for what damages? Reddit karma?
And the judge has ruled in favour of the plaintiff and awards them the amount of 20,000 karmas in damages.
There's always a relevant Tom Scott video
Not anymore. Didn't he retire?
Yes, but most of his videos are timeless.
Isn't there an exception for transformative works, like adding captions?
Karma is a bitch! I'm so glad Lemmy ditched the total user score, I was way too much stressed about it when using that site.
Theoretically you can calculate the total karma by yourself since the karma isn't hidden.
True, but you need to go out of your ways to do it instead of see it on each page. Also the count is a bit different in each server instance, as federation is not completely accurate.
You could even create a global high score.
Hello, I'm on a throwaway account because I already confronted the reposter on my main account.
Backstory: I recently posted a meme, and it only got 50 upvotes. Someone stole my meme and and got over 20,000 upvotes.
I was literally heartbroken and cried. I told the reposter to give me credit, but he made fun of me instead. I know suing someone over a meme sounds silly, but it's not about the meme. it's about justice. I'm planning on contacting a lawyer, but I wanna get advice here to see what I can do. So what can I do? I wanna take this to a civil court. Will a judge take it?
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"I award judgment to you in the amount of eleventy-nillion fake internet points."
Is there a sovcit sub the OP can be referred to?
I'm sure they will find all the advice they'll ever need.
I mean, technically you can sue anyone for anything..... Whether it's going to be successful or not is a different question.
OP didn't have to say "literally". We already knew he was the type to sue over hurt feelings.
I can understand the frustration but can't they just... Call them out in the thread? Link their original post?
Not if the reposter blocks them
You're all are laughing now, but when that meme hits critical and is spread to every phone in the northern hemisphere, we'll need to find patient 0P for the cure.
Donate $100,000 to Trump and he will levy a 25% tariff on his ass.
Karmacourt always looked like a lot of effort without much entertainment. I think it was put together by those kids that read and reenacted Roberts Rules of Order for fun. Aka the student government.
Honestly, I would watch this show. Let's have an 80-year-old judge preside over the meme theft suit.
Why is this funny? Thinking on it, shouldn't copying someone's created content be actionable on the social platform at the very least?
We are getting so used to people stealing content that it is just become the rule of the land, but imagine creating a painting or writing a book then someone copies it and sells it claiming it's theirs.
I view memes as more fun when they're lower stakes, like retelling a joke someone else told you.
Thinking of it from a copyright infringement angle just feels so grimy and commercialized to me.
My perspective is that youre just way too used to the absolute insanity that is copyright and IP in the current world