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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.